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I keep noticing my leaves are turning purple and look like they have little powder spots on them. This isn't mildew. It can' be wiped off. I mix my nutes and aerate for 24/48hrs. The ph is at 4 when I mix nutes. If I ph to 6 it will be back down the next day. I think this is just an earth juice thing. I veg at 10-5-10. Veg, micro and catalyst. I use 5 gallon containers because I my plants are older revegged plants. I've done this method for 10 yrs with no problems. That's how I get my keepers. With all that said, I will give each plant 1 gal of nutrients. I didn't have this problem when I first started using EJ. I noticed it once the plants where older and had been getting nutes for a while. By this time they where in late flower and I thought I had yellowing leaves because my nutes were not strong enough. Wrong. Another thing I noticed was I took a clone from one of my revegged girls. It rooted and I put it in new dirt. Right out of the bag. Just plain black dirt with no added nutes. This clone took off and blew up to a beautiful plant. I started noticing it was slowing down growing and the older fan leaves were turning slightly purple and kinda looking wrinkled. Not the smooth look of a healthy fan leaf. I had been using a cheap ph pen from amazon with no problems but I thought this could be my culprit. So I purchased a new electrode for my hanna combo meter 98129 I believe. Cost me like 175$ 7 yrs ago. I'm still having this problem. I'm thinking my ph is dropping in my buckets. That's why I'm getting the lockout. Here's 2 solutions I came up with. Only give my plants half the liquid amount of nutes, so the plant will drink it all up before the ph can drop or start ph ing to 7 before I add nutes, that way it drops to perfection over time. Please help guys. It's got to be an EJ thing and not a Vonkins one. I hope.
