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Over fed then heavily flushed will likely kill or at least severely impact the microbes. First you see toxicity then you see deficiency because it's these bacteria that break down the organic nutrients in order to be available for uptake by the plants. I suggest buying an innnoculant if beneficial bacteria and fungi to help replenish the lost colonies. Never fed a prefertilized soil more nutrients unless the plants are showing signs of deficiency. More nutrients doesn't make plants grow any bigger or faster so all we need to do is give them enough not more than enough as you see it's will usually result in issues.
All those damages leaves will not get better and they will get worse. All you can do now is try to get things back in order.
What is the water source you are using?
pH sounds high but it will come down once the organics start to break down into available nutrients. You gonna have to get them some microbes and in the meantime some enzymes like komplete will help get some nutrients available for them. I'm using Raw microbes but there are plenty out there.Ok, I’m using tap water that I let sit for 24hrs with ppm’s around 110 and ph~ 7.5 that I adjust with lemon juice to ~6.5. When I flushed I flushed outside with water hose then ran the ph’d water through it.
pH sounds high but it will come down once the organics start to break down into available nutrients. You gonna have to get them some microbes and in the meantime some enzymes like komplete with help get some nutrients available for them. I'm using Raw microbes but there are plenty out there.
I'm not gonna lie this is going to hurt your quality and yield but if you learn from it then its not wasted. It sucks but imo spending some time to finish it out will give you a bit more knowledge and that's invaluable.
Your looking about a week or so for recovery. Let them dry well now. If you can't get microbes or enzymes it's not the end of the world at this point. Always good to have one hand are a benefit to any grow but your plants will recover. They will draw on stores nutrients for now. Once the media dries a water with some simple cal mag will help. It contains some available nitrogen also but don't water till they dry out now. It will make things worse for nutrient uptake, microbes and transpiration as you will starve the latter 2 of oxygen.
In this case only water untill you see a tiny bit of runoffOk great. That works out because my moisture is reading very dry at the roots right now and I just got some cal-mag in so I’ll be adding that with my watering in the morning and I’ll also get some enzymes and microbes to add to my kit.
No need to add microbes or enzymes or anything. If the plants were heavily flushed with a garden hose (try not to do that. Too much pressure and water at once will compact the soil heavily unless it is mixed 50/50 with perlite or more) then the nutrients were washed out a lot and the plants needed a light feed poured through after. A light grow ratio complete feed works best for recovery.
Otherwise the plants got overfed and then washed out to stop overfeeding but are left with nothing to keep growing on.
Also with potting soil it likely stayed wet a long time after flush and it is important not to water again too soon. Easy to overwater sick plants.
I was careful and flushed slowly the same as I do when I water and my soil is mixed with perlite. But yes I probably still washed most everything out. My soil moisture gauge is reading very dry at the roots now. I’m about to give a light feeding with bloom nutes and cal-mag. Wish me luck.
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