New Growers question, plants look too light in color on poor persons budget grow

[ohionw]

Should I flush? New grower here. Having a color issue with one being too light and the new growth looking too light as well. On a poor person budget grow. Learning as I go. I have 3 in veg and are all from the same dispensary strain Joker Candy. Here are some pics. Any help would be awesome. Thanks! All went in dirt on Dec 25th after germination. The light green one lost it’s entire root on transplant as a seedling and came back to life.

 

[LoveGrowingIt]

Should I flush?

No.

New grower here. Having a color issue with one being too light and the new growth looking too light as well. On a poor person budget grow. Learning as I go. I have 3 in veg and are all from the same dispensary strain Joker Candy. Here are some pics. Any help would be awesome. Thanks! All went in dirt on Dec 25th after germination. The light green one lost it’s entire root on transplant as a seedling and came back to life.

There can be several reasons for the light color. My first thought is overwatering, which usually is watering too often. The soil looks wet, so maybe letting it dry will help. It also looks somewhat like a magnesium or nitrogen deficiency, but I suspect watering is a good place to start. Too frequent watering can reduce the plant's uptake of nutrients from the soil. How often have you been watering it?

 

[ohionw]

Hi. These were watered yesterday. 1" was dry on top. I water them until they drip and then stop. 6.2 ph. I water them less than once a week. The feed I have is solid so I have to water some with it. I have only fed them 2 times. On my research the lighter one looked like it was deficient in iron. It got food and blood meal yesterday with watering. The 2 that are not light green were just fed and watered. I'll wait and see what they look like in the next few days and I'll share a pic. I topped one, fimmed another and left the biggest one as is.

 

[ohionw]

I am using this water vs tap water. Any opinions?

 

[budsofgeorgia]

i think your over watering if your watering everyday

 

[ohionw]

Hello, I water them less than once a week.

 

[BB22]

Possible light stress issue

 

[ohionw]

I thought maybe light stress as well. I had 2 lights going for a while and the discolored one's leaves started curling so I went back to one light. It was light in color prior to that. I stared them in crap dirt and transplanted them. The light colored one had it's one and only root ripped from it and I babied it in some good soil and after a while it started to grow but always looked discolored. All the plants are in the same medium.

 

[BB22]

Pretty sure I just hermed a grow by being to aggressive with the lights

 

[ohionw]

Ouch!

 

[BB22]

Late flower. I should be okay this round.

I’m trying to grow perpetual that’s where the challenge starts

 

[HerbalEdu]

it can happen some phenotype can have different green color, more light or more dark green without you doing anything wrong

 

[Tofta]

I am using this water vs tap water. Any opinions? View attachment 2127116

Make sure you use calmag with RO water. I watered mine with RO with no calmag for weeks and gave me issues (coupled with light burn) and light colored plants. Going to see if they have those in central Ohio. That's a decent deal for RO

 

[Tofta]

The leave on left side looks like it's "tacoing" which also leads me to believe it's a calmag issue.

 

[ohionw]

Ok, no, I haven't used Cal Mag, I'll have to get some. Any very cheap alternatives or somewhere that has a cheap version?

 

[Tofta]

I've been using humboldts secret off Amazon has iron in it too!

 

[SnoopingAsUsualI]

Looks like just a nutrients deficiency to me, what fertilizer are you using?

 

[Tofta]

Pretty sure I just hermed a grow by being to aggressive with the lights

Good time to get into breeding?

 

[JKash]

Its light stress coupled with calmag deficiency.... the lighter green is happening from top and getting dark green towards the bottom... either raise light or lower intensity.... your stems are turning purple which is a good indicator of calmag needed as well.... usually with light stress causes calmag deficiency... not always but I've noticed to be a correlation

 

[ohionw]

Its light stress coupled with calmag deficiency.... the lighter green is happening from top and getting dark green towards the bottom... either raise light or lower intensity.... your stems are turning purple which is a good indicator of calmag needed as well.... usually with light stress causes calmag deficiency... not always but I've noticed to be a correlation

I have raised my light and working on getting some Cal-Mag tomorrow. Not sure where to get something local, I live away from all big cities. Are there any box stores that would stock something that would be acceptable?