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Im getting some brown spots on my leaves
Fox farm trio but just straight ph water the last couple waterswhat are you feeding her?
Yea just been giving water cuz i was thinking to much N but doesn’t seem to be getting any betterI’m new so I could be wrong but to me it looks like a calcium deficiency. If I had to guess I’d say maybe too much nitrogen in the mix is locking out your calmag. Clawed leaves and yellow tips are a sign of a lil too much N.
Thanks bro this is my second grow just trying my best any learning as much as I can from the farmNext watering id do another plain water with a dose of cal mag and see how she responds. She’s not looking terrible by any means. However them spots aren’t gonna heal up so I’d say a day after the watering with cal mag chop all the spotted leaves off and wait to see if new spots pop up. Your plant looks good tho man! Dope training you gave her
The pot is a 5 gallon bucket its all I could find laying around went from 4 to 5 gallon bucket last weekend she is a clone I took from my last plant i think she is 12-13 weeks since rooted was planning on flipping may 1st in that potWay to go with the training Suds. Nice and low. looks like about 30 bud sites. Should be a forest of colas. How big is that pot? Are you going to transplant into a bigger one before you flip? As big as she's growing, she's going to have a tremendous root ball. I'm imagining you'll want to give her everything she can take going into flower to get her to fatten up those colas. How old is she from germination? She's a prize!
Temp has been around 78-80 day and 55-58 rh my ppm runoff was real high so i was bringing that back down and seem to be high NHey Suds...what are the temp and rh....just curious.....why did you stop the feed?
personally i think this looks more like overwatering then nitrogen toxicity. N toxicity will usually come with very dark, often almost glossy leaves along side the hooking tips. The perimeter of fan leaves will usually cup downward a bit too as it progresses on.I’m new so I could be wrong but to me it looks like a calcium deficiency. If I had to guess I’d say maybe too much nitrogen in the mix is locking out your calmag. Clawed leaves and yellow tips are a sign of a lil too much N.
I was watering every 5 days 1 gallon of water very little runoffpersonally i think this looks more like overwatering then nitrogen toxicity. N toxicity will usually come with very dark, often almost glossy leaves along side the hooking tips. The perimeter of fan leaves will usually cup downward a bit too as it progresses on.
Yellowing tips along side hooking leaves has usually been overwatering or the beginnings of a PH drifting issue for me. OP noted he's properly PH'ing his water.
I'd be willing to wager you're not waiting quite long enough between watering on that girl. Roots willingness to expand that far into open air from the soil also implies excessive moisture presence. The root tips have discovered the air flow at the drainage holes and grown toward them with haste to escape the perching of a permanent/semi-permanent water table.
The dark spots may be a micronutrient thing but may also be related to excessive transpiration of the plant (would also imply overwatering). I've had zinc and manganese deficiencies present that way to begin with, but will usually progress rapidly from there if not handled and come with some other leaf issues as well that i don't see. It probably doesn't have anything to do with deficiencies. If it seems associated with your other issue, which id bet money is overwatering, it probably is.
I may type up and post a simple Tek in detail for diminishing overwatering effects when you have larger pots.
You can take a cookie sheet, and fill it with magnesium sulfate (epsom salt) and bake it in the over at 450F for a couple hours. This creates magnesium sulfate heptahydrate. A powerful dessicant. Most of it will bake together into little sheets of the substance too. Basically this just moves the water from the soil, to the heptahydrate for removal.
Ive resolved overwatering quite a few times by placing some hardened sheets of the heptahydrate in a layer on top of the pot, covering with foil up to the stem as well as some sheets of it underneath the pot, and letting sit overnight and checking. This will pull nearly a full cup+ of water out of your pot in a few hours. It's kinda crazy how quickly you can resolve overwatering issues this way. Heads up though, you dont wanna breathe any of that heptahydrate dust if you do this. And it works so well, you can actually over-dry your pots if you go a little too long, quite easily.
Every individual heptahydrate molecule, IIRC, can bind to 7 water molecules permanently, and you have to re-bake the heptahydrate above the boiling point of water to remove it from the desiccant. It works very well for this. Moisture will wick against gravity just to bind to this stuff. This stuff + h202 can even save a plant's life once it gets well into root rot territory.
What's the soil volume of the pot? If it's 3 gal or under your soil is def holding a bit of excessive moisture. I havent grown in soil very intentfully before this year in quite a long time, but from memory that seems like a lot of water for what your pot size looks like to only have light runoff. I do know that cannabis performs better in a more arid soil then a moisture retentive one, dramatically so. But when plants get big in soil it can be quite a PITA to keep an arid soil moist enough for long enough. When plants are still fairly small relative the pot, and you have a highly retentive soil, overwatering can become the single easiest mistake to make in all of the cannabis growing world. It truly is the most common issue i've seen in small soil grows over 20 or so years of growing, by orders of magnitude.I was watering every 5 days 1 gallon of water very little runoff