Purple stems bad?

I've looked lots of places over the internet and I hear different things about purple stems. I hear it could be the strain or it could be a nutrient deficiency if plants look healthy don't worry about it but I want to know what the fuck it is I guess cuz when I look up the strain it doesn't say anything about purple stems and everything I've grown I think towards flowering all get purple stems even outside except for the OG Kush didn't I guess I don't think. I just think I'm missing something in my soil I think the plants should be bigger than what they are I know it is goes by the environment the room size and all that but still that being said I think they should be bigger I mean I've got the ceiling space I've got probably 8 ft ceilings or so ish I mean I have the lights lower than that obviously and I use 5 gallon buckets. I'm new still so I mean this is in the like my third grow inside but now I've got them to where I've got three flowering right now and then 2 in veg and I've got two seeds germinating right now so I'm trying to keep it going. My soil recipe is just something I've put together after reading different sites and is 1 big bag of potting mix,bone meal,blood meal,bio-char,epsom salt, dehydrated chicken shit(not much cause it's hot),garden line,perlite,then I add a small bag of mother Earth groundswell but I can't get it at Walmart now so I got some rejuvenate potting soil instead and I add some Marine cuisine. I want to get some kelp meal but around here it doesn't seem to be available that Ive seen anyway.. am I missing something? I'll add pics.. my one plant looks really good and they all look healthy I just feel like I'm missing something. The one plant that looks damn near bare is an OG Kush I cloned when it was just starting to flower so it's just coming out of the stress period and is getting the normal leaves finally so I just trimmed it last night. The odd bar looking shit in the pics are just my camera being shitty and busted my plants aren't in jail haha
 

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conor c

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Too low temps can also cause it, what's yours?
Exactly however some stuff has it genetically and isn't a deficiency or cos of cold some Indian strains will naturally have red stems for example there is no one size fits all awnser op you just gotta take it on a strain by strain basis sometimes it's cold sometimes it's a phosphorus deficiency other times it's just a genetic trait like take blueberry that always had stripey stems regardless of temps or feeding Ime for example
 
Exactly however some stuff has it genetically and isn't a deficiency or cos of cold some Indian strains will naturally have red stems for example there is no one size fits all awnser op you just gotta take it on a strain by strain basis sometimes it's cold sometimes it's a phosphorus deficiency other times it's just a genetic trait like take blueberry that always had stripey stems regardless of temps or feeding Ime for example
I know the plants origins are master kush,Hindu Kush,and skunk #1.. seems like the leaves are kinda lighter green than my others too
 

Star Dog

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I've two strains living from one root ball, one plant has red stems the other has green it's not that one's right or wrong its just individual character afaik?
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If the plant looks healthy I don't get too concerned about the colour of the stems.
 

conor c

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I know the plants origins are master kush,Hindu Kush,and skunk #1.. seems like the leaves are kinda lighter green than my others too
Skunk is always meant to be lighter green genetically Vs most things so that can influence things a bit that way if it's in the mix also another thing is skunk and it's hybrids can show what looks like blown out leaf tips again this is genetic not feeding cos it can show it early ie before you have fed it good it's just a genetic quirk of that strain or its hybrids
 

DOCTORDOOB

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Exactly however some stuff has it genetically and isn't a deficiency or cos of cold some Indian strains will naturally have red stems for example there is no one size fits all awnser op you just gotta take it on a strain by strain basis sometimes it's cold sometimes it's a phosphorus deficiency other times it's just a genetic trait like take blueberry that always had stripey stems regardless of temps or feeding Ime for example
I remember back in the day when GG4 was super popular, this one guy was like "All these guy's claim to have the REAL gorilla glue, but if you ain't got the red stems, you ain't got the REAL gorilla glue!!!"
I have people say "Oh man your stems are red, you need phosphorus" or "you need calmag" but the strains they said that to me about, I grew regularly and they always did that so I never paid it any mind and they always turned out good
I think it could be genetics or a sign of something. ✌
 

conor c

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I remember back in the day when GG4 was super popular, this one guy was like "All these guy's claim to have the REAL gorilla glue, but if you ain't got the red stems, you ain't got the REAL gorilla glue!!!"
I have people say "Oh man your stems are red, you need phosphorus" or "you need calmag" but the strains they said that to me about, I grew regularly and they always did that so I never paid it any mind and they always turned out good
I think it could be genetics or a sign of something. ✌
Definitely mate some stuff just has colored stems some stuff don't without a deficiency it just depends on the genetics
 
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