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Hello fellow farmers,
I come to you today with a couple of avocado trees that are suffering from one thing or another.
The first one I'll address is the eldest of the two, and it has had issues since the very beginning. The leaves twist and the leaf tips are burnt as if overfed. The pot it resides in currently has been it's home for around a month, maybe a month and a half. It is approximately three months old.
The soil is 2/3 organic Miracle Grow (i know, i hate MG as much as the next guy, but it was what was available at that time) with 1/3 perlite. Terra cota pot. Watered straight from the tap, which isn't real good here at pH 8.1 and ~220ppm depending on time of day and recent weather. I give enough water for a TINY bit of run off, this soil stays saturated for a while. This tree does not seem to drink as much as cannabis does, so it'll go a week to two weeks without water and no improvement in leaf behaviour.
Last week I got in a battle with fungus gnats. Treated with diatemacious earth (i know I screwed that spelling up) and the gnats are gone. I thought perhaps the gnats were a sign of root rot perhaps, considering nothing else was impacted by them and they did not migrate to my variety of other plants.
Here's some pictures:
You can see the edge of the leaf is like burnt.
The second is a young sapling about a month old now. It's doing quite well in comparison to its sibling, though today it started showing signs of what we would consider to be a cal/mag deficiency in our typical plant of choice. Rust spots on the oldest growth. Again, this plant has a single leaf that has the tip burnt off, same symptom as the older tree.
Here's some pics of this youngin:
And here's one for size comparison:
Both in same soil, same temps, only difference is age and we waited to put the younger one in soil longer than the older one, thinking that's why the older one is unhappy now. Was rushed into life too quick. Either way, both are slow growers, though the young one is picking up its pace with spending its day in under the brightest metal halide in the sky.
Considering my ole lady got these started and we've never grown them before, I am unsure of how to go about fixing these issues. What do some of you guys with more experience with these think? Thanks for any advice or tips.
One Love.
I come to you today with a couple of avocado trees that are suffering from one thing or another.
The first one I'll address is the eldest of the two, and it has had issues since the very beginning. The leaves twist and the leaf tips are burnt as if overfed. The pot it resides in currently has been it's home for around a month, maybe a month and a half. It is approximately three months old.
The soil is 2/3 organic Miracle Grow (i know, i hate MG as much as the next guy, but it was what was available at that time) with 1/3 perlite. Terra cota pot. Watered straight from the tap, which isn't real good here at pH 8.1 and ~220ppm depending on time of day and recent weather. I give enough water for a TINY bit of run off, this soil stays saturated for a while. This tree does not seem to drink as much as cannabis does, so it'll go a week to two weeks without water and no improvement in leaf behaviour.
Last week I got in a battle with fungus gnats. Treated with diatemacious earth (i know I screwed that spelling up) and the gnats are gone. I thought perhaps the gnats were a sign of root rot perhaps, considering nothing else was impacted by them and they did not migrate to my variety of other plants.
Here's some pictures:
You can see the edge of the leaf is like burnt.
The second is a young sapling about a month old now. It's doing quite well in comparison to its sibling, though today it started showing signs of what we would consider to be a cal/mag deficiency in our typical plant of choice. Rust spots on the oldest growth. Again, this plant has a single leaf that has the tip burnt off, same symptom as the older tree.
Here's some pics of this youngin:
And here's one for size comparison:
Both in same soil, same temps, only difference is age and we waited to put the younger one in soil longer than the older one, thinking that's why the older one is unhappy now. Was rushed into life too quick. Either way, both are slow growers, though the young one is picking up its pace with spending its day in under the brightest metal halide in the sky.
Considering my ole lady got these started and we've never grown them before, I am unsure of how to go about fixing these issues. What do some of you guys with more experience with these think? Thanks for any advice or tips.
One Love.