Ok so I’m here looking for more advice lol. It seems like during flower I just keep having issues and this is my first grow. So about a week ago now I had a nutrient deficiency that was fixed by adding Gaia green bloom. I added Gaia green bloom about 5 days ago now and then last night I got home and noticed some leafs looking like the pic I posted. I trimmed them off but I’m fighting an uphill battle here. I’m using distilled water for now to help the top dress of Gaia green bloom to work into the soil and break down. The ph count is 7 in the water. Idk if I got a nutrient lockout or if I watered it to much or
what’s going on so any advice will help I usually water about once every 2 or 3 days depending on how the soil is and how heavy the pots are I’m in week 3 of flower I’ll be in week 4 in about another 4 days I’m growing 2 blue cheese and 1 rainbow glue the rainbow glue is the darker green plant the blue cheese is the lighter one with the bad leafs I attached pics of the soil as well
Leaves fade and drop starting in flower. You will see it progress through the older fan leaves as nutrients are extracted from the flower then released.
Your plant appears to be more like week 2 of flower: two weeks from the flip plus two weeks with buttons showing.
I would keep doing what you are doing as plants look fine and healthy.
I don’t know as much as @Myfriendis410, but I also think it looks healthy; a few droopy leaves aren’t an indication of a problem when the rest look good. I think the PH should be betwern 6.3 to 6.7,
7 it’s fine but maybe not all through. Follow @Myfriendis410 advice about flowering
Are you using vermiculite or perlite in your potting mix?
Vermiculite can hold water but can also squash down.
Perlite doesn’t hold water or get compressed, and is better for drainage.
It’s premixed dirt so I bought happy frog fox farm and a bag of roots organic and mixed them together. They both have Perlite in them. And I added a top dressing of Gaia green bloom about 3 or 5 days ago I don’t remember exactly lol i and watered them I checked the pots today and the dirt is still moist and semi heavy so I don’t need water and it shouldn’t be low on nutes because that Gaia green earth has all the nutes it needs. But the moderator up above here said they look healthy and that it’s normal during flower for leafs to start dying off as the flower sucks the nutrients out of them so hopefully all is well.
Quit using distilled water. Your tap has miconutrients your plant needs. Set out a gal or 5 and allow to degas to 24 hrs. Your plants need a tad of chlorine too believe it or not. Also dont overwater. Allow your plant to tell you when shes ready for a drink. When shes 100% droopy pick up the potand notice shes feather light. Water slowly over a 20 min period to allow the soil to soak up all the moisture. You dont want alot of runoff. Dont forget your microbes need a snack too so a tablespoon of blackstrap molasses in a gal of water a week would be beneficial. During flower in soil she will prefer a ph of 6.5 to 7.0. My girls prefer the 6.7 which allows the roots to abosorb the p & k needed for flower.
The local water department has told me our tap water contains 70 ppm calcium and 30 ppm magnesium. I’ll ask them about the others you mentioned.
Do you know a good source that provides a recommended ppm for each one? Ideally, one that deals specifically with cannabis. I’d like to get an idea of how much, if any, of each one I should add to what the soil and water provide already.
I dont. In the beginning of growing i was using distilled water. I grow multiple plants at once and it started getting real expensive. I then moved on to a filter on my water hose and even then that got expensive as well. I picked at a buddy of mine who majored in agriculture and agriscience and also a few old timers who are botanists and Horticulturists and i took their advice about the tap water. As long as you dont have high concentrates of sulphur you should be good. I have a 50 gal watering trough thats open that allows alot of the chlorine to degas. I have it running through a filter medium that only removes particles that contains no charcoal. I also have 3 8in airstones that run continuously. Sorta like a pond without fish here lately with all the flooding the water authority has been adding extra chlorine in the tap. When you walk into my shop, all you can smell is chlorine… keep in mind that im organic
Oh well. I can still learn how much of each is in my water while looking for criteria.
I fill buckets directly from a hose bib, to avoid running the water through a garden hose and our water softener. I let them sit for 24 hours to outgas the chlorine. (Our water dept doesn’t use chloromine.) This scheme is manageable because I never grow more than 4 plants at a time. (In soil.)
I’ve thought from the outset that the hose-bib water is better than distilled or RO for my purposes. It’s cheap and contains macronutrients the other options lack.
Your post reminded me that there’s more to consider than calcium and magnesium, and I need to find out how much of each mineral is needed. Thanks for the mental nudge!
If you look on your water company’s website, they usually have a water analysis report that tells you exactly what is in the water. You can download it and read it on your pc. If you’re not sure what it all means, post it here and we can go through it.
Some countries like the UK have high levels of nitrates in their water. In the USA, I have seen water reports with high levels of carcinogenic substances from agriculture runoff and firefighting foam. Depending on what is in the water will determine if you can use tap water or if you should filter it.
Having a water analysis report will also tell you if the water is safe for you to drink. Whilst governments around the country say “yes, it’s perfectly safe to drink”, they don’t always tell the truth and many of them have never read the water analysis report. Read it for yourself and find out exactly what is in your drinking water. It might be fine for plants but might not be good for you, your family or your pets.
They do, but it focuses on the water’s safety for humans and tells me nothing about how much iron, etc. it contains. I’m waiting to hear back from someone who has that info.
That’s a handy tip – thanks! How much water will 1 tsp of 3% H2O2 dechlorinate?
