"Rust" spots on leaves

brotherjericho

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I've got two reg Nepali Rukum plants that are 20 days above soil under a 150w 4000k CMH. One of the plants has some odd rust colored spots on some of the leaves. The spots are not on the leaves from the first node, but they are mostly concentrated on the 2nd node leaves. The third node (last, topped above there) has some loss of color as well, not quite as spotty. I've looked at several of my links for plant problems and can't quite nail this one down. I'm thinking Mag deficiency, I recently top dressed with some Epsom Salts to try to arrest the spread.

Plant: Holy Smokes Nepali Rukum
Age: 20 days above soil.
Lighting: 150w 4000k CMH
Growing Medium: Mixture of peat, worm castings, perlite, vermiculite, and calcitic lime (when the spots showed up, just transplanted to new soil today)
Water: tap that sits for several days, adjusted pH of 6.4-6.7

The other Nepali Rukum does not have the same spots and is exactly like the above.

NRukum1-1.jpgNRukum1-2.jpgNRukum1-3.jpgNRukum1-4.jpgNRukum1-5.jpg
 

majek

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Looks like calcium deficiency but I'm not positive. keep giving them light doses of epsom for a few days and see if they recover.
 

brotherjericho

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mag overdose can lock out calcium .... beware of over doing the salts
Yeah, it was only a small dose. I just transplanted them today into new soil that has dolomitic lime in it, so cal-mag should be good. The lime I used for the starting mix was calcitic, very little magnesium.
 

brotherjericho

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Well whatever it is, the other NR plant has it now too. Gonna dose with some epsom salts next watering. I think whatever it is is pretty specific to this strain, none of my other plants in the same space are showing any signs of the issue.

I can't find where anyone else has posted anything about this particular strain on the Net yet.
 
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