pleeez help save my plants

i am growing outdoors, my plants were geting atacked by nats, or catapilers, or something. a friends dad told me to spray them with a mix of viniger, dish sope, and water to kill whatever was attacking them, he also said "to water them as much as posibel because they are a weed and will take up anything you give them" now they are turning brown and sriveling up.. they also had brown rust colored spots on some leaves prier to the viniger, and over water inicident.. any recomadiond on counter action, other than not to lisen to him anymore.

p.s. pics comming soon

Without pics, there is little to diagnose and advise.

Never spray vinegar on the plant leaf surface. Vinegar is great to lower the water pH or the soil pH but too acidic on vegatation.

The soap was a good idea mixed with water and spray misted.

Makes the leaves nice and siny too.

They might be too far gone, but I would go and spray water and a tab of baking soda on the leaves....just a tad...like one teaspoon per spray bottle.

You will need to try and neutralize the high acid vinager now on the foilage.

Good luck.

here is the pics of my babies

Looks like foiliar burn.

Don't use vinager on the foilage....

The new leaves look ok so dont worry about it...those older leaves will be but shrivels in memory anyhow.

I would just plain water spray the plant and do it several times over the next few days.

What kinda dirt are they in anyhow?

there in an organic soil made from decomposted oak mulch chipings and enchanced with milorgnite and 8-10-10 firtlizer. any other sugestions. i also just did the baking soda spray, should i go rince that off of them?

by the way i also have to ask, when should i cloan and how?

let me know if you need more pics.

would they be better off indoors?

there in an organic soil made from decomposted oak mulch chipings and enchanced with milorgnite and 8-10-10 firtlizer. any other sugestions. i also just did the baking soda spray, should i go rince that off of them?

Just spray them with non chlorinated water everday for a while.


by the way i also have to ask, when should i cloan

long time before that



would they be better off indoors?

Yes if the conditions are appropriate, and the lighting is proper.


STOP the ferts for now. Too young to need it and they recovery. NON CHLORINATED WATER ONLY pH to 7.0

how wet or dry should the soil be, & is it to soon to start bending them like this the first 2 were toped about a 1 1/2 to 2 weeks ago and the third one i just let grow