Girls are not loving life

Hi fellow growers, i am reasonably experienced indoors and outdoor in ground but am currently growing outdoor in pots, the 1st photo is Bruce Banner amd doing well but the next 3 are of 5 seedlings i was given from an unknown source and are doing very badly, they were stated late and started out sensational but are now looking very poor! 1 in fact flowered within 3 weeks, turned into 1 big bud and had to be pulled and 1 was a hermi.
I thought they were being under watered to begin with, nothing changed.
I then tried nutrients but this didnt help either in fact gave pic 4 severe nute burn and has not recovered.
I then added some drainage and went back to the same amount of water after a good flush but they seem to be gone, although they are developing their lady parts quite nicley, just a very pale green with barley any vegetation.
Its worth mentioning that the weather here has gone nuts, instead of steady weeks of 30-45°c days and warm nights theres been 1 hot day here and there followed by cold nights and rain, very strange but climate change is a myth right🤔 for example the day before yesterday was 46`but the very next day was 21° and raining with cold nights, not ideal but still, not enough to cause what i am seeing.
Any help, suggestions and advice would be very welcomed.



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Howdy
Are you adjusting your pH when you water and feed.pH 6.5 for soil

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Pale green would indicate lack of nutrients. Could be low pH locking nutrients out.

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@Ozgunga13
Does the soil have slow release fertilizer?
I reckon you should get some Charlie Carp fertilizer and give it half strength and adjust the pH to 6.5 and water till run off and check your pH, Ec ,tds.
Do you have pH tester and EC pen?
Was giving mine Charlie Carp as well as other organic fertilizer.

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I believe so, i also do not have a PH test kit so i will get onto that straight away, bad strain doesnt help

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@Ozgunga13
Had a close up look of your plants and seems like burning too.
I would definitely get EC pen or TDS pen and check your run off.
Need to have pH pen and EC pen or TDS pen to check all these parameters. :+1:
Those store bought soils with slow release fertilizers throw your pH off.

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I’m with @PhatPat plants look flat out hungry. Need a little help to finish strong.
Good luck :v:

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I agree that plant looks hungry! But you can’t feed it unless your ph is adjusted properly.

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What soil are you using?

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Potting mix unfortunately, i was away at time of going into pots

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Getting onto the ph levels this week, one looks goke for all money but we will see, i never give up! I never knew growing in pots outdoors was so different to indoor or in ground outdoor, but worst case the Bruce Banner is smashing it and should produce some juicy bud

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Positivity. I LOVE it.

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What your pH at I done a soil pH test yesterday and mine was 6.5 to 7 but I never really done pH testing before.

Well a 1 healthy bush is better than 4 sick, a bud in hand as they say!

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Not sure of ph levels yet, ive never done them either, not outdoors, im getting a kit tomorrow!

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This is my 3rd grow outdoors in pot’s I think there 25 litre and I spun out on my results.

40c = 101F that’s hot along with sun bearing down on black pots
Wondering if with the higher temps and the black colored pots the roots are suffering from the heat?
Maybe think about somehow covering the pots with white color or shade them with a cloth?
So you don’t know what bagged soil was used filling the pots?
Maybe a real good flush and then a feed.
What are you using to feed them chemical or organic?

They do look hungry and at the same time angry lol.
If it were me I’d be thinking possible root issues along with PH?
Take some samples of soil from 2-3 spots of soil and do a slurry test if you don’t have a soil ph meter or a PH pen. You can use PH strips if available doing the slurry.

A quick nitrogen fix would be to piss in a bucket and dilute 10:1 with water it will provide them with quick nitrogen as they look like they want some N for sure.

Those dead crispy leaves in that once section of plant again make me thing root issues.

Good luck with things

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Ph pen / digital metter is best fir many reasons.
More accurate to the .0 rather then hole numbers and can use it over and over where any test strip kits have limited strips and they dont give an accurate enough reading. They will help tell if you’re really crazy out of wack, but impossible to dail it in with strips.

The plant looks very hungry as stated, it has overall good form though so I see no indication that its ph related.
Ph is important and I could be wrong it could be locked out due to ph. Typically theres more systems involved with ph but not always.

If this was mine, i would order me a ph pen and while I waited for it to get here, i would go ahead and feed it a full strength dose of a veg nutrient.
And once the pen got here it would be about time to water again and hopefully you see some green coming back by then.
Once i had my pen I would adjust my inputs from then on.

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Sounds Ike a good plan

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