overfertilisation

[aido]

Hi, the young bloke told me to get some rose bloom onto our plant

so maybe i was a bit heavy handed with it, shite.

 

this was a nice looking plant...

 

 

then comes the bloody rose bloom...

 

 

the next day, bad leaf burn...

 

 

off with the sick leaves...

 

 

does it look like the buds have been damaged?

 

 

So, what do you guys and gals here think?

besides me being a dumb arse, is this situation

recoverable, or should i slash and burn now? .

[Frazz]

hello and welcome aido ... goodness gracious man dont slash and burn yet!!

i cant see anything wrong with the plant in the photos even though i do wear glasses

the leaves you have removed dont appear to be nutrient burnt either although some do have some patches that look burnt, but not from nutrient uptake imo

if there is nutrient burn due to overfertilisation it will show up in the the most recently produced leaves and at the tips initially

please stop removing the leaves for now, the plant will use the leaves as a source of sugars, starches and chlorophyll to make flowers

when the plant is finished with the leaves it will drop them of its own accord

dont panic i think everything is well , in fact its very nice looking plant

 

[Reverend]

As Frazz suggested stop pulling the leaves.

I would be interested on how much rose fertiliser you actually used.

Use it myself on my outdoor ones and only once a fortnight and a very very small handful at that.

Also watered well before and after applying.

[aido]

Thanks for the speedy reply.

your advise is well taken and the

scissors put away for another day.

 

about the rose food, it's brunnings brand,

they recommend 150gms per mtr for large plants.

couldn't find my scales, so i just used a small take-away

container to disperse it around the base, away from the stem.

 

next time i checked the plant, less than 24hrs later, i was horrified.

here is what i used...

[Reverend]

Goodness, that certainly was a lot, try and scrap some away if you can.

When I say little 2 level tablespoons sprinkled around the plant, is more then enough.

[canetoad]

Aido, do youself a favour, stop using exotic fertz and use some gentle, organic fertiliser on your plants.

 

There's an old saying that more cannabis plants are killed by too much.......water, fertiliser, fiddling, moving, TLC.....just TOO BLOODY MUCH OF EVERYTHING.

 

When the plants are very young, a weak solution of seaweed fertz is good and encourages root growth. Old fashioned blood and bone, chook or cow manure or if you're really flash, a bag of Dynamic Lifter. And go easy on the fertz. Once before they really starti to veg, again when they enter pre-flower and maybe one more dose during early flowering.

[canetoad]

I should have said this in the last post. Something else to remember.

 

You don't tend the plant, you tend the soil'.

 

This means that you spend time preparing the ground before you plant. By your pix it looks like yours are outdoors, so you must start preparing the ground weeks, if not months before planting. Compost and organic material is great, but tends to make the soil acidic so you need to offset this by either not planting for a year, or using something like ash or lime to counteract the acidity.

 

Either way, all this needs to be done a long time before the plants go in to give things time to stabilize. Then you can rely on having good, fertile soil and go easy on the fertiliser.

 

And good luck mate.

[aido]

after removing the rose fert and flooding the base,

she now seems to be in recovery mode.

checking a pic from today, budding is going good.

that damaged leaf was pretty weak,

even after a few fat cigars of it.

all the same, better than ciggies. .

cheers, aido.

[aido]

So after a week of rain, all still looks good.

battling grasshoppers is getting tiresome.

 

 

bud close up, hows this bud looking?