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Phosphorus def in veg?

Fordsie
Fordsiestarted grow question 5y ago
Phosphorus deficiency in wk 4 of veg? I noticed a few small discolored blotches on lower leaves 2 days ago and today it is a lot worse! Use flora trio, and 2 other plants in this run are under same conditions with same nutes. Could this be a pH issue? PH has been consistently ~6.
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Experimentgreen
Experimentgreenanswered grow question 5y ago
Hey So I would definitely lean towards a phosphorus deficiency....but it can sometimes be connected with calcium too. Personally when i started regularly using a calmag supplement my plants were much happier. Your plants don't use much phosphorus in this early stage and if you're giving a regular regimen of the flora this shouldn't be happening. Double check the outgoing runoff ph and if its coming out in the right range then I would highly suggest recalibration of your ph pen. They usually need it done every so often depending on how often its used. I usually recalibrate at least once a month because i had a ph pen go off and it caused total havoc on all my leaves. Happy growing.✌️
Fordsie
Fordsieanswered grow question 5y ago
@experimentgreen, I took a pH reading of tap water, then recalibrated my pH meter, and rechecked tap water...Holy Crap, you are right, it was totally off, by like a lot! What a freaking rookie mistake! I have been feeding these girls with a nute solution that was way to acidic. Damn it! They look so sad right now. I’m going to flush them and refeed with cal-mag at proper pH. I can’t believe I made this mistake, what an a**! Thank you for your feed back and recommendation, so very much appreciated. I’ll post progress in next update, fingers crossed things will normalize. Can’t say that I won’t still be embarrassed that this was due to user error and completely avoidable.
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