Fox Farms Ocean Forest?

Magged Out

Magged Out

Friday night I transplanted 8 baby ghost into solo cups. Giving the FF Ocean Forest a try this year.

Saturday morning we took a little road trip too Acuña and do a little shopping. We get back home Saturday night.

The casa smells like Chit! Mama Mag is pissed cause the stank is coming from the FFOF ( baby ghost plants).

Has a strong ammonia smell. When I watered them, didn't smell. Soil starts drying out and it starts reeking bad!

Bad Batch?
 
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Plants are shriveling and turning brown.Just giving them RO water. Growing very slow, Ugh!



This time last year they were doing great in some cheap ass Home Depot soil.
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     Their roots are probably getting burned by high pH. It might be a good idea to repot them in better soil.
     I mistakenly potted my seedlings up into hot soil last season and I lost a bunch of them. Most of the ones I transplanted into better soil recovered and grew out of it.
 
Jamison said:
You sure its Ocean Forest and not Happy Frog? Usually the OF has a lot more perlite in it.
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It's Ocean Forest, I just added a little different soil on the top 3/4" too keep the stank down.

Or Mama Mag from thrashing them!
 
Hybrid_Mode_01 said:
     Their roots are probably getting burned by high pH. It might be a good idea to repot them in better soil.
     I mistakenly potted my seedlings up into hot soil last season and I lost a bunch of them. Most of the ones I transplanted into better soil recovered and grew out of it.
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I thought this was some good soil.

I'm gona take your advice and scrap the Ocean Forest!
 
I have been potting up seedlings all week, using Ocean Forest.  Again, completely odorless.
 
The first ones I did are already taking off.
 
I believe you must have gotten a bad bag of Ocean Forest, or, perhaps a counterfeit bag?
 
If it were me, I would definitely be emailing Fox Farms.
 
Good luck.
 
Magged Out said:
I thought this was some good soil.

I'm gona take your advice and scrap the Ocean Forest!
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     It might just be a bad batch. I've never used personally, but I've only heard good things.
 
 
 
 
 
alkhall said:
I have been potting up seedlings all week, using Ocean Forest.  Again, completely odorless.
 
The first ones I did are already taking off.
 
I believe you must have gotten a bad bag of Ocean Forest, or, perhaps a counterfeit bag?
 
If it were me, I would definitely be emailing Fox Farms.
 
Good luck.
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     +1^
 
alkhall said:
I have been potting up seedlings all week, using Ocean Forest.  Again, completely odorless.
 
The first ones I did are already taking off.
 
I believe you must have gotten a bad bag of Ocean Forest, or, perhaps a counterfeit bag?
 
If it were me, I would definitely be emailing Fox Farms.
 
Good luck.
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Think I'll get in touch with them! Bought it at a very nice nursery in Abilene.
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Could it have been an old bag of OF?  I had a bag of OF that worked well when fresh but subsequently it ended up misplaced (shoved under a shelving unit) for a little over a year.  When I tried to use it this grow season I noted that the components were much more clumped together and water wouldn't distribute easily throughout the mix; the runoff from watering was also a very dark brown and very much smelled of ammonia.  
 
I also switched this year to "Just Natural" as my base soil and so far my plants are loving it. I mixed it with some Light Warrior for seedlings and with a little Peat and Perlite for my adult plants. Hope this resolves your problem.
 
Magged Out said:
Went and grabbed a bag of Just Natural from Walmart. Looks like some good quality soil, just added a little more perlite.

2 Primos are in bad shape, hope they recover!
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