Sweet Tooth Auto - Curling dry leaves

[wbttk]

Hello everyone,

I'm new to growing AF's on my patio outside. I have 6 plants ( 2 Sweeth Tooth AF, 2 Blue Treacle AF, 1 Mexican Airlines AF, and 1 Haze XXL AF). They all germinated on roughly 20May2016, so about a month ago.

*All are doing great, except I'm noticing one Sweet Tooth is having leaf issues, curling down and possibly dry? I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.

The plants are on 1/2 strength nutes (Dynagro Foliage Pro 9-3-6 and Dynagro Pro-tekt), and I water 2-3 days a week (I push my first knuckle into the soil, and I water if it's dry), so roughly 1/2 gallon of water/nutes per plant (in 3 gallon pots) 2-3x week. San Diego temps are 68-80 this time of year.

In this picture, you can see the dry, curling leaves:










Any ideas? I'm looking for great smoke, so I want to be all over this if possible.

Thank you so much, I'm so stoked on growing my first autos!

Mr. Pepper

 

[aridbud]

Generally, leaves curl because of too much nitrogen from ferts or because of too much water. Adequate drainage?

In veg stage, you don't need to supplement nutrients. Half strength once bud stage every third watering.

 

[wbttk]

Generally, leaves curl because of too much nitrogen from ferts or because of too much water. Adequate drainage?

In veg stage, you don't need to supplement nutrients. Half strength once bud stage every third watering.

Drainage is good, so aybe it's because I'm fertilizing the plant with 1/2 strength nutes every time I water. I'll try going without nutes and just water for another week or so until I see it blooming.

The other thing I noticed is that the leaves on this plant and actually a couple others is that the leaf tips are also curving to the left and right instead of only curling down. Is this something you've seen before?

Thanks

 

[wbttk]

Just and update, my new growth is still dry and curling down and to the left or right. I looked into PH and it was 7.5. I immediately got some PH down and am giving the plants a 6.5ph solution now. So hopefully they'll come back

Only one plant has started to bud after about a month, so my question is, does stunting the plants during the vegetative stage reduce the quality of the bud after it flowers? I know I'm going to yield less because the plants are smaller due to previous ph issue, but is the flower quality going to be affected now that I'm correcting the PH. Still a couple months to go, I'm just hoping I at least will get some quality bud out of this. Thanks, I could use the advice.