First of all, thank you for letting me join the community! I have read so many posts over the years but this is my first time joining a forum.
I have been growing outdoors in my backyard on Vancouver Island for years and keep learning more every year but I can get a little too excited. Last year I experimented with making my own fertilizers and got major nute burn on a few plants and with the super rainy weather ended up with a small amount of bud rot.
This year I was way more careful and doing everything right, my plants are HUGE and bushy and looked sooooo healthy. A few yellowing leaves here and there, the occasional brown steak, but nothing major. I had a bit of a cal-mag problem for a bit but rectified it and they were looking great again. Until all of a sudden in the last week or so, I’m getting these beige streaks and brown curled tips and then that really scary brown streak showed up on the stem. After searches I thought stem rot and my stomach dropped.
I showed the pics to an experienced grower friend and he thought it might be nute burn instead? I did stupidly try to make my own fertilizer again from a recipe online for blooming homemade fertilizer from fermenting fruit. So it could be this? Still more details needed I know...
Plant One-Durban poison
straight in the ground along with three others
companion plants like lavender mint yarrow and borage growing around
fertilizng once a week USUALLY with store bought liquid organic fertilizers - 7-4-10, just switched to 1-2-5 about a week ago, also have a 2-3-3 available but havent used it yet
also made compost tea a couple times
ph tested is in the green, right between the six and seven
Plant Two-white widow
a clone from topping others, in a 7G fabric pot, organic sea soil mixed with random soil and compost from my yard - it was a clone so was just experimenting with what was available
might have got too hot at one point?
same fertilizer schedule
ph tested is also in the green
Let me know if you have any other questions! Thank you sooo much for your help!
I have been growing outdoors in my backyard on Vancouver Island for years and keep learning more every year but I can get a little too excited. Last year I experimented with making my own fertilizers and got major nute burn on a few plants and with the super rainy weather ended up with a small amount of bud rot.
This year I was way more careful and doing everything right, my plants are HUGE and bushy and looked sooooo healthy. A few yellowing leaves here and there, the occasional brown steak, but nothing major. I had a bit of a cal-mag problem for a bit but rectified it and they were looking great again. Until all of a sudden in the last week or so, I’m getting these beige streaks and brown curled tips and then that really scary brown streak showed up on the stem. After searches I thought stem rot and my stomach dropped.
I showed the pics to an experienced grower friend and he thought it might be nute burn instead? I did stupidly try to make my own fertilizer again from a recipe online for blooming homemade fertilizer from fermenting fruit. So it could be this? Still more details needed I know...
Plant One-Durban poison
straight in the ground along with three others
companion plants like lavender mint yarrow and borage growing around
fertilizng once a week USUALLY with store bought liquid organic fertilizers - 7-4-10, just switched to 1-2-5 about a week ago, also have a 2-3-3 available but havent used it yet
also made compost tea a couple times
ph tested is in the green, right between the six and seven
Plant Two-white widow
a clone from topping others, in a 7G fabric pot, organic sea soil mixed with random soil and compost from my yard - it was a clone so was just experimenting with what was available
might have got too hot at one point?
same fertilizer schedule
ph tested is also in the green
Let me know if you have any other questions! Thank you sooo much for your help!
