Is this Boron deficiency?

this is happening on my largest female the top growth and a few of the side tops are growing these weird 1 finger twisted leaves. Also the plant is growing 3 and 1 finger leaves around in some places. It’s usually around where some bug chewed some holes in other leaves... I’m just concerned with them...

They’re outdoor, started late February from seed indoors. They’ve been outside since middle march, they’re watered every 2-3 days every other they get nutes (GH grow bloom micro, grow big, cal-mag (def when put outdoors) strain is Blood Orange.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
 

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Sapphyre

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I'm leaning towards ph...whether lockout or just major fluctuations between feeding and 'straight' water. What's the ph of your water? Have you checked?
 
Thanks for the replies! Yeah my ph is 6.8 from the tap, after adding nutes it usually goes to 7.3-7.5 so I drop it back down... I am only giving them 6ml/gal of grow,bloom,micro, but then I use plain tap with an extra gal or so to make sure the bites are going below the surface. My “dirt” is mostly clay after 5inches or so so it gets pretty hard after 2 -3 days with no water... my holes were 3.5 x 4’ deep, and I took a pickaxe and added holes around the sides and the bottom of the holes... but for sure I’ll make sure to double check the ph... we also had an issue with our tap water, from an alge bloom a few weeks back, maybe they added something to the tap water???
 

Sapphyre

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I've found that my well fluctuates up to 3 points depending on the time of year- at 900' deep!
So always keep an eye on that ;)
And I grow organic, w teas and organic nutes but pretty much all of my nutes drop my ph- glad you are watching the post mix ph for sure. What are you using as your target, and what did you put in the holes?
 
Thanks everyone! But to Sapphyre, I usually keep it at 6.8 that way I don’t have to mess with the ph during “plain watering” I don’t want to drop it to 6.5 during feeding and then jump to 6.8 with plain water, so to make life easier on them and myself I keep it simple, :) but as far as the holes go, I didn’t add anything to them, the spot has been a compost area for about 10 years, and my last few grows I did inside of a shed, so this time I figured I would do it outdoors and let the sun do it’s thing, so far it’s out done my indoor grows big time, and I even have 2 trees shading the area, so they get direct sun for about 8 hours and then enough light that my hand will make a shadow 6 inches above the plants but not by much, it’s like a overcast day, the remaining time. I’ve thought about cutting down the trees but they’re 40+ feet high and near buildings, so it’ll be alright. They are a weed after all ;) but yeah I’ve only had to use neem spray twice, and now the spiders around the garden are taking care of mostly everything else, (I leave spider webs alone around the garden as long as they’re not affecting the plants). I’ve been taking pictures usually 2-3x a week and I’ll post some finishing pictures when I’m done! They are blooming earlier than I hoped for, but if I have too ill cover them at night so that they don’t try to re-veg... but yeah thanks guys for the advice, I was really hoping it wasn’t a defency, but the twisted leaves had me worried. They were growing like a curly fry :)
 
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