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Nitro Toxicity?

WonderJo
WonderJostarted grow question 24d ago
Nitrogen toxicity? Thx so much 🙏🏻 🙏🏻
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DrGruen
DrGruenanswered grow question 18d ago
Hi ..... Ich denke das die Gute zu viel gewässert wurde....... Einfach mal das Giessen reduzieren und beobachten ......👍 Das wird schon 😉 viel Glück Growmie
DogDoctorOfficial
DogDoctorOfficialanswered grow question 20d ago
Hey buddy 👋 thanks for the photo — that helps a lot. Short answer and all you read here is just my humble opinion please trust you instincts always 💚 No, this is not nitrogen toxicity. What you’re seeing is temporary water / root-zone stress, not excess nitrogen. Why it’s not nitrogen toxicity True N-tox looks like: • Very dark, glossy green leaves • Clawing downward (tips hooked like talons) • Thick, rigid leaves • Slowed growth Your plant: • Is light–medium green, not dark • Leaves are drooping, not clawing • New growth looks soft and healthy • No burned tips or leathery texture So nitrogen toxicity can be ruled out 👍 What it does look like This looks like one (or a combo) of the following: 🌊 Overwatering / low oxygen at the roots • Leaves drooping uniformly • Petioles look limp • Plant looks “tired” rather than burnt OR 🌡️ Environmental stress • Lights just came on • High humidity • Root zone still wet • Transpiration temporarily slowed The plant is basically saying: “I can’t breathe fast enough right now.” What to do (simple fixes) • Let the medium dry back properly before next watering • Make sure there’s good airflow across the plant • Check that pots are draining freely • No need to reduce nitrogen right now ⛔ Don’t flush ⛔ Don’t cut nutrients ⛔ Don’t chase problems that aren’t there Reassurance This plant is: • Healthy • Actively growing • Showing no toxicity signs Most likely, it will perk back up within 12–24 hours once the root zone rebalances. How to confirm If it was nitrogen toxicity: • Leaves would stay clawed and dark If it’s watering/root-related: • Leaves will lift again after a proper dry-back Bottom line 👉 Not nitrogen toxicity 👉 Mild, temporary stress 👉 Let the roots breathe You’re doing fine — this is a very common moment in a healthy grow 🌱💚 Growers ove my friend and keep us posted 💚💚💚
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Boggy69
Boggy69answered grow question 22d ago
Watering, Temp, distance to lamp?
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JUNGLE_B4RNS
JUNGLE_B4RNSanswered grow question 23d ago
This is not a Nitrogen problem If you’re not messing up with your watering schedule like overwatering or maybe not enough water. The last factor can come from your light, too intense or too close. My first advice is to lift the pot to see how heavy it is. Your 11L pot size should be around the same weight than a pack of 6 bottles of 1.5L Otherwise the problem is called photohinibition (Wikipedia source) caused by too intense light.
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Ultraviolet
Ultravioletanswered grow question 23d ago
The heating mat is no good if there is water trapped anywhere in that pot and root zone temperatures go above approximately 75°F this can negatively affect water uptake and overall plant health.. all you are doing is accelerating bacterial growth. Pots should be elevated, with gentle airflow, keeping a little bit of evaporation, helping out with ET(evapotranspiration). Your plant looks like a great size for the pot, but if there is any soil compaction above a point then no roots will penetrate, if roots cant reach, then daytime transpirtation cannot remove the water via roots, if transpiration doesn't move it, evaporation must do so within a time frame, Water movement follows a path of decreasing water potential, from high potential in moist soil to very low (negative) potential in the dry atmosphere. This flow is often described using an analogy to electrical circuits (Ohm's Law), where flow rate is proportional to the water potential difference divided by the resistance. The major points of resistance, or bottlenecks, are air, plant, or soil. A lack of oxygen in the soil leads to a failure in water uptake by plant roots. Plant roots require oxygen to perform cellular respiration, which generates the energy (ATP) needed for the active transport of water and nutrients into the plant. Often from high RH for too long a period, , You must look for yourself and decide, make the adjustments. Ironically, a plant in waterlogged soil may exhibit symptoms similar to drought, such as wilting, because it is unable to take up the surrounding water. When soil becomes oversaturated (waterlogged), the plant's iron uptake is affected, leading to symptoms of iron deficiency known as iron chlorosis. This condition causes the leaves to lose their vibrant green color and become more yellowish green, a very early indication to me its more oversaturation than true drought, but you will have a much better idea. gluck
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TinyTitania
TinyTitaniaanswered grow question 23d ago
So sah eine meiner Pflanzen aus, die ich wegen zwittern aus dem Zelt getan hatte und zu faul war, mich direkt um die Entsorgung zu kßmmern, nicht genug Licht und fehlende Nährstoffe, hatte just for fun einfach normales Wasser weiter gegossen um die zu beobachten, bis es mir zu blÜd wurde.
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Green_claws
Green_clawsanswered grow question 23d ago
I Agree with everyone else it's watering habits. Not enough probably
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Terp1
Terp1answered grow question 23d ago
Wie alle Anderen hier schon bemerkt haben ist das kein N-Tox. Ich tippe auf Überwässerung. Diese Klauen an den Blättern kommen auch daher. Insgesamt kann man sich merken: hängen die Blätter runter und die Stiele sind schlaff = zu wenig Wasser, hängen die Blätter runter und Stiele sind steif = zu viel Wasser. 👽
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Hashy
Hashyanswered grow question 24d ago
I don't think that's N toxicity. Most likely it's either environmental or bad watering practices. Water slowly until you get a decent amount of runoff.
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ssssssseeeerrrr
ssssssseeeerrrranswered grow question 24d ago
No. Why did you think it? I observe only excess/deficit in irrigation or overexposure of light
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00110001001001111O
00110001001001111Oanswered grow question 24d ago
Not a N-tox. not dark enough. that tip curl is something else. some mottling with it, so maybe climate. direct, strong fan? not enough info... climate, possibly that heating pad under your pot -- if the grow is at a typical temperature, there's no need for the heating mat. just reducing O2 around roots. That woudl cause droop. Did oyu take the picture right when the lights turned on? this is all rhetorical. is the OF and coco brick mixed together? if not you need to irrigate based on a coco layer as it dries out faster. hopefully, it is mixed. Either case, stick to basic watering habits. fully saturate and wait for enough dryback before repeating. if there is a coco layer, assume it's ahead of the OF layer.
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Core_T_Son
Core_T_Sonanswered grow question 24d ago
Kann es sein dass du falsch gießt? Dadurch wird die Nährstoffaufnahme durcheinander gebracht und behindert. Wie „nur“ Stickstoffüberschuss sieht es für mich nicht aus.
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