You can't use water from a water softener. There is too much salt in there. Your plants have cal-mag deficiency; that's what causes exactly that kind of crispy browning starting from the tip or edge of older leaves.

Use bottled/RO water and add some cal-mag or epsom salt to resolve.

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I am using FF ocean forest too. you don't need to feed them anything but water for the first 30 days. then the nutes run out of the soil and you can use what you want. My 30 days was up a few days ago, so I gave it a good flush to get whatever was left out. the next watering I'm doing the mollasses thing, then next some big bloom. then flush, then mollasses again then straight water till its done in about 5 weeks I cant wait. my buds look good, the leaves are still a little f-ed from earler.

Ah, I see you ARE using RO water. It probably goes through the water softener first then the RO filter, right? Then the salt is not a factor.

You still most definitely have cal-mag deficiency. It's easy to fix.

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have a questionfor anyonewho can help a newbie. im growing about 20 ladies under 2 400 mh temp 75/78 humid/43/45/ ph is 6.9/7.0 all the ladies are doing good except one strain a hybrid skunk/haze a few of the leaves on the ladies seem to b curling inward and drying up. now i only feed them when needed can u help me with this problem. also can i switch ferts im growing in soil by the way pro mix with worm casting im on week 4 almost. i would like to know can i switch ferts and is it ok to use the 3 part flora series that is used for hydoro growers? thank you for help

Hey thank you all so much for your help. I've been waiting anxiously to figure this out as I want to grow some more potent stuff! Yes SHNKRMN, I believe it first runs through the softener, then the R/O. I was really hoping I wouldn't have to buy water since I've got the R/O system..GR. I guess I'll have to order some cal-mag stuff. How long do you assume this problem to take to fix itself?

Yup, softener first is normal, but then the RO should remove most of the salt (it leaves some salt in). It also removes calcium and magnesium salts! Every RO grow will need this. Use cal-mag with every watering and the problem won't reoccur. The crispy leaves you have now won't recover, but you'll get plenty of new growth. You shouldn't see any new leaf damage within a couple days of using it.

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I have had this problem a lot too. I have hopefully resolved it but you have to understand the water COMMING OUT of the pot. See what the ppm of it is compared to the water you are putting in, also check the pH. This will answer A LOT if not ALL your questions as it tells you exactily what is in your plants soil.

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Hey guys, thank you for your responses. At the moment I don't have a PPM meter so I can't do that til I buy one. My PH level I believe is fine. It's FFOF soil so the PH should be fine also. I believe it's the cal-mag deal. I've watered a couple times with epsom and it seems to be alright I suppose. I still have yellowing leaves that are dying off (3rd week flower) so I also used a grow formula with bloom. Thanks again!