First Grow, Using CFL's

here we go, Please help! going to the gym back in a hour or 2

im new to growing myself, so you may want to get a second opinion, but my plants looked exactly like that......................yellowing leaves, purple stems, brand new top leafs look good but as they get older they also start to yellow and die.....................i thought it was PH.....then i thought it was nutrient shock of some kind, but turns out it was actually not enough nutrients. I flushed out my water (5gal bucket) set pH (6.5) measured out recommended amount of "flora nova..veg", and added "Thrive Alive B-1"............trimmed off the bottom sun leaves that were too far gone,..........and they transformed into healthy dark green plants in about 2-3 days.

yeah TK i thikn it just might be nute burn, shes looking quite horrible umm, id suggest switching to that PH balenced bottled water, and if you didnt already know its just the greatvalue (walmart brand) bottled water, and or the 1 gallon jugs of the distilled water.

and if i was you i think id slow her down on some of those nutes for a little till she gets all her ducks in a row lol. but yeah.. thats basically all i cantell you not really sure what else to say hate that she looks like that! hope you get her fixed soon!

the yellowing looks like N deficiencie, but those brown spots look like nute burn, so the only thing that i think is that you have some kind of lock out going on. it most likely to high or to low ph, you should probably flush with distilled water and start again with 1/4 or 1/2 strength nutes. or you can just water an wait it out

DLC420 said:

yeah TK i thikn it just might be nute burn, shes looking quite horrible umm, id suggest switching to that PH balenced bottled water, and if you didnt already know its just the greatvalue (walmart brand) bottled water, and or the 1 gallon jugs of the distilled water.

and if i was you i think id slow her down on some of those nutes for a little till she gets all her ducks in a row lol. but yeah.. thats basically all i cantell you not really sure what else to say hate that she looks like that! hope you get her fixed soon!

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the ph water probably wont cure that... there are some nute def threads and probably look into those
Ill try to get a link up
The ph balanced water will help but not all the way
Peace

yeah, probably just needs to chill her out on the nutes for a little while.. let her get her shit together lol and then slowlyyy start her on them again

Hopefully this will help http://www.gchydro.com/faq_nut.asp#deficiency

ya i have only given her nutes 3 times. once then water twice, then nutes twice, then water. and now i am just at a stand still just water for now. i really thik i should flush for sure

can someone give me good instructions on flushing. i always feel like its gonna be over watering

She is trying hard to give you what you want .
You have come a long way from your pizza box,great effort!

When I flush I run 3 times the volume of the pot so if its a 1gal pot run 3 gal of water through, so long as you have good drainage it wont be a problem just dont water or feed till soil has dryed out can take up to a week or more to dry.
You also want to ph correct the water. 6.8/6.4 if you use the ro water then you will need to top up the cal/mag Epsom salts.
Your using tap water, do you leave the water out for a few hrs before use give the treatments the water company add chance to evaporate.
Over watering is when you dont let the soil dry before next watering a lack of oxygen in the soil.

i do use RO water.i have a system in my house

sounds good to me

Ya the RO water should be pH balenced already.

So that should work, I concur with BIKE.


Let us kno TK!


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tkjoe said:

i do use RO water.i have a system in my house

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I should have guessed, some of the problems your having are down to a lack of magnesium & calcium the RO processes removes this from your water.

calcium deficiency


magnesium deficiency early stage in veg


mag def in flower
Just add Epsom salts, which is fast absorption with every watering.

oh damn nice, never woulda guessed that! and or knew that it removes it from your water! lol. neat stuff

wow dude, thanks. how much epsom salts though? tsp per gallon? tbsl per gallon?

so ripped right now. Blueberry hash plant from the motherland!

ooo! nice! Im curious about the amount also!

Oh TK go check out my new pics I just posted up tonight!


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ya im wondering aswell

Sorry should have said 1 teaspoon/5ml per gal.