Plant hospital

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i am loosing a lot of leaves. The first photo is at 58 days, the second is at 79 days. Specs are 2 northern light plants, one sunshine system UFO LED and two 45 watt LED panels, Technaflora nuts watered 4 times a day, rock wool 10" cube. Any suggestions out there

Originally Posted by sags82

No splashing, There has been so much rain past 3 weeks, I can only foliar feed. I guess it could have been excess nutes at the tip of the plant. 1st foliar feed was 2 and a half week ago. 1/4 teaspoon per gallon, then next feeding was 5 days ago, and was also 1/4 teaspoon per gallon. last feeding also had 1/2 teaspoon of epsom salt added to it.

foliar feeds are instant and should only be like 1/10 strength of the nute, so your burning it. even if the ground is wet you can still feed just make the nute solution less diluted, so dilute half strength of recommended dose for whatever gal/L size in like a half gal then pour a fourth it around the base of each plant. but i would wait a week that plant looks alright, let it recover some.

Originally Posted by Glider

i am loosing a lot of leaves. The first photo is at 58 days, the second is at 79 days. Specs are 2 northern light plants, one sunshine system UFO LED and two 45 watt LED panels, Technaflora nuts watered 4 times a day, rock wool 10" cube. Any suggestions out there

no pics that i can see. but its sounds as if you are in late flower and loss of leaves is normal, some strains more than others.

now when you say watered 4x a day do you mean by hand or drip? or ebb and flow?

some more info might be helpful as pics are not always the answer, usually i just read what people say. sometime i glace at a pic, but who knows a picture can be worth a thousand words?

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I use kind of an Ebb and Flow. I have a pump that bumps the water on to the rock wool which then dips back into the reservoir that the pot sets above. You can see the watering ring in the second photo. I also have a second plant in Fox Farms dirt that I hand water every other day that is doing the same thing.

And thanks for your help Arcturus. By the way do you know of a thread that deals with using a 18 hour day instead of a 24 hour day?

Hey Poly,

I have one hell of a serious problem..... no plants!!!! How the hell do I fix that?? lol

Fantastic thread man!!! This is on the top of my "read before posting a question" list.

Originally Posted by Glider

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I use kind of an Ebb and Flow. I have a pump that bumps the water on to the rock wool which then dips back into the reservoir that the pot sets above. You can see the watering ring in the second photo. I also have a second plant in Fox Farms dirt that I hand water every other day that is doing the same thing.

And thanks for your help Arcturus. By the way do you know of a thread that deals with using a 18 hour day instead of a 24 hour day?

hmmm too much fertilizer trying lowering the dose. not he frequency but the concentration, seems like they are getting plenty of nutrition maybe a little too much, this can cause all the dropped leaces
and whats the difference between 18 hour and 24 hours veg? not much. i dont know of any threads that deal specifically with 18 hours light, but i have used about every lighting arrangment and schedule so feel free to ask.

Thanks I"ll try that

Little red bugs that move quickely and White ones that look identical, also found spider webs on the plants. I assume im looking at a Spider mite problem, so I sprayed with Neem oil. Gonna wait a few days and Then transplant into different soil and change the location as well.