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Is this a deficiency or excess of nutes?

Dillsnills
Dillsnillsstarted grow question 4 years ago
Jus wondering what deficiency this is, it's really the only one that's looked like this a couple of the other ones have mild nute burn so I'm kinda confused advice input opinions greatly appreciated. Ppm intake 580 ppm runoff 1090. 5 week flowering pineapple Express Auto
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Leaves. Color - Yellow
Setup. Strain - Autoflowering
Feeding. Other
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NobodysBuds
NobodysBudsanswered grow question 4 years ago
If confused, more likely than not it is lockout of some sort... you also mention others have slight burn... so you are probably at the upper edge rather than the lower edge. without knowing what you put into your substrate, it's difficult to say. Calculate ppm from your guarnateed analysis labels. add them up per element... compare to other formulas out there... e.g. i have one posted each week in my diaries. Now, i am soilless. I feel 100% of plant needs all the time. In soil, you either ramp up to that or you have some sort of living soil/super soil situation going on. That'll be a different formula mix, but the end result will still be similar in the substrate. Re-callibrate your ppm pen.. maybe it is off? Consider recent behaviour.. if you can eliminate overfeeding, you can simply refer to a leaf chart and deduce what is going on.. when the symptoms are messy, it's more often lockout in my experience. You could be light on some things and excessive on others... and each plant can be different, so treating them all the same doesn't always work well.
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MaxGrowCanada
MaxGrowCanadaanswered grow question 4 years ago
Hi, I would usually attribute those brown spots on the sugar leaves to a complex scenario, in soil. A low ph and an abundance of certain nutrients can cause lockouts of certain elements. Your runoff ec looks rather high to me, so I would start there. Low substrate ph is also a common cause as anything below 6.2, in soil, can cause calcium to be locked out which, in turn, locks out iron and zinc. A sure sign of calcium deficiency is brown spots on the older, lower fan leaves. If not, you may be dealing with an excess of salts in your substrate. Simply flush until you ec drops to what you feed with and ensure a ph of roughly 6.5. Hope this helps,
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NobodysBuds
NobodysBudsanswered grow question 4 years ago
and, don't forget senescence... the plant will show some blemishes even if treated very well. The plant looks a little dark, glossy and droopy, so .. unless that's after a heavy watering looks to be toxicities too.
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