I’m only 2 weeks in and I have yellowing leaves and spots happening to my mango smile miphesto autos. I also have what appears to be some wilting and curling on the leaves. At least to my untrained eye.
I think I may have over watered the 5 gallon fabric grow pots of FFOF . I was lightly spraying the top of the soil for a week or so but then started to water my plants by spraying them with a wand progressively heavier for about 5 days. Then i slowed down once I saw yellow. Water ph is about 6.7 Not Feeding Nutrients Yet
I also had my spiderfarmer sf2000 at about 26inch 60% so I don’t know if it’s light burn as well? I moved it to 50% 32inch.
Finally today (Day 15) i saw the PPM was about 1550 and my buddy told me that was too high for it being so young so I flushed with with about 2 gallons of water each pot in an attempt to bring down the PPM. HOW DO I FIX MY SITUATION?
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Not light burn. Capstone is correct about flushing organic soil. You should almost never do that. You probably flushed out some of your nutrients. I'm a little confused how you are getting a ppm reading. Can you specify your procedure?
The best way to fix your problem is to do less. You are overthinking things a bit. Let the soil dry out a bit if you were watering to runoff. Fastest way to do that is by blowing a fan on the side of your pot (not your plant). You just have a little root stress from too much watering. They don't need much at this stage. Doing too much will make things worse early on.
Don't stress. She'll be ok. Any time you have issues it's OK to lower light intensity so that was a good call even if it was for a different reason. Once it looks like it's recovering you can dial it back up.
Keep an eye out for deficiencies on new growth in about 2 weeks since you flushed some of the nutrients out.
Hi, at this point you should be watering them instead of spraying them. Use PH'd water and add CalMag if you want.
Your buddy was thinking of regular potting soil, but the FFOF soil is full of nutrients so will naturally have a high PPM. Sometimes that is a little tough for seedlings, especially Autos, but they usually power through it eventually. You probably should not have flushed them as you have flushed away some of the nutrients stored in the soil. Also, your girls are probably very over watered now.
Your best bet is to just let them dry out completely and then see how they look.
Also, some of those leaves look a little taco like, that could be from the over watering or it could be from too much wind from a fan hitting them directly.
Keep an eye on them and don't stress too much over it, over thinking things is probably the biggest mistake new growers make. Give them a few more days and then post some pictures and let us know how it is going.
Good luck