Plant Attacked By An Animal

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I moved my plant outside from the indoors, and my plant was knocked over from an animal. I am a rookie when it comes to growing, and I really need help diagnosing the issue now. Basically the leafs are touching the ground, and the whole plant looks horrendous. Also, how can I move my plant outside without it being attacked? This has happened before ,and it killed my other plant. I suspect a raccoon or something. I just got my medical card and this is honestly horrible :help:.
 

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Hi English

Looks like we'll need a bit more info before we get to the "root" of the issue :)
The good news is .. the animal didnt eat it!! :)

How have you been watering? How often and with what kind of water (ph adjusted or just from tap?)
Does your pot have holes in the bottom?

This should get the helper ball rolling for you
All the best

Blue ^_^
 
I try to water every 3 days, and the plant is about to be three weeks old. I water with water from a water bottle. My pot does indeed have holes in it. Should I be watering so that it drains out of the bottom?
 
Yeah, the reason i ask is becuase the plant looks either over or under watered. And my guess looking at the leaves is overwatered.

I think you should treat this one as the "trial" and maybe pop another one and we'll start from the basics.

How big is that pot? I like 6 - 10 litres (max) pots becuase even when i'm fully watering, they only take about 2 litres before "run off" (i'll get to that)

What kind of soil is that? Is it commercial canna grade soil? I use coco personally, but for soil would follow the recommendations of others who have succes with Plagron Light, Biobizz Light and John innes Seedling starter mix (john innes being the last choice)

What kind of light do you use? What power? She's looking a bit small for three weeks, but that could be a number of things (lack of oxygen through not draining enough or overwatering)

Watering: You should be PH adjusting your water to between 6.2 - 6.5 before it goes in the pot. You'll need some "PH down" (nitric/citric/phosphoric acid) and a digital PH meter.

Nutes: You'll need them from about week three if the soil isn't pre-nuted..

Run off: You don't really need run off for the first two weeks - in a pot that size if you got run off if you water it until it's heavy - you'll have to wait three weeks for it to dry out (and the roots won't drink any faster - to make the roots drink up you need wet and dry cycles)

So seedlings need half a cup every few days (not a full watering)

Only water till run off when the roots are established - then wait until the pot is super light to pickup before watering again (leafs may droop if you leave it too long, but you'll know the plant was happy by the leaves laying flat or reaching ot the sun)

Well - i think thats it.
To protect your plant from animals - get 4 canes - put one in each corner of the pot, and wrap some green see through netting round them.

Et Voila! C'est tres bien (I hope)

All the best
Bleu
 
Well it looks a lot better than I thought it would considering your thread title! I think she will be fine, the leaf droop is probably just from being knocked over and losing some moisture from the roots. You could always make a cage or something around it for protection. Since you have a medical card, I would start a few instead of just one and give them a safe place outside. Not sure where you are from but they sell animal repellant if you can find it! Good luck man, she'll be fine..
 
I am not sure on the size of the pot, however; it is pretty small compared to other grows I have seen. The soil is fox ocean soil. As for the lighting, I use a grow light that is 120v 60hz 125W 6400K. Are you saying that I cant fix this plant?
 
Are you saying that I cant fix this plant?
No .. the plant CAN be fixed :) It's just about managing your expectations now.

Autoflowers are on a life and death timer. They will only live so long.
I've been told a breeder that the most important time of an Autos life is the first few weeks.

A few weeks is less than a third of the way through the grow, but still significant. I'm not saying trash your current grow - just get another one going. Get a square plastic pot from a garden centre (6 - 10 litres) and start a new one next to the old one - At three weeks you should probably give the new seedling the most of the 125w light. (is it a CFL?? .. if so, you can get it to within about 6 inches of the plant at this stage with a fan blowing across the top)

If in three weeks the new plant is massively out shining the old plant - bin the old one off if you don't have the space and concentrate on the new happy plant :) If you got the space, just tuck it away at the back and practice your plant training on it! :)

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Give her a few days bro, I'm sure she will pick up. I've snapped my main stem before and came back no problems. Just give her some karma and let her be,
 
Any FOX FARM Ocean Forest users around?

Sorry England, I'm not familiar with fox farm soils other than i've heard that one of them is considered "Too hot" for autos - Just not sure which one and have to head off now!

Hope things get straightened out for you - don't panic though :) we'll get you to harvest (almost guarenteed!!) :D

:d5:
 
fox farm has bee having ph issues.......I think your having issue there I use vinegar to go down and baking soda to go up.....for some reason your soil looks like it has more chunks of berk in it then most ffof and it is also hot, I'd go with ph first' I strongly reccomend a good probe the ph wizard is a great tool......

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