Flower advice
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Ok, is the lighther shade of green normal on the top leaves, just fed for the first time at the beginning of 12/12 due to using build a soil 3.0 which is a water only soil
Verbal_Vaper
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They looks pretty healthy to me
Today is day 11 since flip to flowering. Nuggz strain looking like it’s getting real light green, know flower nutrients has a little bit of nitrogen will it correct this or will it get worse as flowering stage go on? Plan on feeding tomorrow cal mag and bloom nutrients
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Soil Growth
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Wow. I always wondered about the light color of healthy new growth during the trasition. That explanation makes total sense.
Soil Growth
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What are you using for "flower nutrients"? What's the N-P-K?
Some flower nutrients are Complete fertilizers, with everything your plant needs. You'll be good to go with something like that.
Other are like bloom additives or "boosters" that only have P and K. Those will not provide the nitrogen and other micro nutrients your plants need.
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like soil grow asked.
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go go kid
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you wabnt to be feeding it some grow nutes during flowering, the plant food you have there is for flowering and a pk booster. you need some nitrogen during the start of flowering, especaly during the beginning after the 12/12 flip and maybe a dose during flowering. just to keep them healthy.
try a growth dose in place of a flowering feed and see if theres a differance. it won't hurt your grow
try a growth dose in place of a flowering feed and see if theres a differance. it won't hurt your grow
Budzbuddha
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Should have stuck with VEG nutes thru transition phase ( stretch phase and setup ) for at least til stretch phase stops. It NEEDS that nitrogen to do help bridge it over to ACTUAL FLOWER.
Too many growers jump the gun - see minor bud setting or early pistils - and automatically move to bloom nutes.
Too many growers jump the gun - see minor bud setting or early pistils - and automatically move to bloom nutes.
Currently at the end of week 2, I fed grow nutes during the first week. So u saying keep feeding grow nutes
Haven’t fed flower nutes yet, still only grow nutes once because I’m using a water only living soil build a soil 3.0
BongerChonger
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If you fed grow nutrients recently @ recommended amounts, then I'd say hold off on giving anymore food for a bit.
Read the directions on the product, it should have a recommended feed frequency.
If there's any deficiency, to me, it looks like Iron. So why?
There should be plenty iron around already, as you've supplemented nutrient and iron's only needed in small amounts.
This raises questions about your feeding habits, watering habits and possibly pH.
Ask yourself, have you been over watering? Would the plants be fine without water another day or two?
If you're a newer grower, there's a good chance you could leave it a bit longer.
People will say pH isn't important in soil and to ignore it, the microbes and plants will regulate pH themselves.
This is only a little bit true. Soil pH is still very important.
My advice is to measure your soil pH by using a soil probe, or by making a slurry. You can also buy soil pH test kits, which I prefer myself.
Test your soil.
Iron availability really drops about pH 6.5ish and up. So if your soil's pH is 7.5 or something, it probably is Iron deficiency you're looking at.
If it's the other direction and your soil's acidic (less than pH7) it's probably not Iron and could be sulphur or calcium for example.
But you need to test your soil's pH first to form a conclusion to act on.
Remember lockout and deficiency symptoms look exactly the same. They basically are the same thing, just opposite sides of the same coin.
You've already recently given veg nutes, right?
So why the hurry?
Don't start chasing your tail.
Be smart and test your soil first. Before you start adding more nutes or anything else.
Remember NPK. (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium)
All 3 will show symptoms in older / lower growth when deficient. You're experiencing deficiency symptoms in the upper growth, whilst lower growth looks pretty good.
Meaning it probably isn't a deficiency of sorts.
So first test your soil pH.
Check your watering habits.
Be sure you haven't overfed, before giving more nutes.
These three things are usually culprits for unexplained deficiencies or lockouts.
I'll include a soil pH availability chart too, so you can have a look at it.
All the best.
Read the directions on the product, it should have a recommended feed frequency.
If there's any deficiency, to me, it looks like Iron. So why?
There should be plenty iron around already, as you've supplemented nutrient and iron's only needed in small amounts.
This raises questions about your feeding habits, watering habits and possibly pH.
Ask yourself, have you been over watering? Would the plants be fine without water another day or two?
If you're a newer grower, there's a good chance you could leave it a bit longer.
People will say pH isn't important in soil and to ignore it, the microbes and plants will regulate pH themselves.
This is only a little bit true. Soil pH is still very important.
My advice is to measure your soil pH by using a soil probe, or by making a slurry. You can also buy soil pH test kits, which I prefer myself.
Test your soil.
Iron availability really drops about pH 6.5ish and up. So if your soil's pH is 7.5 or something, it probably is Iron deficiency you're looking at.
If it's the other direction and your soil's acidic (less than pH7) it's probably not Iron and could be sulphur or calcium for example.
But you need to test your soil's pH first to form a conclusion to act on.
Remember lockout and deficiency symptoms look exactly the same. They basically are the same thing, just opposite sides of the same coin.
You've already recently given veg nutes, right?
So why the hurry?
Don't start chasing your tail.
Be smart and test your soil first. Before you start adding more nutes or anything else.
Remember NPK. (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium)
All 3 will show symptoms in older / lower growth when deficient. You're experiencing deficiency symptoms in the upper growth, whilst lower growth looks pretty good.
Meaning it probably isn't a deficiency of sorts.
So first test your soil pH.
Check your watering habits.
Be sure you haven't overfed, before giving more nutes.
These three things are usually culprits for unexplained deficiencies or lockouts.
I'll include a soil pH availability chart too, so you can have a look at it.
All the best.
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What time of day did you check? I find when the lights first come on, the top colas will be a little lighter. Nothing to worry about, seen this with a few strains, BUT it may be strain specific because all of my genetics have Super Lemon Haze or MB15xM.T. As pollen donors. I grow under Viprasprectra 450 blurples, or Bestiva 1K’s recently. Seen it with both light set ups.
Just took these the one still looks way lighter the the other two I got going but I just fed about 1/4 the suggested grow nutes mixed with about 1/4 bloom nutes. Not sure how much I should be feeding due to build a soil 3.0 being a water only soil but I am in 3gallon fabric pots
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Thanks for the update, looks like from your info, I’m not correct then
