HumbleTie1321 said:

Hi everyone, New to this site and I'm a first time grower. My plants are now in the beginning vegetative phase. I've got a Mixed Berry, a Dark Star and a Secret #28. The mixed berry is the strongest growing then dark star and the secret #28 is abt 1/3 of the others sizes (didn't know if it would make it but it's trying hard now). I'm growing in a 2'x4' mylar tent. I have 3 plants. 2 growing much faster than the 3rd. I'm using "Purple Cow Indicanja" living soil in 3 gallon cloth pots. My soil ph is 7.0 (which doesn't seem to drop even using acidic water). I'm using tap water with adjusted ph. They seem to need water abt every other day. I'm letting them dry to 1st knuckle deep before watering. Temperature in the bottom of the tent is 73.6 at plant height 75.3.. Humidity is 61%-65%. I've Installed a fan with filter for CO2 delivery and cutting the smell. I also have a small fan oscillating on plants to create a breeze like environment. I started the tent with a 4000 watt LED full spectrum light but when my problem began I thought perhaps I was burning the plants with the wattage and speeding up nutrient intake. After some research I see that I can pass with 250 watt of LED. Plants aren't growing as fast since downgrading the light. As of now, I'm continuing with the 250 watt full spectrum LED lighting and am not adding any additional nutrients (although I do have them). However, the problem persists. I'm attaching a couple of pics to see if anyone might know what's happening. I'm desperate to get this under control so I don't ruin them before I even get started. You can see it begins at the edges and spreads thoughout the leaf until mostly yellow with green veins. Any suggestions? I look forward to any and all suggestions! If there's anything I haven't included please ask. Hopefully I'll have the answer.

Thanks so much for your help!

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Aqua Man said:

Soil and nutrients?

Can you link your LEDs? They don't make 4000w LED grow lights so that's an equivalent nit true wattage.

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HumbleTie1321 said:

This is the set up I bought. They won't tell.me the manufacturer of the light. I now know that after arguing with them for abt a month that I question everything abt what they've given me. Think I need to buy a light that I don't question. Although the plants were growing by leaps and bounds when I was using it. Here's the links.. Look forward to your input. I'm just lost.. Thanks sooo much for your help! Just want to be successful in this endeavor..

Soil:
Purple Cow Indicanja

Set-up with light :
Grow tent kit

Nutritients:
Humboldt Base A&B
Humboldt plant enzymes
Humboldt Secret Golden Tree

(I added one dose of each into a gallon of water. It says to use them all at the same time. So the plants would have gotten about 1 and 1/2 watering with it. Then I went back to clean ph adjusted water. I didn't think about the living soil. Once I completely read up on it and what it containsand I knew I probably shouldn't have added the Humboldt nutes..) However, but the plant was pretty dark prior to.. The soil seems to have very good reviews but I'm wondering if I got a bag with too much of one of its ingredients.. I'm strictly guessing though. I'm seriously clueless. Even after reading everything, you still need the hands on experience.

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GNick55 said:

not nitrogen toxicity maybe a potassium deficiency, or overwatering or light stress..
why don’t you post pictures of the whole plants at different angles

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GNick55 said:

ya you don’t need to be adding nutrients at least yet, or ph the water, your growing with organics, no need to water to run off.
just curious what do you use to adjust your ph?

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GNick55 said:

not nitrogen toxicity maybe a potassium deficiency, or overwatering or light stress..
why don’t you post pictures of the whole plants at different angles

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HumbleTie1321 said:

Okay so, here's the Dark Star. It seems to be the 2nd strongest I have going. It's 26 days in dirt today.. View attachment 1150354View attachment 1150355View attachment 1150356View attachment 1150357

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HumbleTie1321 said:

And my secret #28. It had a seriously SLOW start. Didn't think it would make it at all from the seed. It's just now starting growing.

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HumbleTie1321 said:

Mixed Berry. My strongest plant. Also 26 days in dirt today. It's pushing 2 foot.

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HumbleTie1321 said:

And my secret #28. It had a seriously SLOW start. Didn't think it would make it at all from the seed. It's just now starting growing.

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Aqua Man said:

Have a link to the kit you bought?

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Aqua Man said:

And yes at one point the light was to strong.

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