Nutrient burn or under feed.

Warseed

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Hey everyone. I'm having a bit of a time putting my finger on whats ailing my plants. They all have similar problems. I've narrowed it down to not enough feed, calmag deficiency or too much of the wrong feed. I'm doubtful it's nutirent burn but I've been wrong before. Many times. All 4 plants are clones from my outdoor crop this year. They were taken in flower, rooted and then revegged. I'm starting to see some yellowing on the lower older leaves and some rust spots showing up on the surface of the leaves. Also seeing a lot of purple stems which I haven't encountered on this strain before. Here's more info on the environment and fertilizer.

Medium: MG PGM5 (always used ProMix HP but local nursery only had this in stock) it has a starter charge of fertilizer (.04-.07-.08). Its high porosity with lots of perlite, peat based.

Pot size: 2.5Gal nursery pots

Nutirents: Root Farm Part 1 and 2 (bloom). Part 1 is 4-0-0 including calcium, magnesium, etc. Part 2 is 1-5-7. Big Bud(weeks 2-4 flower) and Bud Candy (weeks 4-6). Currently giving half strength, 5ml per 1 gallon of water for both parts.

Water: Good old tap water. PH is 6.8. Sits for 24 hours with an air stone before mixing in nutirents.

PH run off is 6.2 on all 4 plants.

Plants are currently about 30ish days old in veg.

They're under a 400W Metal halide. 20" from the canopy.

Lights off temperature is 17C, lights on is 26C at it's hottest. 34% RH.

I was thinking it was a nitrogen deficiency but I have a fair amount of dark green foliage on the plants so I'm almost certain it's not that. They haven't really slowed down too much in terms of growth. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
 

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Warseed

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Hey @Warseed -- welcome to Roll It Up. When did you move them under your 400W metal halide ??
Thanks for the welcome!

They've been under that bulb for about a week. Prior to that was a Philips sonagro 430W HPS bulb. I had a bulb failure in the first week of veg so I had to use the HPS bulb while waiting for the new bulb to come in. Prior to that, they were revegged under a 6 bulb T5HO.

3 of the girls we're due for another watering tonight so I went ahead and fed at 3/4 strength as I seen some pretty decent improvements from one of the plants I tested a increased feed strength on. I also backed the light off to 26 Inches from the canopy.
 

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westcoast420

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So what are you feeding them right now? Do you know the ppm or ec? Also you said your still in veg, are you running 18/6? You mentioned lights out temps get down to 17c, you really need to get that temp up.
 

Warseed

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So what are you feeding them right now? Do you know the ppm or ec? Also you said your still in veg, are you running 18/6? You mentioned lights out temps get down to 17c, you really need to get that temp up.
Root farm Part 1 and 2. 3/4 strength as of yesterday. I don't have the ability to test PPM or EC. Also don't have the means to purchase equipment to do so. Light schedule is 12-1/gas lantern. Been using that schedule for years now as 18/6 is a waste of power (.30¢ Kwh here). First time running bottle nutirents. Normally use Gaia Green organic amendments and Promix HP. So it's been a learning curve. I will try and get the lights out temperature up to 20 however upping the feed has seemingly fixed the issues for now.
 

Warseed

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What is the strain ? If its sativa dominant i think the temperature is low for night maybe put some calmag is good have u ever add calmag
All plants are indica or indica dominant hybrid. 2 are Pink Kush, 1 is Afghani Hybrid from a friend and the other is Northern Lights. All photoperiod, non feminized. I'll be picking the night time temperatures up to 20c. Have not added calmag yet.
 
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In my opinion cal-mag helps you and gets upper the humidity dude you just in vegitive stage they needs around 60percent humidity and one more advise for flowering ur strain love hot temperatures and can get good react to hot that time happy puff puff
 
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