Help Please! Can’t identify issue

[BlazeItSam420 4]

Hello if anyone could please offer advice it would be much appreciated! My plants over the past 2 weeks have been gradually getting slightly worse looking. I have two which are speedy chille. I’ve been trouble shooting the problem and trying my best to resolve it but I can’t seem to work it out. I thought it was spider mites and have been using neem oil to try combat that but it’s not worked. I’ve tried to be careful with watering and don’t want to just throw nutrients at it and make it worse. 
Issues are:

- yellow spots on leaves (this is how it started). Some leaves are worse affected than others

- dry leaves (mainly in the middle)

- top leaves on one plant are dark green and have clawed round before getting to any size

- I’ve noticed the stems on the top two nodes which have sprouted look to be cracking along the middle with a brown line.

- some leaves looked a little burnt at the ends

 

I’ve trimmed off some of the worst looking leaves but have pictures.

 

One looks like it’s just starting to bud and I was planning on repotting now so any advice would be great please. I have photos but not sure how to attach using my mobile.

 

Cheers!
 

 

[stu914 42,785]

Hi bud and welcome, much easier to diagnose with some pics if you can mate...from what you describe it sounds like over feeding,

clawing dark leaves indicate nitrogen overdose, as I said, difficult without seeing the plants.

 

Are you using a wet/dry cycle with a decent run-off when you water? What medium are you in?

 

A bit more info on your set-up will also help, light distance from the plant, temps, humidity etc

 

[BlazeItSam420 4]

Thanks very much for responding so quickly! Any idea how I could get you some photos to take a look?

 

I haven’t been using any feed so more likely a deficiency than over feeding? I just didn’t want to buy a bunch of stuff and give it what it didn’t need.

 

Plants are in plastic plant pots with holes at the bottom. I never see the water running right the way through. Around 8-10cm wide, can see some roots at the bottom so was going to repot to bigger fabric pots. I use bottles still spring water to water them but I was just away for a week and my flat mate who was looking after them used the london tap water it may not like! Kind of unsure how much or how little he’s been watering them as we’ve not crossed paths and he’s away now but they were quite moist when I got back so going to let the soil dry out for a day or 2. They were grown in jiffy pellets and now they’re within multi purpose compost with added John Innes which is also what I was going to report them into. Mostly grown on the window ledge indoors but taken outside quite often to try and get them used to it as that’s where they’ll be repotted to. So temp/humidity/light would just be room temp or whatever it’s like outside. The sun gets the window sill in the morning. 
 

thanks again for your help and let me know if there’s a way to show any photos! 

[BlazeItSam420 4]

 

 

Tried to copy and paste photos in but didn’t seem to work!

Edited July 30, 2020 by BlazeItSam420
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[Guest]

You have to upload to the site for security reasons.  There is a help thread in new members section to upload from phones I think

[BlazeItSam420 4]

 

Cheers fat boy! Here are the photos, can add more if needed

[Dov1 1,072]

Those pots look tiny for the stage of these plants, what lights are you using, coco or soil? 

 

 

 

Spots look to big for mites id say 

 

Underwateed? perhaps heat stress or leaf septoria caused by fungi, copper could have helped perhaps doesnt look like cal def from what ive seen on here but i could be wrong!

 

These girls look proper sad girls hoow you manage to bring it round or at least gain some good lessons for the next ones 

 

Hopfully the more experienced guys can shead some more light

Edited July 30, 2020 by Dov1

[Guest]

Not enough light coupled with too much food.  The food amount would probably be alright if the plant had enough light to use it in time. 

[BlazeItSam420 4]

6 minutes ago, FatBoy77 said:

Not enough light coupled with too much food.  The food amount would probably be alright if the plant had enough light to use it in time. 

Any fixes? I’ve not given it any food, would this be from the compost nutrients? 
 

cheers!

[BlazeItSam420 4]

17 minutes ago, Dov1 said:

Those pots look tiny for the stage of these plants, what lights are you using, coco or soil? 

 

 

 

Spots look to big for mites id say 

 

Underwateed? perhaps heat stress or leaf septoria caused by fungi, copper could have helped perhaps doesnt look like cal def from what ive seen on here but i could be wrong!

 

These girls look proper sad girls hoow you manage to bring it round or at least gain some good lessons for the next ones 

 

Hopfully the more experienced guys can shead some more light

cheers for weighing in! Hopefully someone has quite a good idea of what’s went wrong and can suggest a fix 

[Guest]

What light are you using, how far away is it, how long have they been in those pots, how often/much are you watering? 

[Shumroom 24,555]

Get some fresh beans on the go.

They will probably catch up and overtake these plants, imho.

 

Don't go away for a week leaving your baby to someone you barely speak to 

 

They need daily attention when young

[BlazeItSam420 4]

26 minutes ago, Shumroom said:

Get some fresh beans on the go.

They will probably catch up and overtake these plants, imho.

 

Don't go away for a week leaving your baby to someone you barely speak to 

 

They need daily attention when young

Think these are unsalvageable :(?

[BlazeItSam420 4]

28 minutes ago, FatBoy77 said:

What light are you using, how far away is it, how long have they been in those pots, how often/much are you watering? 

Natural light. They were on the window sill and were being moved outside into the sunlight each day for a short amount of time to get them used to it. They’ve been in those pots for about a month now. Was planning to repot on coming back home but came back to this. Watering I was doing daily As required  but a very small amount only. Basically just keeping the top of the soil slightly moist. 

[stu914 42,785]

Just now, BlazeItSam420 said:

Think these are unsalvageable :(?

 

Have a read what others are using bud and start again is my advice. The compost looks too 'hot' hence the N overdose (clawing leaves).

Odds are if there is too much N there's too much of everything else, this has locked out several nutes and that's what's showing up on the leaves,

get some quality potting compost to start then pot up into stronger once it's established. Sorry but this one is beyond it I reckon.