Potassium deficiency due to excess Calcium / Lime in tap water.
Results: Purple, woody stems, spots on leaves, fading pale leaves with dark veins, tips burned, tips clawing downward, and most importantly very Stunted and slow growth
As a beginner grower I am still leaning and sorting out my grow. The results due to my lack of knowledge, mistakes, and my experimentation, should have no reflection on the Breeder or Genetics, which are high quality.
Good news is I did find a new water source, a natural spring with a ph of 8.03. I would like an electrical conductivity meter (a.k.a PPM / TDS) so I could test the hardness, but it’s got to be better than the tap water, which I should have never used in the first place.
I ordered some Real Growers Recharge and just started watering using this spring water. I will repot in a weeks time (when I travel to the city to get perlite) which I expect should help.
I’ve taken some “before” pictures today and posted them for this week. I am calling them “before” as I expecting (HOPING) using Recharge will sort out the ph issues; especially where I am growing organically (at least trying). Also expecting that using this new water source and a transplant will make a big difference. I never water to runoff so there is probably a lot of accumulated garbage in this soil...
@ChefDan420, right on brotherman! As a noob I put the screen in a little early, about 1.5 weeks into flower - expecting more stretch. Next time I would go a little earlier. I’d like to have 6 - 8 “ above the screen rather than 2” 🤗
@ChefDan420, thanks. I made it out of PVC and Quest plastic yard fencing from Canadian tire. If I was to use up the rest of the fencing and make a bunch, total cost per unit would be about 10 bucks. :)
@Gardenofweeden, Roger that. These are 7 gallon! Ive moved to 2 or 3 gallon and getting much better results with lots of lessons learned. This was my very first grow ever