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captenkush posted an update in the group
4 days agoAsk a Grow Question So I have been trying to figure out what my plant is lacking here. I’ve given it Cal mag and a full round of regular nutrients but nothing is helping. I even tried flushing multiple times. She is only week four or five of flower. Ph. The water going in at 6.5 pH. Of the runoff is 5.8
homegrownmeds, Sasquatch and oldestschool21 Comments-
You’re drowning that plant. Let it dry back, at least a week.
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@GuppyGirl really? Over watering. I have only been watering 24 hours after the pot of dry. I do a lift test every couple days and when it’s super light I’ll water the next day. That is to much?
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@CaptenKush everyone loves the lift test. I hate manual watering, largely because I had plants that looked like that and worse. You may be right that you’re not over watering it, but seeing no mention of it in your post, the bit about multiple flushes plus the way the plant looks…
I have a few soil meters, but I didn’t have a good experience with those either. So I switched my approach and started using sip buckets.
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@GuppyGirl Lift test is nice. I personally made my own SIP and it worked well at first then a series of events happened and I wanted to try a bucket full of air holes this run.
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@GuppyGirl yeah I was thinking about getting those buckets myself or maybe making some of my own but I really do prefer a more Hands-On approach. Gives me something to do in my down time. I think it just has to do with this strain. In particular. The strain name is Galaxy brain and the previous one had a similar issue
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@GuppyGirl + my bad about not explaining better. I’m usually terrible at explaining in posts like this
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Scotty talks about Mulder’s chart because if you randomly give nutrients trying to fix something and are not aware of the result you can start creating lockouts. You need to look at what the different plant deficiencies are.
You want to look at where the leaves are turning. Are they turning at from the bottom up or top down?
This tells you which chart to look at, whether it is mobile or immobile. Check multiple leaf/full plant charts to make your decision on what the abundance or deficiency is.
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@ZoomyCat yeah tried to compare it to the chart but I’m asking here because I’m not sure if I’m correct or not. I watched the show. I know all the information that they give but putting in the practice is different than knowing the information. I didn’t just give it random nutrients. I tried to boost up the things that I thought it needed and when that didn’t work I gave it a full round of nutrients as I would regularly. I am lost as to what’s going on. I am still a new grower. The leafs have been looking like this for over a month because I cannot figure it out
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@CaptenKush Keep in mind the leaves won’t change back when you fix the issue. You will need to look at new growth and keep an eye on the plant over time to see how it is progressing differently. If new growth shows no signs of issues then your deficiency is gone. If the deficiency that was at the bottom and spreading upwards just stops spreading after treatment then you resolved it.
The whole game is about how well you watch your plant and understand what its telling you 😉
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What are you growing in man? The media?
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@no-nanners it was some cheap organic stuff from home Depot that I will never use again
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@captenkush yeah man, I’d start there… double check your PH meter and your water source too (TDS). Hope you get it straight man, I enjoy seeing your work!
Edit the post with everything you used from soil, nutes, PH etc. …. With a pic of the whole plant bud.1
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I used the “When the soil is dry to the touch” method but even that fails if you don’t check under the top layer of soil. Light was drying up the surface but under the surface was soooo saturated. Just drowning my babies slowly. Now I have a strict watering schedule that works for THIS plant only. Each one is unique in it’s thirst I’ve noticed. Like @scottyreal says , Environment is huge!
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@sasquatch714 @scottyreal when he says the lift method works, Man he is not wrong. That changed me from overwatering my plants to giving each a lift to see if they need love or not.
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Water ph at 6.5??
idk i would go for 5.8-6. I don’t think the runoff ph matters since it’s not being used by the plant. EC would matter, but not ph.
but definitely don’t randomly throw nutes in, you need to work step by step.
i would lower ph of water going in and add some compost tea or use recharge. Get some microorganisms to help out.
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@snowyninja Definitely have the microorganisms fixing the PH for you 😀 Call in the big guns LOL
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No one can tell you anything about a plant by some picture of a random leaf. We need to see the plant and where the damaged leaves are on the plant.
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@jmystro I had only one leaf show signs of nutrient def. Right in the middle of the plant? It was soooo odd, but definitely need to see more of the plant and media too.
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@captenkush Looks like root damage from over-watering.
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I made a whole Nother post with a full picture of the plant. Sorry it took so long been having issues with my phone.
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