Purple stems

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THETHCGUY26

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• Jun 3, 2013

• #1

got 2 plants and one of them has purple stems along the stock and even the branches, temps never get below 18 so i dont know what the problem is. possibly a defiency. they are both 1 month from seed and are eing feed with ro water/cal,mg/liquid plant food(10-10-10) just started feeding yesterday for the first time but they were purple before feeding. any help or thoughts much appreciated.

 

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burgertime2010

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• Jun 3, 2013

• #2

Phosphorous def. common problem in veg.

 

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THETHCGUY26

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• Jun 3, 2013

• #3

some photos of the stock of both plants and the tops

 

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THETHCGUY26

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• Jun 3, 2013

• #4

thanks burg, gonna do some researh on how to treat it

 

burgertime2010

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• Jun 3, 2013

• #5

You are probably hot and overwatering. That droopy posture is usually an indicator. You have bloom nutes?

 

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THETHCGUY26

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• Jun 3, 2013

• #6

no just liquid plant food 10-10-10, i usually water every 3-4 days or when soil feels dry when i stick my finger in. ill let the soil dry out this week and see how that does, i just bought some einstein oil and gave em a good spraying cause i saw some bugs in the box so i figuered it better to be safe the sorry. the hydro store has a limited seletion of nutes so any suggestions so i can check the store to see if they got anything u suggest. no ff nutes already looked

 

GandalfdaGreen

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• Jun 3, 2013

• #7

What type of soil are you in? It does look like it compacts a bit.

 

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THETHCGUY26

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• Jun 3, 2013

• #8

i mixed 1 bag of peat moss with half a bag of perlite(drains pretty good), then put a scoop of blood and bone meal, was gonna get guano but no stores had it expect the hydro store 2 hours away.

 

thebugslaaaa

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• Jun 4, 2013

• #9

Hey I got the exact same problem in veg also! check it out. I transplanted into 7 gals. about 3-4 weeks ago and had not fed them anything until last watering. I fed them 1 tsp/gal of botanicare grow which has very low p/k in it. They looked happy for a day and are now back to being yellow and sad. I will let them dry out and feed next with some fox farm nutes as their grow big is 6-4-4 so I can get some p/k in there! I kept thinking ph was off or Fe or Zn deficient but I think this is it!!! Let me know if feeding p/k helped your babies as I need the same help! thanks man.

 

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burgertime2010

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• Jun 4, 2013

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thebugslaaaa said:

Hey I got the exact same problem in veg also! check it out. I transplanted into 7 gals. about 3-4 weeks ago and had not fed them anything until last watering. I fed them 1 tsp/gal of botanicare grow which has very low p/k in it. They looked happy for a day and are now back to being yellow and sad. I will let them dry out and feed next with some fox farm nutes as their grow big is 6-4-4 so I can get some p/k in there! I kept thinking ph was off or Fe or Zn deficient but I think this is it!!! Let me know if feeding p/k helped your babies as I need the same help! thanks man.

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What is going on is a magnesium and sulphur deficiency. Phosphorous and nitrogen don't get metabolized as a result. Get Cal-mag plus and use the accellerated feeding dosage or ramp up to that over the next few feedings. They need to eat. Too much too fast is no good. 650ppm is a good start.

 

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THETHCGUY26

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• Jun 4, 2013

• #11

my ph runoff reads 5.4 on the purple stem plant and 5.6 on the healthy bushy plant. so maybe i should water them with seperate jugs of water cause and bump up the feeding water with more cal/mag, if anyone thinks ts a bad idea let my know, my other option was to foliar feed them some cal/mag. but if anyone ever dealt with this problem before an u let me know how u handled it.

 

burgertime2010

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• Jun 4, 2013

• #12

Insta-Green!!

 

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THETHCGUY26

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• Jun 5, 2013

• #13

ok so for the last 2 days i put them outside to harden off so when i do plant them outside it will cause less shock or w.e i would pu them out at 11 bring them in at 6 and put them back in the box to finish their day. well i just noticed today 2 hours before the night cycle that one of them has assymertical grow comming from the top shoots, does anyone know if this is a problem because the longest day here is june 21 and starts to go down but yet its the 6th so will the plant go from veg to flower back to veg then flower again or should i just put a garbage bag over it for 12 hours and just flower it incase of hermeing?

 

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thebugslaaaa

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• Jun 23, 2013

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Hey man how are your plants doing? Im still dealing with purple stems and yellow leaves with green vains. I have been using cal/mg but it does not seem to be working too fast.