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Hi All, I'm fairly new grower and was told that coco would be a great place to start. Currently growing 1 plant, Gorilla Glue auto from FastBuds. She was thriving for the first few weeks and started showing signs, at around 24 days, of what I think is calcium deficiency but would love to get a second opinion. The tent is 80x80x200cm with 2 mars hydro ts1000 lamps with a constant 20/4 cycle. Growing in a 19L fabric pot using Top Crop Top Coco as my substrate. Temps are about 28C with 75%RH during the day and at the night drop to 24C and 50%RH. There's one fan that is on the same 20/4 cycle as the lamps, its not super stuffy in there as I also have some of the side panels open on the tent for more air flow. I'm growing using all Top Crop nutrients as that is what is available where I live, they are supposed to be full organic from how the store told me. The water is always pH 6.0~6.3, when I just give water with no nutrients its closer to 6.0, with nutrients 6.3 since I read that feeding organic to coco its better for the pH to be a bit closer to 6.5.
Feeding wise, 3 days after sprouting and putting in coco I gave 0.2ml per 600L/water of top crop deeper underground. Then one week from the initial feeding gave top crop big one 0.8ml per 1L/water. Another week later, top crop top auto 1ml and top crop top candy 1ml all mixed in 1L/water. For some reason I decided to feed her, 3 days after the previous feeding, some top crop cal-mag (1ml per 1L/water). Everything was looking great but when I went to feed her again in a couple of days, I noticed that, only on the top most leaves, there was some weirdness with a few of the leaves. I still gave the usual plus some calmag for a total of top crop top auto 1.3ml + 1.5ml top crop top candy + 0.2ml top crop cal-mag for 1L/water. That was 2 days ago and now I'm seeing a bit more of the top leaves develop the same discoloration.
I'm guessing that the name of the nutrients alone isn't going to tell anyone much so I found the composition of each online, hopefully that paints a better picture of where I could have overfed/underfed.
Deeper Underground
Humic Acids: 6.6%
Fulvic Acids: 1.4%
Nitrogen (N): 0.14%
Phosphorus (P2O5): < 0.01%
Potassium (K2O): 1%
Magnesium (MgO): 0.06%
Copper (Cu): 77 ppm
Iron (Fe): 1331 ppm
Manganese (Mn): 289 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 20 ppm
Top Auto
Humic acids: 4.0%
Fulvic acids: 3.07%
Nitrogen: 3.5%
Phosphorus (P2O5): 5.3%
Manganese (Mn): 0.03%
Boron (B): ≥ 0.08%
Copper (Cu): ≥ 0.009%
Iron (Fe): ≥ 0.11%
Zinc (Zn): ≥ 0.024%
Top Candy
Nitrogen (N): 3.12%
Phosphorus (P₂O₅): 0.09%
Potassium (K₂O): 3.11%
Calcium (CaO): 2.13%
Magnesium (MgO): 0.15%
Sulfur (S): 0.25%
Sodium (Na₂O): 1.67%
Boron (B): 9.08 ppm
Copper (Cu): 2.21 ppm
Iron (Fe): 181.4 ppm
Manganese (Mn): 21.3 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 17.8 ppm
Total Sugars: 32.5% (W/V)
Big One
Algae Extract: 20%
Nitrogen (N): 0.1%
Phosphorus (P2O5): 0.01%
Potassium (K2O): 2.2%
CalMag
Total nitrogen (N): 6.6%
Nitric nitrogen (N): 5.6%
Urea nitrogen (N): 0.8%
Water-soluble calcium oxide (CaO): 6.7%
Water-soluble magnesium oxide (MgO): 2.4%
Looking for some tips/opinions on what I could have done wrong to cause the plant to develop the spots on her leaves =( and what on earth I could do to fix or mitigate this from getting out of control. I'm a bit worried as I had a few previous grows but I'm not kidding when I say those plants where half the size at harvest, as this current plant was at 3 weeks, and I really want this one to succeed. Thanks for reading!
Day 5
Day 7
Day 11
Day 17
Day 22
Day 24 is when I noticed the problematic leaves
Day 26
top leaves starting to show some signs of the burn
also noticed that the bottom leaves started to do this droopy thing, what on earth could this be?!? =(
Feeding wise, 3 days after sprouting and putting in coco I gave 0.2ml per 600L/water of top crop deeper underground. Then one week from the initial feeding gave top crop big one 0.8ml per 1L/water. Another week later, top crop top auto 1ml and top crop top candy 1ml all mixed in 1L/water. For some reason I decided to feed her, 3 days after the previous feeding, some top crop cal-mag (1ml per 1L/water). Everything was looking great but when I went to feed her again in a couple of days, I noticed that, only on the top most leaves, there was some weirdness with a few of the leaves. I still gave the usual plus some calmag for a total of top crop top auto 1.3ml + 1.5ml top crop top candy + 0.2ml top crop cal-mag for 1L/water. That was 2 days ago and now I'm seeing a bit more of the top leaves develop the same discoloration.
I'm guessing that the name of the nutrients alone isn't going to tell anyone much so I found the composition of each online, hopefully that paints a better picture of where I could have overfed/underfed.
Deeper Underground
Humic Acids: 6.6%
Fulvic Acids: 1.4%
Nitrogen (N): 0.14%
Phosphorus (P2O5): < 0.01%
Potassium (K2O): 1%
Magnesium (MgO): 0.06%
Copper (Cu): 77 ppm
Iron (Fe): 1331 ppm
Manganese (Mn): 289 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 20 ppm
Top Auto
Humic acids: 4.0%
Fulvic acids: 3.07%
Nitrogen: 3.5%
Phosphorus (P2O5): 5.3%
Manganese (Mn): 0.03%
Boron (B): ≥ 0.08%
Copper (Cu): ≥ 0.009%
Iron (Fe): ≥ 0.11%
Zinc (Zn): ≥ 0.024%
Top Candy
Nitrogen (N): 3.12%
Phosphorus (P₂O₅): 0.09%
Potassium (K₂O): 3.11%
Calcium (CaO): 2.13%
Magnesium (MgO): 0.15%
Sulfur (S): 0.25%
Sodium (Na₂O): 1.67%
Boron (B): 9.08 ppm
Copper (Cu): 2.21 ppm
Iron (Fe): 181.4 ppm
Manganese (Mn): 21.3 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 17.8 ppm
Total Sugars: 32.5% (W/V)
Big One
Algae Extract: 20%
Nitrogen (N): 0.1%
Phosphorus (P2O5): 0.01%
Potassium (K2O): 2.2%
CalMag
Total nitrogen (N): 6.6%
Nitric nitrogen (N): 5.6%
Urea nitrogen (N): 0.8%
Water-soluble calcium oxide (CaO): 6.7%
Water-soluble magnesium oxide (MgO): 2.4%
Looking for some tips/opinions on what I could have done wrong to cause the plant to develop the spots on her leaves =( and what on earth I could do to fix or mitigate this from getting out of control. I'm a bit worried as I had a few previous grows but I'm not kidding when I say those plants where half the size at harvest, as this current plant was at 3 weeks, and I really want this one to succeed. Thanks for reading!
Day 5
Day 7
Day 11
Day 17
Day 22
Day 24 is when I noticed the problematic leaves
Day 26
top leaves starting to show some signs of the burn
also noticed that the bottom leaves started to do this droopy thing, what on earth could this be?!? =(
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