Pics - What is my problem?

GrowinDad

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Howdy RIU,

My current girls are giving me problems, proving to be quite finicky! They are about 5 weeks into veg, about to go into flower. I use Dyna-Gro - grow, protect, and mag plus. Water is tap, through a pur filter, that sits out. Everything PH to 6.5. Soil PH is around 6.8. Soil is my own mix - potting soil (no nutes beyond the compost in it), vermiculite, perlite, and peat moss with some dolomite lime.

Looks like Cal deficiency to me but I have never had that issue before.

Would greatly appreciate any opinions! Trying to be patient with them but want them healthy for flower!

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Not alot of "damage" to go on, but cal/mag def is my first ( and only ) guess at this point. A little nitrogen bump wouldn't hurt either.
 
Looks a bit worse in person.

So I have one agreeing - looks like Cal deficiency. But another feeling maybe the dolomite in my sol mix (about 2T/gal of mix) is causing too much Cal- a sentiment shared on another page.

I have not been able to find any pics online with what Cal Abundance looks like.

Any more opinions???? Here are a couple more pics that show the issue better...

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I don't own a ppm meter but my guess is a full dose of cal-mag will bring the res up to about 500ppm. Dolomite lime takes time to react in soil. If you haven't given them any npk and you feel the soil may have been used up give them about a 1/6 dose of npk. If you see them perking up...It's up to you.
 
I am in a soil mix with no added nutes. But they have been dosed with nutes. There is Cal in the dyna-gro grow and mag in the mag-plus. Which I why I am worried about upping it at all because they should not be deficient.
 
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