Help please!

Growing a single Blue Kush plant in a 3 gallon pot with fox farms ocean forest under a 60w led doing 24/0. It's in a closet. Leaves seem to be curling upward and I can't seem to find anything like it. I'm thinking maybe a pH swing because I was using bottled water the whole time then about 2 weeks ago I used faucet water once or twice. I have since started using bottled water again..Temps are always 70-80 and humidities 50-60%. I also do smoke cigarettes in the same room with the window open and fans on. I know that's still bad but could that also be the problem? Another thing I noticed was a root started growing through one of the drainage holes in the pot. I want to switch to 12/12 now but I'm not sure if it's a good time. The plant is just over a month old and a bit over a foot tall.

that looks like a ph problem to me

bobtokes said:

that looks like a ph problem to me

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Alright that's what I was thinking. Never had a pH problem before do I just continue watering it like normal until in bounces back? Also, does me smoking in the same room affect it much? Seeing as the windows open and there's a fan the smoke doesn't come in direct contact with the plants.

cant see the smokin a prob unless you chain smoke, just adjust your ph to around 6.8

Awesome. Thank you for the advice!

Yeah pick a stable pH and never let it wander even if just using water adjust the pH the same using a pH buffer.

MeJuana said:

Yeah pick a stable pH and never let it wander even if just using water adjust the pH the same using a pH buffer.

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What's a pH buffer? And should I wait until it bounces back to normal before I start 12/12? I'm also not very educated on nutrients. Anything you'd suggest to run with fox farms ocean forest for flowering?

There's buffers for soil such as dolomite lime but I am not speaking to that right now although the ideas are all the same, we are talking aqueous or water. An aqueous pH buffer is a a weak acid or basic solution which raises or lowers pH, a measurement of acidity or alkalinity. We need nutrients to dissolve in our solution so we aim to maintain a pH of between 6.0 and 7.0.. But also very importantly we don't want the pH to change between watering we want to pick a pH and stay there. Many gardeners can actually get away without adjusting pH because their tap water is ideal for growing, naturally buffered and they happen to know you don't need much nutrients so it works out magically well. Most of us probably don't have perfect tap water though.

Edit and P.S.: Don't use chemical salts on organics. Use organic pH down and organic pH up solutions.

Now this just popped up. I'm not sure what the problem is.

looks like calcium deficiency, might be because your using bottled water, or that your ph is too low

Make sure to fix a calcium problem before flowering. Also as everyone says. Fix the ph. If you don't you'll have a lockout and your plants will look like shit and the bud won't be nearly as good. Good luck man

Brooklyn215ish said:

Make sure to fix a calcium problem before flowering. Also as everyone says. Fix the ph. If you don't you'll have a lockout and your plants will look like shit and the bud won't be nearly as good. Good luck man

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Not educated at all in pH problems or how to fix them..I'd imagine I've had pH problems in the past and thought they were deficiences. Was about to start flowering now/tomorrow so thank you. I did a flush this morning and I noticed the leaves are starting to bounce back in terms of stretching to the light.

East Buddah said:

Not educated at all in pH problems or how to fix them..I'd imagine I've had pH problems in the past and thought they were deficiences. Was about to start flowering now/tomorrow so thank you. I did a flush this morning and I noticed the leaves are starting to bounce back in terms of stretching to the light.

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That's good man. Give it a week or so and if they don't show anymore leaves turning then you should be good to go. You give an old lady apples she makes apple pie. You give a smoker a seed they grow a beautiful plant!!! Good luck on your grow. Keep us posted. Any questions you know where to ask!!!!

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That's good man. Give it a week or so and if they don't show anymore leaves turning then you should be good to go. You give an old lady apples she makes apple pie. You give a smoker a seed they grow a beautiful plant!!! Good luck on your grow. Keep us posted. Any questions you know where to ask!!!!

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Thanks brotha. Got a few blue Kush and white widows going strong outdoors. Got a chemdawg bag seed...some stanky gassy nug. Gonna start popping it tomorrow. I grew the blue Kush outdoors 2 years ago ago and it was getting nice and frosty...harvested way too early. I was impatient and uneducated.

East Buddah said:

Thanks brotha. Got a few blue Kush and white widows going strong outdoors. Got a chemdawg bag seed...some stanky gassy nug. Gonna start popping it tomorrow. I grew the blue Kush outdoors 2 years ago ago and it was getting nice and frosty...harvested way too early. I was impatient and uneducated.

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Been there and done that lol it's what happens to any new grower. Can't learn from a mistake if you don't make them rite?!!! Where you from man?

Very true. I'm from Maine brotha!

East Buddah said:

Very true. I'm from Maine brotha!

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Never been there lol how do you get seeds?

All of my seeds are bag seeds. Only take them from the dankest of nugs which only have a seed or two throughout a whole bud. Which to me means they're most likely female seeds

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All of my seeds are bag seeds. Only take them from the dankest of nugs which only have a seed or two throughout a whole bud. Which to me means they're most likely female seeds

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Your lucky man. Seeds are so damn expensive. It's hard for me to trust the Internet. I've been growing the same shit now for 3 years.

I've only got 1 seed in the past year or so. Been sitting on 10-20 blue kush and white widow seeds for 2 years now. The blue Kush was some exoticcc bud. Got about 30 seeds from a half pound. About 6 weeks old now and really starting to stink. I've wanted to try seeds offline before but I'm much more comfortable seeing and handling the bud the seeds come from.