@TheMadDabber
No problem at all. Facts and learned wisdom are never rude.
I have learned a tent-load of facts since opening the thread. Some things are becoming clearer when it comes to these new (to me) nutrients - FloraFlex.
Since my last posting here, I was given
grow-changing information. I'm going to copy/paste part of something I wrote in another forum this morning in a thread about nutrients. It's easier to just paste it instead of re-writing it.
Dear Auto Flower Growers Using FloraFlex:
I have a troubled plant that I am not Journaling <here>. I am also not feeding her Jacks.
This time I decided to try FloraFlex, after seeing some YouTubers boasting about it.
They make this easy because they sell you a starter pack of 8 different products (all 1lb bags) for less than $70.
Like most growers, I go to the company's website and print out the Feeding Charts.
When I get there, I see them saying something to the effect of "we have a new and improved" feed chart.
We all want to use the latest and greatest (sometimes), so this is what I downloaded ... brace yourself.
Yup, they have you starting out your baby plant at 2.4 EC, and in three weeks you are feeding that plant 3.0 E.C.
My thinking then was, "Well, if that's what they say, it must be smart."
Otherwise, a bunch of folks would go to the web and sully their name.
I did this all the way to Day 41 and everything was fine, then I woke up on Day 42 and see this:
Now, I am not saying that suddenly overnight my girl got food poisoning from 3.0. By the way, my gut was afraid of 3.0, so I never went above 2.6.
As I said, I am not saying this was a "burn" from nutrients. There were some environmental changes in that I swapped the light for a lesser strength, meaning it was a lot closer than before.
It could have been light burn, or nute burn because of the light making the plant work too hard, which by drinking more it got more nutes than normal.
Having said that, some Nutrient Knight in Shining Armor arrived on the scene and said, "you have the wrong feed chart."
I argued that I had the latest and greatest downloaded straight from the man.
He said, "You are right, you do. However, that is for Photoperiods. Us AutoFlower Growers hassled Flora to create a much more Auto friendly chart."
He then presented me with the following Feed Chart, which I couldn't find on the website. It may be there.
Sure, it still starts out pretty hot at 2.1 EC, but never really gets above 2.2.
The truth is, the damage on the plant I posted above hasn't progressed, so I don't think it was a lockout.
It probably overate and just needed a double glass of Andrews (for the UK readers).
However, if I hadn't started a thread asking "WTF??" It may have been a long time before learned of this Chart.
Back to Now:
As I said earlier, I don't think this plant reaction was from the extra-strength nutes directly. They were fine with NO tip-burn from the beginning of Veg and for 43 days until the day this "burn" made itself visible.
I do think the extra EC did have a part in my plant's proton binge. Maybe (just guessing) when I say, had I been running this plant at a more normal EC, its sudden taking up water may not have overdosed it. Maybe, had I been back at 2.1 when all this happened the result might have been less.
Bottom line, I have been well counseled on this and my new batch of food has been dialed way back. I also raised the light some when I discovered there was a little juice in the dimmer switch.
I can't imagine learning this skill without the help I get from the forums.
Thanks to everyone ... until the next crisis.
That explains a lot! Yes. Ideally you start any new light further away and then move it closer. But the extra nutes won't help the plant any... and I don't meant that rude, I know cause I've done it a couple times myself haha! Less is more and give them some time to adjust to that new light and you should be back to square in no time partner!
we typically call it necrosis... dead and dying areas on leaves.