help plant looking deficient

orbo

orbo

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its because its WET...DONT TRIP and do something rash...relax...its ok.

Edit: Did you mean your soil pH? Also, 5.0 water into the soil isn't THAT bad...the soil will buffer it up.
 
youngg

youngg

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Ok thanks orbo is there anything I can do to help her now or should I just leave her for now soil dry enough
 
orbo

orbo

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youngg said:
Ok thanks orbo is there anything I can do to help her now or should I just leave her for now soil dry enough
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You can give it a little time with the fan on low and let it dry.

In the meantime, lets talk about your feeding. What are you feeding and how much? You tested pH, with a meter or by some other means? (dip strips/colored water...etc)
 
youngg

youngg

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orbo said:
You can give it a little time with the fan on low and let it dry.

In the meantime, lets talk about your feeding. What are you feeding and how much? You tested pH, with a meter or by some other means? (dip strips/colored water...etc)
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orbo said:
You can give it a little time with the fan on low and let it dry.

In the meantime, lets talk about your feeding. What are you feeding and how much? You tested pH, with a meter or by some other means? (dip strips/colored water...etc)
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I use a ph meter. my nutes are at the min floramicro floragro florabloom cal mag. not using yet but closer in veg I got some silicon and my water type is tap 7.4 ph 68 ppm straight out the tap my soil type is plant magic plus and my potting soil I used at the beginning was bio bizz light mix with the light mix I ph'd my water to 5.5 then flushed to 5.8 ph and kept the same 5.8 ph for the plant magic soil. my first feed in the small pot was 1ml of each flora 3 part and 0.5 calmag 250 ppm 5.5ph noticed some deficiencies so then I flushed and then transplanted as she needed it and saturated the soil with half strength nutes 0.5ml for flora 3 part and 0.5ml for calmag to 5.8ph 200ppm that what done up to now and her leaves look really pale like a bit of a dusty colour
 
orbo

orbo

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Is that Plant Magic Supreme or the Coir?

Sounds like you're in a good place with it. Maybe give it a little time to settle into its new soil/pot and re-evaluate in a day or two.
 
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az2000

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youngg said:
I use a ph meter. my nutes are at the min floramicro floragro florabloom cal mag.
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You're using a hydro nutrient in soil. That's not ideal. By definition soil is organically active. If you're going to do this, you should supplement with something like Liquid Karma and a pinch of sugar in every gallon of water. Something to help the soil microbiology recover from the synthetic nutrients.

If you wanted to use GH Flora 3-part, Pro-Mix HP would have been a better choice (soilless).
 
orbo

orbo

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orbo said:
Is that Plant Magic Supreme or the Coir?

Sounds like you're in a good place with it. Maybe give it a little time to settle into its new soil/pot and re-evaluate in a day or two.
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Never mind, I think I found your soil. It only has an advertised 1 week worth of nutrients.
 
youngg

youngg

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az2000 said:
You're using a hydro nutrient in soil. That's not ideal. By definition soil is organically active. If you're going to do this, you should supplement with something like Liquid Karma and a pinch of sugar in every gallon of water. Something to help the soil microbiology recover from the synthetic nutrients.

If you wanted to use GH Flora 3-part, Pro-Mix HP would have been a better choice (soilless).
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The bottle advertised it's for hydro and soil I watched a video of someone growing in soil with 3 part looked like good stuff in the harvest to but I know what you mean because I searched and a site said it's for hydros to would I use that liquid karma as a foiler and can I use unsulphured molasses as a sugar
 
orbo

orbo

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As @az2000 suggested did you give any thought to starting a journal? I would like to stop by and see how things are progressing for you. It will help you to keep track of things too.
 
youngg

youngg

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Yeah I got 1 now gonna write everything in there she's still under a 300w dual spec cfl at the min would really say it warm the soil up when would you guys use a hps
 
iPop

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I always swap my HPS in after the stretch - week 2 of flower. However, if you using CFL now and not metal Halide then I would get them under HPS now at distance for a day or so ;)
 
orbo

orbo

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I run a 2x2 T5 for veg and a 400W HPS for flower. I like both for what they do for me. I am personal only. Lighting is a situation decision based on many variables. How big is the room? How many plants? Whats your budget? and on and on....

IMO and IME a 400W or 600W HID (HPS or MH its personal preference) is a very versatile and good general purpose light and I don't really think you could go wrong with tried and true technology. Many many folks are going LED, I have 2 LEDs and they are just ok - older model lighthouse 240 panels. I always seem to fall back to my 400W HPS to tighten the buds up though. I'd like to try one of the new generation LEDs but they aren't really manufacturing them yet. The best seem to be DIY units and I don't have time for that.
 
orbo

orbo

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iPop said:
I always swap my HPS in after the stretch - week 2 of flower. However, if you using CFL now and not metal Halide then I would get them under HPS now at distance for a day or so ;)
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^^ Agreed. And even a little space heater to keep the temps in the high 70's so you can dry out that soil.
 
orbo

orbo

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iPop said:
I always swap my HPS in after the stretch - week 2 of flower. However, if you using CFL now and not metal Halide then I would get them under HPS now at distance for a day or so ;)
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Oh yeah, like iPop said..acclimating the plants is good. Whenever I go from T5 to HPS they get shocked and stall for a few 3 or 4 days. Unfortunately thats how my system works and I just deal with it but I know what he's talking about.
 
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