Sometimes just complicated.

[NoNameNoshame]

So I'm growing in soil and doing an ok job.

I have all the gear or at least us to. A water probe to test the moisture level in soil......I ruined it by testing my rocky cactus soil [whoops, don't disregard manufacture directions}............and my PH pen is out of calibration solution.

My city water {what I've been using lately} tested today a ph of 8.4......I'm going to call the municipal water plant and ask what they are reading...ph, not porn, Lol!

Anyway, I noticed some yellowing of bottom leafs and feed some PBP...nice soft effective fertilizer.........ph'd around 6.5 when I was done mixing.

However, the plants that where yellowing got a little worse overnight....guess I'm miss reading the signs..........I didn't have any burning of leaf tips, a sure sign of overfert. I didn't expect overferting to cause yellowing of leafs, but I'm thinking that is what it is.

I do have a soil ph test meter, but I've never read anything but different than 7.0-6.8.........I'll give it another shot.

So, I guess I don't know why I'm writing this.....I suppose I still trust and rely on cannabis forums to guide me..............so guide me......thanks lovers!

 

[Guest]

What size containers? And how long they been in there? Could they be rootbound?

 

[NoNameNoshame]

What size containers? And how long they been in there? Could they be rootbound?

Good point!

Doing fine:


A little yellowing on the bottom:





I'm sure there is more room in the potters. I'm flowering them young and small, had a topped LSD that was doing fine in the same potter. It's a wick hydro.......some would say........but the bottom feeders can get away with more......

I'm just trying to do the best I possibly can, that and if a pheno is worthy of keeping, I must keep lower leaf's green enough to reveg, an art I've yet to master.


Wow, the PH of the groundwater before entering the local plant is 7.0 {perfect}, after lime water softening the ph exists the plant at 9.0-9.5 {WOW!} and at my tap test's at 8.4-8.8...........crazy indeed!

Think I'll go back to well water, but that is a little hard, RO water is a must for hydro but kinda pricey and a pain to run to the other end of town just for 5-10 gallons of water........and that's not easy carrying into the home.

Guess I could work with the city water a little more.....just drop the ph when plain watering.

Does anyone know the problems associated with misting plants with suck a high PH H2O?

Guess I've been working with a troubling situation for someone who wants to grow perfect as NSpecta, Norcal and the like.

 

[Guest]

Looks good really. You should have some time before they rootbound.

 

[Blackmelo]

they look fine to me.

You aren't doing anything wrong by the looks of things.

You definetely are not burning them with too much feed. If they continue yellowing, try feeding a bit more.

I do not know much about PBP nutes but there are alot of growers that use this nute, try and find someone who has posted a grow diary using these nutes and see/ask them how much they feed.

 

[NoNameNoshame]

PBP is hard to burn with. I'm going to adjust the PH of the water and hold back on feeding, like I said, it didn't help, it hurt.

 

[NoNameNoshame]

So I take a good look at my masterlow male:

And see that a well fed plant has a lighter color at the growth tips, remembered seeing this in a good hydro plant as well.

So I'm feeding the plants that are in current stretch phase a little more PBP veg juice.....until I see the signs of a well fed plant. They have jumped up a noticeable bit with the ph adjustment.
Grapefruit x Neville's Haze:


Oger's Kush:


I do have one question that I may have already answered for myself. This question is this: The MasterLow Male is dropping it's balls, yep, right off the plant without shedding pollen. Look close at the first pic and you can see a ball laying on the leaf. I have been misting the plant and my best guess is that is the culprit........so no more misting.

Do you feel this could be the problem and that stopping misting could be the solution, I really need the male's pollen, Mdanzig is not producing MasterLow beans as we know things became dramatic Mdanzig's life.