Healthy plant?

[Budlofsky's Dinner]

Looking at some of the pics people post of their grows has me a bit nervous that maybe my plants could be doing better. I think maybe my plant is over watered or something. I have it in a plastic pot with not so great drainage. Got some smart pots and will replant it later tonight. I'm probably just overcompensating since it's first time growing. Anyway here is pic of plant.

[Superdawg]

It looks like it's over watered. Maybe add some extra perlite when you re pot. It will bounce back, no worries. 😀 Good start!

[kingfish]

What type of soil are you using. I don't see any Perlite and your soil looks muddy.

[Gordo41]

Over watering. And needs so N.

[Tika]

Going with the flow of advice posted..and same. What are your plants in..quite save-able
dont panic! Yes smart pots...I don't use soil I use coco coir but people here use soil.
do your homework on GWE and ask more questions on the form
welcome!!

[Karlee]

when leaves do that even house plants it's over watered, but these plants bounce back just stay consistent.

[Royal Nugs]

Agreed. Get some perlite in there, the smart pots won't help if you don't aerate your media. No oxygen = no roots!

[Budlofsky's Dinner]

Based on feedback and stuff on the site, I replanted into smart pots. Still using soil. I got a bag of soil from fox farms. Filled about 3/4 with fox farms ocean soil that has built in nutes, then topped with the organic soil I was using, but mixed with perlite. Hopefully my 2 plants take to it. If not, I have some auto seeds as back up and a bit of knowledge from my mistakes.

[insomniaczzz]

Your plants really do look savable. With the new soil and smart pots, I think you're on the right track. Give them time to recover. If your only problem was overwatering, they will bounce back quickly.

[Budlofsky's Dinner]

Yeah, I think it was overwatering + not good drainage. Hopefully they will listen to you and bounce back quickly.

[Budlofsky's Dinner]

Well, I'm pretty sure one of the plants is going to bite the dust. Hoping the other one pulls out ok. I activated my backup plan by sprouting an auto that has peeked up to say hi already. My initial plants might not make it, but either way it is a learning experience for me.

[Royal Nugs]

Great attitude to have. I have a hard time admitting defeat. It's so hard to keep things in perspective when you poured your time, energy, money, love into it.

[Budlofsky's Dinner]

Well, I was skeptical about buying seeds online and figured what the hell and pulled the trigger. I wasnt prepared at all when they came in. Now that I did some more research after the fact, I prob should have started with an auto instead of a a more unforgiving strain. For what I invested on seeds and their potential yield vs what I would pay for instant gratification I will still come ahead by alot, and in more ways than one.

[Sonnyhad]

There appears to be quite a learning curve growing these, plenty of things can go wrong! It happens to all of us, we share our mistakes so others can learn from them as well!

[Budlofsky's Dinner]

Update time.
Plants were put into 2 gallon smart pots close to a week ago.
My plant that was growing well had the bottom leaves get really bad spots and were dying off, so I removed them last night.
The plant that was stunted seems to be doing ok, but also started curling a bit and getting brown on the tips.
It dawned on me that perhaps I should raise my lights, so I put them up to approx 30 inches away.
We'll see how it goes and post an update in a week.

[Budlofsky's Dinner]

I should add that I am going to be verifying the ph of the soil and adjusting with ph up / down as needed. I have some cheap device purchased at the hardware store that I'm not conifdent with. It is hard to read but it seems to be indicating ph is somewhere just above 7 and close to 8.
I also filled the pots with fox farms soil (that has the guano/ earthworm casings) in the bottom half then topped with the organic I had left over. Both soils recieved a good mixing in of perlite.