5 Weeks into flower, crispy leaves need help.

Fred444

Fred444

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I am 2 day into the 5th week of flower (4th if you don't count the week it took to show pistils), and my upper leaves are crispy I'm using 45 actual watts led and 1 32 watt CFL they started this about 3 weeks ago. They are about 7 inches away from the Lights. Waterings and feeding ph'd at around 6.4 I know I can't reverse this issue, but wish I knew what's causing it and how to fix it.
 

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Fred444

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Dorian2 said:
What are you feeding the plant?
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I've been using the Flora series, but I only started adding FroraGro a week after I seen pistils... I thought I could get away with bone meal infused soil. Anyways I use a little over a quarter of recommend dosage, but close to half of the FloraBloom (in that ratio) from veg on up.
 
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Dorian2

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Fred444 said:
I've been using the Flora series, but I only started adding FroraGro a week after I seen pistils... I thought I could get away with bone meal infused soil. Anyways I use a little over a quarter of recommend dosage, but close to half of the FloraBloom (in that ratio) from veg on up.
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Which point did the plant start turning on you? Before or after the nutrients? Considering you took it easy on the feeding, I'd suggest the soil might be a bit hot. Hopefully a more experienced grower can pinpoint it though. I'm just going through the troubleshooting process I'd use with my limited experience with Weed. See if yo u can find pics of plants with the same issues/fixes.

https://hyper-logic.com/compounds-that-affect-maximum-yields/
 
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Fred444

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hotrodharley said:
Cal mag ASAP. Foliar feed
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Dorian2 said:
Which point did the plant start turning on you? Before or after the nutrients? Considering you took it easy on the feeding, I'd suggest the soil might be a bit hot. Hopefully a more experienced grower can pinpoint it though. I'm just going through the troubleshooting process I'd use with my limited experience with Weed. See if yo u can find pics of plants with the same issues/fixes.

https://hyper-logic.com/compounds-that-affect-maximum-yields/
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After the nutes
 
xtsho

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Fred444 said:
I've been using the Flora series, but I only started adding FroraGro a week after I seen pistils... I thought I could get away with bone meal infused soil. Anyways I use a little over a quarter of recommend dosage, but close to half of the FloraBloom (in that ratio) from veg on up.
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How much bone meal did you use? It's extremely high in phosphorus and calcium. Too much of anything can cause problems. Probably should have left it out and just stuck with the grow and bloom.
 
Fred444

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2x the amount on accident, but awhile after, I'm sure I seen somewhere that you can't really over due it with bone meal unless, they meant for outdoors only. Come to think of it that might be the issue. The slow release probably crept up through my medium.
 
Fred444

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420MJ420 said:
What happened with your plants? I seem to be having a siIMG_20211030_123906562_HDR.jpgmilar issue.
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It's hanging in there... So, my run off had a ph of 5.4 from nutes/salts build up, so I flushed it with 3 gallons of 7.2ph water (3x the pot size). I then hit her with a light, mid to late bloom feeding 3 days after (from now, that was about 1 week ago). She has a transition flush coming up. So I'm just going to do that and go from there.Screenshot_20211103-023823~2_023932.png
 
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Kassiopeija

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looks like something's awfully missing and now cannibalizing its fanleaves to be able to build buds. do you perhaps have calmag at home?
omg all this flushing in soil when you dont know the EC... run-off pH is borderline meaningless in soil... where is @BobThe420Builder?
 
Fred444

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Kassiopeija said:
looks like something's awfully missing and now cannibalizing its fanleaves to be able to build buds. do you perhaps have calmag at home?
omg all this flushing in soil when you dont know the EC... run-off pH is borderline meaningless in soil... where is @BobThe420Builder?
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Yeah, I don't have CalMag, as I am a little bit of a noob.. I see her feasting on herself too though, I was hoping she would make it to the end. And I only have PPM meter, can't I use PPM to EC chart?
Even though I don't know the purpose of EC readings.
 
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myke

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You added twice the amount of bone meal? How much exactly did u add?
As said already the bone meal is the problem,hot stuff and cant really be flushed out.To high of P is deadly.This soil cant be re used.
 
Kassiopeija

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Fred444 said:
PPM meter
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yeah a PPM meter is fine, it's the same as EC meter, just using a different scale.

myke said:
As said already the bone meal is the problem,hot stuff and cant really be flushed out.To high of P is deadly.This soil cant be re used.
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you are right, but the organic compounds should be transformed into ionic form through bacterias day by day, slowly building up. Irrigating with a good drain should help getting rid of what's already solved in excess in the residual pot moisture.
 
Fred444

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myke said:
You added twice the amount of bone meal? How much exactly did u add?
As said already the bone meal is the problem,hot stuff and cant really be flushed out.To high of P is deadly.This soil cant be re used.
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60cc to a gallon of soil
 
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