Nitrogen deficiency or what?

siforek

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About a week ago I noticed yellowing in the lower leafs of a few of my plants. Everything indicated it was a nitrogen deficiency which made sense. They were in smaller pots & had only gotten a small dose of FF big bloom & caliMagic up until then so I added a bit of FF big bloom to the next feeding & the next morning most of the lower yellowing had started to improve.

Now a week later there is still a bit of yellowing on a few bottom leafs with the tips sort of brown/dying while the rest of the plant couldn't look healthier. I even have 1 plant showing slight signs of nitrogen toxicity now so I'm not sure what's up.

Being the very bottom fan leafs I'll end up trimming them off eventually & haven't been too worried about it however I'd like some 3rd party input/feedback on the matter.

I've since transplanted them into a mix of 70% FF ocean forest & 30% perlite. I'm assuming the FFOF should keep them good on nutrients for a few weeks so just been adding caliMagic & PH to 6.5.

Any ideas? Or are the bottom leafs just looking that way as a result of the inital nitrogen deficiency?
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disbeverk

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They're shaded out baby leaves, it's normal for the plant to let go of them once they've done their job. No need to add N, you've got plenty :peace:
 

siforek

Member
Yeah? I figured somethibg like that. Should I just leave them till they die & are ready to fall off or would it help to trim them sooner?
 

disbeverk

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Grower preference, doesn't particularly matter. I wait until they fall off themselves, or hack 'em during the first round of topping/pruning if they're still there.

Plants look great though, don't stress it. Good work so far :leaf::hump:
 
Ok so I just got a huge lesson in soils and fox farm happy frog and ocean forest. I used frog then forest and used the nute schedule from fox farm (ff) After 2 runs with this schedule I got the same result twice. Both times I Nuked the hell out of my plants with waaaaay to much nutes. I am a novice but live in Mich and have lots of access to good growers. My Yoda asked me "did your plants start amazing then burn up , get tip burns, start to herm , smells like hay, and no real crystals ? " I'm like dude that's my 2 runs to a tee!!!!! and I run 2 p900 platinum leds in a 10x10 gorilla tent in a super clean I mean clean space. Ruining my fans my fresh filtered air coming into the tent and venting out to the outside thru my charcoal filters. I did everything right besides talking to experienced growers. Yoda told me " the ocean forest has so many built in nutes that I can go 4 to 6 weeks in veg with just water ! I'm like what,!????? No veg nutes ?? He's like fuck no kid, when ya flip the lights to 12/12 then use " heavy 16"once a week in flower w some molasses and just test the runoff. ". I knew i was doing something wrong but what ff won't tell ya is that ya don't need nutes w that soil. Yoda said in the flower the plants will then tell me what they need. ( cal meg , fire , prime, or flush finish). So all in all DONT NUTE WHENUSING OCEAN in veg. Then add nutes in flower. And don't use ff nutes. Go get heavy 16 bud A and B. Hope this helped. Wish I would have googled ocean farm and over nuting along time ago !! Happy growing.
 

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siforek

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I knew FFOF was hotter & as soon as I transplanted to it I switched to only using caliMagic & great white mycorrhizal for now, probably till flower, we'll see.
 
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