BluRidgeBaby
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I'm going to try to keep this as short as possible but obviously It's best to give you all the background information as to avoid unnecessary answers.
First off it might help to know that i am a moderately experienced grower. I grew a few seasons in cali and oregon with upwards of 200 plants each time but I moved back home to the east coast and it's obviously a lot different here. (It's an outdoor op)
So i have just 5 plants and they all went in pretty late. The first two were the only females of 8 plants a friend gave me. He is growing a high cbd strain and had extra clones (gave me the tall gangly ones, why most of them were males). That was in early July. Then late July he had quite a few he was getting rid of so i took 3 more. They all came to me in pint sized containers and never trained whatsoever.
PROBLEM: So the two plants i got earlier are doing just fine, especially for getting in so late and all that, as you'll see in the pictures, no yellowing etc. However, the three little ones have had yellow leaves, with dark green veins for some time and it's spreading up (a lot more than what they arrived with). They've had weeks to settle in and it's only gotten worse. They all have the same soil and are getting treated the same way. I thought it was magnesium deficiency and have foliar fed with epsom with no success. I generally foliar feed a couple times a week with super thrive, a little big bloom and i just started throwing in Deep Ocean Minerals by Whole Earth and Sea which are super soluble minerals from sea water. Only just a touch because i'm experimenting. I also thought it could be potassium def but big bloom has plenty of that. none of this has seemed to change the yellowing on the little plants but the bigger plants have reacted well to my normal regimen as well as any changes.
They are all in 20 gal smart pots with a mixture of high quality compost, happy frog, perlite, pumice and biochar. The biochar was inoculated with a kelp tea, fish emulsion, homemade cal/phos serum, epsom salt and molasses ( all in VERY appropriate amounts). FYI I am also a farmer of medicinal herbs and vegetables so i had all these things laying around and I'm growing these as just a side hobby because i love growing.
I feed them every 3-4 waterings with the fox farm trio (mostly just the big bloom since flowering started but enough of the others to give em some nitrogen and micronutrients), ful-power by bioag, molasses, a little super thrive and sometimes epsom and i just started with a bloom booster called flower fuel by Element Nutrients. I always adjust the amounts based on what each one offers so as not to give too much of any one nutrient. I also ph the soil and test its moisture levels. My feeding ppm is usually between 600-700. My spring water actually does have a starting ph of 5.5 which i don't like but my soil is always right around 6.5 and i never let it stay too wet and let it dry out enough to get all the oxygen they need but never too dry.
I've always grown THC dominant strains, any growing info for more CBD/THC balanced strains? probably not the problem since they are all the same strain and two of them are doing great but any info on this would be great regardless.
So what do you think is going on? I'd love any thoughts you might have. This obviously isn't a serious grow but i'm very curious to find out what it is. Thanks in advance! And for reading all of this if you made it through!
First picture is of the two that are doing fine, second is of one of the three that aren't and the third is a close up of one of it's leaves.
First off it might help to know that i am a moderately experienced grower. I grew a few seasons in cali and oregon with upwards of 200 plants each time but I moved back home to the east coast and it's obviously a lot different here. (It's an outdoor op)
So i have just 5 plants and they all went in pretty late. The first two were the only females of 8 plants a friend gave me. He is growing a high cbd strain and had extra clones (gave me the tall gangly ones, why most of them were males). That was in early July. Then late July he had quite a few he was getting rid of so i took 3 more. They all came to me in pint sized containers and never trained whatsoever.
PROBLEM: So the two plants i got earlier are doing just fine, especially for getting in so late and all that, as you'll see in the pictures, no yellowing etc. However, the three little ones have had yellow leaves, with dark green veins for some time and it's spreading up (a lot more than what they arrived with). They've had weeks to settle in and it's only gotten worse. They all have the same soil and are getting treated the same way. I thought it was magnesium deficiency and have foliar fed with epsom with no success. I generally foliar feed a couple times a week with super thrive, a little big bloom and i just started throwing in Deep Ocean Minerals by Whole Earth and Sea which are super soluble minerals from sea water. Only just a touch because i'm experimenting. I also thought it could be potassium def but big bloom has plenty of that. none of this has seemed to change the yellowing on the little plants but the bigger plants have reacted well to my normal regimen as well as any changes.
They are all in 20 gal smart pots with a mixture of high quality compost, happy frog, perlite, pumice and biochar. The biochar was inoculated with a kelp tea, fish emulsion, homemade cal/phos serum, epsom salt and molasses ( all in VERY appropriate amounts). FYI I am also a farmer of medicinal herbs and vegetables so i had all these things laying around and I'm growing these as just a side hobby because i love growing.
I feed them every 3-4 waterings with the fox farm trio (mostly just the big bloom since flowering started but enough of the others to give em some nitrogen and micronutrients), ful-power by bioag, molasses, a little super thrive and sometimes epsom and i just started with a bloom booster called flower fuel by Element Nutrients. I always adjust the amounts based on what each one offers so as not to give too much of any one nutrient. I also ph the soil and test its moisture levels. My feeding ppm is usually between 600-700. My spring water actually does have a starting ph of 5.5 which i don't like but my soil is always right around 6.5 and i never let it stay too wet and let it dry out enough to get all the oxygen they need but never too dry.
I've always grown THC dominant strains, any growing info for more CBD/THC balanced strains? probably not the problem since they are all the same strain and two of them are doing great but any info on this would be great regardless.
So what do you think is going on? I'd love any thoughts you might have. This obviously isn't a serious grow but i'm very curious to find out what it is. Thanks in advance! And for reading all of this if you made it through!
First picture is of the two that are doing fine, second is of one of the three that aren't and the third is a close up of one of it's leaves.
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