Hello! I’m new to all of this. I have two plants (Northern Lights and Cali Orange Skunk) that are flowering at week 9. I’m growing indoors in a tent along with the whole setup; 6 inch inline fan, small regular fan, humidifier, Atreum lights, and a small greenhouse space heater. I’m growing in 70/30 coco and perlite in fabric pots. The controls for the inline fan, space heater, and lights are set up outside of the tent. I am using Suite Leaf nutrients in distilled water, and I PH the solution to 6.0 prior to feeding.
Everything is going pretty good, but I think that I starved the plants in the beginning. I have leaves that turn yellow and drop off on their own. Some of the leaves higher up have discoloration at the tips and edges of the leaf. I think I overfed the plants after I figured out that I was starving them. Overall the plants look pretty good for my first try.
Anyways, hello everybody! I’m having a blast growing these. I like it way more than I thought I would.
Throw up some pics and we can assist better, aside from that it sounds like the leaves falling off is normal with where you are at in the life cycle. Discoloration at the tips will most likely be nutrient burn from over feeding. Other than that, let’s see some pics and see if we can’t assist better.
I support this chart. These two photos alone have helped me address so much and fix so much and now my very first plant (aside from getting roasted in the sun before I could get an indoor light) shows no nutrient deficiency or excess. Literally its only issue was heat burn from an unexpected unusually hot day here that broke 100 heat index right after a rain so the droplets magnified the light.
But these charts are absolute gold for nutrient balance. I said it on another post and I’ll say it again here and I’ll say it again later probably: I’m going to enlarge these and frame them and put them in my smoke/grow area.
Thanks man, it is appreciated. I’m gonna blow these up and hang them up in my grow area. My problem with specific nutrient deficiency is that I’m using a nutrient system that doesn’t allow my to adjust one specific thing. I’m gonna have to buy some more fertilizer components to supplement what I’m using.
don’t forget you don’t NEED artificial nutrients. Look up what foods and other plants are high in those elements. For example, if you have a potassium deficiency, literally go eat a banana, and peel off those little strings that hang on to them or cut up a small piece of peel and plug it into the soil (start very small and build up as with everything) and as it breaks down it will put Potassium into the soil without having to buy a specific potassium supplement. For nitrogen deficiencies, pick some clover (again, not a lot) and put it in a blender with clean water to make nitrogen water (I do stress, only a little bit, very easy to get nitrogen abundance and overload).
But you get the idea. You can do that blender trick with just about any food or plant high in whatever element you need. Just be very very careful not to put too much.
There’s more than one way to accomplish what our plants need. We just need to stay on top of it.
