Edges of Leaves are Dying

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Hello ! This is my first grow and as you can see the edges of my leaves are slowly dying. She's about 6 inches under a 6500K T5 Fluorescent grow light with two bulbs running 18 hours a day. Gets watered every other day with one and a half liters of 5.0-6.0pH water and I am not using nutrients atm. Temperatures are maintained so it doesn't get too cold at night. Usually 70-80 degrees. Is my light too close or am I adding too much water? Her new leaves all look so good at first but they end up slowly dying at the edges. Any help is appreciated
 
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peperonia

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im a newb but i always lift the pot to see if needs more water, sound like maybe too much water. not like outside where it evaporates. mine would need wayering every 3 days or so. also i think water has to be 6 up but mot more than 7 ph. maybe some pros can answer.
 
osowhom

osowhom

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put more soil in your bucket mix it with some bat guano ,bone meal and worm castings and lower your light a tad
 
TrimothyLeary

TrimothyLeary

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Does that bucket drain at all? What's the medium?

You say you aren't using any nutrients at all? Is that because you think you overfed it, or were you already not feeding nutrient?

What's up with the 5.0-6.0 pH? 5.0 is super low for cannabis, so I hope you're sticking to the higher end of that scale.

Anyway, my first guess would be roots suffocating in excess water, just by the general look of the plant, but super low pH, anything under 5.5 I'd say, is gonna result in an unhappy plant.
 
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TrimothyLeary said:
Does that bucket drain at all? What's the medium?

You say you aren't using any nutrients at all? Is that because you think you overfed it, or were you already not feeding nutrient?

What's up with the 5.0-6.0 pH? 5.0 is super low for cannabis, so I hope you're sticking to the higher end of that scale.

Anyway, my first guess would be roots suffocating in excess water, just by the general look of the plant, but super low pH, anything under 5.5 I'd say, is gonna result in an unhappy plant.
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The water does drain through the bucket, there are lots of holes. And I was never using nutrient in the first place, dunno if I should be right now or not but I do have some good pure bloom pro. And I read somewhere you wanted low pH, like 5.0. I will raise it to 6.0-7.0 you think ? Thank you a bunch for the response, I appreciate it a lot. I think I will raise the pH and either water once every three days or lower the amount I give her every other day.
 
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peperonia said:
im a newb but i always lift the pot to see if needs more water, sound like maybe too much water. not like outside where it evaporates. mine would need wayering every 3 days or so. also i think water has to be 6 up but mot more than 7 ph. maybe some pros can answer.
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Thank you. I'ma raise the pH and water once every three days.
 
HydroKid239

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Potes said:
The water does drain through the bucket, there are lots of holes. And I was never using nutrient in the first place, dunno if I should be right now or not but I do have some good pure bloom pro. And I read somewhere you wanted low pH, like 5.0. I will raise it to 6.0-7.0 you think ? Thank you a bunch for the response, I appreciate it a lot. I think I will raise the pH and either water once every three days or lower the amount I give her every other day.
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Amount of water won't matter unless you are seriously drowning them.. It's the frequency.
What kind of soil again?

What I recommend imo is to fill that pot with soil up to maybe a cm under the first stem coming out of the stalk. Hopefully the soil has nutes, and you can water that in to recharge the soil a bit. The new growth is still green so you aren't WAY off.
Feeding should be in t he near future. Get those nutes ready.
 
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Potes

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HydroKid239 said:
Amount of water won't matter unless you are seriously drowning them.. It's the frequency.
What kind of soil again?

What I recommend imo is to fill that pot with soil up to maybe a cm under the first stem coming out of the stalk. Hopefully the soil has nutes, and you can water that in to recharge the soil a bit. The new growth is still green so you aren't WAY off.
Feeding should be in t he near future. Get those nutes ready.
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It's a generic home depot organic garden soil. I will fill up the pot a bit more. I'm going to decrease the frequency in which watering occurs and raise the pH back up to 6-7, I read somewhere it should be low. It seems I am wrong. I also do have some nutes on hand, just never used em
 
HydroKid239

HydroKid239

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Potes said:
It's a generic home depot organic garden soil. I will fill up the pot a bit more. I'm going to decrease the frequency in which watering occurs and raise the pH back up to 6-7, I read somewhere it should be low. It seems I am wrong. I also do have some nutes on hand, just never used em
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Take a pic of the nutes you do have. Just trying to find out what it is. I search for it, and I come up with Botonicare Pure Blend Pro Bloom.
 
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Potes

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To conclude, this was a photo taken monday, but even since then she has exploded with health and growth. The changes I made/ am making include (1) adding more dirt to the bucket (2) raising the pH to 6.5> (3) increasing the frequency of watering an extra day, I think this one was important being an indoor plant (4) Introducing nutrients. Thanks all for the help
 
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Kushandjams

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Almost never will a lack of nutrients cause a burn look in concentration of the edges and or tips, this looks to me like overwatering and inability for the roots to transpire water through the roots and up and the stomata, this will highlight ph issues significantly as the low ph water is now bottlenecking due it being unable to complete the water cycle within the plant. Glad its all taken care of looks better now
 
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