Trying my first too soil mix

[Dirt Weed]

Okay guys I need some help, just after the site went down I developed what I thought was a nitrogen def by looking at pictures, I brewed a tea and fed her, Guess what tea too strong, no big deal, symptoms getting worse, suspected Cal Mag, made a foliar spray in a 1 quart spray bottle, 2.5 ml Cal Mag, filtered water, dawn dish soap and olive oil, sprayed three times so far and its still getting worse. PHed soil at 6.7 according to the soil probe. Will do a run off ph if required.

First two pic are from last Thursday, then from Yesterday and last one from today

 

[Eyes on Fire]

Yeah Ive had tester soils do that a few times for various reasons.but mine wee photos.Ive never had an Auto do that.sooo the two could be a bit different.But it looked like the soil early on,I saw the deepening and rough patterns in the leaves as I look back and see the pictures.And the tea being strong certainly didnt help.theres so much off balance and heavier silted toxins(not actual toxins just a figure of speech i use lol) that have morphed the growing patterns.shes going to stay stiff and the oils will be off as well.the best thing I can tell you off the cuff without know your full on recipe and what exactly you fed her at each step is to make sure you soil PH is on.you have a good probe?when I had an issue like that with a photo I had I used a small sprinkle of wood ash and powdered lime and that seemed to lessen it.right now you dont want to give her much to eat other than simple and lite molasses or even better yet a cpl teaspoons of three of sugar in the raw or something like it.the feeding characteristics and behavior in the soil is stinted in turn morphing the growth and root structure.Maybe one of the others have seen this more in autos then me.My soil doing photo testers was either completely depleted and/or the feeding structure and PH was off and caustic and could not be changed easily once set into the roots like that.


for a smaller genetics with that moch moist soil fed heavily several times or each time..that creates a hard environment over the mid course of growth.did you feed it heavy a few times recently with anything?

 

[Eyes on Fire]

in short when mine did that it was root shock caused by an over fed or flat root bound and depleted soil.

 

[Dirt Weed]

Thanks Eyes
She's a Photo, my auto died as a sprout. Up until the tea she has only had filtered watered with cal mag. After the tea I put a top dress of some left over super soil about 1/2 inch thick. Looking at her today Im not sure she will recover as most of the large fan leaves have started drying/dying, I have even decreased the amount of LED's and am just down to the Solar Storm. The soil was never right from the start with all the excess salts which later I found out came from the mushroom compost we get around here.
Live and learn. My first attempt, can't expect everything to go smoothly.

Do you think anything from her is salvageable?

 

[Dirt Weed]

Oh the soil with the PH probe measures in at 6.7 and just checked my water that I water with is at 8.6 PH, Ill lower that this evening and do a good flush. I think Ill order a new soil probe just to be safe, but she was only watered about every 4-5 days, do you think she salvageable ?

 

[Eyes on Fire]

yeah Mushie compost is great but not to use a lot is the key,or just mix it at rough averages such as 20-30% mixed depending.but when using mushie compost due to possible low lying issues such as excess salt in cases,it always good prctice to not use high silted products since once they settle and accumulate they'll make your soil a crazy place to try n grow in.Its hard to say depending how heavily youve treated her honestly.since imho if you have kept it somewhat lite in feeds its possible.but she;'ll give you some buds just not good ones.they'll stone ya noo doubt most likely,but again the oil and terpens are going to lack and your not going to be full happy with the harvest.if it were me personally Id start over if you can afford the time without smoke.if ya cant,remove that top coating,fluff the soil and dry it out as fast as you can without messing things up.once its on the dryer side which may take some time since also the soil may very well be compacted lower in the pot also creating a compounding issue.but if shes remained wet to always moist a flush could also do more damage.so you have choises man,I dont want to tell you to pull it but like I said if it were ME,Id pull her and re do the soil you have left over.or even this soil your using once the roots are sifted out and completely dried and re moistened and worked.once thats set in like that the end product tends to be very far off from a happy harvest..lol trust me I know. but thats myh opinion on that bro.sucks man Ive been there dude.especially when your working your own soil from scratch too.in a few more grows you'll see you growing go BOOM!.we all start somewhere my friend.

 

[Dirt Weed]

Yeah that's what I wa thinking as she has gone down hill really fast, DubV has recommended some EWC as a top dress and I would like to try that first. The only problem that I have is that it's a cabinet and as summer gets here it will be way to hot to grow in. I'll see if my niece or nephew has any from there harvest they can send out to me to get me thru, just really hate the risk of mailing sensi coast to coast, just too many efin things that can go wrong.

Thanks brother I appreciate all the help...

 

[Eyes on Fire]

the EWC is going to help it a little but as rough as your soil is,IF it works itself out your smoke will be effected.some potency and terp profiles ,but it'll work decent enough..lol i know,Ive had that mayself a few times.if you wanna push her through if you have it a mild treatment of a quality surfactant next watering once its mostly dry.do you have a lower portion of the pot that heavy and water logged by chance?with a photo I would think so but with stunted growth at this stage anything is possible and that'll also be causing an issue too.I also had that with smaller photos i jacked up last season.tester soil n all that awesome lol.pain in the ass is what it was.worked but DAMN lmfao!!

but the EWC is great if its fresh thats helpful but composted ewc if ya bought it Id personally grind up lightly in a blender and mix that in with the fluffed soil and let it dry out ..the entire pot then with a surfactant (hows lime in your soil anyway?) water with a decent quality rain water or similar. and that'll help.ewc is about the mildest form of pushing it out easily.

 

[Dirt Weed]

I think I'll give her another week to turn around before I pull her, the lime should be fine, the soil analysis is on page 2 so I cut it down as recommended with peat and perlite and some great white, I didn't retest for salt content and perhaps I should of, maybe I'll send off this as a sample and see what they come up with. Might as we'll learn everything I cam from my mistake.

She was watered two days ago so I expect the pot to still be heavy but I will find out in about a week.

 

[A4]

Hey DW, how did things work out for you? I hate to be the bearer of bad news brother but that plant in the pics wasn't N deficient, it was K deficient. That first picture was very apparent that you had too much N in the soil already and a good flush probably would have cleared it right up. My guess was the excess N was locking out the K. You can tell because when you added more N it got much worse. It is a learning curve and the more you look at plants the easier it will be to diagnose. Hopefully you were able to get something off of her.

I have been covered up with work lately and am just beginning to get caught back up with things. Give me a shout if you need any help.