Looking for help/advice on whether a bad problem is correctable or if I should harvest early

hey - so I this plant has developed what looks like a mag deficiency/ph lockout situation or something. Coco/perlite only, so I'd been adding calmag to every watering until several people told me to flush with ph'd 5.5 plain water. After I did that my plant looks like this and I don't even know if this can even be fixed its so bad. Here's a pic of the damaged leaves and pics of the buds.

Is there something anyone thinks I can do, or should I harvest early, or would harvesting early be a waste at this point. This is only my second grow so INB4 everyone starts calling me a noob, because I know I am, that's why I'm here.

unknown strain, been flowering about 45 days

Well, your plants do look a little ragged, and all I would recommend is keep going to the end, which is only 3 weeks away. Low nutes and proper PH is all you can do now. You probably will get some smokeable bud, so all is not a waste. Good luck

I agree let it run its course and don't do anything extreme to try and "help" it...harvesting now would be virtually worthless...g/l

N cal mag is what you need to bring her back. Feeding during flower is very important

Weed dies when it gets close to harvest... Its the way of life.
Remember, when someone tells you to do something about your grow, by all means if it doesn't mean much to you act before thinking. Or Google what is right prove that bitch wrong and smack them

Check the ppm of your run off,and ph.Remember always run to waste every time15% and what type pf water are you using,tap,r/o,rain,? i would give it light nutes ph around 6 lots of run off.and throw the perlite away use quality coco.Growing in coco requires a ppm meter and ph meter or the cheaper colour drops (which i have always used).

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ebenezerfagglegold said:

hey - so I this plant has developed what looks like a mag deficiency/ph lockout situation or something. Coco/perlite only, so I'd been adding calmag to every watering until several people told me to flush with ph'd 5.5 plain water. After I did that my plant looks like this and I don't even know if this can even be fixed its so bad. Here's a pic of the damaged leaves and pics of the buds.

Is there something anyone thinks I can do, or should I harvest early, or would harvesting early be a waste at this point. This is only my second grow so INB4 everyone starts calling me a noob, because I know I am, that's why I'm here.

unknown strain, been flowering about 45 days

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Some strain curl near the top ur plant looks hungry to me I'd get a booster feed for 1 week something like canna bloom then start to lesson nuts till u harvest and I reakon 3 to 4 week

IMHO it looks like a diseased plant. Whether from feeding issues or disease, I would suggest removing those bad leaves. They aren't going to get green again, they aren't really helping the plant at this point, and if it IS fungal, they are a source to further the contamination..

Quispp said:

IMHO it looks like a diseased plant. Whether from feeding issues or disease, I would suggest removing those bad leaves. They aren't going to get green again, they aren't really helping the plant at this point, and if it IS fungal, they are a source to further the contamination..

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yeah I was thinking fungus/disease last night. my last grow was a soild grow and didn't have any problems germinating, but with only coco I burned through seed after seed until I figured out the right method to keep them from damping off(mainly rinsing the crap out of it with near boiling water) but one leaf on this fully flowering adult reminds me of those days..

the buds are covered in trichs, and though the hairs are mostly white, they are about 40% orange around the tops. When I touch them there is super sticky resin on my hands and my house stinks to high heaven(though I smoke a lot too). She is totally stunted now and what I'd like to know is if I should just harvest her. She'd hit 70 days on nov. 10, that is if she is a pure sativa and needs it(prob does) but if the problem gets worse, I don't want a total loss. But I do understand why it is blasphemous to even speak of harvesting early on a grow board.

I would never recommend straight water in soil less ever.
What I'd do is wait till pots dry out (if they do), use 1/2 strength micro, 1/2 strength tigerbloom, with full dose of calmag, and water till you get good runoff.
Honestly I'd step away from coco next time and try some promix hp or something similar, or use coco specific nutrients.

furnz said:

I would never recommend straight water in soil less ever.
What I'd do is wait till pots dry out (if they do), use 1/2 strength micro, 1/2 strength tigerbloom, with full dose of calmag, and water till you get good runoff.
Honestly I'd step away from coco next time and try some promix hp or something similar, or use coco specific nutrients.

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thx. yeah that's what I had been doing and what several others told me during my research before I did this coco grow. I hope that water flush helped and if I return to the nute schedule you just posted that it will get better. If so that would mean it was just a classic case of lockout. Fingers are crossed, waiting for the lights t come on today then I'll post new pics. Thx man, yeah some people were literally telling me not to feed with coco, which is crazy right?

The curled leaves look like overwatering, which wouldn't be too abnormal following a heavy flush. Several people told you to flush because if you were adding calmag at every feeding you could have ended up with salt buildup, leading to lockout, producing your spotting that looks like calmag deficiency and also the bright red stems. Basically, if you have salt buildups causing lockout then whatever you put in your mixture is not going into the plant. The lower leaves were already addressed in the last thread for these plants. Again, I'd say to let her dry out, give light nutes at the correct PH, and then switch to whatever your pre-harvest schedule is (for me 2 waterings with plain water, I don't know how my ProMix HP compares to your coco, but I know that neither have their own nutrients).

If I remember correctly, there was some mention about setting the PH to whatever you had used in a previous grow with another medium. A friend's plants all turned a horrid yellow at week 6. He asked for my advice and of course said "oh yeah, we've been PH'ing" before he even asked his gardener/partner who handled the waterings. Deficiency, right? Easy, add more. NO. I later learned that the gardener hadn't been PH'ing anything. That batch was pretty horrid. I went to check on his next batch, again at week 6. One plant was terribly yellow and he said, "oh, that's just the white widow, it does that". NO, NO, NO. I grew one out start to finish and it was a deep lush green until harvest. They feed every time, never give just clean water, and I guarantee they have lockout. The cheese I gave him was yellow and the only problem I'd ever had with that was calmag.

Never give coco straight water until harvest time ALWAYS feed @ low ec with run off,and do not let coco dry out,it is not soil,use the 60% rule when they have lost 40% moisture,water then till run off,check your water supply use r/o with tap,i have never used cal/ mag and have zero issues.and you HAVE to use coco specific nutes,canna,H&G,once you get it you will never look back...ps it is lock out