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Flowering: Brown Spots On Top Fan/Sugar Leaves Moving Downward

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Flowering: Brown Spots On Top Fan/Sugar Leaves Moving Downward

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Hello,

I'm about 4 weeks into flowering White Widow. I have 6 plants and it seems only 1 seems to be having this issues. It started off with the top fan leaves having these brown spots a week ago and now its starting to spread down wards and onto the sugar leaves as well. They are in 5 gallon bucket with drain holes.

I use Fox Farm Big Bloom, Grow Big, and Bud and Bloom liquid fertilizer along with Fox Farm Open Seasme, Beastie Bloomz, and Cha Ching and using half strength accordingly to the Fox Farm Feeding chart. I also add a bit of cal mag as well.

PH level is 6.8 when watering and run off was 6.9.

Light cycle 12/12 with 4 X Mars Hyrdro TS 1000 @ 12 inches.

Temp averages 81 during light and 74 at night.

Humidity is averaging 45%. I have 2 small fans, a tower fan and exhaust at all times.

Watering when soil feels dry usually 2-3 days. I do 1 session of nutrients and 1 session of plain water.

Thanks for the help!

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I am going to assume it is calcium and you probably are in need of more cal mag. Probably a little late to chase it now, but next time, I would feed it more once you flip to flower. Nothing wrong with the plant consuming some of it as it ripens but you don't want it to eat itself too fast. Week 4 is probably early enough that a bit more calmag would help. If you are in soil, you may want to get a bag of gypsum though. Easier than worrying about it
 
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Homesteader said:
I am going to assume it is calcium and you probably are in need of more cal mag. Probably a little late to chase it now, but next time, I would feed it more once you flip to flower. Nothing wrong with the plant consuming some of it as it ripens but you don't want it to eat itself too fast. Week 4 is probably early enough that a bit more calmag would help. If you are in soil, you may want to get a bag of gypsum though. Easier than worrying about it
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Thanks! yes I'm in soil. I was worried it was leaf septoria or something worse.
 
#4
Hello,

Going into Week 6 on a 9 weeks flowering schedule for these ILGM White Widows.

In addition, I forgot to mention my PH meter wasn't calibrated right. I didn't noticed till about week 2 and half of flowering.

Two other plants started showing signs of Cal Mag deficiency after about 4 days from the original post, so I feed them a bit more CAL Mag and it seems to work. I also flush those plants first before feeding them since the PPM reading was about 2,000. I brought it back down to 1,200. This was probably the fault of the my PH meter being off so the plants wasn't using the nuts properly. Lesson learned - I will always recalibrate my PH meter every month.

However, in a matter about 3 days Plant #5 all of a sudden gotten really bad with what appears to be Cal Mag and Nitrogen deficiency. It's hard to tell in the picture due to the lighting but the top leaves are really yellow and leaves are turning brown and crispy. Plant #3 and #4 was probably my healthiest plants and within matter of days plant #4 is on life support.

So my question is should I continue feeding accordingly to Fox Farm Nutrient guide and try to wait till 9 weeks to harvest or start thinking about harvesting early so these plants don't eat themsleves to death.

Second question, should I start plucking those deficiency fan leaves cause I figure the plant needs whatever nutrient left from the leaves to survive?

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Plant3
Plant4

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Thanks for the help!
 
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deadlysars said:
Hello,

Going into Week 6 on a 9 weeks flowering schedule for these ILGM White Widows.

In addition, I forgot to mention my PH meter wasn't calibrated right. I didn't noticed till about week 2 and half of flowering.

Two other plants started showing signs of Cal Mag deficiency after about 4 days from the original post, so I feed them a bit more CAL Mag and it seems to work. I also flush those plants first before feeding them since the PPM reading was about 2,000. I brought it back down to 1,200. This was probably the fault of the my PH meter being off so the plants wasn't using the nuts properly. Lesson learned - I will always recalibrate my PH meter every month.

However, in a matter about 3 days Plant #5 all of a sudden gotten really bad with what appears to be Cal Mag and Nitrogen deficiency. It's hard to tell in the picture due to the lighting but the top leaves are really yellow and leaves are turning brown and crispy. Plant #3 and #4 was probably my healthiest plants and within matter of days plant #4 is on life support.

So my question is should I continue feeding accordingly to Fox Farm Nutrient guide and try to wait till 9 weeks to harvest or start thinking about harvesting early so these plants don't eat themsleves to death.

Second question, should I start plucking those deficiency fan leaves cause I figure the plant needs whatever nutrient left from the leaves to survive?

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what light you using and how far?
 
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GNick55 said:
what light you using and how far?
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should print this out as a poster and put up in your grow area.. with soilless or soil always feed what’s needed 4-5 days before.,
part of your issue is following the nutrient feeding chart.,
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Man I've had the same problem this run, I think maybe what it is , is chaching is blocking out the calcium. Last run I only used tiger bloom and the main ones and bembe and had no problems.
 
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