The plants get yellow leaves

chris_23
chris_23started grow question 4y ago
Good evening, I'm new here and have the following question; my 4 Franco's Lemon Cheeses are getting lighter green? They are in a 50x100cm tent and are lit by a Zeus XT 308 in the color 3500K Cri 90. I mixed the soil from about one-third used soil and two-thirds Plagron All Mix, and added 2 BioTabs per pot. They are in 11l plant bags. For a week now, they have been extremely light and later the leaf edges turn brown, but now they are all getting lighter and don't look healthy anymore. According to my research, they look under-fertilized, but I'm absolutely not sure. The day before yesterday was watering day and I added the following to the standing tap water: 3ml/l CalMag from Biobizz, 5 ml/l molasses, and 5ml/l Bio Tabs Orgatrex as well as 2ml/l Terra Grow from Plagron. About 10 days ago, I fertilized for the first time and added about 5ml/l Bio Tabs Orgatrex and a little molasses, and 6 days ago I flushed. The plants are just over 5 weeks old. I'm looking forward to your tips and thanks in advance.
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Leaves. Color - Yellow
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Sciolistic_Steve
Sciolistic_Steveanswered grow question 4y ago
those 90cri sure do make better pictures. the accuracy of colors is infinitely better. This one actually does look like it could be a slight Potassium (K) deficiency. First make sure pH isn't whacky. how are your waering habits? always ensure entire pot gets wet with minimal runoff in soil to avoid wasting your soil's amendments. don't try to give X mL per day of your own choosing as that is the wrong way to do it.. you give what is needed, when it is needed (wait for top 1" to dry before next irrigation, the weight of the pot at this point is best to learn for trigger - do that and it will be a consistent volume per pot you can plan around) you'd need more time or finer resolution on your fertilizer - breakdown per nute. you are also in soil, which adds a whole bunch of unknowns too. time release tabs are a balancing act based on familiarity too. if you are consistent in how you make the soil and what you use, then you can systematically try different things until they work... don't ty to change 4 things at once because you'll never know which actually fixed the problem and possibly cause more problems at same time. in your case, it looks fairly straigh-forward... there aren't comingling symptoms, so i'd feel fairly safe about trying a bump to whichever nute you add that will increas K concentration without greatly impacting other things. so, high k value, low in other stuff would be best choice. if this progressed slowly, you can make a small adjustment and observe.. it's really easy to overcompensate with this stuff... so be on watch for symptoms going the other way -- toxicity of K / lockout of other stuff like Mg/Ca becomes possible.. so, you stopped the progression, some healing where possible occurs (chlorosis will fill in but dead spots are not healing ever), it could slowly (or rapidly) swingn the other way.. all about balance of multiple factors of constant change over time.. take notes for next time.
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chris_23
chris_23answered grow question 4y ago
@Creepy_Steve and @GrowingGrannie, thanks for your helpful responses. The measures I took about 48 hours ago have shown some effect, and today after sleeping, they already look a bit better. What I didn't mention yesterday is that I did a foliar feeding with a slightly diluted mix, as mentioned earlier. The one that looked the worst is still not out of the woods because it's too wet on top of that. From now on, I'm not doing anything and will wait until they are nice and dry again. @GrowingGrannie, I gladly take your words to heart and will try to open a report today. I haven't done something like this before, but it should be fine. Unfortunately, the translations aren't very accurate, but one can live with that with a bit of imagination.
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GrowingGrannie
GrowingGrannieanswered grow question 4y ago
I'm not familiar with your nutes so I can't really give you any advice about that... Your grow is looking like it's definitely getting a calcium deficiency but there are several causes of that - an improper pH, for example, or too much nitrogen... either one will cause a lockout and you'd have to flush your plants before it can be fixed... lockouts make it so that the plant just can't get at the nutrients it needs no matter how much of it you give... so you could be throwing a whole bottle of calmag at them and if there's a lockout, it won't do any good. So I just wanted to say that you've spent a long time writing out things that would be easliy put into a diary - and you've missed telling us some things that are probably crucial here... like temps and pH and EC (if you measure it) ... Looking at information given in narrative form is hard to digest, hard to analyze... please start a diary as it will be much easier for us to help you! Good luck!
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