Help!!@@ please!!!
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Lordhooha
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Are they in soil, or coco, what are you feeding them etc. need some details man
SouthCross
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Soil PH.
Peat moss based soils can go acidic during the grow. In my experience, it happens in flower. There's other reasons it go's acidic but it happens.
The nutrients are locked out. The plant can't uptake them and therefore staves. Turns yellow.
Peat moss based soils can go acidic during the grow. In my experience, it happens in flower. There's other reasons it go's acidic but it happens.
The nutrients are locked out. The plant can't uptake them and therefore staves. Turns yellow.
SouthCross
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The next time it requires water. Collect some of the water run off, coming out the bottom of the pot. It'll require a PH test kit. General Hydroponics has a good one. It's liquid you drop into a small vessel containing some of the run off water. It'll change color according to the PH. The bottle of solution has a color chart to what color represents the ph level.
The PH of the soil needs to be between 6.0 to 7.0. Below and above those levels and lock out happens. The plant will still grow but it won't grow for crap. Sickly all the time until the ph is right.
Those pictures of near perfect looking bud, a person comes across, is from a mastery of soil PH.
Lordhooha
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His other post he said he's only been feeding it fox farms big bloom which has zero nitrogen. And considering his soil has been depleted by this point which is why he's yellowing. Plus with good soil ph isn't even a worry but that's only for good soil that way it buffers right.
Jhon77
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Hey guys have a soil ph meter reading 7 so looks good thanks for reply!!
Lordhooha
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Like I said earlier man your really not feeding your plant. I don't even concern myself with soil ph anymore. Quality soil you don't need to worry about soil ph unless your water has really crazy ph levels and I mean crazy.
SouthCross
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I was the same way until I decided to check. The soil PH was 4.5. The PH of the water had zero effect. I had to add lime to get it to rise. The highest quality peat moss based soil will still have the issue. It's the peat moss itself causing the swing.
I had faith in the buffering properties of soil until it went bad and proved me wrong.
Jhon77
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No thank you both! So ph is in 7 in the soil feed then tommoro give them so nitrogen see from there keep uou guys posted
Jhon77
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You guys growing anything??
Lordhooha
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I've got about 35 snozzberrycrossed with gobbstopper and a few gg4 crossed with mail order bride
Lordhooha
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What soil do you use? Do you amend your soil prior to use?
SouthCross
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Promix. Things like dolomite, which I've used and is in the 4.5 ph pot. Take a lot longer to balance the soil then it takes to grow the plant. Think two years. Healthy soil has a natural tendency to go acidic. The microbial activity also contribute to lowering the ph.
You can't rely on the soil being stable. It a lesson I learned the hard way. Now I constantly monitor soil PH.
Lordhooha
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You grow in straight promix? Before I started using supersoil I mixed promix bx with roots organic original and 707 mixed in bat guano, azomite,cal/mag and a few other things never ran into an issue. If your running just promix that's will cause issues after about a month when things start to breakdown. Really promix is starting soil that's why you see nursery type places use it but after transplanting they do so in a better soil that will hold up.
Princess Marijuana
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Hi. I just dealt with the same problem about 2 weeks ago. Since you are using foxfarm to feed the plants the likeliness of it being the ph is low since the nutes neutralize the ph once mixed with water. It sounds like your plant may be experiencing a nitrogen deficiency and that is what is causing the yellowing.
Examine the plant and look for any purplish coloring on any of the stems, if you see this then the plant probably has salt buildup and lockout (this was the problem with my plant) Try flushing the plant, I recommend foxfarms bush doctor sledgehammer, wait one day then give it a gallon of water with nutes, (follow directions on the bottle for amounts used for light feeding) and follow that with a gallon of plain water. Continue to feed and water as you normally would and be sure to use the appropriate nutes required for the stage your plants are in.
Examine the plant and look for any purplish coloring on any of the stems, if you see this then the plant probably has salt buildup and lockout (this was the problem with my plant) Try flushing the plant, I recommend foxfarms bush doctor sledgehammer, wait one day then give it a gallon of water with nutes, (follow directions on the bottle for amounts used for light feeding) and follow that with a gallon of plain water. Continue to feed and water as you normally would and be sure to use the appropriate nutes required for the stage your plants are in.