cal/mag? or PH imbalance? both?

ValleGrown

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Hey everyone. :)

First off I just want to thank you for looking at this thread. Its been awhile since I've ran into a deficiency. But. None of us are perfect. Some of us are picky.. (Like this pheno)

But story goes they are roughly 40-50 days old. They are females. Same seeds, 3 different phenos I'm imagining.. they have been sharing a "run off catch" I measured the run off today. Its sitting at about 1800ppm and 6.5 or so.

So here I am running into what I'm thinking is a cal/mag def. Mainly I'm thinking it's cal/mag because they have been sitting in their pots since they were planted originally so the soil is probably out of micronutrients is what I'm thinking. I haven't added any cal/Mag or ang nutrients up until this day of finding the chlorophyll dying.

Well here's a pic
 

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hotrodharley

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1800 PPM!!! Uh . . . have you fed this to other plants that made it and produced bud? I'll go out on a limb and say the deficiency is caused by lockout. 1800 PPM in soil is extremely high in my experience. I've never run anything that high even in hydro.
 

ValleGrown

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Well I'm thinking that the 1800 is combined from several other run offs evaporating and leaving behind residues. So I guess that makes sense. Its been a few years since I've grown anything, this is my fist time back since like 09.

But I hear ya. Thanks for the lesson. Just flush them with cal/mag supp. And rebalance pH yea?
 

hotrodharley

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Well I'm thinking that the 1800 is combined from several other run offs evaporating and leaving behind residues. So I guess that makes sense. Its been a few years since I've grown anything, this is my fist time back since like 09.

But I hear ya. Thanks for the lesson. Just flush them with cal/mag supp. And rebalance pH yea?
Flush like hell with water first. A couple of times at least.They won't be starving with a PPM that high. Then go ahead with your plan.
 

ValleGrown

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But yea I've grown all the way through. Just to be clear I'm not giving a solution of 1800 ppm to my plants. That would be genocide. This is sitting in my catch pan. There are three plants in the catch plant. One that's in a 3 gal smart pot freshly transplanted, the other two are in gallon pots. So I'm thinking from watering/seating the fresh transplant into the new 3 gal smart pot, the soil released a ton of nutrients is what I'm thinking.

They drank it up tho. It was a day or two before it was soaked up by the root balls. And the one behind it is fine.. it's the one up front.
 

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ValleGrown

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Like maybe 3-400

Water from the tap is like 210..

I added some cal/mag and took it up to 310 so hopefully and it was ph'd as well down to 7 so the plant could take it then and there
 
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