Droop/Curled Leaf Tips

GrapePhilly&Chronic

GrapePhilly&Chronic

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echlectica said:
Your pH test kit only goes down to 6.2 becuase its not a hydroponic test kit, its probably a pool test kit or something you got at a Box-store. You need equipment that is designed for growing plants. Guessing your in soil, your plant looks like the pH is around 5 which is too low for soil. Your also no where near harvest.
heat can effect pH in many ways.
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Sorry lol, I forgot to mention, I have this plant a few weeks into flower, and another girl about 8 and a half to 9 weeks into the cycle. I didnt mean THIS plant was ready for harvest haha. Just look at those lil itty bitty pre-nugs :P Check the "How Long Til Harvest" link in my sig, I put those pictures up about a week ago, so theyve matured quite a bit since then. Check it out & let me know how im doing, ill be postin new pics up tonight.
 
GrapePhilly&Chronic

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GrapePhilly&Chronic said:
You're right about dolomite liming raising the pH, but how would I use the dolomite lime? Does it break down in water? If not I do I get the dolomite lime into my soil, without damaging the root system? If its not possible, im going to have to call a few hydroponic shops, and see who has the Hydroponic pH up formula. How long after I adjust the pH will the plant be 'shocked' ? I also have another plant, with yellowing leaves and the tips curling upwards, but that plant is very close to harvest, and ive been told leaves tend to curl up a bit, and yellow towards the final week or two of growth? I havent been watering with the same nutrient water, because I started flushing with molasses a week early.(by accident)
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Le pic

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Take thoses yellow leaves off, they r blocking light to the smaller green leaves.

Thoses are dead leaves.
 
GrapePhilly&Chronic

GrapePhilly&Chronic

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Should I remove all the damaged yellow leaves? It seems to be only the fan leaves that r yellowing and dying. The bud leaves are still in pretty good condition
 
indipow82

indipow82

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7.2 is way to high man. Get it down to something around 6.2. Your plant is in lock out because of a f'd up ph that is not allowing nutrient uptake.
 
onlycucumbershere

onlycucumbershere

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While I'm no expert here... I have been told that toward the end of flowering, the plant tends to draw the energy out of those fan leaves into the buds. But I would probably put your situation down to a nutrient deficiency as you're in a grow enclosure, I'd really only expect that outdoors where the soils can be varied.
I don't think it will harm your plant man - but like Le Pic says above, cut those babies off they are blocking valuable light and not serving any further purpose.

That's what I would do :)
 
GrapePhilly&Chronic

GrapePhilly&Chronic

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indipow82 said:
7.2 is way to high man. Get it down to something around 6.2. Your plant is in lock out because of a f'd up ph that is not allowing nutrient uptake.
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The pH of my soil & water were both extremely low, so I gave it some 7.2 pH boiled & distilled tap water, hoping to somewhat adjust the pH. I clipped off all the curling leaf tips, and removed the dead leaves. Should I continue to flush with distilled 7ish pH water until the soils run-off pH is about 6.2, or should I just get pH up and add it to my 'nuted' water to try and balance it? Would flushing once or twice more be the safer way to go, or do you think my plants will respond positively once i balance the nutrient waters pH??
Thanks for the help
 
indipow82

indipow82

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You will shock the plants by giving them that much of a change in ph. If the ph is that low and you give it something that high, bad combo. I would just flush a couple of times but not so much that you drown the plant, and use a ph of the range you are looking to attain. Use some dolomite lime to help raise the ph in the soil itself also.
 
GrapePhilly&Chronic

GrapePhilly&Chronic

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indipow82 said:
You will shock the plants by giving them that much of a change in ph. If the ph is that low and you give it something that high, bad combo. I would just flush a couple of times but not so much that you drown the plant, and use a ph of the range you are looking to attain. Use some dolomite lime to help raise the ph in the soil itself also.
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How do I use dolomite lime?
 
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