what is the cause of this?

[texastiger707]

I have a plant that is 4 weeks into flowering. I messed up and grew her in a 3gallon pot. She has grown huge. So is this root bound or a def? Its on the bottom leaves but working its way up. These are not my plant leaves but look just like it. any suggestions?

 

[Adjorr]

Phospuros deficincy

 

[texastiger707]

Phospuros deficincy

ok what can I do to fix it?

 

[Adjorr]

start feeding your plant bloom nutes, and check the ph level of your grow medium to ensure its in the proper range

 

[texastiger707]

start feeding your plant bloom nutes, and check the ph level of your grow medium to ensure its in the proper range

ok I have fox farm nute trio. I been feeding her 2 times a week nutes. I have to water her 1gallon of water a day, do to heat here. So I feed/water/water/water/feed and so on. I feed going by the amount fox farm feeding schedule says to use. So she does get bloom nutes, maybe its not enough since having to water every day? Here is what she looks like.

 

[Adjorr]

ok, those look very different from the first picture, I cant see any deficancy signs in those pictures so its not deficant by much. Id suggest increasing the amount of nutes your giving each time you feed by about 10-20% and keep increasing if the problem continues. Its a rather large plant so its not surprising its nute hungry.

 

[tusseltussel]

Being puts to email you will always be chasing deficiencies.... You will have top feed a lot and it wool be easy to burn... If you can I would suggest cutting the bottom off the pot and seeing it on top of another full of fresh soil

 

[ThorGanjason]

I was gonna say, dude the bottom leaves fall off naturally. If a leaf isn't getting any light, after a while the plant decides to prune it herself, but in a very efficient way where it first sucks the nutrients out.

Before I even saw the other pictures below, and saw how it was a picture of one single leaf I knew that's what was up. Especially being in week 4 of flower, that plant is going to start pulling nutrients from the leaves.

That's why you don't wanna give nitrogen (too much) in flower, it keeps the plant in "move nutes to leaf" mode instead of "move nutes from leaf to bud" mode

 

[texastiger707]

ok, those look very different from the first picture, I cant see any deficancy signs in those pictures so its not deficant by much. Id suggest increasing the amount of nutes your giving each time you feed by about 10-20% and keep increasing if the problem continues. Its a rather large plant so its not surprising its nute hungry.

ok so you dont think its root bound? that size plant is in a 3gallon pot. The yellow leaves that I showed are at the bottom of the plant. I take them off when I see them. So you think I should just add more nutes. So how often should I feed her? feed/water/feed? or feed/water/water/feed? any suggestions? I ask because I have to feed her atleast 1 gallon of water a day, if not she wilts and droops due to the heat and wind here in northern california.

 

[texastiger707]

I was gonna say, dude the bottom leaves fall off naturally. If a leaf isn't getting any light, after a while the plant decides to prune it herself, but in a very efficient way where it first sucks the nutrients out.

Before I even saw the other pictures below, and saw how it was a picture of one single leaf I knew that's what was up. Especially being in week 4 of flower, that plant is going to start pulling nutrients from the leaves.

That's why you don't wanna give nitrogen (too much) in flower, it keeps the plant in "move nutes to leaf" mode instead of "move nutes from leaf to bud" mode

so what do you suggest? just leave her be or transplant her into a bigger pot or just add more bloom nutes when I feed?

 

[nova1992]

id leave her and just up the nutes a little at a time until you see a bit of burn then go back to the last dose and then feed her that.
if i were you id feed/water/water/feed

 

[District]

I was gonna say, dude the bottom leaves fall off naturally. If a leaf isn't getting any light, after a while the plant decides to prune it herself, but in a very efficient way where it first sucks the nutrients out.

Before I even saw the other pictures below, and saw how it was a picture of one single leaf I knew that's what was up. Especially being in week 4 of flower, that plant is going to start pulling nutrients from the leaves.

That's why you don't wanna give nitrogen (too much) in flower, it keeps the plant in "move nutes to leaf" mode instead of "move nutes from leaf to bud" mode

Very very helpful post.