Clones Developing Nutrient Deficiency...

C.Indica

Well-Known Member
Well I'm very irritated.
I didn't think that clones would need that much supplemental nutrients this fast..

The symptoms are dark green veins, with extreme yellowing on the edges.
It looks like the leaves are still "healthy" shaped, but bleached.

I took 5 clones total.
4 about 6 days ago, and 1 about 2 days ago.

What I did was take the 2 lowest branches, and cut them off at the trunk.
Then I cut these in half, and made 4 clones. Two of them were natural shapped and two of them were topped because I cut them that way.

The lower section clones, the ones that came topped, developed this a couple nights ago. I wrote them off as weak since the natural ones were doing fine.
I just checked on them, the lower clones are still deficient, and the natural ones are just barely starting it.

I took another clone a couple nights ago, but I forgot to check if its deficient. I'm assuming it will be soon since it's the same mother, same medium, and same environment.

I'm cloning in jiffy pucks, and I'm using a 2.5g fishtank with a glass hood for the tent.
I put a small computer fan in there after the first batch had been rooting for about 5 days.
They still have the near 100% humidity because I made sure the wires wouldn't lift the lid up.

If there's any other questions just ask, I feel like this is a lot more confusing than it needs to be.

Thanks for the patience to read this far.

Another question,
first of all, I put each clone/pellet in a little cup, to keep them all seperate inside of the fishtank.
should I had like a teaspoon of fert to each cup?
Or just let them find their nutes in the peat?
 

Vindicated

Well-Known Member
Umm, if your gut is saying they need nutrients then you might want to spray the leaves with worm tea and carbonated water. Anything else might burn them. I would even add a tiny bit of root hormone to the soil, to give them that fighting chance.

Also look for white stuff on the sides of the jiffy pellets. I stopped using Jiffy pellets because they always seem to get moldy on me, where as plain soil (even MG seed starting mix) I have no problems with.

Best of luck man.

- Vin
 

Seana23

Member
hej babe, they shouldnt be yellowing just yet... though i wouldnt feed them owt too strong... maybe spray with cool, black tea... no sugar!! that should perk em up a wee bit without making them shoot away...
Good luck.
PS i use rockwool cubes and they are always fine, no probs at all, ever.
give em a go.

XXXSeanaXXX
 

C.Indica

Well-Known Member
hej babe, they shouldnt be yellowing just yet... though i wouldnt feed them owt too strong... maybe spray with cool, black tea... no sugar!! that should perk em up a wee bit without making them shoot away...
Good luck.
PS i use rockwool cubes and they are always fine, no probs at all, ever.
give em a go.

XXXSeanaXXX
Ahh it's alright guy and gal (I'm assuming, sorry) I was successful.
I despise rockwool, they never worked for me.
Always rotted my clones.

The lower leaves are gone but they rooted amazingly in about one week and they have vertical growth.
Top leaves are very green.

Thanks for the quick response though, and welcome to RIU seana.
 
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