What's going on with my 1mo old plants?

It’s been a little over a month since germination and the leaves on these two plants have started to show signs of nutrient deficiency or something about 5-7 days ago. I’ve never any issues this early on with the 10 plants I’ve grown prior so could use some help diagnosing the issue.

Strain: Jelly Breath (the worse of the 2, it also has some sort of genetic issue causing very asymmetrical growth at every level/node with one side putting out deformed looking leaves while the other side grows really quickly) and Tropicana Poison.

Soil: Fox Farms (50% Happy Frog, 50% Ocean Forest and some added perlite + mycorrhizae)

Environment: Temps range from 70-77 and humidity is 60-65% (I have them in a tent with 2 autos that are in flower which is why humidity is on the lower side for veg - my bigger tent has photos that are on 12/12).

Lights: 2 P1000 Viparspectra lights in a 4x2 tent about 20" above them and at ~50% intensity, again with the 2 autos that are flowering

Water: I know I have not been overwatering them, if anything they were underwatered for a bit b/c my focus has been on the other plants. I give him tap water that’s sat out for 24hrs and PH balanced to ~6.5.

Run Off Test: I tested the run off yesterday when I watered them --Jelly Breath 6.2 PH / 850 PPM, Trop Poison 6.3 PH / 730 PPM, so nothing abnormal there.

The only thing I can think of that I’ve done wrong is that I left them in solo cups for longer than I should’ve so it was a bit root bound when I transferred them to 1 gallon pots and they looked a little sick at the time (also possibly due to under watering) but they bounced back quickly. So maybe there’s a residual problem with the roots that’s messing up their nutrient intake?

Jelly Breath:




Older pic to show the weird asymmetrical growth I mentioned.

Trop Poison:



Plants are hungry. Time to start nutes. Soil is telling you it’s depleted.

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Agreed. Feed the plants…

That was my first thought but FF should last much longer than 2-3 weeks, my other plants didn’t need nutes until the last few weeks of veg. Although my last run I only used FF Ocean Forest, this time half the soil was Happy Frog which I believe has less nutes.

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If i was pushing them hard from solo cup transplant, i could never go longer then 3 weeks before hunger showed.

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Makes sense, I appreciate the insight. I transplanted the worse of the 2 to a 3 gallon today, but in the meantime while it’s roots spread out I’ll start them on nutes.

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