Newbee100 said:

This is my second grow... ya'll help tremendously when I almost fatally overwatered the first!

Situation:
Organic soil, ammended with 1/4 vermeculite, 1/2 perilite and 1/8 worm casings.
Grow tent
CFL lighting
78-82 degrees
38-42% humidity
2.5 gallon air pots
Planted sprouts 9/20
18/6 schedule
Lowryder Auto

First 3 of the 4 plants are HUGE for Lowryders. Did not see that on the first grow.

#1 - 28" tall
#2 - 33 3/4" tall
#3 - 22 3/4" tall
#4 - 35 1/2" tall

One of my plants looks okay, meaning dark green. All are in flower stage. But some of my leaves are yellowing. I weigh my plants everytime before watering, so I don't think tha tis the issue (but what do I know!). Gave them their first nutes 11/2. 1/8 tsp FF Grow Big, 1/8 tsp FF Tiger Bloom, 1 TBLS molassas as I started to see the yellowing at the bottom. This si what they look like today.

Should I be worried and if so, about wha

Newbee100 said:

More help please.

I have been watering with PH under 6.5 but above 6.0. Today's water was PH 6.25. My run off on the first 2 came out PH 6.99 and 7.2. Teh girls are yellowing fast and I trying to save them. I did drop the PH on the last two to 5.58 in the hope that it would bring it down. Nope, PH run off was PH 6.81 and 7.04.

How or what do I do now.

Lowryder in soil, in airpots. Do I submerge the pots to try and flush them?

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tthe lower leaves turning yellow. Is not necessarily a bad thing the lower leaves turn yellow typically because they’re getting less light and so the plant is instead of continuing to grow those leaves taking the nutrients from them and letting them fall off naturally it’s naturally defoliating itself

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Newbee100 said:

Ugh! I have done something really wrong and my girls hate me! The last time I watered them was 11/2... they were not ready for water until today... on top of it all but 1 is struggling. Concerned I won't be able to get them over the finish line. They are on week 8 from planting now, so still have a bit of time to go. Sorry about the pic's not the best I have taken.

Stat's - All watered with plain water PH 6.26
#1 - run off 6.99
#2 - run off 6.65
#3 - run off 6.80
#4 - run off 6.96

I gave them all plan water and not a ton, just until run off. I don't know what the issue is, but using air pots is a new thing I am trying and don't think it is working well. Or at least I don't have it figured out yet. Any help or suggestions would be appriciated. The plant that I was originally concerned about now has yellow leaves sprinkled throughout it (pic #5 &6). I think adding nutes last time burned/ caused lockout on all the girls.

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steamroller said:

Why are you measuring run off in soil?
Especially pH???
You should be watering for minimum run off in organic.
You are washing away your nutes...
Your plants want magnesium and less run off.
Looks good .

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Newbee100 said:

Okay, wasn't expecting that question. Why am I testing run off in organic soil. Answer, because I thought I was supposed too. lol. Still way new to this. Here are my girls as sad as they are right now. We are at the end of week 8, week 9 starts 11/15. We have started to remove the yellow leave, just not sure how many to remove. They are starting to frost and the trich's are clear at this point.

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Cannagar said:

At this stage I wouldn’t remove any of the leaves if they are yellowing they will fall off on their own. you can try wiggling them to see if they just fall off like that, otherwise this late I wouldn’t be defoliating

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Newbee100 said:

Thank you. I will water with 5.5ph. I have FF Grow Big 6-4-4 and FF Tiger Bloom 2-8-2. But the one and only time I used the nutes (on this grow) all my tips burned and turned down. Then they stopped drinking water for a bit. That is what started this thread. Is there another way to get nitrogen to them? One of my other problems may have been not getting them watered properly as I used Air Pots this time. Since I overwatered my first grow, I have been super careful this time. Well, at least I was trying to be.

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Newbee100 said:

Hello! Well, I thought things were going well. My plants stabilized and stopped looking half dead. So thank you for all the help.

My plants are now 14 weeks old. Still not seeing much amber, just a few here and there on the two smallest plants. Buds are growing.... but then that is my concern. They are starting to regenerate (that is the only way I know how to describe it) and are adding growth to the top of the buds.

They are all Lowryder auto's.
Getting ph 5.5 water with blackstrap
Air pots
Organic soil

Here are pictures. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I tried to take close ups of the top buds and then the whole plant so hopefully you could see what I am talking about.

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