A customer has a question and I hope we can get some opinions on it, thanks.
“The White Widow has some yellow on some of the leaves as they initiate growth. It turns to a pale green once the leaves fully expanded. I am using Fox Farms soil and nutrients. Can you tell me if I have a nutrient deficiency or abundance? I have attached a picture of the top of the plant looking from above. The plant is about 4-5 weeks old.”
Try checking pH might be ok. What are the fingers of the vein of you’re leaves
Can you fill out a support ticket? You will find it at the top of the page. Copy and paste it in and fill in what you can and write NA for anything you don’t know. Excellent picture.
Oh yeah, outdoors in a 5 gallon Phat sack.
Update - I watered heavily with pure water yesterday and the yellow is fading. I am suspecting I overdosed the nutrients.
I don’t see the place to open a support ticket.
Here is the support ticket. If you copy and paste this into your post.
COPY/PASTE: This “Support Ticket” into your forum post. Answer these simple questions the best you can. If you do not know, or do not use something; Just say so = NA
Strain; Type, Bag seed, or NA
Soil in pots, Hydroponic, or Coco? System type?
PH of runoff or solution in reservoir?
What is strength of nutrient mix? EC, or TDS
Indoor or Outdoor Light system, size?
Temps; Day, Night
Humidity; Day, Night
Ventilation system; Yes, No, Size
AC, Humidifier, De-humidifier,
Co2; Yes, No
Add anything else you feel would help us give you a most informed answer.
COPY/PASTE: This “Support Ticket” into your forum post. Answer these simple questions the best you can. If you do not know, or do not use something; Just say so = NA
Strain; Type, Bag seed, or NA
Soil in pots, Hydroponic, or Coco? System type?
PH of runoff or solution in reservoir?
What is strength of nutrient mix? EC, or TDS
Indoor or Outdoor Light system, size?
Temps; Day, Night
Humidity; Day, Night
Ventilation system; Yes, No, Size
AC, Humidifier, De-humidifier,
Co2; Yes, No
You have to fill out the support ticket so that we know what your grow conditions, grow set up etc. so that we can better help you.
Strain; White Widow
Soil in pots
PH of runoff or solution in reservoir? N/A
What is strength of nutrient mix? 30ml Big Bloom and 15ml Grow Big per gallon (Fox Farms)
Outdoor light
Temps; 75-90 Day, 60-75 at Night
Humidity; Day, Night ??
Ventilation system; N/A
AC, Humidifier, De-humidifier, N/A
Co2; No
@Moxieman Hows it going? Welcome to ILGM
A few more questions
What kind of soil and what kind of pots and what size pots?
How old are your white widows? Are they regular, fem or autos?
You’re pH is NA? Does that mean you are not checking the pH of your water? That’s the #1 problem we see here almost daily. I have some links for Amazon to give you ideas what you need to get. A ph Meter, 7 calibration fluid and pH up and down. If you have a local grow store hydro store they will have all of that. To start don’t spend more than $20 for a meter.
The FF Nutrients are notorious for dropping the pH of your water. In my case it drops about 1.0 from 6.5 to 5.5 and that is way too low for growing in soil.
I am using Fox Farm soil in a 5 gallon Phat sack. She is feminized, 5 weeks old and about 22 inches tall.
I have equipment for checking PH, I use a Hanna HI98100, PH up and down, and calibration fluids for my hydroponic grow.
I will check the level of the nutrient solution tomorrow. How do I test the PH of the soil?
@Moxieman your having a sulfur deficiency though she isnt in flower most flower foods have it and can correct it.
Sulfur deficiencies will yellow from the inside of the leaf outward resulting in exactly what your seeing
@Majiktoker so the remedy is to give flowering nutes? I haven’t seen too many with sulfur issues
Collect some runoff water and test that for soil ph. These look like they are growing faster than their ability to push nutes to the new growth. As the leaves get bigger they settle in and look better but I think Magic said it right.
Sulfur rarely comes up but does and can happen, flower nutrients contain high enough doses of sulfur they will help correct that depending on brand of course but most if not all should have sulfur that will help turn that around within 24-48 hours
sweet, cool. Thanks for that! @Majiktoker
My pleasure buddy
Balanced ph should also help with nutrient uptake. It would be nice to see what the runoff ph is.
@Moxieman, generally it would be ideal for your girls to see ph 6.5 water and to water only when the soil has dried out. You want your plant to push aggressive root growth and that will help. Next time you water, place your pot in a container and capture the runoff and measure the ph. This will help determine if salts have built up in the soil that might require adjustment.
The starting water is PH 6.9 and the runoff is PH 6.67.
