Update on my Wedding Cake, Northern Lights & Blue Cheese

Overgrowtho

Overgrowtho

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I am entering week 6. Please let me know your thoughts?

My wedding cake and blue cheese plants towards the right, are doing well but the two northern lights aren't doing so great (look lime colored) on the left and two wedding cakes in the back/back right are a bit stunted and havent branched out in a while.

I've started to tie down the plants, to induce more tops to grow. Low stress training.

Some have also been topped/fimmed but those were slow to recover so I think I will stay with LST.

Please see pics and let me know any thoughts. What could I be doing wrong?
 

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Grow420Dad

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What is the PH of your water?
What is your medium, what are you feeding?
The yellowing is a nitrogen deficiency.
 
Grow420Dad

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Furthermore, looks like low on Phosphorous... but if you feed them they should be ok. Make sure the PH is adjusted to 6.2 - 6.3 to allow the nutes to get up to the plants.
 
SwampYankee

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Im a total newb but My HSO blue dream and GPS purple chem looked exactly the same tint of yellow by 4 weeks veg. After scrambling with a smite foliar treatment (i was wrong, no mites) I found that my tap water sat at 7.8 ph. Once I corrected to 6.3-6.5 all the new growth regained ins color and they started to catch up to my other plants that apparently could deal with the ph issues.
Just my 2 cents
 
Grow420Dad

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6.5 is too high.. The ph will float up naturally but 6.2 - 6.3 is the sweet spot. This is a nitrogen issue. They want to eat! :weed:
 
Grow420Dad

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looking at photo 16647 fan leaf on the right looks like the beginings of a CalMag issue. If you havent done so, add 5ML of calmag to each gallon of water with Nutes PH'd at 6.2 and most of your issues should clear up.

I trust you are feeding twice per week?
 
Grow420Dad

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Leeski said:
Yet another nob given crap advise out
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I am only a noob here because I wanted to check out the site.

Secondly, while yes potting up is the preferred method, its too late for the fella so just help him going forward. If he waters correctly he can fill up that pot with roots.

As for the pot having nothing to due to his lack of nutes, the pot size really doesnt have nothing to do with it.

Why are you so quick to bash but not offer helpful insight. I seen your posts in other places and you do the same crap to people so maybe you just suck.
 
Leeski

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Grow420Dad said:
I am only a noob here because I wanted to check out the site.

Secondly, while yes potting up is the preferred method, its too late for the fella so just help him going forward. If he waters correctly he can fill up that pot with roots.

As for the pot having nothing to due to his lack of nutes, the pot size really doesnt have nothing to do with it.

Why are you so quick to bash but not offer helpful insight. I seen your posts in other places and you do the same crap to people so maybe you just suck.
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Stop talking shit then bigger pot bigger yield crap I’m no expert or don’t pretend to be just Stop talking shit to peeps who are reaching out !
 
Grow420Dad

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Leeski said:
Stop talking shit then bigger pot bigger yield crap I’m no expert or don’t pretend to be just Stop talking shit to peeps who are reaching out !
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Easy there cowboy... there have been many many scientific tests prove bigger pot = more roots = more buds.

Look it up, you do not have to take my word for it. Take it from a master Ed Rosenthal. So I am not "talking shit" you are. Read Ed's books and you can apologize to me later over a bud toke. :eyesmoke:
 
Overgrowtho

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Recently I have been watering with my tap water at 65 PPM and 6.75 pH. Occasionally I water with fish Hydrosolate as well. And a bit of calmag.

I guess I can add some citric acid for PH down to Future watering to make sure that is not the issue, and make it closer to 6.3. Really 6.75 is too high in organic soil???

Soil pH does appear to be dialed in fine around 6 to 7.

I am brewing up my first batch of compost tea tonight!

I saw a professional YouTuber who noticed the same lime color in his plans and fixed it with that so, perhaps it's a bacterial, fungal issue?

I am excited to try the brew now aerating. It is 5 gallons brewing. I have 10 plants total. Brew contained about 2.5 cups of castings, guano, compost, kelp etc. I wonder if too strong and I should dilute 50%?? Measure EC and pH?
 
Grow420Dad

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I wouldn't bother with soil PH. If you keep the water/feeding PH down to 6.2 the soils can work itself out. The plant that is yellowing is hungry for food.

Yes, feeding with water at PH of 6.75 is way too high! 6.2 is the sweet spot to allow the roots to take up nutrients.
 
Overgrowtho

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I am using potent organic super soil.

After transplant from less potent seedling medium there was this lockout and stunted growth.

But the super soil is packed with food to feed! So maybe it is truly pH? And the microbes aren't happy?
 
Overgrowtho

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But I don't understand fully because nitrogen can be absorbed between 6 and 7 pH. So I don't see how that alone is the issue.
 
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