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I'm new to growing, and have recently come across these brown spots on my plants.... Anyone know what I'm dealing with and any possible fixes?
I'm using promix organic vegetable/herb potting soil. They are about 3 months old, and I've just been watering them. I have not fed them anything. Any suggestions of what to feed?What soil is that? What are you feeding? How old are they?
They look very hungry to me.
I'm using promix organic vegetable/herb potting soil. They are about 3 months old, and I've just been watering them. I have not fed them anything. Any suggestions of what to feed?
I'm using promix organic vegetable/herb potting soil. They are about 3 months old, and I've just been watering them. I have not fed them anything. Any suggestions of what to feed?
Any commonly available fertilizer made for tomatoes plus GH calimagic will feed that plant through its whole lifecycle for cheap, good luck!I'm new to growing, and have recently come across these brown spots on my plants.... Anyone know what I'm dealing with and any possible fixes?
Super helpful thank-you so much. I'm off to the hardware store!!That soil claims to have 3-months worth of food. I typically stay away from soils with nutrients built into them.But, that one seems to work well. It's just people forget to start feeding after 2-3 month. A false sense of security. Other than that, it seems to work well. Your plant grew well. I've seen other threads that are similar (grows well, then kaput in 2-3 months. The grower didn't realize they were at the end of the soil's capacity.).
What to feed? That can be a topic like which church to join. Lots of choices. Many have the potential for passion (like the old Chesterfield cigarette commercial: "I'd rather fight than switch."). If you want to keep it simple, just run down to the hardware store and buy MiracleGro Tomato (18-18-21). It's cheap, simple. I've grown a plant through flower with it. 5/8tsp/gal is the proper/safe amount. I've fed as much as 1.2tsp/gal without burn (but looked overfed, N toxicity).
I use Grow More - Sea Grow all purpose (16-16-16). I like it because it has more organic sources of nutrients. But, you won't find it locally. Your plant needs something now.
Many people use Jack's Classic (20-20-20). Again, you probably won't find that locally.
Anything with balanced numbers like that (a 1-1-1 ratio) will be fine. The cannabis-themed, multi-bottle "lineups" fine tune the NPK ratio by varying how the different bottles are mixed together. They work fine. But, expensive and doesn't do that much better (than just 1-1-1 ratio.).
If you wanted to order something better than "Tomato," you could buy Pennington Alaska Fish Emulsion. That's 5-1-1. That hit of nitrogen would be good right now, and carry you until you can feed something more balanced. You'd use that fish emulsion occasionally (future grows). It's good for the soil microbes. I vary my NPK ratio doing that. I'll boost N a little by adding fish emulsion to my Sea Grow in veg.
Super helpful thank-you so much. I'm off to the hardware store!!