Popcorn buds dying, should i just prune?

MikeTahoe

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It's my first grow and I have two plants, one i used lst and the other is just a natural grow, havent had issue as lighting, ph, heat, nutes and water have all been good. But now I'm 4 or 5 weeks into flowering and some popcorn buds are twisting and dying shown in the pictures, it was only on one plant and only happening to one site so I figured it was heat stress and I rearranged my fans and it's cool now, but it's still dying and other popcorn buds are starting to twist, any advice? Should I just prune dying popcorn buds or is it too late in flower? First pic is when I noticed and moved it to a cool spot second pic is a couple days later
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curious2garden

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It's my first grow and I have two plants, one i used lst and the other is just a natural grow, havent had issue as lighting, ph, heat, nutes and water have all been good. But now I'm 4 or 5 weeks into flowering and some popcorn buds are twisting and dying shown in the pictures, it was only on one plant and only happening to one site so I figured it was heat stress and I rearranged my fans and it's cool now, but it's still dying and other popcorn buds are starting to twist, any advice? Should I just prune dying popcorn buds or is it too late in flower? First pic is when I noticed and moved it to a cool spot second pic is a couple days later
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I'm in the Mojave. I don't use A/C and my canopy will spend weeks at 105. I've never seen this from heat. I've lost some lower buds/leaves from lack of light penetration but nothing like this. What's your substrate, what are you feeding, what is your lighting etc...?
 

MikeTahoe

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I'm in the Mojave. I don't use A/C and my canopy will spend weeks at 105. I've never seen this from heat. I've lost some lower buds/leaves from lack of light penetration but nothing like this. What's your substrate, what are you feeding, what is your lighting etc...?
Its first grow so lights are led 150w nothing crazy but theyve done fine with it the whole time, ph has been around 6-6.5 whole time, fox farms ocean forest soil and fox farms tiger bloom (used ff grow big during veg) as well as amino acids once or twice a week, the weird thing is the lst plant is fine and not showing any of the same signs, the only difference between the two is I gave the lst plant one extra feeding with the amino acids since it drinks water much faster but that's it
 

MrToad69

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Look like some kind of light burn..evaporation on those leaves..even near radiating heat of some kind
 

curious2garden

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Its first grow so lights are led 150w nothing crazy but theyve done fine with it the whole time, ph has been around 6-6.5 whole time, fox farms ocean forest soil and fox farms tiger bloom (used ff grow big during veg) as well as amino acids once or twice a week, the weird thing is the lst plant is fine and not showing any of the same signs, the only difference between the two is I gave the lst plant one extra feeding with the amino acids since it drinks water much faster but that's it
Pics of the top and other plant? What are the amino acids you fed? It's usually somewhere around 4-6 weeks in flower when things get 'interesting'.
 

Bernie420

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It's my first grow and I have two plants, one i used lst and the other is just a natural grow, havent had issue as lighting, ph, heat, nutes and water have all been good. But now I'm 4 or 5 weeks into flowering and some popcorn buds are twisting and dying shown in the pictures, it was only on one plant and only happening to one site so I figured it was heat stress and I rearranged my fans and it's cool now, but it's still dying and other popcorn buds are starting to twist, any advice? Should I just prune dying popcorn buds or is it too late in flower? First pic is when I noticed and moved it to a cool spot second pic is a couple days later
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Nute burn ,lack of light maybe. Did you foliar feed it something? At what ppm are you feeding it at?

Flush pot renute add back microbes is basically what you need to do.
 

MikeTahoe

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Looks like classic over fertilization...
It wasnt showing any signs until that first picture and I only gave it distilled water after that to be safe and it still got worse, still over-fert? The twisting and spiraling of the leaves dont look like most over-fert pictures
 

xtsho

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Have you checked for bugs?
This^^^^^^^^^^

Blumats nice :D

I zoomed in on a portion of that photo and see what looks like some kind of bug activity. Can't tell for sure but you might want to do a closer examination specifically the underside of the leaves using some form of magnification.

 

Bernie420

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It wasnt showing any signs until that first picture and I only gave it distilled water after that to be safe and it still got worse, still over-fert? The twisting and spiraling of the leaves dont look like most over-fert pictures
Just because you gave it some distilled water doenst mean anything unless you gave it enough to flush the pots out. If it is an over fert situation and probably is, all that fert will still be in there fucking with the plant since the plant is stressed and not doing much. Might have root issues as well from excessive salts too.

No answer to what ppm you were feeding it at so..........................
 
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