m.o.b. gone yellow

newbiedoobiedoo

New Member
hi everybody i just got referred to this site from some people on reddit if somebody could help me diagnose what i did wrong i would be extremely grateful this is my first grow got my med card a couple of months ago but i don't really know what i'm doing things were going great until a few days ago. if i'm leaving out any info please let me know thanks in advance
i just posted this in the newbie forum and then noticed this one hope re-posting isn't a big deal i'm new here

so three weeks into flower today watered night before last with a mix of a tablespoon blackstrap molasses and a half dose of beastie bloomz ph'd to 6.5. this was the second dose I've giving them first one being quarter strength a week before. yesterday morning i took a quick look at them before lights went out for the day and noticed massive amounts of yellow/brown curling leaves pretty sure i overfed her and she's pissed


other details temps range from 50 when lights off to 70 when on i got two lights a 600 watt hps with a little shity hood and a 1000 watt with a sunsystems xxl magnum air cooled hood the plant with problems is 20 inches under the 1000


i use well water that comes out at a ph of 8.2 to 8.7 always balanced to 6.5 although i had no idea what i was doing when i got into this so for most of the veg period i did not ph anything or feed it anything. last three weeks of veg i got a digital ph meter and some foxfarms grow big, big bloom and tigerbloom so i fed em grow big and big bloom for three weeks starting of at half dose and working up to full dose and they loved it. first week of flower i just gave them big bloom and a half dose of tigerbloom every thing was fine second week gave them a quarter dose of beastie bloomz and big bloom and everything was fine third week half dose not so fine

took these pics last night and the yellowing has gotten considerably worse
from what I'm told m.o.b. is supposed to be a six week flower so today should be the halfway point



http://imgur.com/a/IKsWP
 

Southerner

Well-Known Member
Looks like a nitrogen def. to me. If there is only three weeks left it'll probably be fine, but you could add some +N fert if you wanted. The bloom nutes you are using dont add much nitrogen because a gradual yellowing of the leaves is considered natural, but you don't want them dying off too fast/early. Many people continue using their veg nutes for the first two weeks or so of flower, during the stretch.

Just something to consider, if you switched to an organic grow next time you could retire that pH meter as well as the bottles of pH Down. Look into it in the future if that interest you.
 

newbiedoobiedoo

New Member
I'm definitely heading in the direction of organic this was my first grow and while i think i did alright i would love to simplify the process. my girlfriends mother who let me grow in the house we rent from her happens to have a huge compost pile and also grow her own worms in the basement. so i'm thinking i can come up with a decent soil mix to atleast cut way down on nutes if not eliminate some thanks for the info man nitrogen def seems to be the general opinion which i was pretty happy to hear i thought i way over fed em
 
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