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spiderdijon69
spiderdijon69started grow question 3 years ago
I've also noticed a bit of greening on the top soil, could be algae. Anyone know if this may be the cause of the stunted growth? And how to treat it?
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Roberts
Robertsanswered grow question 3 years ago
The issue that your having spider is too much water and nutrition is too strong. Adding substrate like coco and course perlite to growing medium will improve resistance in future. Algae is not a issue. I believe the orginal issue might of been your ph in substrate, unless you watered daily. Can only do that in a coco grow. Kinda have to. Hopefully this is some insight. Nutrition wise always go half recommended to start. Then adjust. Also go off plant size not a chart. Slow growth and following a chart will lead to worse issues. So good luck and bummer about the
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CRiSPrGrowanswered grow question 3 years ago
Hey there SpiderDijon, so in general algae growth is nothing to worry about, usually it just means there are moist conditions in the medium, plus when they die off they release nutrients , right? but to get back to the real problem i think you're right about the stunted growth. Looks like N toxicity to me, that's because of the shiny aspect and dark green color of the leafs plus a bit of the burnt tips. That's because a lot of what you're adding contains N , and probably at this stage it was too much. The plant can survive, try cutting out everything except one of the calmags which has N and the micro the plant needs at this point. But normally you do want to start again from zero because most of the time when the plant gets a shock at this age it will be stunted and grow slowly for the rest of its life. Sorry, growmie. hope this helps ! 🚀
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