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Calcium deficiency? over-fertilization? Plants dying!

hmmka

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Hello guys,
my plants are having a serious problem and i dont know how to help them. But i think i should start from the beginning.

I raised my selfmade cuttings in 1,7 liter BioBizz LightMix pots, without using any fertilizer. Then i transplanted the cuttings in 6,5l LightMix and changed to flowering period about one week after that. Same procedure as always during my other grows with Skunk#1 from Sensi Seeds. This time i have got another breed (Akorn aka Snowbud X Warlock) in the carpet.
About 10 days after i changed to flowering period, they started to get little brown spots on the leafs in the upper third of the plant.
At first i thought it looks like overfertilizing, because it started in the upper third of the plant. But since i didnt use ANY fertilizer until then, i thought over-fertilization should be impossible. I had only used a mixture of 50% tap water and 50% RO water, adjusted to ~6,5PH ± 0,2.
After looking on some pics and guides, i tended to calcium deficiency and started to water my plants with a mixture of 100% tap water (contains much calcium here i think) with 2ml BioBizz alg-a-mic (also contains calcium) to go against the supposed deficiency.
After some days I noticed that it didnt seem to help at all, so i started to add 1ml BioGrow and 1ml BioBloom (thats 50% of the producers schedule) to the nutrient solution.
But it still gets worse and worse rapidly. Now i am a little doubtful, if i was maybe wrong from the beginning. Maybe my plants never had a calcium deficiency, but too acid soil or something like that?

I would really appreciate any information or suggestion that could help me keeping my plants alive!

 

Granger2

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Spread 1/2" of Earth Worm Castings or good compost on top of medium. Mix a BB veg feed according to their chart, pH'd to 6.3-6.5. Feed twice, allowing pot to get lighter between feedings. Look for improvement on new growth. Old leaves showing symptoms will probably not show improvement. Good luck. -granger
 

hmmka

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Thanks for your reply! I'll try that with the next waterings! I know that the old leafes cant heal but at least i want to stop the spreading :)
So if you recommend Worm Castings + BB Veg feed, you are also thinking that i got a deficiency problem? I really want to find out what went so terribly wrong here, to have the chance to make it better next time!
 

Granger2

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You were under feeding IMO. BB is an organic nute line, and it needs a good microherd to help break down the beet molasses based BB nutes. I would use an EWC ACT about every 2 weeks, or you can use a commercial inoculant product like Great White or OGBioWar. Ignore what BB says about not needing to pH their nutes. Good luck. -granger
 

hmmka

New member
Hehe OK, underfeeding sounds reasonable since I didnt use any fertilizers until the problem started!
The reason I didnt use any fertilizers was that the plants showed signs of "eagle claws" (sry I dont know the correct english term for that) from start on. I used a Bubbler to let them build roots, and used only plain water in the bubbler. After transplanting into soil they got little "claws". I thought maybe the soil was a little strong for the cuttings, because of the "eagle claws" and so I didnt use fertilizers.

One thing I know for sure now: Skunk#1 is way easier to grow ;)

I wanted to buy worm castings yesterday, but seems to be impossible to get here in winter :(
I had to order it online, so I have to hope it arrives here before weekend...
 

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