I have two plants going, they're around 2 and a half months old now.
-Plant A is an indica dom, unknown strain.
-Plant B is sat. dom, tangerine dream.
-they're in 5 gallon smart pots with 70% fox farms ocean forest/30% verm.
-they're under a 400 watt hps and a 215 watt t5 4' 4tube.
-their source water is city tap. water is let to stand for 24 hours of dechlorinate. water comes out of tap at 7.4ph and it's adjusted to 6.8-7.0ph with ph down.
-feeding is done with a organic tea mix. i make my recipe into 1 gallon so it's 2x strong then I cut 1 part with 1 part water before feeding. recipe is: 2 tbls. sunleaves mexican bat guano, 2 caps of maxicrop liquid seakelp, 2 tbls. organic blackstrap unsulphured molasses into 1 gallon of the ph'd source water. it's then aereated with aquarium pump for duration.
-feeding schedule is: water until a little runoff, let dry a few days until pots are noticely lighter, feed until little run off, let dry a few days until light pots, water repeat. the indica Plant A drinks and feeds almost twice as fast as Plant B.
They started out in life rough, damping off almost killed them as seedlings. They've stunted a few times due to either lockout or lack of nutes, also had to deal with them both "clawing" due to watering issues. they took right off once I transplanted them into the FFOF though, they cruised in the FF for probably a month until I started feeding them. 2-3 weeks a go I saw a few little changes in the leaves.
As for the deficiences I've noticed. Plant A I know has a nitrogen def judging by the older bottom leaves turning a consistent yellow which I'm treating by feeding it N more often. It's showing I think two other problems as well... Some leaves on plant A are experiencing bleach blotches running along the middle vein, I have no idea what this one could be yet. Also, there's a few leaves that have dark blotches as well, my reading is leading me to think the dark blotches might be lack of phosphorus? It's already not getting enough N so this makes sense to me but I'd like expert opinion.
My sat. dom Plant B is showing different issues I think. I'm seeing on a few leaves bleach blotches, again, not sure what this may be yet, possible nute burn site?
The main issue for Plant B is leaves turning not entirely yellow with dead brown spots and tips turning inward, there's also several leaves with yellowing tips which haven't progressed yet. From my reading on this one, it could be several things. Calcium, Magnesium, Manganese deficiences all sound like this. I have both epsom salt and lil miller super sweet limestone. I was planning on trying an epsom salt foliar spray to start checking things off the list but I figured it'd be wise to get any leads to narrow things down first.
I've tried to include everything but if i missed anything, just let me know.
Thanks for any help guys!
-Plant A is an indica dom, unknown strain.
-Plant B is sat. dom, tangerine dream.
-they're in 5 gallon smart pots with 70% fox farms ocean forest/30% verm.
-they're under a 400 watt hps and a 215 watt t5 4' 4tube.
-their source water is city tap. water is let to stand for 24 hours of dechlorinate. water comes out of tap at 7.4ph and it's adjusted to 6.8-7.0ph with ph down.
-feeding is done with a organic tea mix. i make my recipe into 1 gallon so it's 2x strong then I cut 1 part with 1 part water before feeding. recipe is: 2 tbls. sunleaves mexican bat guano, 2 caps of maxicrop liquid seakelp, 2 tbls. organic blackstrap unsulphured molasses into 1 gallon of the ph'd source water. it's then aereated with aquarium pump for duration.
-feeding schedule is: water until a little runoff, let dry a few days until pots are noticely lighter, feed until little run off, let dry a few days until light pots, water repeat. the indica Plant A drinks and feeds almost twice as fast as Plant B.
They started out in life rough, damping off almost killed them as seedlings. They've stunted a few times due to either lockout or lack of nutes, also had to deal with them both "clawing" due to watering issues. they took right off once I transplanted them into the FFOF though, they cruised in the FF for probably a month until I started feeding them. 2-3 weeks a go I saw a few little changes in the leaves.
As for the deficiences I've noticed. Plant A I know has a nitrogen def judging by the older bottom leaves turning a consistent yellow which I'm treating by feeding it N more often. It's showing I think two other problems as well... Some leaves on plant A are experiencing bleach blotches running along the middle vein, I have no idea what this one could be yet. Also, there's a few leaves that have dark blotches as well, my reading is leading me to think the dark blotches might be lack of phosphorus? It's already not getting enough N so this makes sense to me but I'd like expert opinion.
My sat. dom Plant B is showing different issues I think. I'm seeing on a few leaves bleach blotches, again, not sure what this may be yet, possible nute burn site?
The main issue for Plant B is leaves turning not entirely yellow with dead brown spots and tips turning inward, there's also several leaves with yellowing tips which haven't progressed yet. From my reading on this one, it could be several things. Calcium, Magnesium, Manganese deficiences all sound like this. I have both epsom salt and lil miller super sweet limestone. I was planning on trying an epsom salt foliar spray to start checking things off the list but I figured it'd be wise to get any leads to narrow things down first.
I've tried to include everything but if i missed anything, just let me know.
Thanks for any help guys!
