kushnboots
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Hi all, I've been trying to diagnose a problem for a couple months and so far nothing. Several months ago a weird ailment started showing up in my grows. It affects about 15-20% of the plants and doesn't seem to be connected to the growing medium, nutrients, temperature, light or humidity. It's happened during veg and flower, hydro and soil, ionic, botanicare and an nutes, in two different rooms. The first sign it is occuring is that the new growth will be wilted and mottled, with curled leaves that have raised edges. Growth doesn't seem to be slowed though, just stunted with very narrow leaves (I thought humidity at first but it's at 50%). I have a 12 plant scrog 5 weeks in and right now 3 of the plants are displaying this issue. buds appear stunted and odd, leaves are stunted, mottled and narrow. Yesterday I discovered a bad aphid infestation in this scrog and thought this was the cause of the issue, but I am having the same problem with one plant in a 6 bucket dwc system and 2 plants in a 6 pot hydro bin in another area of the room. The rest of the plants are the same strain getting the same nutes in the same medium and are not affected...yet...but some new growth is starting to look suspicious. I immediately inspected the affected plants for aphids but there are no insects or eggs on the plants or roots, so I'm suspecting that my aphid infestation in the scrog is a second problem and not related to the poor plant growth, but I am not sure. Here a some pictures.
I will try your other recommendations. Also, thanks so much for the help. I might have gone on for months checking ph and temps and chasing b.s before I realized it. Even though these buggers are a pita, at least I know what I am dealing with. Do you think my grow that's now 6 weeks in is shot? I've removed all the plants that appeared damaged but I'm sure some of the healthy looking plants will start to show signs as they came in contact with the affected ones. I doubt you can use Avid or Forbid during flower can you?