M hostillis yellowing midsection

Id guess potassium defficiency but maybe you guys have seen it before.

The midsection is yellowing and losing leaves. This happened before and i fed it a rounded compost tea. I took cuttings since then. When i noticed this came back, i top dressed with compost, ash, and more soil.

The ashes i used got wet so im thinking it keepa missing K in the teas and the ashes are grey looking carbonates of sorts. Ill use fresh made wood ashes and fermented fruits in excess.

Ill post a pic in a few hours too.


Yellowing leaves in midsection. vague but is all i got til i put in pics, thanks, bare with me

K deficiency will show first as necrosis at leaf tips and outer edges.

Often mistaken for "nute burn" due to the damage seen at the leaf tips.

The interior of the leaf will commonly stay green . until very advanced stages.

These are considered bipinnal leaves. So not every little leaflet is a leaf. The last "branch" or "finger" is the leaf.

The tea im brewing contains,

-2/3C potash
-2/3C cal phos in vinegar
-2/3C bloodmeal
-Gypsum residue from last brew (gummed up on the walls)
-2/3C molasses
-2/3C em
-Tb humic acid
-2/3C carrot extract (phos, K, mag, F, Na)
-Cup of coffee from breakfast that i accidently poured kombucha in instead of milk
-2/3C ghost pepper, onion puree in vinegar (antioxidant pest repellent, ok for soil drenching pests)
-2\3C fish aminos

They do this from time to time bro some thing to do with them trying to create humus in the soil from its fallen leaves, I just get an all round liquid grow fertiliser and it clears up in a few weeks.

Yuck!! pH was all wonky in this. I wonder if i over calcified the plant. I havent really been keeping up with pH in the run off.

Thats was the tea's pH and i have been using the same recipe for a few batches..

So i added a tsp of sulfuric acid concentrate and 1/4c white vinegar.

Good chance to get sulfur in. Probably wont add it again unless i find a pH 8 again haha


Ahh much better

camandcandice said:

They do this from time to time bro some thing to do with them trying to create humus in the soil from its fallen leaves, I just get an all round liquid grow fertiliser and it clears up in a few weeks.

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I have to make everything, so i mess things up from time to time

Ill have to check my run off right quick. It just rained last night. So if my run off is high AF, i should balance with a low AF pH? For instance ph 8 gets balanced with ph 5?

Added a sock of compost, derrr. The one freqin thing that's common among compost teas.