Help - I think my Blueberry Haze girls are sick????

cindya99

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Hello All,
I want to take a brief moment to introduce myself. My name is Cindy, I am a soccer mom with a secret love of growing. I am the "Martha Stewart" of my town, who has a secret grow room. I cook, decorate, and head up all school and pta events, coach soccer kids, and organize big big events for my favorite charity. None of my friends, peers, acquaintances, or other soccer moms know I grow. I started growing a few years ago for a friend who had cancer. She eventually passed, but I kept growing. I now grow for the local dispensaries.

I have a spare room that was used for storing stuff for many years, I cleaned it out, added a grow tent, and have been using it as my grow room for 3 years now. I have 1 5x5x7 tent for my flower stage plants, 1 3x3x7 tent for my veg stage and 1 2x4x4 tent for my seed starts. I am not an expert at growing by any means. Every time I grow, I always learn something new. I am always in this forum looking for help and tips, and this is the first time I have ever posted.

So, here is my issue. I have 15 plants in my flower tent, day 8 of flower. I grow in soil, under a 600w light. I am currently growing sour diesel, purple haze, orange kush, white widow, perma frost, & 2 blueberry Haze plants. All of my plants look very healthy, they are growing very fast, and all are budding like crazy.

2nd day of flower I gave my plants some nutrients. I use Connisuer A&B, Bud Ignitor, and Bud Factor X. I usually use 1/2 strength, but with the blueberry I was told they are sensitive, and so I have been doing 1/4 strength nutes on them. I usually water every 3-4 days if needed. On the 3rd day, my blueberry plants looked strange, and all of the leaves were cupped downward, like a bird claw, and some of the new leaves seemed disformed. Assuming nute burn, I flushed them. I watered a few days later with just distilled water. New leaves came in looking good. Day 7 I watered with 1/4 strength nutes and the leaves that were damaged from the first feed were cupped again and looking real bad, but the new leaves look real good still.

I have never grown blueberry, so am not sure what to expect. I think they are going to be ok but not sure. I attached some pictures for viewing, I am looking for comments, suggestions, etc. I am worried I might lose these girls. Also, should I keep feeding them nutes, or back off and just use the distilled water till harvest. I have heard the leaves will turn blue or purple lavendar, at what stage will I see this? Any feedback is much appreciated.

In the pics below, the 1st picture has some circles around the leaves. blue circles are damaged leaves, yellow is new - goo leaf.

Thanks Everyone! Cindy :-)
 

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cindya99

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BTW - Here are a few pics of my flower tent with the other plants (sour diesel, purple haze, white widow, orange krush, permafrost, etc...

Cindy :-)


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Brick Top

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As sensitive as some Blueberry strains are what can happen is there will be a buildup of nutes during veg and even when you switch to a lite flowering nutrient regiment there are still enough vegging nutes stored in the soil that the plants are overfed in flower. I can't swear that is what is going on in your case, but it can happen. You really need to back off the veg ferts early or flush before going to flower to avoid all risks with Blueberry strains and many crosses with Blueberry in them.
 

cindya99

Member
Good Point. That makes sense. I actually did a veggie feed about 4 days prior to flower.... never thought about it being a problem. So far I have been real lucky with my other strains. I have blueberry in my veg room now, I will end the nutes a couple weeks prior to flower next time.

Thanks for the reponse.

:-)
Cindy
 
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