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What is wrong with my leaves?

Ok just tested it. I think roots might be at too low of a pH. I have ocean forest btw. My feeding water tested at: seven usually

and the runoff water tested at: below 4. Damn that's some acidic water. It's def the pH being too low from the soil. What should I do to fix this?
 
Ok I'm going to be perfectly honest with you, checking runoff of soil is not really inaccurate and I'll get to this...

First stop producing runoff, only saturate pot enough for the little runoff that comes out to get sucked back up within a couple hours, runoff in soil will wash away nutrient. Second don't adjust your PH down before watering for a week and let it ride high , 7-8. If after a week things aren't getting better it's time for something else but since you just transplanted my guess is correcting the Ph and letting the plant eat some of its new home should be the end of it. if they are improving start adjusting your intake water down to 6.5ph over a couple of days, it should be between 6.3 and 6.7 for soil grows never more or less.

Checking soil PH runoff is in accurate, The way to check soil PH with a meter or drops is called slurry test, basically you put your soil in the water you feed to soak together at room temperature overnight and test the water. The combination of the two sitting adjust PH wise for a more accurate reading of what's going on in there. For Soil Only the Ph probes work fine.

Keep us posted
 
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Is it possible I washed out literally all the nutrients in the soil? I flooded the soil once or twice when I first put it in. I wont be buying a soil pH meter, so I'll just continue to feed high pH tap water. I think that should fix it especially bc the new growth is looking somewhat fine, or at least better than before. Im worried about the soil though and if i washed out the nutrients. I keep hearing that weed plants grow up to three inches a day and my plants just grow hella slow despite having overkill soil, fabric pots, mylar walls, good filtration, aeration etc. Do you think it's my lights? Read my latest comment on the lights on this threat. Thank you.
 
I flooded the soil once and had about a bucket of runoff and since then I've had a ton of runoff. THe soil looks so dry all the time. And it's very dry in most parts. Do you think that I washed out all of the nutes? I've since then stopped watering as much.
 
It for sure didn't help it, stick to watching it for a week with the water practice we discussed and see if she is getting better, worse case is you will need to feed liquid nutrients early then expected.
 
My plants have gotten worse. It's so weird, its weird because not all of the leaves are like this. Some branches have perfectly healthy leaves and new growth. I'm getting worried because the brown spots are new. Could this be a deficiency? I literally just changed the soil to fresh soil about a week ago.

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Hey, the plant looks to have gotten worse. I started CaliMagic two days ago and it seemed like it helped for a day but now I have minor brown spots on the leaves.
 
More pictures. I see nitrogen toxicity in a few leaves that are curling downward? WTF I haven't even been dosing nitrogen and the leaves are also not super dark so what the heck. Here are more pics.

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Here is the whole plant and set up. Mylar on three sides except the cardboard door. Vent below plants for drainage and aeration. One LED bulb and three T5 bulbs but it doesn't look like this is light.

I've been doing cal/mag. How often should I feed and what should I feed? I have the hydro trio, silica, and cal mag so what should I do? Please help.

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About a foot or two. My other guess is that this is not nutrients at all and the plants are getting some sort of light burn. I posted the picture of the lights I have. Three T5 bulbs. On the fixture it says 24W, then I also have a 100w LED bulb. Should I move them further away? Do you think this could be from the mylar i have?
 
First is don't panic and start guessing, trying to do to much at once can create more problems, they will recover and though it may set you back on your grow schedule, you are here and it needs to be dealt with one thing at a time.

Your t5 23w lights can't be too close, they can be within 2" of the plants but your led isn't ideal for cannabis. It is concentratingon a spot and that's what I'm looking at on your plants.

Thing are not going to respond over night but can get worse quickly, light will intensify deficiencies and toxicity so one of the first thing to do when you have problems is give you plants a break and rise the lighting. start by moving that led light to 28" min or turn it off (1 to 2 feet is a big difference in leds), and leave it there for now,leave the t5 were they are, keep up with the no runoff and getting that intake PH down to 6.5 as we talk about, if the plants new growth starts looking better in a couple days drop the t5 a couple inch ever couple days. I'm not a fan of those leds you have.

As far as what the symptoms look like on the leafs for deficiencies I'm looking at trace elements like iron and zinc but before you go adding more you have to get the Ph right because there may be enough in the new soil but the plant can't use it till your water is below 7.0ph. The way to tell if your plant is recovering is by the new growth as old leaf will never recover and being on the top to middle of the plant this should be narrow down to either light burn, PH, or immobile nutrient deficiency but untill you knock them out one at a time you don't know if it's a single issue or a combination.
 
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My friend has a 6 hundred watt bulb rig that I'm gonna get. Its gonna be a few weeks until I get it though. Also whats wrong with the LED bulb I have now?I'll continue with no runoff. Also about the pH should I continue lowering it to 6.5 intake? or just to tap water? The runoff I tested was below 4.0.




So going forward should I just do Calimag every other day? What about the silica? I turned off the LED so its just the three T5 bulb lights.


Going forward what should I be feeding? I have the hydroponics trio, calimag, and silica. Should I pH lower the solution?
 
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Leaf problem is fixed guys. I think all I needed was calimag and the plants were i shock from transplant. ALso pH. Either way new growth is fine.
 
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