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Friday, April 20, 2018
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Fried my plant?!?
I was did some late night research and another likely cause of this plant’s misery is light-burn. The light I was using was supposed to be twice as far away. With LED’s light burn is a real thing, I guess. The light I was using was a 900 watt equivalent and it was only about 18” away from the center of the plant and I was running it 24 hours a day. This would cause the yellow color. I do not believe there is a nitrogen deficiency or iron deficiency because the leaves have the rumpled appearance of excess nitrogen and my soil has tested high in iron.
Anyhow—I think it’s possible the nitrogen is adequate and that the leaves got this blanched-yellow appearance from the excess light. Anyhow, this plant has multiple issues, making it a tricky one to diagnose! It could still just be some other kind of plant shock. But 1st things 1st: No more 900 watt LED!
Next year: more heat, less light, and start with a bigger plant in better prepared ground.
A plan for next year: build a 4ft x 4ft box with 4ft x 2ft foil coated styrofoam sides and a double layer of plastic for the top... prop it up on sunny days and drop it down at night. Probably could get something like this up to 70 degrees with one (not 900 watt!!!) lightbulb.
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