JohnnyRotten840
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I am attempting my first grow and ran into what I believe is a ph issue or bad soil.
I live in a very rural area where the local town has a population of less than 400 so when I started my grow the only thing I was a little bit worried about was my soil that I had available to me it was just a general potting soil with slow-release one-month nutrients which I know I was to avoid but it was the lowest nutrients soil I could find.
I mixed the soil along with a 25% mix of perlite, I then was able to get 2 clones that were 1 week old from a friend of a friend and transplant them to a 8 inch round pot with holes in the bottom for drainage.
After I had transplanted the Clones I let them sit without watering for one day, I then watered them fairly heavily with tapwater that had sat for 26 hour to lose its chlorine.
The next day I noticed the plants were changing to a lighter colour and had red stems on some new growth. I did a quick search on what could cause this and found couple things that stuck out. 1: being over watering, my soil was not draining 20% of the water I poured in, maybe 5% at most. I felt the soil with my finger up to the first knuckle and thought it was quite moist still. I swapped the soil out for a new mix of 35% perlite to soil and transplanted both plants.
I also found yesterday that pH could be the issue so I bought a test kit and found out my pH was 7.6 which I knew was too high. I got some ph down and got my water at 6.5 and re-watered the plants with a small amount of water and notice the run off quantity was much higher.
I have a 600 watt HPS light that is being cooled in a three and a half foot by 3 & a half foot by 7 foot tall grow tent with a fresh air intake and outtakes. The temp has been a steady 78.5 during the light cycle and 71.5 during the dark cycle. The light itself is about 20" away. The humidity is at 50%.
I have included two sets of photos the first 2R when the problem started to present itself the others are from today
I live in a very rural area where the local town has a population of less than 400 so when I started my grow the only thing I was a little bit worried about was my soil that I had available to me it was just a general potting soil with slow-release one-month nutrients which I know I was to avoid but it was the lowest nutrients soil I could find.
I mixed the soil along with a 25% mix of perlite, I then was able to get 2 clones that were 1 week old from a friend of a friend and transplant them to a 8 inch round pot with holes in the bottom for drainage.
After I had transplanted the Clones I let them sit without watering for one day, I then watered them fairly heavily with tapwater that had sat for 26 hour to lose its chlorine.
The next day I noticed the plants were changing to a lighter colour and had red stems on some new growth. I did a quick search on what could cause this and found couple things that stuck out. 1: being over watering, my soil was not draining 20% of the water I poured in, maybe 5% at most. I felt the soil with my finger up to the first knuckle and thought it was quite moist still. I swapped the soil out for a new mix of 35% perlite to soil and transplanted both plants.
I also found yesterday that pH could be the issue so I bought a test kit and found out my pH was 7.6 which I knew was too high. I got some ph down and got my water at 6.5 and re-watered the plants with a small amount of water and notice the run off quantity was much higher.
I have a 600 watt HPS light that is being cooled in a three and a half foot by 3 & a half foot by 7 foot tall grow tent with a fresh air intake and outtakes. The temp has been a steady 78.5 during the light cycle and 71.5 during the dark cycle. The light itself is about 20" away. The humidity is at 50%.
I have included two sets of photos the first 2R when the problem started to present itself the others are from today
