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I have made whats looking to be a catastrophic mistake and wonder if anyone can help with some damage control.
I have used for my Miracle gro for my soil (peat free compost and enriched multi purpose. Both have slow release nutrients.) they are mixed very approximately 50/50 but varying degrees in each pot.
They seemed to do really well during the vegetative stage but as they have gone into flowering there are various problems appearing which seem to be getting worse as time goes by.
The first signs of trouble appeared after I started to feed them in the flowering stage, this appeared in deformed leaves in the new growth in some plants. These plants looked healthy and dark green with just deformity and maybe some stunted growth.
The others have been gradually getting slightly more pale in color and have now started to display brown spots on some leaves, generally higher on the plant. I will include pictures both at the end of this post.
I have looked at the brown spots under a microscope and cannot see any bugs. The brown spots seem to be mostly inn the gap between the veins.
I have done hours of research until I realized that the soil might be the issue. I have stopped feeding them as I did not want to over feed them if the soil is already feeding them. I am watering correctly as far as I know, typically every third day when the pots are light and the soil is coming away from the pot at the top. I water till there is slight run off and then remove the run off from the tray under the pot.
I have just checked the run off and it is ph5, the water I was using was tap water and was ph of 7.1.
I was using ph paper at first but now have a pen. I would like to know if the run off ph is important?
I was checking my ph after the fert was added.
I have a dirt cheap meter that supposedly checks the light levels/moisture and soil ph but it seems wildly inaccurate, reads ph7ish in soil.
There are leaves turning yellow at the underside of the plant and falling off and the brown spotted leaves at the top seem to be easy to pluck off.
I am using HPS lights 600w at the correct height.
Pots are fairly large, 5 gallon I think.
I fed with soil grow nutrients during vegetative stage and switched to soil bloom when switched to flowering. I stopped this after noticing the deformity in some plants and slight loss of color in others with no deformity after first soil bloom application.
The environment is within temp and recommended moisture levels, 20-30deg cel and 40-60% moist.
I have recently been made redundant and spent the last of my money on all this set up and am getting fairly concerned with the situation. I would greatly appreciate any and all advice on how to limp to the end as best I can. I have done a heck of a lot of research but this seems to be an unusual problem. The only information I repeatedly find is, don’t use miracle gro. Its the only thing I didn’t research at the beginning but probably the worst mistake I could have made.
Please let me know if you need any further information that would help with a diagnosis. Thank you.
I have used for my Miracle gro for my soil (peat free compost and enriched multi purpose. Both have slow release nutrients.) they are mixed very approximately 50/50 but varying degrees in each pot.
They seemed to do really well during the vegetative stage but as they have gone into flowering there are various problems appearing which seem to be getting worse as time goes by.
The first signs of trouble appeared after I started to feed them in the flowering stage, this appeared in deformed leaves in the new growth in some plants. These plants looked healthy and dark green with just deformity and maybe some stunted growth.
The others have been gradually getting slightly more pale in color and have now started to display brown spots on some leaves, generally higher on the plant. I will include pictures both at the end of this post.
I have looked at the brown spots under a microscope and cannot see any bugs. The brown spots seem to be mostly inn the gap between the veins.
I have done hours of research until I realized that the soil might be the issue. I have stopped feeding them as I did not want to over feed them if the soil is already feeding them. I am watering correctly as far as I know, typically every third day when the pots are light and the soil is coming away from the pot at the top. I water till there is slight run off and then remove the run off from the tray under the pot.
I have just checked the run off and it is ph5, the water I was using was tap water and was ph of 7.1.
I was using ph paper at first but now have a pen. I would like to know if the run off ph is important?
I was checking my ph after the fert was added.
I have a dirt cheap meter that supposedly checks the light levels/moisture and soil ph but it seems wildly inaccurate, reads ph7ish in soil.
There are leaves turning yellow at the underside of the plant and falling off and the brown spotted leaves at the top seem to be easy to pluck off.
I am using HPS lights 600w at the correct height.
Pots are fairly large, 5 gallon I think.
I fed with soil grow nutrients during vegetative stage and switched to soil bloom when switched to flowering. I stopped this after noticing the deformity in some plants and slight loss of color in others with no deformity after first soil bloom application.
The environment is within temp and recommended moisture levels, 20-30deg cel and 40-60% moist.
I have recently been made redundant and spent the last of my money on all this set up and am getting fairly concerned with the situation. I would greatly appreciate any and all advice on how to limp to the end as best I can. I have done a heck of a lot of research but this seems to be an unusual problem. The only information I repeatedly find is, don’t use miracle gro. Its the only thing I didn’t research at the beginning but probably the worst mistake I could have made.
Please let me know if you need any further information that would help with a diagnosis. Thank you.