Growing in soil, MG organic choice, fed once at two weeks at full strength with MG water soluble all purpose plant food (24-8-16), one purge performed to eliminate possible nute burn. Air circulation is very good and stalks are thick and strong with some red. Temp stays between 75 and 85 all the time with humidity at 45 to 55. I water only when the top two inches of soil are completely dry and when I water I use distilled water and pour it in slowly until I have some runoff (I also have great drainage). PH is always stable between 6.8 and 6.5. Lighting consists of two cool white fluoros and two warm red fluoros, all 48 inches long. The leaves never touch the bulbs and are always within eight inches of the light source. The plants were transplanted at four weeks, one week after the onset of these issues and all had healthy root balls. They are now five weeks old and the issue is still slowly progressing. Plant growth has slowed but is still within a normal range based on my research and all new growth is completely healthy. This is a bagseed grow and a first time indoor grow. The issue started with the first leaves yellowing and curling downward and progressed to the second set of leaves, yellowing and drying some parts of leaves as well as drying green parts to the point of flaking off completely, most of the drying is occurring a the tip of the leaf working back toward the stem but some leaves have drying starting at the edge or side of the leaf. Please share any wisdom, advice, or suggestions. If you need more information please let me know and I will be happy to send more information your way.
First Indoor Grow, Complications Started at Three Weeks
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smokinrav
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Your complications are due to you double feeding your plants. Your growing them in an organic medium, that means the food is in the soil already. Then you followed that up with a full strength chemical feeding.
A pre-fertilized potting soil, chemical or organic, will be able to feed the plants for most, if not all, of the way through veg indoors.
A pre-fertilized potting soil, chemical or organic, will be able to feed the plants for most, if not all, of the way through veg indoors.
monkeybones
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Since most of the research insist that nutes should stop during flowering, am I correct to assume if I buy (the correct) fresh soil for each grow I will most likely not need to fertilize at all? Could you tell me whether the purge I did will affect the organic nutrients? If you know of any common deficiencies or high nutrient concentrations I might run into with MG organic that would be helpful as well. Thank you for the advice, pics will be uploaded today.
smokinrav
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You've been reading some bad research. Stick to the cannabis growing forums for cannabis growing information. Our plant is a nutrient hog in flower, for the most part. Don't feed it and it will cannabilize its leaves till there are few or none left.
Miracle grow and other brands of pre fertilized potting soils (PFPS)are fine to use to grow cannabis. Just use it properly and it'll do what its done for many decades.....grow healthy plants. But you will need to provide a proper environment after they use up the food in the soil.
You can reuse those PFPS the next year, just remember to watch the ph and to feed from the beginning. Or, do what many of us do and did, throw the old stuff in the vegetable garden and get new. It's cheap and grows great plants.
Miracle grow and other brands of pre fertilized potting soils (PFPS)are fine to use to grow cannabis. Just use it properly and it'll do what its done for many decades.....grow healthy plants. But you will need to provide a proper environment after they use up the food in the soil.
You can reuse those PFPS the next year, just remember to watch the ph and to feed from the beginning. Or, do what many of us do and did, throw the old stuff in the vegetable garden and get new. It's cheap and grows great plants.