NightGardenPerson
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Hello everyone,
First time posting, I hope I'm doing this right. apologies if Im not..
Been growing for 6 years or so and have had good success.
No big scale stuff, just for myself so its always been manageable.
I went away for 5 days on vacation giving watering instructions to my brother / room mate.
Best I can tell he did fine. If anything he over watered but if thats true I dont think it was a huge problem, the tubs were just heavier than I expected to the lift test after the few hot summer days i was away.
When i returned there were new browning spots on a handfull of the plants, particularly on my biggest one.
I've tried diagnosing the new spots the best I could with google but its a messy search and I'm not sure quite how to describe my situation to cut out the noise in results.
You can see an aphid or two in some of the closeups but i dont think they are causing the problem, most of the spots had no bugs or pests that I could recognize. It seemed like the aphids were attracted to the weak part of the leaf? Definitely not sure.. thats why I'm here asking for some help.
My googling made me suspect it could be manganese deficiency but none of the images made me feel "oh thats definitely what I'm seeing.."
Otherwise the plants are healthy and happy, just worried this could turn into something worse. Trying to do whatever I can as soon as i can to either fix the problem of cut losses.
As far as feeding I use the Fox Farm Trio every other watering and Flush with sledgehammer about every 3 weeks.
Most are receiving just Big Bloom and Grow Big but the couple that started to flower already have also had Tigerbloom in their mix. Of the 2 that were flowering only one had spots (The bigger of the 2) and the other (smaller) didnt. Spots were mostly on my biggest Plant with the stake structure around it (I trimmed aggressively to remove those leaves) but they appeared on almost all the plants to some degree. I can say that my smallest plants in the Blue tubs row barely had any spotting or none at all.
Many thanks in advance for any help, advice, or recommendations.
So here are some pictures:
First time posting, I hope I'm doing this right. apologies if Im not..
Been growing for 6 years or so and have had good success.
No big scale stuff, just for myself so its always been manageable.
I went away for 5 days on vacation giving watering instructions to my brother / room mate.
Best I can tell he did fine. If anything he over watered but if thats true I dont think it was a huge problem, the tubs were just heavier than I expected to the lift test after the few hot summer days i was away.
When i returned there were new browning spots on a handfull of the plants, particularly on my biggest one.
I've tried diagnosing the new spots the best I could with google but its a messy search and I'm not sure quite how to describe my situation to cut out the noise in results.
You can see an aphid or two in some of the closeups but i dont think they are causing the problem, most of the spots had no bugs or pests that I could recognize. It seemed like the aphids were attracted to the weak part of the leaf? Definitely not sure.. thats why I'm here asking for some help.
My googling made me suspect it could be manganese deficiency but none of the images made me feel "oh thats definitely what I'm seeing.."
Otherwise the plants are healthy and happy, just worried this could turn into something worse. Trying to do whatever I can as soon as i can to either fix the problem of cut losses.
As far as feeding I use the Fox Farm Trio every other watering and Flush with sledgehammer about every 3 weeks.
Most are receiving just Big Bloom and Grow Big but the couple that started to flower already have also had Tigerbloom in their mix. Of the 2 that were flowering only one had spots (The bigger of the 2) and the other (smaller) didnt. Spots were mostly on my biggest Plant with the stake structure around it (I trimmed aggressively to remove those leaves) but they appeared on almost all the plants to some degree. I can say that my smallest plants in the Blue tubs row barely had any spotting or none at all.
Many thanks in advance for any help, advice, or recommendations.
So here are some pictures: