Excess nitrogen by switching to flower?

CanadianJim

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Hey RIU,
This is a bit weird, I have this girl in a pot, full of compost. She's been vegging for a couple of months, I can't remember exactly how long. I give her plain water, from the bottom, used to be every couple of days now due to her size and being outdoors twice daily. No nutes.
She's been showing preflowers for a while, and she switched to alternating growth so I decided she's ready to flower and I started bringing her in and putting her in the dark for 12\12.
Just over the last couple of days some of her leaves have started to claw. As I said, no nutes. The soil ph is sitting at 6.1 and has pretty much stayed there with only minor fluctuations of .2 or .3.
I'm stumped.
 

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macsnax

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PH is too low for what your doing. You're most likely on the verge of deficiencies. If you want to stay organic get some amendments that break down quickly.
 

CanadianJim

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I'm not really fanatic about staying organic, I'm fine with using fertilizer, especially in pots. I was going to wait until she'd started really flowering and add some PK. I just don't understand how she could go all the way through veg without any sign of excess nitrogen only to start clawing after I flip her. Or are there deficiencies that cause clawing?
 

macsnax

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I'm not really fanatic about staying organic, I'm fine with using fertilizer, especially in pots. I was going to wait until she'd started really flowering and add some PK. I just don't understand how she could go all the way through veg without any sign of excess nitrogen only to start clawing after I flip her. Or are there deficiencies that cause clawing?
Is not green enough to have excess N. That's why I'm leaning to def and pH issues. If the soil drains good that's most likely the issue. Get some kind of nutrients to that plant, it's just going to hungrier going into flower.
 

CanadianJim

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Is not green enough to have excess N. That's why I'm leaning to def and pH issues. If the soil drains good that's most likely the issue. Get some kind of nutrients to that plant, it's just going to hungrier going into flower.
Here are a couple more pics of the whole plant. It's a little darker than the Hindu Kush I have in the ground, but that could just be the strain.
As for nutes I have a promix 3-6-12 that I got to use with my hot peppers (too much nitrogen will burn their roots), think that would be better than just straight PK? It would have more of the micronutrients, cal mag and such.
 

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macsnax

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New growth is yellowing, I would use the nutes you have. It's stretching so it's in need of a bit of N.
 
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