Brown spots on leaves...HELP (pics)

DankBudzzz

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Hey guys, I started getting brown spot on the bottom leaves of my hydro plants. They will be 3 weeks old tommorow. They just started 1/4 strength nutes 5 days ago and I switched the resivoir to ph'd water only until I can figure out the problem. I'm not sure if it is nute burn, bugs or light burn from foliar spraying during key hours...Anyone help?

The last pic is from 5 days ago before they started nutes...
 

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themistocles

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The pictures are really blurry and kinda hard to see, but it looks like a boron deficiency. What is you ph?
Boron gets locked out in Ph 2.0-5.0 and anything above 7.0.
Why are you using florabloom so early, you should be using floramicro and floragro.
 

DankBudzzz

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Ok...boron could definately be it because I added ph down directly into resivoir to lower it one day without mixing it first....The ph was under 6.0 but I had no idea what it was because I had a kit that goes from 7.6-6 for fish tanks....Any other ideas?
 

DankBudzzz

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I don't think overwatering is possible. I don't top water at all really maybe once a week since the roots are in the resivoir...I just sprayed right before that pic because I stopped spraying during lights on incase it was burn spots.
 

ganjo

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Looks like nute burn to me. Or a defficiency cause by nute strength. Keep an eye on the new growth, real close. Are the tips tinged at all? At 3 weeks my ppm would not be over 400ppm using RO water. If the new growth looks good, It'll be fine. Go easy with the foliar feeding, just remember, these are weeds, they really don't need too many nutes to do well. The saying, "Less is more" holds true to these plants. Make sure your res temps are below 73 degrees. Make sure no algae is starting to form, you'll feel nasty slimey stuff when you clean your res, if it's present. I really like hygrozyme for hydroponics, it keeps the res in check and also helps keep the Ph from drifting up. Keep the ph between 5.5-6.3, I usually let it drift a few days before adding ph up/down.

I used to have problems when I first started, but after several grows, I got the hang of it. Don't follw anyones feed schedule, every plant is different. I've had some 5 week vegged white widows that did not like anything above 500ppm of Advanced Nutrients Sensi A+B during the whole grow. I've also had some that took 1200ppm quite fine. You'll eventually learn how to read the plants.
 

cazador

Active Member
lucas formula... Well, I never tryed LF, is it possible that the plant is taking what it needs leaving the rest and then the solution is getting unballanced as a result. Do you have a recirculation pump running in the res to keep things mixed up well?
 
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