okay i'm finally going in to the MMJ clinic on sunday... so I can ask for help now on my babies. I will get pictures when i get access to a camera... I don't have one of my own. of the 8 plants i'm starting for a round of mothers, I have 4 Juicyfruit, 3 Mango and 1 Pineapple that was given to me by a friend 3weeks out of soil and with some serious sunburn. of the 7 seeds, 2 have broken soil and are very small (second set of leaves are about 1" long each) but coming along healthily so far. I broke open 2 of the jiffy pods (carefully) to check on the other seeds but they seem to have germinated and are just taking their time coming to the surface. the pineapple is the problem. it was seriously stunted when I got it (3 weeks old and less than 6" tall), then i noobishly fed it some nutrients. the original leaves are wilted, bleached and slightly discolored in places, and the tips are slightly dry and crackly. I've been giving it water recently with a light dose of superthrive and the new growth that i've seen come in so far looks healthy and is a bright light green. should I just keep giving it water until I think it has perked up enough... say for another 4-5 days or so? EDIT: gave it a light nutrient solution overnight. as of this morning the old leaves are worse off (crackling in half but not yet ready to fall off) but there is a noticable amount of new growth and it is all healthy. does that mean I should continue with the light nutrients and just assume that the dying stuff is... going to die? the dying leaves are more than 50% wilted and are very discolored, with both white and slightly purple splotches on the yellowed leaves. oh, and the pineapple already has aternating nodes but I want it healthy and much larger before I try and flower it. makes sense... it's a month old. suggestions? pics will be up when i get access to a camera.
First i would germ. them in a wet paper towel before i put them in the jiffy pods.Also remember you have 3 strains going at once and each may have a diff need for nutes then the next one, so watch them closely if your feeding them all the same strenth.If the leaves are dead and cracking then that leaf is dead there is no bringing back a leaf.You just consintrat on the new growth.I would start low on the nutes and work my way up,if the new growth looks burnd on the tips back down on the nutes a little.Hope that helps. Pictures will make a big diff..
If the new growth is green, you're on the right track If it had light toxicity, then there is no bringing back the effected parts, and that also goes for nute burn and mostly anyting else...if it's a month old it needs some sort of nutes, however LESS IS MORE. As long as the new growth is growing properly, with nice light green growth, growing at a steady pace, then you are on top of it I do believe! Good luck, dude man.
Another thing A lot of people when feeding, unknowingly splash the leaves with the "water" they are gving them...remember that if there is a concentrated nute solution in there wherever that water just touched is going to wilt, kill, burn the leaf that it come sin contact with....this does not apply to the main stalk...but to little baby leaves...if they get splashed with that water...good riddence.
Really? I always wondered that.....I thought it would burn em but just never heard of anyone talkin bout it....hmmm answeres alot of questions for me.....Good info NUG
