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briner

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All of my plants are from bagseed. I have 7 plants that are approximately 12 days old. I am using Miracle-Gro's Organic Potting Mix with these. I have 1 plant that is doing very well in Miracle-Gro Moisture Control Mix. This plant is 21 days old and has six nodes. But the organic ones seems much slower growing. They only have 2 nodes. I figure it has something to do with the fertilizer. So I mixed some Miracle-Gro all purpose plant food according to it's directions and watered all 7 of the organic soil plants. All of them seemed to like the nutrients showing a definite sign of growth 24 hours afterwards. But they are pale green and the leaves are noticebly smaller than the 1 healthy plant was at this age. So is it the soil or the plant genetics? Personally I think its the soil, it is the first time I've tried it. In the past i used the moisture control mix and had all but one out of five do well and it grew to 3ft but turned out to be male. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

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I would say it's your soil. ;) Does it have any nutes already mixed in with the soil?
 
The soil has all organic ingredients. Composted bark, sphagnum peat moss, pasteurized poultry litter, and an organic wetting agent.

0.10-0.05-0.05

Total nitrogen 0.10%
0.002% ammoniacal nitrogen
0.001% nitrate nitrogen
0.097% water insoluble nitrogen

available phosphate 0.05%

soluble potash 0.05%

Thats what it says on the bag. the larger plant in the pic is in soil with N,P,K value 0.27-0.07-0.14. Which is a big difference compared to 0.10-0.05-0.05 so thats probably the reason why they're going slower and look weaker. i never thought to compare the two :eek:. its been a couple days since i added nutes and they're starting to take off now. :) i think the troubles over for now. thanks for asking about the nutes or i would have probably never looked.
 

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