Little help please!

Hi there, I keep having issues in flower. Every day my plants are looking worse and worse. I’m using Earth Juice Big 5 nutrients in a 2x4 tent. I have a HLG 260w 648 diablo light 24” above the plants. I originally thought this was light stress but I’ve dimmed my lights just below half way measuring around 22,000 lux and every morning the plants looks worse and worse. Temps are between 77 and 80 during day and night, so it not heat stress. I tried adding about a half gram of epsom salt per gallon to my last feeding and did an epsom foliar spray, but extra mag hasn’t worked.

I’m feeding the earth juice nutrients with every feeding per the instructions at a ph between 6.3 and 6.5. I’m entering my third week of flower and the plants will drink between 1.5 and 2L each, every 2nd or third day depending on how wet the soil is.

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I’m spending a lot of time on these ladies and they’re not showing any love back.

Over fed and watered

What strength nutes? Look crispy like too much P or K...

As per instructions...... Too much,Do you have a Ppm meter?Next feed mix up 1/4 what you normally do.Elevate your pots above a tray.Just a metal or plastic shelf or whatever as long as holes/slots etc.supported on each end so a big tray slides under.Feed to a good runoff.At least a gallon or two from ea plant.This should reset everything and remove the buildup.

bigunyun said:

What strength nutes? Look crispy like too much P or K...

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Too much K I think they go dark brown. Not enough they go much lighter in color like his?
What we need to know is how much of what has been fed and how often. Typically what looks like a deficiency is over feed of something else and the ratios go to shit.

Looks alot like potassium deficiency imo

Hey Thanks y'all.

I'm following the instructions on the Earth Juice bottles i'm mixing about 4gals at a time using the combinations below;

All these amounts are the totals i put in about 4 gal of RO water.
2 Tablespoons Grow
2 Tablespoons Bloom
4 Teaspoons Mirco
4 Teaspoons Xatalyst
2 Teaspoons Meta-K
1 Tablespoon Cal/mag
1 Tablespoon Liquid Seaweed

I'm also aerating the nutrients at least over night to naturally bring the PH up.

Feeding every other day or every third day. I'll feed 500ml to each plant, wait 15 to 20 min then keep going until I see the plant saucers start to fill up. Usually it's been between 1L and 1.5L per plant.

myke said:

As per instructions...... Too much,Do you have a Ppm meter?Next feed mix up 1/4 what you normally do.Elevate your pots above a tray.Just a metal or plastic shelf or whatever as long as holes/slots etc.supported on each end so a big tray slides under.Feed to a good runoff.At least a gallon or two from ea plant.This should reset everything and remove the buildup.

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I do own a ppm meter though I don't use it very much and maybe that's whats going on here.. I've just been following the directions on the labels and Earth Juice claims their organic nutrients aren't "hot" so following the directions with RO water, I didn't think i'd have issues.

myke said:

Too much K I think they go dark brown. Not enough they go much lighter in color like his?
What we need to know is how much of what has been fed and how often. Typically what looks like a deficiency is over feed of something else and the ratios go to shit.

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I'm thinking that too, but i have been adding the meta-k supplement.

Yadam said:

I do own a ppm meter though I don't use it very much and maybe that's whats going on here.. I've just been following the directions on the labels and Earth Juice claims their organic nutrients aren't "hot" so following the directions with RO water, I didn't think i'd have issues.

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Sorry yes. Earth juice. Is organic. I would post in the organic section. Lots of good folks there that can help. I have no experience with those nutes. Good luck.