Help a Jets fan out.. top leaves yellowing w/1st grow... uh oh!

Hey guys, this is my first grow and I am having some problems. I have 3 plants... 2 durban poisons and one from a seed a friend had... the 2 DP's were first soiled around 11/11, and the ? seed was soiled around 11/1.
- Light - 400w Metal Halide, 18/6 sched, 20-28" from canopies
- Watering Sched - usually every 3 days or so
- Nutes - was using like 1/4 strength miracle grow with watering
- potted in 1.5 gal with "Sta-green premium container mix with fertilizers" mixed with some perlite.

I noticed some yellowing of the new growth from all 3 plants, pretty much at the same time.. I did the following 3 days ago...

-Flushed the 3 plants with 3x the container volume of tap water that stood out 72 hours. THEN
-Repotted the plants in 3 gal containers, using Fox Farm Happy Frog Organic soil. I didn't rewater because they plants/roots were already pretty wet from flush and the new soil was damp also.. I have a cheap pH/moisture/light meter, and it was 8 on scale of 0-10.

My soil pH currently, according to that meter is around 8... I know it should be 6.5-7. Could this be the problem. It looks (from what i've been reading) like a mineral deficiency probably caused by the increased pH.

The attached pics were taken yesterday 12/16, below are my descriptions from tonight, 12/17.

-The big Durban poison(5+ weeks, the best looking one, on the Left in the 1st pic) looks like it's recovering slightly.. like i said all the new growth was lime green/yellow..now it seems like some green is coming back to those leaves.
-The smaller Durban poison (5+ weeks, the one in the middle of the 1st pic, and the plant featured in 2nd,3rd pic looks about the same. actually the tips of the very yellowed leaves on top are actually browning. .
-The smallest plant from the mystery seed (6+ weeks, on the right in 1st, and featured in the 4th pic) is looking shabby because we attempted to take some clones from it two weeks ago. There are some brown tips on this plant too..but the yellowed leaves appear to have some green coming back in them.

If this is the a pH problem, how do i correct it?

I have ordered some dolomite lime and pH up/pH down from an online supplier, expect to have them in a few days and also Sensi Grow A/B nutes. I got them for future grows but I will have them at my disposal for this grow as well..

Thanks so much for any help you guys can give me... I'm getting worried..happy holidays everyone

Hopefully your leaves dont go down as easily as the jets...

yeah, I know all about Chad "master of the 3 yard sideline pass" pennington, but i'm still worried about these plants

can you guys please help me out? i think 2/3 plants are dying.. leaves turning brown and really worrying me

I would help if i could, but have never had a problem like that before. From my experience, it looks like nutrient problem, either too much or too little of something. Sorry about those jets too, i am a lifelong Pats fan........

looks good

Are there any parts of the leaf stems turning purple? If so then it loks like sulfur or iron is too low. If no purple is present then it looks the most like it is just a lack of nitrogen. Normally a lack of nitrogen will start with yellowing and then proceed to browning and leaf drop.

No matter which it is, it would be from a lack of one or more of them.....try a better fertilizer than miracle grow, or use a stronger solution right away....too much and the leaves will turn a dark green. Either way, do it soon or the plants will not do well.

hope this helps

jet fan?? looks more like a steeler fan to me! it looks like you dont know what youre doing!!

ndog89 said:

I would help if i could, but have never had a problem like that before. From my experience, it looks like nutrient problem, either too much or too little of something. Sorry about those jets too, i am a lifelong Pats fan........

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Its funny that people say life long when referring to Pats being that they are the biggest bandwagon team nowadays and the cowgirls

Zekedogg, i was born in massachusetts and lived there for 25 of 29 years of my life......what does that mean to you......dumbass. Not to mention that the pats are one of the most hated nfl teams because they have been winning so much, not exactly a bandwagon team. I was also at the new orleans superbowl when we beat st. louis which at the time was an impossible task.
The game was supposed to be such a blowout that the superbowl tickets were selling for ticket price outside the stadium the night of the superbowl......

YOU guys are the best.. and i hope you guys beat the giants this week... you guys have worked so hard this year and deserve all of the praise anyone can give you.. dont ever let anyone take that away from you....

the best is that you're getting SF's pick? How did you manage to get Moss and a top 3 pick? fuckers

what about the plants bro, how they looking?

looks like to much or too little food, are you vegging or flowering. to me they look like they want some.n. try tom food,

the plants are looking better overall... the one big durban poison has it's regular color back, i took off a few dead leaves... and it is growing well. the second, smaller durban poison, i ended up taking off all the dead leaves and while the color is good on the undead leaves, there aren't too many of those left hah.. and the bastard plant, well, that looks better but isn't growing.. i ended up flushing with a pH down solution.. and just got some advanced nutrients fert..so i flushed with that once so far.. so i'll probably wait 2 weeks or so and start flowering... thanks for the input guys..i think we may have gotten out of this one... now lets just hope the jets lose and we can get matt ryan... chris