Reddish brown spots in flowering, Resulting in rusting.

[CLePToKiD28]

Hey guys, I'm running 30 unknown bagseeds, supposedly a widow hybrid, in dirt, 24oz bottles of Fox Farm Ocean Forest, feeding 3tsp Tiger bloom and 3Tbsp Big Bloom per gallon, feeding every other watering. I've noticed SLIGHTLY yellow tips before, but nothing extreme that would lead me to believe this is an over fert. I started noticing it on a few girls (3) and it graduated quickly from spots and blotches to full brown rusting. I've been giving the select girls R/O water since, and seems to be helping some, but it seems alot of the damage is done. Luckily it hasn't effect the buds much, but I'm worried about losing more fan blades. Any ideas? Any help would really be appreciated.

 

[10k]

Yes thats an overfert. Very N tox in the picture.
You are throwing a shitload of nutes at them,
I'd flush out the planters thoroughly and not feed them for a while.
And NOT that heavy on the nutes next feeding after they'vre recovered.

 

[Care Free 1]

It reminds me of a high ph problem and the roots need to go into a bigger container. I would not keep them in 24 oz bottles very long. White Widow are very sensative to ferts also, so I use half recommended dose all Widow plants.

 

[CLePToKiD28]

Heres a link to my micro thread, http://icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=104799 .

The pop bottles are necessary as it is the basis for keeping the plants so small (30 girls in a 2 foot x4 foot surface area, capacity about 45). The roots are actually healthy but I appreciate the concern, drainage has been fine and growth as per normal.

Thanks for the quick response, I figured they may have gotten too much. Ive been flushing them with R/O water for a few days and they seem to be clearing up some, so thats good. Cut down ferts on others to 1.5 tsp FF, 3tblsp BB, and they seem to like it better than the higher dose (much more noticable growth after feeding). Thanks for the help guys, I'll throw an update on them soon!

 

[Brigand13]

Heres a link to my micro thread, http://icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=104799 .

The pop bottles are necessary as it is the basis for keeping the plants so small (30 girls in a 2 foot x4 foot surface area, capacity about 45). The roots are actually healthy but I appreciate the concern, drainage has been fine and growth as per normal.

Thanks for the quick response, I figured they may have gotten too much. Ive been flushing them with R/O water for a few days and they seem to be clearing up some, so thats good. Cut down ferts on others to 1.5 tsp FF, 3tblsp BB, and they seem to like it better than the higher dose (much more noticable growth after feeding). Thanks for the help guys, I'll throw an update on them soon!

How much bud do you get from that setup. Thats about same space I use.

 

[CLePToKiD28]

Brigand13 - this is really just a 'bumper' harvest from seed while i get my veg box set up so I can run the same ideal from clone, also it was to find and select any keepers in this family (30 bagseeds from some really good, suppposedly widow, hybrid). The result, being a trial run, is alot of them didn't stretch as much as I'd have liked (early nute def. combined with more indica genetics than previously anticipated). This is the first run, so numbers would be hard to know for certain yet, but the ideal plants (stretched over 15", filling all the space provided/closest to the lights) i will estimate in the 10 gram range per plant, which is what I hope to achieve once the mothers are ready to fill her with clones. keep watchin my thread, I'll be updating as it progresses, first ladies will come down in 3-4 weeks at this rate. I estimated 7 grams dried on average, and even though alot of them ended up being tiny, I hope to achieve somewhere in that range. If, infact, I do average 7 grams per lady, that will be 7x30 = 210 grams total for the first run, so maybe around 7 ounces. Like I said, just a guesstimation, but they do love the mixed spectrum and has made me a believer in fluoro flower.

 

[whodair]

my mistakes have hurt my yields more than the potency, until dialed in. I did much worse than that to a Kali mist. i watered and fed her just like my other skunk/ghannys. so she went yellow, spotty, dropped all her leaves. then she had to grow some new ones. so modest yield, devastating high.

 

[Mr. Stinky]

ya ph issues on top of too much ferts is my guess