Strain Characteristic or Nutrient Deficiency? (Acapulco Gold)

Till Valhalla

Till Valhalla

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xtsho said:
If you started with purchased bags of raised bed soil that could be an issue as some of it can be mostly wood and manure depending on brand. You're initial soil looks like it had plenty compost, manure, and EWC so you may have started feeding too soon. As far as the Alaska Fish fertilizer goes, I known people that have used nothing else for decades and they grow some very good weed. You need to be careful with it as you can easily burn your plants with it.

With the burnt tips on the new growth it's probably best to just give them plain water for awhile.

Good luck.
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Thank you for your response.

I ended up taking them outside and flushed them for a good 10min (pots are pretty small, so didn't go psycho on them) waited till runoff was clear(ish).

Will keep them on straight water for a bit. See how they react.

I think at this point it was toxicity and not deficiency. So adding more was having the opposite effect I was going for. I also think the bugs probably had a hand in f*cking up the roots, so they weren't operating at 100%.
I am hoping the flush corrects the issue... despite all the problems these plants STILL want to grow vigorously... maybe my brother in law keeping an eye on us... ;-)

Cheers. And thanks again for your input.
 
PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

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Till Valhalla said:
Hello all,

boy and i are growing some barney's farm acapulco gold. a special sentimental strain for us. my brother in law passed from cancer 2yrs ago. last time we were able to visit with him (before he passed) was at the lake, in the boat. beautiful sunset, marley tunes on the speakers and a big fat spliff of acapulco gold he had a hand in growing. a memorable moment for us. trying to recreate the experience, and honor the memory. any practical advice for us is most welcome. first grow with this particular cultivar... so not entirely sure what the deal is with it. combed thru jorge cervante's, ed rosenthal's and ryan riley's books respectively trying to figure out what nutrient deficiency was causing this WEIRD discoloration on the leaves... and despite the weird discoloration, the plant is growing fast/hardy like nothing is wrong with it, and we are doing everything properly.
temps in normal range, humidity in normal range, soil ph, water ph, all in normal range. upped the nutrients that we thought were deficient. no changes in discoloration just more rapid/vigorous growth.

has anyone seen this before in their acapulco gold grows? is this normal or are we f*cking something up?
after trying everything to correct a nutrient deficiency, we just looked at each other and said "maybe this is the 'gold' of the acapulco gold name?" maybe it's supposed to look like this? you'll notice new growth and some old growth fan leaves down low are not discolored (yet?). weird.

i'm baffled. anyone have any insights with this?
pics with lights and without lights (for the haters)

ps: the sand on the pot surface was a last resort measure to destroy the fungus gnats that hitched a ride in on the bare root strawberries i got from home depot back in early spring. their invasion was brutal and absolute. they got into any and all inside plants that had been recently transplanted or started from seed.
sand + diatomaceous earth ended up being the winning combo. (the only good bug is a dead bug!)
the AG plants seemed to like the sand, so we left it be.
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Looks K deficiency. But I'm suspecting it's being locked out by too much of something else.
 
Till Valhalla

Till Valhalla

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UPDATE:

just wanted to thank all y'all that showed up with advice and insights. most appreciated.

we were able to turn things around with a thorough flush and a transplant into new soil and bigger containers. hooked up a scrog net and kept it organic. these two plants EXPLODED with veg growth.... overtook its space, beyond what we did with topping and LST training. ended up taking 19 clones... 18 of which are still alive... they are voracious and we are running out of space.
why so many clones if you have no space you ask? well, my clone game has been traditionally weak. got some new rooting gel that seems to be a game changer. (technoflora) far more lived than i expected.
to you growers that can get the clone powders to work - more power to you... my hats off. i can't get that shit to work, and doubtful will go back to it.
this gel stuff is a game changer for me. it really works.

just flipped the light cycle to 12/12 on the first of aug. they are finally showing some pistils.
according to barney's farm, these will take 11 weeks to flower. late october harvest. drying and curing into nov/dec... looking to be a nice xmas gift. ;)

attached photos - apologies for the purple. we took all other light sources out and away for flowering, so you're stuck with the purple. (haters gunna hate.) *shrugs*

it smells so wonderfully exotic without the flowers. wondering how strong it's going to be in flower... (what's a carbon filter? we don't have one of those... :O )

anyways, thanks again for the assistance and wisdom. my gratitude.
 

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