Okay, having some slight issues with my plants. I am a first time grower, while I know I'm not an expert I have done some extensive research but can't quite seem to fix this problem myself. The worst part is I can't diagnose it, I have not been able to find some sort of cannabis sickness that resembles this, it's only occurring on the new growth on the top of plant. Looks like maybe a bug problem? Calcium deficiency? I'm lost on this one, it has effected 3 out of my 5 plants and one of the plants has been battling heat/light stress for about 2 weeks. Gimme some answers so I can fix this please! And remember I'm balling on a budget
Problems in week 4 of veg
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purplehays1
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the little parts of the leaves that havnt grown in are not to be worried about, happens to my plants in veg all the time. No idea what causes it but it seems to happen when my plants are growing very vigorously.
We'll that might be it, PH has yet to be checked! Like I said this is my first grow, kinda learning as I go along. What should I do about this PH problem? And what are nutes? And also, in the past 12 hours the plants have started to droop slightly..
Diabolical666
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Do you have a microscope? Look at the base of the leaf at30x zoom, you have broad mites. 2 miticide treatments, bug bomb and a thorough cleaning
Okay, I understand now. I feel really dumb but I have been over feeding nutrients, I discovered that I switched my reg water with my nutrient water... I was high... so I've been feeding straight nutrient water for about a week or more. Not my finest moment, but now that I know I will get a Ph meter and I plan on doing a nutrient flush for my soil. Exactly how should the flush be executed?
And btw the leaves are making the "claw" and looking pretty rough, that's how I discovered the switching of the water. Here are all 5 plants for reference. Help and advice is appreciated
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DeeTee
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Unfortunately I'm not a soil grower, I'm hydro, but you did get the jist of it, to me a ph meter is a must for mj growers, I'm sure some soil growers will chime in and have better knowledge abt the subject, best of luck with your grow, we were all beginners at first and learned the more grows we did, that's the beauty of this hobby as well as rewarding.
Thanks for all the help
scunkworm
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Alright my friend,
Im growing in soil myself" from my understanding of flushing is to flush with twice as much water to the size of your pot, ie. If your growing in a 5 gallon pot then you flush with 10 gallons of ph'd water with 1/4 nutes in, i'd look for a complete nutes thats a 5.5.5 10.10.10 or anything with the same numbers just to put something back in after your flush. Then about a week, week and half then carry on with a proper feeding programme yea, you might want to get your self a digital ph meter plus a ec meter to get the the right set of numbers for everything. You can also get some other ph testers with a tube and drops which are good but they will only give you a reading as in a colour chart which go's from colour to colour as in, 1-5 will be blue and 5-10 will be green if you know what i mean. Anyways ive hope ive been able to help in some way and if your not sure of anything pm me or reply to your post' and if im able to help i will.
Im growing in soil myself" from my understanding of flushing is to flush with twice as much water to the size of your pot, ie. If your growing in a 5 gallon pot then you flush with 10 gallons of ph'd water with 1/4 nutes in, i'd look for a complete nutes thats a 5.5.5 10.10.10 or anything with the same numbers just to put something back in after your flush. Then about a week, week and half then carry on with a proper feeding programme yea, you might want to get your self a digital ph meter plus a ec meter to get the the right set of numbers for everything. You can also get some other ph testers with a tube and drops which are good but they will only give you a reading as in a colour chart which go's from colour to colour as in, 1-5 will be blue and 5-10 will be green if you know what i mean. Anyways ive hope ive been able to help in some way and if your not sure of anything pm me or reply to your post' and if im able to help i will.
Alright, I did a flush,(didn't quite use as much water to flush the soil completely) but it seemed to do the trick.. For the most part. Now the PH before flush was around 6.8-7.2 area, after flush plants sit evenly around 5. Growth has recovered slightly, but new growth is all twisted and full of holes. Here are some pictures for reference
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howsitgrowin420
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With what you've already done, I'd just wait it out now. The wrinkly parts of the leaves look like signs of overwatering and should flatten out when she dries out. With your ph...I grow in Pro Mix HP. When I mix up my nutrients I add all the nutrients and then add ph up until I hit 6.5 - 6.8 My plain water starts at 8.0, so I add ph down until I hit 6.8-6.5 I just wanted to make it clear that you should be setting the ph of your nutrient mixture. Some people also test runoff ph or soil ph, but mine have not shown ph problems by accurately ph'ing my mixtures. Looking pretty good though, be sure not to over water! (always let them go very dry between waterings)