First time grower seeking advice

[Menequadon1]

Hi there, I’m on my first grow using a 2 x 4 AC Infinity smart tent kit that I bought earlier this year and growing two plants in soil (fox farms happy frog/ forest mix) running with seeds from Therealseedcompany. I have deep chunk and Afton 90 and they’ve been growing since about the end of March. Chunk is doing well and overall quite healthy but Afghan has been suffering from mistakes that I made when watering. I’ve been using distilled water, which I add Calmag to and pH balance to somewhere between 6.3 and 6.7 usually.

My main problem is that I’ve been using Google Gemini to give me advice and I’ve realized that that’s not always quite accurate (who’d have thought). It led me to use water that was not pH balanced and did not have any calmag, essentially ruining the soil in Afghan and creating a lockout situation, which I then corrected by balancing my water to the right pH, but still not using any Calmag.
Long story short, Afghan has lost a good amount of her foliage and is now pale green to yellow on most leaves with a great amount of empty space.

If anyone has recommendations on how to fix this and where to go from here, I would greatly appreciate it, as well as any general advice on how you water and how frequently you add nutrients, what pH you aim for usually, etc.
thanks in advance, and I will attach photos of where I am at right now. Afghan is the plant on the left and chunk is on the right.

 

[Ninjadogma]

Based on the overall yellow tone of the plant, it looks it's sitting in high EC, not starving. A couple deep waterings can put it back on track. Doesn't need more cal mag, needs to get past what's locking it up. So you've got a yellow tone and burnt tips and if you're not overfeeding then you're not putting enough volume of water through the soil. No need to get hung up on pH. There are some buffers in that mix to help prevent drift. If you're mixing nutes you want to check because they can significantly change the value. Other than that, just let the soil handle it. Those pH pens are notorious for being inaccurate and you start messing with it in soil where there's no problems, your gonna have problems. But if you have an EC pen, it wouldn't be a bad idea to collect some of the runoff after you are done watering to see where it's sitting. Don't collect at the beginning... Wait til you're done to look at it.

 

[Menequadon1]

Ok thanks for the response! So should i just flush it again with distilled water? And should I balance it to any certain pH? I have a pH pen that also can measure EC. I’ve been working with a feed water feed kind of schedule where every other watering I add nutrients. At this point, I feel like I could have flipped them to flower, but with all the issues I haven’t wanted to stress the plants out too much before I do that and they do have some room to grow still.
Also, I’ve been adding about 1.8 teaspoons of calmag to the water each time. Is that necessary every time I water?

 

[MercDod]

Hi there, I’m on my first grow using a 2 x 4 AC Infinity smart tent kit that I bought earlier this year and growing two plants in soil (fox farms happy frog/ forest mix) running with seeds from Therealseedcompany. I have deep chunk and Afton 90 and they’ve been growing since about the end of March. Chunk is doing well and overall quite healthy but Afghan has been suffering from mistakes that I made when watering. I’ve been using distilled water, which I add Calmag to and pH balance to somewhere between 6.3 and 6.7 usually.

My main problem is that I’ve been using Google Gemini to give me advice and I’ve realized that that’s not always quite accurate (who’d have thought). It led me to use water that was not pH balanced and did not have any calmag, essentially ruining the soil in Afghan and creating a lockout situation, which I then corrected by balancing my water to the right pH, but still not using any Calmag.
Long story short, Afghan has lost a good amount of her foliage and is now pale green to yellow on most leaves with a great amount of empty space.

If anyone has recommendations on how to fix this and where to go from here, I would greatly appreciate it, as well as any general advice on how you water and how frequently you add nutrients, what pH you aim for usually, etc.
thanks in advance, and I will attach photos of where I am at right now. Afghan is the plant on the left and chunk is on the right.

Just my opinion but,

Using distilled water has nothing ( meaning NO cal or Mag or any other micronutes) in it so I would at the least use cal-mag. I am assuming you have no other useful water available? I would think that spring water would be better and PH as you have. I use cal-mag through the first 2/3 of my grows sometimes longer. I use my well water which has cal and mag but very low amounts.

Other things to consider, what are you feeding it? How big are the pots your using (3 gallon or 5)? These are a few of the main factors that determine the answer to how you water and how frequently you add nutrients.

Again this is only my opinion and suggest you do more research on why distilled water is not the best for cannabis and check alternatives that will work better.

Remember research, research, research depending on your criteria

 

[Gmix]

Ok thanks for the response! So should i just flush it again with distilled water? And should I balance it to any certain pH? I have a pH pen that also can measure EC. I’ve been working with a feed water feed kind of schedule where every other watering I add nutrients. At this point, I feel like I could have flipped them to flower, but with all the issues I haven’t wanted to stress the plants out too much before I do that and they do have some room to grow still.
Also, I’ve been adding about 1.8 teaspoons of calmag to the water each time. Is that necessary every time I water?

Agree distilled water isn’t cannabis friendly on its own.
That sounds like a load of Cali mg mind especially in soil during veg.
You may want to check the that as it could be adding to your problem.
To much ca can mess a grow up.


Hopefully someone that uses ca will help
As don’t use it as my water & nutes have plenty
Nor do I need to ph as I grow organically in soil
Anyway I read about wanting to flower don’t do that until your plant has recovered

 

[Menequadon1]

Agree distilled water isn’t cannabis friendly on its own.
That sounds like a load of Cali mg mind especially in soil during veg.
You may want to check the that as it could be adding to your problem.
To much ca can mess a grow up.


Hopefully someone that uses ca will help
As don’t use it as my water & nutes have plenty
Nor do I need to ph as I grow organically in soil
Anyway I read about wanting to flower don’t do that until your plant has recovered

 

[Menequadon1]

What kind of water do you use? I have a filter on my kitchen sink that removed a good amount of poullutants, but my water is very hard by default so idk if itd be any good. Chunk has been doing good compared to afghan so idk what the difference is thats holding afghan back

 

[Menequadon1]

Just my opinion but,

Using distilled water has nothing ( meaning NO cal or Mag or any other micronutes) in it so I would at the least use cal-mag. I am assuming you have no other useful water available? I would think that spring water would be better and PH as you have. I use cal-mag through the first 2/3 of my grows sometimes longer. I use my well water which has cal and mag but very low amounts.

Other things to consider, what are you feeding it? How big are the pots your using (3 gallon or 5)? These are a few of the main factors that determine the answer to how you water and how frequently you add nutrients.

Again this is only my opinion and suggest you do more research on why distilled water is not the best for cannabis and check alternatives that will work better.

Remember research, research, research depending on your criteria

That makes sense. I have an aquasana water filter on my tap, but my tapwater in my town has naturally high levels of chlorine and is very hard. I may have to give springwater a shot unless you think I could get away with my tapwater, which out of the sink has an ec of 1270.
Also, I have them in 5 gallon fabric pots and when I do feed them, I give them one of the fox farms, trio nutrients, currently it is the Grow Big at about 50% mix every other watering.

 

[Menequadon1]

Here they are currently. Deep Chunk is the first one, looking good I’d say, and afghan is the second 2, looking stressed I’d say