I have brown spoting leaf problems first grow need Help!!!PICS!!

Hi everyone hope someone can help??
ok the problem started the day after i started 12/12 four days ago, its about 6 weeks old.

i have miracle grow .14/.14/.14 potting mix with black earth topsoil mixed together in a 3.5 gallon bucket never used any nutes because of the slow release miracle grow.

ph is about 6.0ish in the runoff hard to tell cause i am using the testing drops and color card, tap water is around 6.4ish.

i had growth stunted problems up until about 2 weeks ago when i transplanted jiffy pot into bigger bucket then it took off up to this point really bushy.

don't know what else to add but here is some pics---->

first day i noticed it like 3 days ago: 2 pics



tonight before lights out:





i searched for bugs could not find no signs, and today i was told to use egg shells so i dried and crushed them up and sprinkled on top of the soil for calcium and used a tiny bit of Epsom salt and sprayed on the leaves very small amount because i have already watered yesterday because soil was dry...

did you leach your pot since you planted into 3.5 gallon? right now im using miracle gro soil for my two plants (7 nodes now) that you can see in my avatar...it grow healthy and one month already but surely its grow slow...im not in any hurry...so hopefully someone will help ya out real soon.

thanks izoc, ill hope for someone that had this problem before to guide me hopefully its just calcium and magnesium sulfate problems i will find out in the next few days i guess... not sure what you mean about leach my pot though

greennewfie said:

thanks izoc, ill hope for someone that had this problem before to guide me hopefully its just calcium and magnesium sulfate problems i will find out in the next few days i guess... not sure what you mean about leach my pot though

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leach mean flush your potting with three times volume than your normal water...it help to clear ph or buildup from salt or fertilizers off.

no i never flushed my soil should i with miracle grow soil? i have to water again tomorrow or the next day so should i flush with say 8 litters of water and is ph 6.0 to low for my run off if so how should i raise it i have a natural spring near by with a ph of 7.0 should i use that instead of my tap water which is 6.4.. thanks for your help izoc your the only person to help me so far!

Update on the problem added epsom salt and ground up egg shells for cal/mag and it worked heres the new pics

This is the old leaves that had the problem turning yellow and dying off, is this normal??

looks like a ph problem...maybe your tester is off...calibrate it and see

Thanks Nmate2oo2 +rep to you for knowing the symptoms...
i done alot of searching, a friend sent me a link that that showed me it is a pH problem i just figured it out a couple days ago when i posted those pictures, i thought it was a cal/mag problem but my soil was to acidic and nute locked it, i flushed last week thats when i notised the acidic run off below 6 i flushed with pH'd water at around 6.5 then 2 days ago i watered again and the run off was back up in the 6.3 area so now in a couple more days when i water ill check again hopefully the pH is back to normal.. i looked at it last night before lights out to make sure the lights were not gonna touch woke up this morning and it grew up into them overnight about 2 inches, wow i didn't think they grew that much in the dark i burned a couple leaves

Ps. i dont have a digital pH pen yet any advice on what brand to get? im using the color drops right now..

This is the updated pics from just now:


New growth is nice and green:

New Update it turned out to be very acidic soil around 5.0 and bellow, i am still fighting to keep the pH up in my soil but she has come a long way for the crap she went through!!!

Miracle grow soil is not a good soil to use. Go to a grow store and get soil. Miracle gro has stuff in it that isn't healthy for you when you smoke. If you don't have a grow store go to Home depot or Lowes and look for soil that has OMRI approved on the lable. You can keep using your tap water just let it sit overnight to dissepate the chorine. Your ph should be between 6.3 and 6.8.