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It's dinner time!! Your plants look pretty good but are displaying the classic signs of a nitrogen deficiency. If you notice, the leaves that are turning yellow are the larger fan leaves, with the ones towards the bottom being more yellow than the ones on the top. Fan leaves act as a "repository" for some different nutrients as well as storing food. When you are low on Nitrogen, the plant will try to compensate by pulling whatever it needs from these larger fan leaves. If you pull enough, the leaf dies.Hello fellow Growers
I am looking for some advice on my plants. I am in the first 2 weeks of the flowering stage and my plants leaves are yellowing. I have 4 different strains currently growing (in separate pots) and it is showing on 3 of them. I had no issues during the vegetation stage and my ph level is right.
Our climate is typically Mediterranean, with warm, dry summers and mild, moist winters. It has been very hot lately so I have been watering them quite frequently so that could possibly be the issue but some advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
I drench the shit out of mine, daily. I usually give them between 1 and 1.5 gallons of water/bucket/daily. I'm using Promix, which I think is impossible to overwater due to it's drainage properties. I have seen some buckets that didn't get the soaking have a dry interior if packed too tightly or not watered enough. The surrounding dirt was wet and sustained the plants, but the center of the bucket's dirt was much dryer than the outer portions. You don't know anything about it until you empty the buckets after you are finished and find the big void where roots didn't develop and the water didn't saturate it. In a 6 gallon bucket, Promix will easily hold and distribute a gallon or more of water and still not be saturated to the point that it harms the roots. Let the water flow!I'll also add, with watering dont be afraid to soak it when you do water. Ideally soak it to the point of getting some runoff. BUT let it dry out well before you water it again. You dont want to be giving little sips of water frequently, you should soak and let dry.
I drench the shit out of mine, daily. I usually give them between 1 and 1.5 gallons of water/bucket/daily. I'm using Promix, which I think is impossible to overwater due to it's drainage properties. I have seen some buckets that didn't get the soaking have a dry interior if packed too tightly or not watered enough. The surrounding dirt was wet and sustained the plants, but the center of the bucket's dirt was much dryer than the outer portions. You don't know anything about it until you empty the buckets after you are finished and find the big void where roots didn't develop and the water didn't saturate it. In a 6 gallon bucket, Promix will easily hold and distribute a gallon or more of water and still not be saturated to the point that it harms the roots. Let the water flow!
I've never added any additional surfactant as the water seems to penetrate pretty well...but, like you saud, during flowering, the roots can really fill the bucket and there isn't as much ability to hold water, I guess. When things are flowering, particularly with Sativas, I need to put a catch basin under the buckets to allow the plant to take up any overflow...which it does within a few hours. It's crazy how much water these things drink up on a daily basis. 1.5 gallons of water is a LOT of water to transpire in one day. Multiply that by a couple plants and you have over 5 gallons of water to fan away. When you think of that much water coming out of a small area, it makes a fan's job very apparent. Anyhow...I water the shit out of everything...as long as there isn't standing water (other than a little overflow in catch basin). I try to let them dry out a little between watering's, but some need water damn near constantly.That's a good point. Promix has a surfactant in it that helps the wetting qualities and drainage so it's very hard to overwater it. That surfactant does break down and get flushed away eventually, usually by the time people get into flower. Which is also the time the roots have filled the pot and really start drying it up.
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