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What’s going on growers! I am in my second week of flower and noticing spots on the fan leaves and yellowing tips. What am I missing? First grow and love learning about these plants. TIA!
Here are some basics:
Sour Diesel autos
Fox Farm Happy frog (5gal fabric pot)
Royal queen seeds nutes (using bloom every other feed)
soil ph 6.6
well water that is ph’d at mid to low 6’s when feeding
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Looks like the start of a calcium deficiency and maybe some magnesium deficiency starting? I feed my plants every watering but I’m not really familiar with the nutrients you’re using!
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Did you look on the underside of those leaves with a microscope ?
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For pests? I did and didn’t see anything
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Well water is often filtered with salt and try using an EC pen find out what your starting at under 150👍
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The well water comes straight out of the ground, I’m on private acreage in northern MN. My house water is softened and that’s a NO NO. The well water PH’s at 8.0 at 195 ppm, all I have been doing is ph down
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Thats what SleepsWith was refering to, the water softener is a salt brine solution, so if you need a softener, the untreated water might not be suitable for plants either, but a full w3ll water analysis could be interesting to see if its easier to correct the treated water or the raw well water, the rest is beyond me…
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I’m kind of surprised that you would use pH down and fertilizer at the same time. I also have never seen RQS fertilizers. Do you pH down your water after mixing nutes or before?
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Thats what SleepsWith was refering to, the water softener is a salt brine solution, so if you need a softener, the untreated water might not be suitable for plants either, but a full w3ll water analysis could be interesting to see if its easier to correct the treated water or the raw well water, the rest is beyond me…
Ok, first correction, i had not understood that you are not watering with softened water, so the ph adjustment might be locking something out, or disolving too much of somthing that blocks out something else, its not my specialty, but the order in witch you mix your solution is very important. You can test ppm and ph before and after, but the chemistry that involves acid and minerals is gonna cause some kind of reaction…
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Trying to get a grasp on the water and nutes has been a learning curve. Lol. When I ph down I use ascorbic acid and check the ph after the nutrients are dissolved, RQS nutes are dissolvable pellets, not a big fan, takes too long lol. But I honestly only check ph and not the ec after I’m done mixing everything. Always open to suggestions for other methods, trying to keep it simple as possible
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