Yellowing leaf tips and a few brown spots , 3rd week of flowering

Bud1284

Active Member
Hey there fellow growers,

The pics shows the top part of a Royal Haze Autoflower from RQS 3rd week into flowering.

Last week, i started noticing that the tips of the top fan leaves (first 2 sets from up down) are yellowing/browning and yesterday i saw like a little brown spot on one of them - Funny thing is the brown spot is only noticeable under the led grow light. I do not see yet (at least not yet) under normal light.

I know in late flowering bottom leaves will yellow and fall but the bottom leaves are perfectly fine, as well as bud spots. It only seems to happen to the first 2 set of leaves from above.

On the other hand, budding is going fine and starting to get very frosty as you can see..smell is also getting awesome. Every other aspect of the plant is fine and she is budding in a very consistent way except for those bud sites that are a bit further down from light source.

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Hereafter details of my grow:

Strain: Royal Haze Autoflower
Source: Seed
Medium: 1/4 potting soil, 1/4 worm castings, 1/4 potting mix (with choir, moss etc), 1/8 perlite + 1/8 vermiculite in a 4 gallon
Lighting: Full spectrum led grow light 300W
Current lighting schedule: 18/6 (Been like this since day 1 of seedling).
Environment: Reconverted shower so lots of space with a window and a fan blowing so temperature wise i am fine as well as fresh air coming in all day/night.
Pot: 2 Gallon drained pot

Watering schedule

Veg:

Bottled water + Botanica's miracle grow Activ A every other watering - I used veg nutes 1/2 dose only twice during the vegetative stage:

Flowering:

First 2 weeks of flowering: Bottled water + Botanica's miracle grow Activ A every other watering.

3rd week of flowering: I just stared flowering nutes and watered only once with it so far.

Tested soil PH yesterday and i was at about 6.

I am afraid the yellowing and browning spreads as these are leaves close to the main cola.

I would appreciate your advice if you guys think this is a

1) Nute burn (my soil could be rich with everything that's inside)? and would therefore require a flush?
2) Nutrient lock out due to bad PH?
3) Nute deficiency irrespective of PH?
4) Or any other thing that i have not thought about

Many thanks my friends!

Peace out
 

Bud1284

Active Member
Slight nute burn. Autos are very sensitive to nutrients
Yeah that is what i was leaning more towards too and i ended up doing a half flush yesterday. This morning it was not worse so i will water the next 2 times with only H20 and see how it goes.

Thanks for your input!
 

Bud1284

Active Member
How high is that light over the plant?
I also thought about light burn while looking at it yesterday so after flushing i moved it from 20 cm to 30 cm above the canopy. How much distance would you recommend?

I just switched from CFL to led lighting and this is actually my first grow using led - Any advice is much appreciated.

thanks!
 

hotrodharley

Well-Known Member
I also thought about light burn while looking at it yesterday so after flushing i moved it from 20 cm to 30 cm above the canopy. How much distance would you recommend?

I just switched from CFL to led lighting and this is actually my first grow using led - Any advice is much appreciated.

thanks!
At least 50 cm. Then watch it.
 

Bud1284

Active Member
At least 50 cm. Then watch it.
Hi there,

Just wanted to give a little update on the situation: 1/2 flushing the soil + increasing distance between light and canopy by 20 cm does not make it worse.

The yellowed/burned tips are not recovering (they will not anyway) but at least i do not have similar occurrences on other leaves. I am now in my 4th week of flowering and i will post some pictures this weekend after the lady has completed a full 28 days of flowering. Buds are looking awesome and do not even tell me about the smell!

Big thanks to everyone who contributed!
 

hotrodharley

Well-Known Member
Hi there,

Just wanted to give a little update on the situation: 1/2 flushing the soil + increasing distance between light and canopy by 20 cm does not make it worse.

The yellowed/burned tips are not recovering (they will not anyway) but at least i do not have similar occurrences on other leaves. I am now in my 4th week of flowering and i will post some pictures this weekend after the lady has completed a full 28 days of flowering. Buds are looking awesome and do not even tell me about the smell!

Big thanks to everyone who contributed!
Too cool. Good on ya.
 

Bud1284

Active Member
Good morning fellow growers,

A few pictures as an update to the post - Lady now in its 6th week of flowering and i am guessing only around 2 more weeks to go, looking great!!

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Ernest Tee

Member
My plant did the same thing, tips of leaves are burnt. Plants look great, hope mine look that good in 4 more weeks.
 
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