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TheBoifus
TheBoifusstarted grow question 4 months ago
Wanting to double check with bigger cultivation brains than mine - my bluematic leaves are drooping pretty quickly after a watering. Am I correct in thinking that this is symptomatic of over-watering?
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modmyplants
modmyplantsanswered grow question 4 months ago
Yes sir you can see how the leaftips are dropping. Your rootzone is stressed, give your plants more time between feedings. Especially when you overfeed them, they will drink slowly now and also have to take up more water, you should wait like 4-5days. Or you have the same situation again in 2-3days. And when the top layer like 1cm is dry, water till runoff to ensure all your roots getting water. Simply higher the amount till the maximum your pot can take, but feed less often. Especially now where they have to deal with the overfeeding, which will take around 2days on top of your normal waterng shedule
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001100010010011110answered grow question 4 months ago
bottom feeding often leads to zones of high nuitrient concentration nar the top of the pot -- where the water soaks into and ebbs/flows from there over time, which continually deposites more nutes that go back into solution when it gets wet again. bottom feeding can be dangerous. you have to figure out ways to mitigate this effect to do it properly. plenty of people do it successfully. if plants are droopy immediately following a watering that may simply be due to what constitutes your substrate. A proper air:water mixture capacity of the pot will virtually eliminate the possibility from ocuring unless you dump water through it for 10minutes nonstop, lol. if sphagnum peat moss or basic soil is a base, you want 50% drainage amendments like perlite, pumice, vermiculite et al. In coco coir you only need 33% becaues ti holds less water per volume. In the end both of these suggestions will hold roughly the same water per pot volume with these ratios of drainage amendments. that's no accident and excactly why the ratios are different depending on water holding capacity of the substrate type used. wait a bit longer between irrigations and see if that fixes it. I think that will fix the mottling you see on more of the lower and mid level leaves. Make sure your leaves don't continue to get darker as they seem quite lush already. they are either well-fed or slightly overfed, but if that's the case only a small adjustment will be needed to fix. See what the chang of watering habit brings over next week or two and if possible hold off on any nute adjustments until you see what progresses from 1 change at a time. I'd also wager with a better composed substrate (if not near the ratios give above for perlite et al), your current methods of watering wouldn't cause any droop. it's really hard to overwater a plant when the substrate is composed properly. you'll get faster growth too.
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AsNoriu
AsNoriuanswered grow question 4 months ago
i would worry about overfeeding and nitrogen toxicity. think you feed constantly, review diet.
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