Hi there Flower. It's not unusual for the lower leaves to do that. It's when all of them look that way,that is the time to panic. They look pretty good to me. Keep and eye on them though.
No blackening, just yellowing and rust color blotches. And it's just the big fan leaves. The smaller fans and the sugar leaves on the buds still look healthy. I was reading mcloadies journal this morning and he thinks his issues are lockout from overwatering. I don't think thats my problem cause I let them get a slight wilt before i water them, but something is sure going on.good weed Flower Child
the 2046 is what I grew last round. after a month of cure it stepped up a notch. Very Good Smoke.
do the leaves you have taken show a blackening on the edges?
too much Potassium . when you have dark green leaves at the top and the lower leaves yellow with rusty spots shows that
lower leaves will yellow and stems become brittle.
this is just what I was reading out of one of my blogs. take a look and see if you agree
Your blog also mentions that the potassium toxicity causes lockout for a lot of other things like mg, mn, zinc, ect. I thought that high PH was causing the lockout symptoms they had. Just couldnt understand why they were having more issues instead of getting better now that their ph is normal. I'm going to give all of them a good flush tomorrow when their water is ready(dechlorinated). The blog also said to give a mild complete fertilizer. Do you think they should get a weak feed of the flower nutes(5-10-5) or I have some kelp fert that is N .3 P .25 K .15 (that would only give them a smidge of K)?
I'm off to pretreat my back 
so i can lug all those top heavy plants into the tub tomorrow.
too much Potassium . when you have dark green leaves at the top and the lower leaves yellow with rusty spots shows that
lower leaves will yellow and stems become brittle.
this is just what I was reading out of one of my blogs. take a look and see if you agree
Thanks OMM, I'm just a nervous nellie and not sure about anything this first go-round. I think I fret more about these plants than I did over my kid when she was growing up.
Thanks billy- The bombs are my favorites so far. If they taste half as good as they look and smell I'll definitely be growing them againLooking good there Flower Child. I hope my bomb plants grow buds that nice. Keep it up, you're almost there.
thanks fishcakeI think the.5/10/5 is the way to go 1/2 or 1/4 strength
I will go with 1/4 strength cause they were only getting 3/4 strength for regular feeding anyway.Good weed and good day to your fishcake! Actually slept better last nite knowing I had a treatment plan for my babies.good weed young lady
The chart of leaves. 2nd of your blog posts I believe. Then the K mobile defiency part. Talks about the older leaves yellowing and falling off, stems becoming brittle, etc. Shows a pic of the yellowing leaves with dark rust color spots and what not.
Im reading it now though. Sorry If I have caused any confusion, lord knows Im stumbling through a micro myself right now...
yeah that chart is a good starting place but is kind of iffy on the diff between not enough or too much. so I looked at the first blog and I think I confirmed my thoughts. that said I may very well be wrong
Well we all know when in doubt, research it out. And Im for sure not a definitve answer on ANYTHING. I just thought her discription:
On a lot of them the rust color is just starting so it won't show on camera-but it affects the whole leaf. It still looks like ph or cal mag issues-except that the water in is ph 7 and the runoff is ph 6.5. I gave them more cal mag in their water so hopefully they won't get worse. Anyone have any ideas on what else I could do? Oh and they are all yellowing and dropping a few lower leaves- looks like nitrogen def. Is that normal with 4 weeks yet to go?
Sounded just like the points on the blog chart.
REMEMBER, I am a hack. I am always trying to help. I mean no disrespect or harm in my advice. Flower child, I would always defer to Fish Cake.To be honest, I havnt read the first blog completly . Me likey pictures.
Good morning and good weed to everyone!good weed Flower Child
how are your ladies?
First I just want to say thanks for everyone that is chiming in with ideas. I appreciate all the help and suggestions for my sick girls. I was sure that the K toxicity idea was right so they were flushed and fed half strength 2 days ago and for the most part they are the same-only one is getting worse. She now has mostly bronze-purple leaves and the leaves that aren't bronze-purple are turning a bit yellow. Looks completely different from the rust spots. I have looked at all the trouble shooters I could find but nothing describes bronze-purple leaves like she has. Heres few pics of their troubled leaves with the rust and the bronze-purple:
Good morning and good weed to everyone!Also I think they are dropping too many leaves- the following is a pic of 2 nites ago- lots of them were still green but fell off when I touched them. Yikes!They are starting to scare me cause they still have around 4 weeks to go and I don't think they will stay alive that long the way they are looking now!
Oh and please don't worry about giving the wrong advice- I don't have a clue what to do right now so I really appreciate everyone trying to help!
