@Graysin If I had to bet I would bet that the taller one is the purple, if’n it’s not just a phenotype of Bruce. The 3 plants all fit the Bruce description pretty well. Short Stout plant with sticky stinky buds Diesel and whatever it was, let me look, “a diesel scent with sweet undertones.” Yeah, that. I’m trying to keep Moe alive to see if it gets purpley. It looks to be crashing and burning, though.
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I’m no expert, but it looks like you have a phosphorus deficiency and with your ppms in the 2900 range you might be in nutrient lock out. You should do a soil slurry test and check ph and ppms on it. Sound like the plant isn’t uptaking nutrients hence the high ppms and showing deficiency.
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Phos was the general consensus above and I don’t disgree. I’m way less of an expert than you, first grow here, I’ll do a slurry test tomorrow but I don’t know how so I’ll take you up on that offer, too. Direcctions, welcome kind sir. I’m not sure how one plant got locked out if it did. They all got the same pH water the whole time and the exact same amount. Unless I didn’t stir the sediment enough and that one got the sludge at the bottom, but they were freshly mixed and stirred. Anyways, they all were treated the exact same way. Is my point.
How do I do a slurry test in my sicko-girl? Thanks again, bro.
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Ok so how I did my slurry test.
I took a shot glass full of soil from the middle of the pot. I used a spoon to carefully dig it out to fill the shot glass and becareful of roots and put it in a solo cup.
Then I used RO water and I mixed with some tap water to get 150ppm and ph’d it to 6.5. Once done fill a shot glass.
If you don’t have a shot glass use some other measuring device or container, but make sure you get the same amount of soil as water.
I then mixed the shot glass of water into the solo cup which had a shot glass of soil and stirred it really good with a spoon. I let it sit for 5 minutes the took a ph and tds reading. That will be more accurate than your runoff numbers. Once done shoot me a tag and we will see where to go from there. @Graysin this sound about right?
Sounds like you summed it up perfectly. The one thing about a soil slurry that I don’t like, is that you really need to try and get as close to the root ball as you can. That means digging down two or 3 inches to get a good sample of that soil. So I try and do them very sparingly.
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Yeah, gotta be careful of those precious roots.
Distilled water will work as well, I don’t have access to RO water and Distilled is neutral and will take on the PH of the medium🤟
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I’m not sure I’m going to go pock a hole in my root ball. I might, but,
Let’s assume my slurryslug shows me in Nute Lockout, for some reason. What would be the cure?
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The cure would be to flush the pot with ph’d water. You need to flush with 3 times the amount of water to the pot size.
Example: 5 gallon pot= 15 gallon of ph water flush.
Then immediately after flush you will want to feed, add calmag, and ph water.
This will rinse off excess build up of salts/nutes and give you a clean slate to start feeding with and getting the ph back in range. The damaged leaves will never heal from those rusty/dark spots, but the color will come back and new growth will look good
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so, equal parts rootball dirt and water, water= distilled, plus tap to PPM 150 and 6.5pH mix well, let sit and measure PPM and pH? is that right?
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Not both, Distilled water has no PPMs and a neutral PH of 7.0. When I slurry test with this method. It’s equal parts of soil and water. Stir and rest for several hours, then I strain it through a coffee filter and check the run off.
ok, so you use equal parts distilled water and root ball dirt, is that correct. THanks I only want to dig into my bucket once. no starting PPMs / neutral pH correct? thanks again I’m sorry to keep asking questions but I’m a moron.
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Yeah thats correct
so here is something interesting…
it’s not definitive yet, but looking like I had multiple nutrient issues… the black leaves are the very top ones and there doesn’t seem to be any problems with the leaves… the yellow marked leaves (hard to see, sorry) are the older ones, further down the plant. You can see (maybe) they are all banged up…
Graysin’s advice on feeding (heaviest dose of nutrients yet) seems to be working… PRetty cool eh>
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Always good to see new greener growth showing 
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Pretty cool to me! I’m glad to see that advice is working out well. Your plants are beauties. Don’t let the imperfect leaves phase you, it’s “fall” for them. 
so they’ll change whether we like it or not. Best to do our best to keep that new growth green and let the rest take care of itself. 