Aerogarden Adventures

Week 2 | Day 14 I think I might have stopped the nute burn - or at least slowed it down. It hasn’t gotten any worse or spread as quickly and in such volume. The time it took for the first leaves to become ~70% yellow with some serious looking rust leads me to believe the newer leaves should be fine; as long as I don’t repeat the same mistake (too much nutrients; far too early). The sharp edges and rigidness of the effected leaves appears to be going away as they move and flex a bit more when touched and remain somewhat soft. However, growth appears all over the place. It seems like the recent large leaves are deformed and any new growth around the stem is super compressed - almost certainly due to the nutrient burn. She sorta reminds me of Ephialtes from 300 at this point so I’ll affectionately call her Ephy for now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week 2 | Day 15 Any leaves with yellow and rust have stopped getting worse. Seems like they have a tiny bit of bend to them as well. All new growth is looking fine except for the fact that they’re growing at stunted rate and at peculiar angles. Added about 6 ice cubes this morning. PPM went up from about 300 to 400 as well and pH from 5.5 to 5.8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week 2 | Day 16 Observe and report kinda day. New leaf growth continues but stem growth is next to zero. It’s getting really cramped and new leaves need help finding spots to grow. All new leaves eventually tend to take on more nitrogen just like the older ones. If yellow appears within 2 days, rusted edges appear shortly after. Hopefully that stops soon but it’s pretty consistent. Not sure how long this will last but we’ll see... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week 2 | Day 19 She’s still tiny but I’m starting to see more consistent green growth then the yellow/rust take over. New growth seems to be coming quickly and stem growth is catching up so perhaps the plant will absorb a lot of the access nutrients left over from my last debacle. With all that being said, the problem might still just be warm water for all I know. Yellow continues to creep in after a day or two for any new growth. Last three days I did nothing. Checked the pH and that’s it. Hovering around 6. Everything else remains the same ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week 2 | Day 20 New growth continues consistently. Yellow starting to creep in a bit but I still believe it has to do with access nutrients remaining within the plants system (that or the water res temp). Not very rigid or having new leave tips curl upward which is an improvement over the previously effected growth. I’ve done some LST on the main stalk as its stunted growth had it growing at strange angles and was compressing up pretty bad. It’s now pointing straight up. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------