I didnt flush the way you advised, I didnt use nearly as much water as your sugesting so I'll go back and give them a Real flushing(the bathtub idea is great! I'll be sure to do that.)
As for soil I just used the cheapest organic potting soil and added perlite to the mix.(I know going cheap is not what I would have preffered to do but unemployment is a b@#ch-gotta work with what we got right).
The plants seemed very happy but the growth rate slowed way down so I started adding nutes(miracle-gro 24-8-16). Things went down hill from there.
Since then I have lowered my lamp alot closer to the plants(but not too close, I checked the heat comming off the lamp against my hand).
Have only wantered twice but not till water came out the bottom, so I will do that from now on.
I've trimmed off the dead and dying leaves and basically crossed my fingers and hoped.
Based on the advice I recieved here I am going to change the nutes to Pete's all purpose plant food (20-20-20) and will not be using the miracal gro. I will also do the Real flush on all three plants and go from there.
As always thank you all for your advice, dont know what I'd do without this website! |