I'm in dire need of advice, so let's set the scene: started 5 dutch passion blueberry seeds in damp paper towel and sowed to soil (2:1 potting soilerlite) march 1st under 100w of fluros. I don't think the soil was damp enough and only 4 sprouted. Then, I watered too much and they got root rot. Their growth dropped to nothing and what did grow was really green but sorta wilty and really deformed. Reading more and fearing their demise, I let them dry totally out and added a few (33 & 45w) compact fluros. When really dry I watered again and switched to 400w hortilux hps (30" away at first, moving a few inches a day to about a foot now), and growth seemed to improve a bit but is still slow and deformed. 6 weeks in, they're still 4 - 6" tall and really mal-formed. (see pictures) Two seem to maybe be coming back (they drink more water; have better leaves) but the other two seem worse. What can I do for my poor babies? This is my second grow; 1st was with bagseed and same local/equip. space is 30"x50"x60"h, running ~85oF, 24h of floros to 20h of sodium. Thankyou thankyou thankyou anyone with advice. rm
What Are You Feeding Those Things? Maby Chill Out With The Fetarlizer For A Bit.......Do You Have A Fan In The Room? A Fan Would Deffiently Help If You Don't AlreadY Have One
it looks like they were over watered and then dried up completely. I'm not sure what to tell you to do though.
Thats why I always say read read read and ask lots of ? before planting That soil probably has ferts in it and you probaly have nutes in the water. Right? I would flush with distilled or r/o water pray like hell and read some more
ok sorry... I shouldn't post all baked. to clarify: I did a "learning crop" from bagseed from sprout to harvest, as well as a generation of clones from these seedlings, also from cut to harvest (battling hermies and spidermits - my fault but another story - along the way). so I made my mistakes and did my reading on freebies before I ordered professional seeds. This is a proven garden. Anyway, moving right along (don't mean to get defensive) - because of blueberry's extreme sensitivity to nutes, it's been nothing but clean tapwater (naturally at a pH of 6.8 - 7.0) left in buckets to dechlorinate. I was very careful to avoid pre-fertilized soil, but the kind I used before is out of production, so I'm still soil shopping (any recomendations?) Humidity is running really low, around 30%, and this was my first guess at the initial deformities (my last strain didn't seem to mind, but I expected blueberry to be more fickle). Early on I watered by a heavy spray via spray bottle, so soil was constantly moist and I suspect I only amplified my problems inviting root rot (they've done better since I've stopped). Since I've started the bone drying of the soil they've started to come back (2 especially, see pics) but I'm looking for advice how to help them more/save the two still going down hill. Should I give them a sip of nutes? Try to raise humidity another way? or just sit on my ass and cross my fingers?
so your not feeding? cause if thats the case i bet their just malnurished thats what my plants looked like when i didn't feed after the first two weeks. also you said you used a spary bottle, you didn't actually spray the plant it self did you? cause that more than likely right now just dry it out more. since the water is going to heat up and evaporate. also for the root rot why don't you use some hydrogen peroxide 3%. just put 1 TBS per gallon of water and you should be fine not too much but enough to hopefully help with the root rot.
let it dry up a bit hydrogen peroxide might help out, 3 cap fulls per gallon I here, but let that dry up, H202 as you know helps roots breath a little better, also, BB is finiky as all hell, thats why not many novices use it... picky ferts and also they are hellza deformed, I heard due to how they were bread to get that taste every BB i've seen has been fucked up looking and twisted up leaves, its to be expected! It really looks like they were just fed tooooo much N. Good luck on the next attempts, I think you might be able to save 1 or 2, but I'd start over if you have more seeds, and clone the best mothers from that goodluck bud! >Chronic
I Did The Same Thing I HAve 5 WHITE WIDOWS ANDF 5 BLUEBERRY DUTCH PASSION. i started hydro and got root rot,so as a last ditch effort i took them out of the hydro set up and put them in good potting mix,within 4 days they were back in business. the blues were very mutated and slow this is an stain for more advanced growers. I recomend white widow, they are very vigorous and easy to grow i just started week 8 of flower and ive got fat buddage everywhere,more than i ever imagined. this is my second crop also, my first grow was misc. bag seed obviosly from different bags. they were all of completely different stature. it was a nightmare! p.s. DONT GET DISCOURAGED AND GIVE UP , i almost gave up but im glad i didnt. GO WITH WHITE WIDOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
