Growing indoors with general purpose compost. Blue cheese under a 250W HPS, plants are at day 20 flowering. Lights at lease 6 inches from plants. Watering feq is 2 litres per plant every 3/4 days with 2-3ml/L biobloom and 1ml/L biogrow. Temps are 20-25 degrees C day time and about 10-16 degrees night humidity is 50% non watering days and 60-70 on watering days. 12 litre pot and a 9 litre one. Not many problems with bugs, occasional gnats but not many. Just flushed the plants with water and some Mg salts and they are still yellowing so added fresh nutes 3ml/L biobloom and 2ml/L biogrow. Think the leaf curl is due to the dowsing they got when I flushed them
Well it doesn't really look like a magnesium def, N yes. Those brown splotches are possibly some micro nutrients defs, I've seen calcium do this but normally it has a lot of spotting to go with it. Could be the ph slightly off (or swinging perhaps?), but your plants look great over all, if this is just on a few lower leaves I wouldn't worry too much. Looks like you are into 3 or 4 weeks flowering already so this stuff isn't too uncommon, especially if you switched nutes at 12/12. Nice looking group of ladies there!
Some of my lower leaves are doing the same thing! i havent been able to pin point it yet!? They are gettin plenty N... but no Cal-Mag
Still having problems with my ladies. Think maybe I should pot them up as they are not in 12 litre containers, the one with the most problems is in a 9 litre pot. I've taken a few more pics of recent damage. Seems to be less yellowing but I have rusty spots appearing.
check the soil looks like aphids or termite for aphids use malathion not sure what to use for termites
That's a problem, definitely related to salts and pH imbalance. Some people will try to nail this issue down. I'm starting to wonder if it's related to using phosphoric acid pH down and creating precipitates. You seem to have purple stems (Mg), burning (P, Mn), leaf curling up (heat, K, Ca, Mg), yellowing (N, Fe). The necrosis between veins is bad, killer really. These leaves are never going to heal, so when they are more than 50% dead you need to get them out of there. My thought here is that you're a few weeks into flowering, and you either added some kind of bloom supplement, or you're just feeding this strain too much at this stage. Around week 3 to 4 I find my plants need a lot less food than they did leading up to that point. Basically half as much. I used to make the mistake of thinking more is better during flowering when in fact I needed some potassium and calcium while relying on residuals in the media to feed the plant. This is a complex problem though, and it's pulling from a variety of illnesses which makes it hard to diagnose. I've personally seen this in my garden so I am speaking from experience. I've tried the whole micro spectrum, and of course more food. Adding things to the system at this point can be a losing battle so here's my mentality on the cure. Something is wrong with the media. It could be the pH. It could be mineral and salt related. It could be underfeeding or overfeeding. Doesn't matter what the issue is! Because here is what you do for all of them: Flush the media with Reverse Osmosis water with a pH reduced by citric acid (lemon juice) or by using ClearX (or similar product). Aim for a 6.5, and make 10 gallons of the stuff (two 5 gallon jugs). Pour the water into the planter, 5 gallons over the course of 10 minutes (I know, really slowly), and then the last 5 gallons over the course of 5 minutes. Do this in a bath tub or something, and you'll see the water draining out start yellowish and eventually run clear for several gallons. Allow the plant to drain and rest for 12 hours. Okay, so now you have a very wet, very blank slate. You don't want to starve your plant of nutrients, and you also need to take care of your organic root zone too. So mix up a normal strength feeding of nutrients. You want to make sure you are including things like n-p-k, cal-mag-iron, manganese, silicon, and humic acids. Feed your plants now while they are still wet. To avoid root rot allow at least 5 days to pass before even considering feeding again. Now you have a cleaned and reconditioned medium. Whatever the old issue was should no longer be present. Flushing a plant can be a bit difficult but the end result is generally better than not. I hope this helps and you don't do anything drastic. Help your plant now before you lose too much of the leaf mass.
Seems we are heading down the same direction, I plan to flush tomorrow, I think my problem is I havent flushed once this whole grow, and maybe switchin the nutes over its fuckin with it... Good luck man, leach those snatches!
Flushed the plants just as the problems started looking bad. I've started using rainwater, lowered the nutes and gave them a whack of Mg. They seem to be much healthier and I've also put the heater back on in the room and put the circulation fan on more. The only thing I can't decide is whether to chop the worst affected buds if the damage gets any worse or just leave them. Think I'll just leave them, though I am running low on smoke... Here's a few pics, one from each plant. You can tell the one in the smaller pot.. For the next grow I have a good cutting of this strain and I'm going to grow it ScROG in a nice big pot. Also wish I'd done the following in this grow: - Made sure I went right up to 12litres + for all plants - Used rainwater for the plants from the start - Used fine dolomite lime in the potting mix (my tap water varies, some day neutral some day a bit acidic) - Got a min max thermometer from the start - Only started feeding plants when they really needed it and not erred on the side of caution with adding Mg Hope that helps someone else not have the same problems.