Purple Stems

DiSCoNUGS · Oct 30, 2013

I Have Teen veg plants that have brown spots at the edge of the leaves, and purple stems. I am running it under a t5 and running big city coco and House and garden Nutes. all the new growth is stunted but it looks like its coming out healthyish leaves and happy. Coco may have dried out at one point when i had a problem with one of my timers and it was on 24 hour light.. Help Pictures up soon

DiSCoNUGS · Oct 30, 2013

The strain is Mob Boss if that matters

Seaf0ur · Oct 31, 2013

Need pics..... brown edges could just be nute burn, and there's nothing wrong with purple stems, I have seen quite a few phenos that do that normally.... you might just be giving a touch too much love.... cant tell without more to go on.....

DiSCoNUGS · Oct 31, 2013

Ill have pics up tomorrow

Pepe le skunk · Nov 1, 2013

Actually I find the purple stem pheno's to be good potent plants.

HipsterDoofus · Nov 1, 2013

Purple stems are normal.

drsmoke69 · Nov 1, 2013

check this out

papaduc · Nov 1, 2013

Problem with those charts is so many of the pictures resemble one another and it's impossible to tell the difference in a real life situation, and They're also inaccurate and vary chart to chart. For example, both Nitrogen def & abundance show up looking nothing like they do up there.

Purple stems can be caused by low night temps amongst other things.
What EC are you running?

Seaf0ur · Nov 2, 2013

I have a thread elsewhere with many many pics of both deficiencies and toxicities...... Google search my name and the words "pictoral guide sick plants".... I don't want to get in trouble linking to other sites...... I'll move it here at some point, but have to reformat for the 5 pic per post limit.....

EclipseFour20 · Nov 2, 2013

Sometimes purple/red stems are indicators of magnesium deficiency; easily corrected with Epsom Salts (magnesium sulfate)--5ml/gallon. Tip burn on leaf is "normal" for those that use excess nutes; use less is the easy answer.

Cheers!

Seaf0ur · Nov 2, 2013

Most strains that I grow have purple stems, Without pics I'd say you're worried about nothing. I have encouraged, never corrected, purple.

Ya Dingus · Nov 3, 2013

im running coco too, and I get purple stems when something is out of whack pretty much. Some strains do have purple stems naturally but most do not. I've been having a battle with coco and am sort of doing better. I think it's more about the pH swing. I read that 5.8, while on a lot of graphs looks like its supplying enough mg, you really need to give them a 6.0 or 6.1 watering to get them to really absorb it.

The thing is, after the purple stems start, then leaves start to show mg def which also looks like nitrogen def as well. Its a coco thing, and it has to do with the cation exchange in the rootzone.

Coconutz · Nov 3, 2013

If you are running H&G at full strength under T5 you are probably overfeeding and locking out
Dont let your coco even start to feel dry

DiSCoNUGS · Nov 6, 2013

It was definitley a dryness problem now the stems are all happy with Purple LINES in them but good purple lines. Yeah this pheno has been around for a while my "grow Mom" Gave them to me and he has had them for about four years they are CHEM heavy for sure im starting a GROW JOURNAL!!!! link up soon!

DiSCoNUGS · Nov 6, 2013

Coconutz said:
If you are running H&G at full strength under T5 you are probably overfeeding and locking out
Dont let your coco even start to feel dry

Yeah i fee that mayne i def. let it dry out too much it was pulling salts really bad

DiSCoNUGS · Nov 6, 2013

Ya Dingus said:
im running coco too, and I get purple stems when something is out of whack pretty much. Some strains do have purple stems naturally but most do not. I've been having a battle with coco and am sort of doing better. I think it's more about the pH swing. I read that 5.8, while on a lot of graphs looks like its supplying enough mg, you really need to give them a 6.0 or 6.1 watering to get them to really absorb it.

The thing is, after the purple stems start, then leaves start to show mg def which also looks like nitrogen def as well. Its a coco thing, and it has to do with the cation exchange in the rootzone.

I tried the PH up a little bit and it did kind of look like MG and Nitro def. according to MYNAMEISSTITCH's guide to sick plants which should be in its own book in grow stores!

SPG* · Nov 7, 2013

The uk Cheeses n variations (s.cheese),blues and Blue Meanie have red/purple stems

^Blue Meanie (@5 wks)

DiSCoNUGS · Nov 10, 2013

So this was the pics of what they looked like i also put up another thread to show you guys how its coming

DiSCoNUGS · Nov 10, 2013

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?threadid=274471

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