Hey guys I had some young plants that had to spend about two weeks outdoors in the filthy storms we have been having in the mid west. They got some slight damage and no nutes. They have been in soilless mix and I just feed them the other day. They have a little sunburn and tearing but I'm wondering if it's just cause they have been abused. Also one of my plants a LSD dinafem feminized is tiny and I'm wondering why
You say that at least some of the damage was caused by being outdoors in bad weather so anyone responding doesn't know which damage is from that and which, if any, is from something else.
Well there was the tearing on the leaves that I assumed was part of it and there appears to be sunburn. I am growing blue widow, blue hash, LSD and some bag seed. All the new leaves since I moved them back inside are in tip top shape. I wont be able to ph the soil until tomorrow, I'm using humbolt organic soilless mixture. Idk if I should switch them to fox farm ocean. I put them in humbolt so they wouldn't get nute burn while they are seedlings. I'm going for a organic grow and really only plan to use calmg+. My real question is if I am looking at a serious nute deficiency, or a serious disease. I'm growing them under a 400 watt mh lamp that is sitting about 2 1/2 ft above the plants.
Ah and I figured that the leaf tearing was bad weather damage but I was wondering if it was dampening off damage or if someone could identify what other kind of damage is present. As you can see the new leaves are immaculate.
These are the newest pics of the leaves that have grown since they moved inside and received one round of nutes the lights are running 24 hours to try and help them. I won't get around to ph ing them till tonight tho and all I have is a drop test and a cheap soil test kit.
Try the cheap soil test kit and then use the drop tester to verify the reading. To use the drops, wet the soil and let the liquid soak in at least an hour. Then, squeeze out some water, collect it and test it with the drops. Once water has sit in the soil for awhile, its pH will equalize with that of the soil and will provide a more accurate soil pH reading than the runoff right when you water.
The original damage looks like light/heat/wind burn &/or underwatering; basically just the leaves drying out. Phosphorus def. can also look similar but if the damage isn't spreading, they should be fine.
It turned out it was just a micronute deficiency because the humbolt is soilless. I was also just using the calmg+ now I have a general organics fertilizer, and transplanted them into some oceans forest. After I transplanted them I gave them a light feeding at 110-130 ppm phed at somewhere between 5-7 leaning towards 6. Unfortunately the guy at the store forgot to remind me to get some vit b to ease the transplant. I pulled the plants shook off as much of the soil as poss without causing too much root damage. The root system looked alittle small for plants at 6 inches, might get some root grow from general org. Let me know what you guys think so far. This is my first grow.
