The CLAW! HELP!!

shethan

Active Member
Hey guys I'm doing a quick post to try and figure out what (if anything) is affecting my plant. I'm a newbie grower lol this is probably only my third grow and only my second to get to the budding stage. I'm using foxfarm's ocean forrest soil as the medium. I'm using foxfarm's grow big/big bloom/tiger bloom for nutrients (focusing mainly on the budding nutes now) with a ppm at around 1000. I always make sure to keep the ph at 6.3 to 6.4, and I'm about six weeks into the grow two weeks into budding. There isn't any major problem at the moment but I'm just trying to catch something early. Especially since it was the budding cycle the "did me in" in my last grow. In a nutshell about a third of the fanleaves on my plant are starting to curl inward and get this claw like appearance. I'll post some pics. Some help would be much much appreciated.


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I'm interested in find out what wrong with those leaves too, my buddy got the same problem. I told him something must went wrong but he said, it's normal. It happens to him all the time
 

Snow Crash

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Focus on your PK levels and cut out the Grow Big for sure.

Start by flushing through a few gallons of clean water pH balanced at 6.5.

Then, I suggest to, flush through a solution of 10ml of the Big Bloom per gallon of water.

Stick with that solution, should be around 400ppm or so, and this should help resolve the nitrogen buildup and phosphorus deficiency.
 

shethan

Active Member
Right on thanks so much I just flushed with the first gallon. So use this new solution of 10ml/gallon throughout the rest of the grow until final flush?
 

Snow Crash

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Probably.

Big Bloom is a very weak solution, but has a good ratio of NPK for this period of your plants life. Using 10ml per gallon is really only about 25% of what you could be using.

Personally I might go with 15ml of the Big Bloom, 2 or 3ml of Tiger Bloom, plus 1/4 tsp of Epsom Salt, for the next four or five feedings, then I'd just go with the Big Bloom until the end. You're still early enough in flowering to try and get a little production out of the plants. The Phosphorus and magnesium will help you out with that. Just got to keep the nitrogen levels down for here on out.
 

TheTokingKing

Active Member
I had an OG Kush do that last grow, it turned out to be heat stress. My leaves even got a little crispy. Im not saying this is it but a thought.
 

Serapis

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You are overfeeding Nitrogen.... Flush the hell outta that soil and cross your fingers. Classic signs are lush looking green leaves and curling under, like a claw.

Quit feeding them Grow Big.I think week 7 is supposed to be a grow big wek I'd skip it if I were you.
 

shethan

Active Member
Thanks for the help guys. I've flushed twice over the past two days now I'll wait a day and start with the lite solution of big bloom. I'll keep y'all posted I really appreciate the help.
 

shethan

Active Member
Alrighty guys it's been a good few weeks and the plant is doing MUCH MUCH better. I just wanted to do another quick post and ask about some brownish spots that are appearing around the edges of the leaves. Is this a precursor to the classic "under nuted" plant (where the leaves end up turning yellow on the tips and then eventually the whole leaf). I would think this likely because I've been flushing the plant and using less nutes as suggested. I'm ready now to up the ppm to about 500 using only big bloom and tiger bloom of course ;) The leaves aren't discolored enough to post pics yet however. You probably wouldn't be able to see.
 
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