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Maddog1969
Maddog1969started grow question 3 years ago
My plant appears to be yellowing. Recent stresses: changed light schedule "off" during hottest part of day. I'm adjusting watering (distilled) and light distance. Mechanical PH around 6, looking for a better tool. Don't know if this coloring is species related. Opinions?
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Leaves. Color - Yellow
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GrowingGrannie
GrowingGrannieanswered grow question 3 years ago
One of your problems is that you're using distilled water which is always a PH of 7.0 - much too high for cannabis and you now have some lockout issues. Start by getting yourself a PH pen or some other kind of meter that will accurately test the PH of your water! Then flush your plant using PH'd water (3 gallons of water to each gallon of pot size). This will set everything back to square one and you can then go forward with your normal feeding schedule... but ALWAYS make sure no matter what you give your plant it is PH'd to within that good range! If I had to change ANYTHING about how I started to grow, it would be to buy a PH pen at the very outset instead of relying on drops and trying to match the color with the chart they give you... Apera sells a really nice one that's just as good as - if not better - than BlueLab... Get SOMETHING that will give you a very accurate PH reading! You won't regret it at all!! As AsNoriu says, you should strive for a PH of 6.3 but anywhere between 6.0 and 6.5 is acceptable and will allow your plant to absorb the nutrients - and MICROnutrients - it needs.
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AsNoriu
AsNoriuanswered grow question 3 years ago
https://ibb.co/2smvsgs Red - taco leaves, light was too close. Yellow - after adjustments all went right. Blue - either you screw up with pH, o was screwing up previously and only now it appeared She could be hungry, but I rare met plants so small having not enough off all goodies in soil earlier than 4-5 weeks. My guess is pH was wrong. Buy a meter, or aquarium drops with small range 6.0-7.5 or so. Drops are hard to use with nutes, they usually change colour of water. Make sure you are in 6.2-6.5 window. I use 6.3 always. 0.5 ml/l of CalMag for foliar spray and watering would help a lot to recover .. Feeding should be start with organic nutrition now, with chemical after a week or two latest . All the Best ! P.s. good watering wet/dry/wet/dry , good pH and you already have decent harvest in soil pot, but any mistakes or even overdose of nutes - will lead to pitty harvests and sick plants. Less is more
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midi99
midi99answered grow question 3 years ago
I see for nutrients you’re using around 1mL per L of distilled water and from what I’ve seen, some grows can stand 2mL/L at this state in veg. In your DIY nutrient mix do you add CalMag?
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 3 years ago
Magnesium deficiency is the most likely cause.
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Hashy
Hashyanswered grow question 3 years ago
I would be tempted to feed a grow nutrient and a cal mag supplement ph about 6.2 looks like its wanting a bit more magnesium. Not heavy doses probably about 1/3 of what's on the bottle.
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