I'm looking for knowledgeable opinions, I've already looked at all the threads discussing common plant problems and looked at photos, and I don't see anything that completely matches my symptoms based on what I've read. Nitrogen deficiency seems most likely based on the description, but the photos I've seen don't seem to completely match my symptoms, and this didn't start until shortly after flowering started, which from my understanding a Nitrogen def. is usually a veg problem.
Ok, first time grower, 5 Easy Ryder AUTOS, and 1 Onyx AUTO. Fox Farms Ocean Forest Soil, CFL (6500K Veg, 2700K Flower), tap water through a faucet mounted Brita filter, PH set to around 6.5 using a test kit and adjustment solutions. You can read ALL of the details with TONS of pics from every stage in my journal thread HERE. Did a ton of reading and research before I started growing, so I was as prepared as anyone could reasonably be.
My plants were ALL doing fantastic until about 10-12 days ago when I started to notice the very bottom set of small leaves on most my plants had turned yellow and died. I'm talking about like the first set of true leaves, which were literally at soil level and hidden completely underneath the plants (these are short plants) and thus always soaked every time I water. I got rid of them. A couple days later I started to notice that the large fan leaves at the very bottom of some of my plants were turning a lighter shade of green. Watched it for a day or two and they started to turn a little yellow starting from the end of the end and side of the leaf and working inward, and were kind of wilted, and I also started to notice similar behavior starting on all my Easy Ryders.
I thought maybe I was overwatering based on the symptoms even though that didn't make sense (I can explain all the reasons why, but I'd say just to trust me). Since I thought I'd overwatered a couple of my plants, I let them go an extra day before watering them again, but waiting an extra day caused them to start drooping all over and clearly they needed water. As soon as I watered them the drooping leaves all perked up, including the affected leaves. I even bought a soil moisture tester to confirm the plants weren't actually wet down deep but not near the surface, and they weren't.
Ok, so here's the bottom line. Plants are NOT being over watered I'm sure, and were doing GREAT until about 10-12 days ago, which was about a week after they started flowering (so the first month or so of an 8-9 week lifespan they were perfect). They have been grown in FFOF soil which is nutrient rich and perfect for growing. Water PH has been set to about 6.5 before every watering, and the soil PH is about 7 according to my tester. They pretty much ALL started exhibiting the same condition about the same time. The only additives/nutes I've given them at ALL in their lifetimes has been Hygrozome (just an enzyme product, no nutes), Pro-Tekt by Dyna-Gro which is just a Silicon solution with a tiny bit of Potassium (0-0-3), and once they started to flower I started giving them Liquid Bloom by Dyna-Gro (3-12-6). I stopped the Liquid Bloom immediately when I started detecting problems, because I also spotted (separately) some indications of possible nute burn on a few leaves, totally aside from the other issue, and I believe that I was giving them too much of it anyway. I have not given them ANY nutes since the problem started, and I even stopped the Pro-Tekt about 5 days ago so they're ONLY getting the enzymes.
The plants are continuously getting worse from the bottom up. The lowest leaves first start to become lighter green, then start to yellow at the outer edges and work their way in, and the leaf wilts. Within 5 days or so the leaf is dead. I've now lost most of my lower fan leaves, and the next thing to be affected will be the buds. Hellllllp! I've worked SO hard on these plants and they were doing PERFECTLY for so long. Can't believe I'm in danger of losing them entirely, when I'm only 3-4 weeks from harvest.
Here's a leaf on 9/22 (bottom left in the first and second pictures) and the same leaf on 9/28 in the 3rd picture so you can see a progression. The leaf is mostly yellow today 9/29, and will be completely dead in another day or two
. The 4th picture is the same plant showing other lower leaves.
Two other plants in the first picture. The second picture is a close up of the discolored leaf on the left plant, and the third picture is a close up of the discolored leaf on the right plant.
Another plant, you can see discolored leaves at the bottom.
Ok, first time grower, 5 Easy Ryder AUTOS, and 1 Onyx AUTO. Fox Farms Ocean Forest Soil, CFL (6500K Veg, 2700K Flower), tap water through a faucet mounted Brita filter, PH set to around 6.5 using a test kit and adjustment solutions. You can read ALL of the details with TONS of pics from every stage in my journal thread HERE. Did a ton of reading and research before I started growing, so I was as prepared as anyone could reasonably be.
My plants were ALL doing fantastic until about 10-12 days ago when I started to notice the very bottom set of small leaves on most my plants had turned yellow and died. I'm talking about like the first set of true leaves, which were literally at soil level and hidden completely underneath the plants (these are short plants) and thus always soaked every time I water. I got rid of them. A couple days later I started to notice that the large fan leaves at the very bottom of some of my plants were turning a lighter shade of green. Watched it for a day or two and they started to turn a little yellow starting from the end of the end and side of the leaf and working inward, and were kind of wilted, and I also started to notice similar behavior starting on all my Easy Ryders.
I thought maybe I was overwatering based on the symptoms even though that didn't make sense (I can explain all the reasons why, but I'd say just to trust me). Since I thought I'd overwatered a couple of my plants, I let them go an extra day before watering them again, but waiting an extra day caused them to start drooping all over and clearly they needed water. As soon as I watered them the drooping leaves all perked up, including the affected leaves. I even bought a soil moisture tester to confirm the plants weren't actually wet down deep but not near the surface, and they weren't.
Ok, so here's the bottom line. Plants are NOT being over watered I'm sure, and were doing GREAT until about 10-12 days ago, which was about a week after they started flowering (so the first month or so of an 8-9 week lifespan they were perfect). They have been grown in FFOF soil which is nutrient rich and perfect for growing. Water PH has been set to about 6.5 before every watering, and the soil PH is about 7 according to my tester. They pretty much ALL started exhibiting the same condition about the same time. The only additives/nutes I've given them at ALL in their lifetimes has been Hygrozome (just an enzyme product, no nutes), Pro-Tekt by Dyna-Gro which is just a Silicon solution with a tiny bit of Potassium (0-0-3), and once they started to flower I started giving them Liquid Bloom by Dyna-Gro (3-12-6). I stopped the Liquid Bloom immediately when I started detecting problems, because I also spotted (separately) some indications of possible nute burn on a few leaves, totally aside from the other issue, and I believe that I was giving them too much of it anyway. I have not given them ANY nutes since the problem started, and I even stopped the Pro-Tekt about 5 days ago so they're ONLY getting the enzymes.
The plants are continuously getting worse from the bottom up. The lowest leaves first start to become lighter green, then start to yellow at the outer edges and work their way in, and the leaf wilts. Within 5 days or so the leaf is dead. I've now lost most of my lower fan leaves, and the next thing to be affected will be the buds. Hellllllp! I've worked SO hard on these plants and they were doing PERFECTLY for so long. Can't believe I'm in danger of losing them entirely, when I'm only 3-4 weeks from harvest.
Pics
Here's a leaf on 9/22 (bottom left in the first and second pictures) and the same leaf on 9/28 in the 3rd picture so you can see a progression. The leaf is mostly yellow today 9/29, and will be completely dead in another day or two
. The 4th picture is the same plant showing other lower leaves. Two other plants in the first picture. The second picture is a close up of the discolored leaf on the left plant, and the third picture is a close up of the discolored leaf on the right plant.
Another plant, you can see discolored leaves at the bottom.
