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Sick Ice, Drooping Leaves + Purple Stems

4saken

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This is my first post...this site seems awesome though. I currently have 9 ice seeds vegging about 4 weeks in. When the plants were about 2 weeks they got pretty burned from FFOF, so we transplanted into FFLW. They grew pretty good after that, but now they look pretty sick. On some plants, the stem turned a vibrant purple color and the whole plant is drooping and clawing pretty bad. It's probably happening to 6/9 plants. They are under 300W of CFL's, watered with ph adjusted water, and we fed them for the first time last week with 1 tsp of Grow Big.

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Joe

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Purple stems is a sign of P def usually but not always

Your plants look overwatered to me

What is the soil runoff pH?
 

4saken

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overmind1632 said:
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Purple stems is a sign of P def usually but not always

Your plants look overwatered to me

What is the soil runoff pH?

10 posts, aight kinda figured. As for the P deficiency, its weird because we fed them like 2-3 days before they started doing this, but it doesn't look anything at all like nute burn. They were just watered yesterday, but the soil was pretty dry before it was watered. Not sure of the runoff ph, our digital meter broke and its a pita to use the color drops but i'll try to see if I can tell tell.
 

MynameStitch

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Stop watering them so much, you are either watering them too often or too much, with the plant in that pot size you should not be letting water run off due to the size of plant and the pot.

Your plants are showing Nitrogen problems too, but I would not feed them, because over watering makes nitrogen harder to absorb.

Purple color does not mean you have a P issue, it can, but just because it's purple does not mean it's set in stone P issue..... Strains can have natural color purple to them and can pop up at any time of it's life.
Inot sure just yet if it is a problem ort by looking at it. not, it's hard to tell jus, just badly over watered and in much need of laying off the amount of water or frequency of it.

Get some fans pointed at the soil so it can help dry it out, your plants roots will be under developed due to low levels of oxygen from too much water.

water just enough about 4 in down and stop you want only water to stay in the middle to upper part of the plant not the bottom, bottom water stays there when no roots are there and therefore causes water to sit in the soil to keep it wet and keeps the roots too saturated.
 
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4saken

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MynameStitch said:
Stop watering them so much, you are either watering them too often or too much, with the plant in that pot size you should not be letting water run off due to the size of plant and the pot.

Your plants are showing Nitrogen problems too, but I would not feed them, because over watering makes nitrogen harder to absorb.

Purple color does not mean you have a P issue, it can, but just because it's purple does not mean it's set in stone P issue..... Strains can have natural color purple to them and can pop up at any time of it's life.
I do not see a P issue on your plants, just badly over watered and in much need of laying off the amount of water or frequency of it.

Get some fans pointed at the soil so it can help dry it out, your plants roots will be under developed due to low levels of oxygen from too much water.

water just enough about 4 in down and stop you want only water to stay in the middle to upper part of the plant not the bottom, bottom water stays there when no roots are there and therefore causes water to sit in the soil to keep it wet and keeps the roots too saturated.

Okay, just set up a heater in the room on low bringing the temp up from around 61 to 75ish, and a humidifer for 40% humidity. Is it true that FFLW would require a more acidic water like 5.8ish because it is a soiless medium? Some of the plants have twisting leaves, and a few small brown spots that could be a nute lockout because of the high ph.
 
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