what does this look like to you-- over feeding or light stress?

ThorGanjason

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Hey guys, so I'm running 4 plants in an aeroponic system, and just finished harvesting my white lavender soil plants. Btw, for anyone who is following I don't think I'm quite gonna double my grams per watt from my first run; it was .56 the first time and this time it'll probably be closer to .9, but I won't know until after I crop out these aeros.

Which brings me to my main point--i started noticing some light stress on my cotton candy plant (pretty sure this one was definitely light stress-- the soil plants were lower and so before I cropped them out my light was a lot closer to the aero plants).

But now I'm starting to see some things on a few of my other plants; the purple wreck is always kind of droopy, with yellowing occurring at the very tip of some leaves (no brown/necrotic tissue just yellow and just the very tip) and my desert diesel has this weird thing going on in the "middle" of its leaves. This is the one that I am not sure if its from over feeding or light stress, as this plant is also right under the light.
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I really don't think its a deficiency, bc I'm running botanicares expert feeding program, currently at week 4 or 5 @ around 1900 ppm. Often tho, my ppm will go up over 2000; I usually add a gallon of water at night to take it back down and then let it climb again throughout the day. The pH also climbs, gets up to 6.5-6.7 every now and then, and I'll usually take it back down to 5.3-5.5.

The weird thing is, I've had these plants about 100-200 ppm higher than the feed schedule for about a month now. They've vegged for 6 weeks and have now flowered for 4, and I haven't had any problems--and they've been between 18-1900 ppm for like 2 or 2 1/2 weeks, and they have been taking it fine. The blue dream is still doing amazing:
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I'm starting to wonder if maybe I have some root issues going on. The root mass has gotten too big for me to pull the plants out and check, but I can check the blue dreams roots and even tho the plant is fine im starting to worry about the roots. Tried using bennies but for now a sterile res has been easier for me.

Thanks for looking guys, hopefully the Dr. House of weed can come in here and diagnose my shit, lol. See what's going on.
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And here's a shot of the light stressed cotton candy next to the healthy blue dream:
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Thabks again guys. And as always, + rep to anyone helpful. Now here's a double bc the internet is stupid.
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ThorGanjason

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Dammit, had to restore saved content and it does that dumb shit. Lemme post the first 3 pics again:

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And here's the dankola, the blue dream
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treedabbler

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Hey Thor, they look very nice. what is the wattage on your light and how far is it away from top's of plants? this may be a factor. Also I have experienced curling leaves with having too much nitrogen.
 

ThorGanjason

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Hey treedabler, the ballast is a dimmable 1000w with a turbo setting (turbo= +10 or 15 percent, so its like 11-1150w) and prior to cropping the soil plants, the light was about 18 inches @ turbo setting and the bulb was directly above the cotton candy.

Since then I've raised it to about 24-26 inches, but then started getting the weird thing on the leaves with the desert diesel, so I kicked the ballast down to 1000. The next day it seemed to be progressing with the diesel so I started considering that maybe it was from overfeeding and kicked my ppms down from about 1900 to 1600 and have been letting it slowly rise from there
 
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