Please help me diagnose weed leaves

[Leticiatee]

Im a new grower...but if you zoom in the leaves has a white dusty looking look? Zoom in close ...also how does my plants look? Im using LED 100 watt spectrum for each plant...all help is appreciated..3 week old plants...it doesnt really look like mildew or mold...please help

 

[xtsho]

Why are those pots only half full and what's with the perlite on top?

 

[Leticiatee]

Why are those pots only half full and what's with the perlite on top?

I filled it up initially but the water decreased the soil space and i put sand on top because of bugs infested my last plant..but can you help me with appearance of my plants and the leaves

 

[xtsho]

I filled it up initially but the water decreased the soil space and i put sand on top because of bugs infested my last plant..but can you help me with appearance of my plants and the leaves

Watering reduced the soil volume that much? Never seen that before. What are you using for soil and what are you feeding them?

 

[Leticiatee]

Watering reduced the soil volume that much? Never seen that before. What are you using for soil and what are you feeding them?

Organic soil...and organic fertilizer for tomatoes...nothing fancy just trying to keep bugs down...im almost ready to call it quits I killed over 10 plants before I got to this point and I'm still learning
.my concern is plant health I don't want to kill or ruin another

 

[Leticiatee]

Watering reduced the soil volume that much? Never seen that before. What are you using for soil and what are you feeding them?

I'm not feeding nothing..my next feed I thought is flower when I see pistils then put flowering fertilizer that's all I know didn't want to over feed

 

[Dynamo626]

All im seeing is possable uv burn they look fine to me besides you dont have mutch room for roots. Next time after you fill your bucket/ pot lift it up 4 or 5 inches and drop it a few times. This will help settle it and you can add more before planting

 

[Leticiatee]

I'm not feeding nothing..my next feed I thought is flower when I see pistils then put flowering fertilizer that's all I know didn't w ant to over feed

All im seeing is possable uv burn they look fine to me besides you dont have mutch room for roots. Next time after you fill your bucket/ pot lift it up 4 or 5 inches and drop it a few times. This will help settle it and you can add more before planting

All im seeing is possable uv burn they look fine to me besides you dont have mutch room for roots. Next time after you fill your bucket/ pot lift it up 4 or 5 inches and drop it a few times. This will help settle it and you can add more before planting

All im seeing is possable uv burn they look fine to me besides you dont have mutch room for roots. Next time after you fill your bucket/ pot lift it up 4 or 5 inches and drop it a few times. This will help settle it and you can add more before planting

Okay thanks so much will move the light up thanks

 

[Beachwalker]

I'm not feeding nothing..my next feed I thought is flower when I see pistils then put flowering fertilizer that's all I know didn't want to over feed

This is not exactly how you want to feed them. (Before they go into flower you should do a lot of reading) you want to use something along the line of transition nutes where you go from a nitrogen-rich vegatative feed to a transition-to-flower mix, which is a fairly even mix

.. after the stretch has stopped you will then begin to use your flowering nutrients. Read this chart on the back of a General Hydroponics Flora bottle for a better idea how to do this, good luck!

*also if those were my plants I would get some more quality soil and I would transplant and fill those pots to the top, that's one thing you could do right now that will give you a much bigger yield later

 

[Leticiatee]

This is not exactly how you want to feed them. (Before they go into flower you should do a lot of reading) you want to use something along the line of transition nutes where you go from a nitrogen-rich vegatative feed to a transition-to-flower blend which is a fairly even mix, and then after several weeks in flower feeding the transition mix

.. after the stretch has stopped you will then begin to use your flowering nutrients. Read this chart on the back of a General Hydroponics Flora bottle for a better idea how to do this, good luck!

*also if those were my plants I would get some more quality soil and I would transplant and fill those pots to the top, that's one thing you could do right now that will give you a much bigger yield later

So true and thanks...I definitely need to learn more about feedings and soil...I brought organic soil from a garden center real thick ..I had to break it up real good and hand mix fertilizer...so I thought I had the best soil...any recommendations

 

[Beachwalker]

So true and thanks...I definitely need to learn more about feedings and soil...I brought organic soil from a garden center real thick ..I had to break it up real good and hand mix fertilizer...so I thought I had the best soil...any recommendations

Yes, add the perlite to the soil, not on top of it LOL (add 20% perlite) they have another product you can put on top to keep bugs away, it's made from glass, search Growstone gnat-mix
- good luck

 

[Leticiatee]

Yes, add the perlite to the soil, not on top of it LOL (add 20% perlite) they have another product you can put on top to keep bugs away, it's made from glass, search Growstone gnat-mix
- good luck

Thanks

 

[Beachwalker]

Also if you were asking about that weird White discoloration (second picture) on a few Leafs that maybe be genetic or it could be some type of a mosaic virus (tmv) but it's not anything to be concerned about forget about it focus on the basics right now

*Somebody might say cannabis is not affected by tobacco mosaic virus, but it really doesn't matter as this argument is basically academic because TMV doesn't really have any negligible effect that I've ever seen on cannabis. You asked so that's my nutshell opinion of what that white discoloration is

https://goo.gl/images/Zwk28S

 

[GuerillaGOAT]

So true and thanks...I definitely need to learn more about feedings and soil...I brought organic soil from a garden center real thick ..I had to break it up real good and hand mix fertilizer...so I thought I had the best soil...any recommendations

https://catnews.org/FREE Pot Books/
A few of the experienced growers gave me that link it has a list of grow guides. Some are quick easy reads with a good bit of knowledge. It helped me, I’m on my first grow and I’m leaning more towards the school of thought that less is better and to keep it simple. Read read read. I used FFOF with a little EWC and a little extra perlite. Starting a worm bin Sunday. And I plan to only feed ewc tea and its compost.

 

[Dynamo626]

Okay thanks so much will move the light up thanks

Your light is probably fine looks like its on older leaves. The younger they are the more sensitive they are. I have had many seedlings looken like yours. They will grow out of the damage. The seedling above has the same. Dosnt look as bad as yours... Yet as the uv damaged leaves grow and get bigger the damage becomes more apparent.