Strange Problems please help

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NYCBambu

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Hello out there,

Having some issues, hoping someone can help. I have 9 plants in 3 gal pots, godfather OG. 6 of them with a mix of fox farm ocean and 25% perlite, 3 with coco loco and 25%perlite. I am experienced but this is my first grow in 10 years. Usually even half strength fox farm ocean could get me through a grow, not much signs of decay until the end, maybe 2 weeks before harvest. I never used any nutes back then, and had what I thought were good results.

Now, I am only 21 days into flowering and seeing signs of decay only with the fox farm mix plants. At the same time, Coco loco plants are almost perfect. I used very little nutes, onlytrouble.jpg one round at 25% strength. Could it be a bad or old bag of FFOF? Or do they just make the same product cheaper these days? ....Or am I wrong and its not a nitrogen issue? I have my light over 2 feet away, a mars fc 8000 which reads under 60k lux even in the middle. So I dont think it could be a bleaching/lighting issue. (Then again I am new to the effects of LED.) Not liking the lime green colors, any help is much appreciated.
 
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NYCBambu

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Budzbuddha said:
Take more pics ( closer ) … that pic you put up is blurry and cannot be enlarged .
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Thanks alot Budz, I am new at posting. The more I think about this, the more I am liking coco loco. I know FFOF is a hot soil but I never had issues before. Last night I watered 5 of them with some cal mag to see if things improve. Next round will be some nitrogen, grow big. The water I used to use was different, so thats a possibility.
 

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Two guys saying the same thing, thats good enough for me I appreciate the info guys thanks so much! Do you recommend I get a big bag of EWC to mix with my soil regularly, or is this a quick fix small amount thing with the worm castings?
 
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NYCBambu said:
Two guys saying the same thing, thats good enough for me I appreciate the info guys thanks so much! Do you recommend I get a big bag of EWC to mix with my soil regularly, or is this a quick fix small amount thing with the worm castings?
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If you plan to grow more in the future, worm castings might be the single most beneficial arrow in your quiver.
I can sub for almost anything else and be fine….not worm castings.
 
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NYCBambu

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Snickerpus said:
Before you start to throw in things you have no shine about, I would suggest you to get better practice in watering habbits. It looks like you have left the pot to dry out more than you should more than once.
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Thanks, I know it looks that way but I am usually good with watering. There was a hard spot in the soil still moist. I may have watered one side more than the other so I had to let it dry completely. I was really more concerned with the color but you are right I see the wilt. How can you tell they have been dried out more than once?
 
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NYCBambu

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Bullmark said:
If you plan to grow more in the future, worm castings might be the single most beneficial arrow in your quiver.
I can sub for almost anything else and be fine….not worm castings.
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Thanks so much I bought some, waiting till next watering to try it. Nobody thirsty last night.
The day before yesterday I gave a round of regular fox farm nutes to one lime green plant at quarter strength, seeing improvement.
 
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NYCBambu

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Herb & Suds said:
Numerous different plants
Multiple mediums
I can’t begin to understand how or why to handicap yourself in this fashion ?
But it’s not my grow
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Thanks for your interest, I am open to advice. Looking to learn thats why I'm here. Reason for so many plants is, the grow space is new to me I just built it. I have read that people say to use 4 or 6 plants in a 5 X 5 but I was not convinced. Thought I would try a SOG style first, 9 plants in 3 gallon buckets.....then go to 6 plants in 7 gallon buckets.

On the medium I was always a ffof user but I read so much about coco I wanted to try it. And I am glad I did, unless final product tastes shitty. That is to say, the 3 plants I used coco loco on are doing so much better than the ffof plants. Even with a mix of half coco and half ffof, I see hardly any signs of decay, and a darker lush green color. All plants treated the same, only one round of quarter strength nutes the whole grow. Trying to learn the value of nutrients. I never used any before and was happy with my results. I also dont know what I could have been missing.
 
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Herb & Suds

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NYCBambu said:
Thanks for your interest, I am open to advice. Looking to learn thats why I'm here. Reason for so many plants is, the grow space is new to me I just built it. I have read that people say to use 4 or 6 plants in a 5 X 5 but I was not convinced. Thought I would try a SOG style first, 9 plants in 3 gallon buckets.....then go to 6 plants in 7 gallon buckets.

On the medium I was always a ffof user but I read so much about coco I wanted to try it. And I am glad I did, unless final product tastes shitty. That is to say, the 3 plants I used coco loco on are doing so much better than the ffof plants. Even with a mix of half coco and half ffof, I see hardly any signs of decay, and a darker lush green color. All plants treated the same, only one round of quarter strength nutes the whole grow. Trying to learn the value of nutrients. I never used any before and was happy with my results. I also dont know what I could have been missing.
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Baby steps
Running before you can walk…
 
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NYCBambu

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Herb & Suds said:
In hind site based on your analysis
Grown in all coco
Better to master one medium than struggle with two
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Thanks I agree but I had no way of knowing the coco would be any better unless I tried it first. Can you help me out with tips on how to flush the coco plants properly? I am leary of using the fox farm sledgehammer flush.
 
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