help! whats wrong with my bubba?

ok. my bubba plant is now more than a month old. its planted in ffof soil. the leaves started yellowing and dying . thought it was a nitrogen def. made a high nitrogen tea with psb guano. now yellowing is proggressing up plant. was under a few cfls but is now outside for more light. what is the problem and how do i correct it? please help. pictures will come soon.

Almost sounds like you have a nutrient lockout, but it is hard to tell. We'll have to see pics.

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Here are some pictures of her.

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You named her "Bubba"... sorry couldn't resist.

Looks like to much food but could be lock out due to soil PH. I bet if you check the runoff it's 7+ph. Looks like pro mix?

Peace

Flush with 10% recommended food at a ph of 6 till you get 3 times the size of the pot run through it. That will set everything to normal.

woodsmaneh! said:

Looks like to much food but could be lock out due to soil PH. I bet if you check the runoff it's 7+ph. Looks like pro mix?

Peace

Flush with 10% recommended food at a ph of 6 till you get 3 times the size of the pot run through it. That will set everything to normal.

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ID HAVE TO AGREE.....classic nute burn even though its not that bad.

Yeah you need to flush the soil. I wouldnt use any nutes when you flush though, give it a day or two to recover. Just my opinion...

Ok i will flush tomarow. Do you think a little epson salt would be good too?

Ps. I called it bubba because its a bubba kush cross.

@Chronic
You certainly should flush, follow that ratio above - however, I just want to impart some hard learned lessons I had, as advice. why would epsom salt fix this? do you have a magnesium deficiency? right now since the only thing we know is a heavy dosage of Nitrogen, most likely epsom salt wouldnt do any good here. We want to flush the medium out, adding epsom salt goes contrary to that. Unless there has been a run off test, and/or soil test, we don't know. I dont know if someone told you that epsom salt treats this, or another variation of 'hand-me-down'/non-empirical data - but i've been super guilty of just swallowing what some1 says for this or that, without understanding it. big mistake(s).

but at least you're here on RIU getting knowledge.

i do have a question for you though. How long were they in the FFOF before you fed them?

dont worry too much cus yellow can go back to green. brown cant. do the flush.

what are you using for the remainder of the veg cycle for nutes?

Planted her in the fox farm like a mounth before i stated adding nutes. The leaves started getting yellow and brown so i made a organic nitrogen tea,with mollassis. I plan on running all organic with teas.

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just flush it man, use a slight bit a fert if you want, and wait a few days before you resume feeding.
also, work your way up to normal feedings start with maybe 1/4 strength at first
there isn't much more you can do, also keep in mind less is always best

Your not mixing a new drink so lets say adding epsom is a bad idea. Plants know how to grow look out side, we fuck them up by adding bal + Bla and a little more bal bal bal.

Get the basics down first, like enviorment than than feeding than advanced stuff.

Just like anything keep it simple, less to go wrong.

Your soil mix has no food value other than what you put in it that's why you use 10% when flushing so it has something to feed on while getting better. Don't rush things.

Never change more than one element at a time with your plants that way you see the difference and if they don't like it you can stop.

Peace

I thought ocean forest. Soil had many nutriants in it. That's why when she started getting yellow i thought it needed a little nitro. Or i was thinking the ph is off.