Could really use some help with deficiencies/plant health

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manhowanab

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I'm having some issues with 2 of my outdoor plants, they're looking really unhealthy and I'm not sure what else to try.

Originally I was seeing symptoms of Magnesium def. So I began adding epsom salts at 1 Tbsp per 5 gallons and that seemed to be helping. Ran into nutrient lock about 3 weeks ago, I had been PHing water to 5.6-5.8, I ended up increasing my ph to 6.0 and that did help for a while. To my relatively untrained eye it started to look like I was getting some minor nute burn so about a weekend and a half ago I stopped feeding and just used PH'd well water (although continued adding epsom salts)

Over the past 72 hours or so my plants have gone from minor burning to this:
 

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manhowanab

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Any help would be appreciated. I've never had plants look this unhealthy since I was a teenager and back then all I knew to do was plant seeds, water then kill of males. The past 7 years I've been growing indoors and have had a huge increase in quality and size of plants... The odd def. but never anything I couldn't correct
 
Moderndayhippy

Moderndayhippy

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manhowanab said:
I'm having some issues with 2 of my outdoor plants, they're looking really unhealthy and I'm not sure what else to try.

Originally I was seeing symptoms of Magnesium def. So I began adding epsom salts at 1 Tbsp per 5 gallons and that seemed to be helping. Ran into nutrient lock about 3 weeks ago, I had been PHing water to 5.6-5.8, I ended up increasing my ph to 6.0 and that did help for a while. To my relatively untrained eye it started to look like I was getting some minor nute burn so about a weekend and a half ago I stopped feeding and just used PH'd well water (although continued adding epsom salts)

Over the past 72 hours or so my plants have gone from minor burning to this:
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Have you tested the ph of your soil? what are you using for soil?
 
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manhowanab

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Moderndayhippy said:
Have you tested the ph of your soil? what are you using for soil?
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I have tested the soil of one, 6.8. The other is using the same soil but with added mushroom compost and composted sheep manure. All of my other plants are using the same soil as well. It's just a cheap no name supper soil but has worked well in the past and is working for the other 4 as well. The only other difference is that I added quite a bit of perlite to the soil for these 2
 
OldMedUser

OldMedUser

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Seems to be affecting newer growth the worst so one of the micro-nutrients is out of whack from either too high or low a pH or too much of another nute that's blocking their uptake.

Almost looks like Boron deficiency so some 20 Mule Team borax would fix that. Check out this chart and read the clues about each nutrient problem and find the one that looks to fit the best. An application of a good micro-nutrient source might help. I'd use the Advanced Nutrient's Micro from their 3 - part nutes to make sure they got a bit of everything they need to grow healthy and a good dose of N to boot.

Good luck!

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