Iron Def? Pics in post!

furiousfob

Active Member
Hi everyone thanks for stopping by. Recently I've been noticing on one of my plants that the new upper growth is coming out very light green. After some research on RIU I believe that the cause might be Iron deficiency. I'm thinking that the ph of my water might have been to high for the plant from a previous feed so on my next watering I just flushed the plant with 5 gallons of ph 6 water.

Some more info:
Lighting 430w Hps
Strand is GDP
Nutes GH Floraduo part A+B
Soil miracle grow african violet (this is all i knew about, now i use FFOF with my others)
Its been Vegging for 2 months.

The pictures I took are from this morning and I just flushed the plant yesterday with the ph 6 water and am wondering if there is anything that I might be missing.

Thanks for the help in advanced!

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max316420

Well-Known Member
That is usually what they look like at first signs of too much food but you mite wanna get a second opinion.. If it's overfed you'll know in a day or 2
 

Wetdog

Well-Known Member
So pick up some IRONITE at HD and add some.

Quit thinking so much! You have a def, so you flush and remove even more of what you're missing?

pHing the water is only going to affect the soil temporarily at best. Flush ONLY if you over nute, not to correct a pervious watering. The soil had probably already altered the pH of that water anyway.

Do you add dolomite lime to any of your mixes?

Wet
 

furiousfob

Active Member
Well the reason why i flushed was to get the ph balanced again from the previous feeding. From what i understand, Iron lockout is usually caused by ph being to high, so adding Ironite would be useless if the plants can't absorb it due to lockout. I haven't added any lime to any of my mixes yet but I will look into that.
 
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