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Repotting or just dryback , what to do

VikingFloh420
VikingFloh420started grow question 2d ago
Repotting or just dryback. im thinking about taking the plants out remixing the coco with new perlite and then replant it or if i should just let it dryback and water like a seedling. no real rootdevelopment in the new pots for 2 weeks and alge on top of the coco
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 2d ago
If you got algae growing, things are long term too wet. Roots will not thrive in saturated medium. Trying to re-pot may cause more issues than it solves.
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JVKdopegrow
JVKdopegrowanswered grow question 2d ago
Defoliate the dead/dying leaves. Make sure the pot is not sitting in runoff. Allow the plant to dry more than you think is healthy. Cut nutes out for a week, then slowly (1/2 prev strength) add back in future feedings. Top dress with additional coco/perlite mix. These are very resilient plants! Good Luck!
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Ultraviolet
Ultravioletanswered grow question 2d ago
Doesn't matter what you do the pot soil composition. If the problem exists in the environment. I see a 11L fabric pot that is oversaturated, soil compression most likely too high for roots to penetrate. 65% rh daytime as a new grower is akin to suicide without and understanding SPAC and how water moves from atmosphere to atmosphere. You need to incorporate some form of evaporation to assist with the roots transpiration otherwise you are throwing water into a pot with no way of moving the water. Roots can only pull water where they can grow. If soil compaction goes above a point the water gets trapped and it's just a matter of time. Fabric pots not as airy as one may be led to believe make sure there is air hitting the pot. Make sure there is a dry period in your day/night cycle. Water doesn't move efficiently nothing works. Understand this. Oxygen moves about 10,000 slower in soil than air. Oxygen moves 320,000 times slower in saturated soil. Soon as you water. You want it to reach a point of "optimal" fairly quickly and get that oxyben moving 10,000 times slower ASAP. As soon as you water, new oxygen does come with the water but if the soil stays "above a certain moisture" then Oxygen will stay at 320,000 times slower. Oxygen is quickly used by the plant and micros but everything moves so slow its almost like a oxygen lockout. No matter how much perlite you got. As soon as Oxygen becomes low, you normally ally get 30-40 atp per glucose molecule in oxygen rich conditions. To about 2 at per glucose in low oxygen conditions and as a by product acids are released that will acidity your grow and skewed pH. Need to warm things up and get the water moving. Water is the universal delivery solvent used for cooling and nutrient transport. Like an elevator on a construction site, you want it running faster rather than slower. Gluck.
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Green_claws
Green_clawsanswered grow question 2d ago
Hi yeah checked your diary and youur plants are growing fast the problem you see is shes recovering over feed, shes all twisted up but shes growing out of it. always let dry back you dont want do drown her..check back in a few days but i can she her recovering already.. good luck
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00110001001001111O
00110001001001111Oanswered grow question 2d ago
if it's in a pot that is too large, it's there's not much you can do. Just wait it out and avoid it in future. The roots are growing, don't worry. Don't irrigate wet medium. allow dryback. 2:1 ratio coco:perlite is a good idea, but it's not the end of the world if you didn't do that this time. If you pot up againyou could do this, but also might be better at this point to stay the course... you want the physical characteristics of the medium around the rootball to be similar to the rest so you don't get moisture leached away or pulled in... either stays too wet or doesn't get wet enough depending on the dynamics. Next time you irrigate, if the plant is still under-sized relative to volume of medium, only water a circle around plant about the width of the canopy, but make sure that moisture goes all the way down to bottom. Small circle, but deep. it'll spread out the lower it goes, so there's room for roots and they'll grow downward that way... superficial roots are a sign of poor irrigation methods or extreme erosion/compaction
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