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Can someone explain this? Earth worm castings

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Shaded_One

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I only see 2 and neither look well. 1 is just worse than the other.
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Was just gonna say that the other doesn't look much healthier lol

How old are these seedlings?
How often are you watering/what is your judgement when to water?
Any other nutrients in the soil itself?
 
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Well I use promix bx with 30 percent perlite and 30 percent ewc, watering around the stem till drain and when they are fully dry. Although the other isn't perfect, it's doing much better than the ewc one. No other nutrients used. Had a couple grows with that soil mix and they all end up looking like the left one, which is why I'm doing this test now
 
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That's really interesting....cause I use pretty much the exact same ratio and my plants do fine. Are you using tap water or something else?

 
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Wow those are really nice, how do you water them?
 
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Thanks!

Plain ol tap water. Slowly saturate the pot evenly until I start to see run off coming out the bottom and then wait until the soil is almost dry before repeating.



Here's a good visual example. Pots on the right need water, pots on the left would be okay for another 12hrs probably.
 
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Well I use promix bx with 30 percent perlite and 30 percent ewc, watering around the stem till drain and when they are fully dry. Although the other isn't perfect, it's doing much better than the ewc one. No other nutrients used. Had a couple grows with that soil mix and they all end up looking like the left one, which is why I'm doing this test now
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How much and how often? My seedling in 16oz cups get water on day 0, day 3 or 4, and day 7 or 8.
 
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You are over watering all your plants. The ones with EWC are holding that water longer so the over watering symptoms are more present. The other ones aren't healthy either, but better then the EWC ones. It's your watering, not the worm castings.
 
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That's really interesting....cause I use pretty much the exact same ratio and my plants do fine. Are you using tap water or something else?

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Beautiful
 
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I'm using tap water on a well, I don't know the exact composition of the well water but it has less ppm than natural spring water. Makes sense with the over watering, seems like I water just the same as everyone else though.
 
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I'm using tap water on a well, I don't know the exact composition of the well water but it has less ppm than natural spring water. Makes sense with the over watering, seems like I water just the same as everyone else though.
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My honest opinion is that the plants look hungry. Would be interesting to check or know the ppm of your water but sounds and looks deficient and sounds like you know when to water etc.

You do have drainage holes poked right and they aren't just sitting in their own swamp juice?
 
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Yup got the drain holes. You mean they look hungry as in to fertilizer them? I have Gaia green all purpose fertilizer which is what I will use
 
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Try like a 15-30ml top dress and give it a few days. If it gets worse then perhaps your well water is hotter than you think. I think that's a major unknown at this point. Don't most people mix their well water with 50% RO?
 
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My well water measured at 150 ppm, plus the ewc, maybe it is too hot! I'll see how they grow over the next few days
 
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Shaded_One said:
Try like a 15-30ml top dress and give it a few days. If it gets worse then perhaps your well water is hotter than you think. I think that's a major unknown at this point. Don't most people mix their well water with 50% RO?
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Over watered plants can't absorb nutes. Clearly over watering is the problem.
 
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My well water measured at 150 ppm, plus the ewc, maybe it is too hot! I'll see how they grow over the next few days
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I use the same mix with 320ppm tap water. This is 8 days from sprout- its been watered twice. Your plants are over watered.
 
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An interesting post. I did see you say that you are watering around the stem. That’s not a good practice. Literally beneath your root ball it will build a mud hole and it will drown your ladies, which is what this looks like to me. I use worm castings from beginning to end and have never had a problem of any kind. What brand of castings did you use?
 
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Looks like it's been narrowed down to overwatering and/or some stanky EWC :)
 
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Looks like it's been narrowed down to overwatering and/or some stanky EWC :)
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Lol at “stanky”
 
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Overwatering is the biggest grower induced cause of problems in our indoor world.
 
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castings hold a lot of water, mine do better with extra added perlite with the castings
 
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