in the road!
I suspected that also. The day before I changed them over to the flower cycle I changed the foliar formula.
I would need to know more but the fact that it started right around the flowering period and the way it looks, I am guessing a magnesium deficiency. Magnesium Deficiency will show no visible symptoms for the first 3-4 weeks of growth. The symptoms become visible at 4-6 weeks and degrade from there if not treated. Again I am not sure But it looks like that could be the issue. Hope this helped.
Thanks Anomoly. In my nute tea I add 5 ml of Cal-Mag and 10 ml of Sweet Raw per gal. Both are sources of magnesium but I did just re-read the recommended amounts for both and see that the Sweet Raw should have been increased to 15 ml during transition and 15-20 ml during flowering. I think your on it! I am making a new batch of nute tea today and will make the change.
My guess is you nailed it!
Keep us updated if that doesn't help well explore other options for keeping your babies healthy. Hopefully smooth sailing from here
Yeah Buddy! Glad I could help or at least point you in a direction, Unfortunately when I started Growing there wasn't an awesome sight like 420 Mag that had a great community of people to ask questions and I ended up learning about a lot of these things the hard way
Now that Anomoly has got me thinking instead of going thru the motions I checked all my nute amounts for flowering phase of growth and found a couple I needed to boost up.
I'm changing to high p bat guano and have increased the mag etc. I was checking out the BeastieBloomz label and it says to start using "middle to final weeks of flowering". Does anyone know why that is and if I start now at 1/2 recommended strength will that be OK? If all nutes that are required for the entire life of the plant are being supplied then how would a boost of BeastieBloomz hurt??? Anyone try this?
Update: Yesterday I started the new nute blend and did some more research. After reading this from 420 mag: Cannabis Plant and Pest Problem Solver - Pictorial
I decided to try dolomitic lime. I mixed as prescribed and foliar fed the girls. Hopefully I see some results soon. Really makes me nervous. I find it very interesting that my issues showed up the same time that the pre-flower pistils started, so I hope it's related to plant needs I had not anticipated at this stage, and hopefully now have gotten a handle on it. I'll keep my fingers crossed and promise to be a good daddy from now on!
Dolomitic lime is great. I constantly have lower pH than I want and I keep top dressing with lime. Seems to be working.
I plan on adding top dressing starting tomorrow. How much do you use? According to directions I plan on using 30 ml in my 3 gl pots and how long do you think before I'll see improvement in plant conditions? Just trying to get a handle on what I'll try next if this turns out not to be the problem. Thanks for your input. Looking around this great site I could follow you all day! lalala!
