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Hello Growers
I have this Orange Bud Auto in the 4th week in flower, organic soil that I´ve built and giving only water.
A few days ago it showed some brown dots. It´s lack or excess of some nutrient.
Thanks,
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Thanks! Here it goes:

Medium:

4 - mugs - bone meal
4 - castor meal (mamona)
15 - worm castings
15 - coconut fiber
10 - sand
15 - peat moss
25 - perlite
1 mug - rock powder
1 - azomite
6 table spoons - dolomitic limestone
6 tea spoons- banana peels powder
PH 6.3
Before use it rested for 3 months.
Half of this mix was used with half peat and perlite.
There was too much N but the leaves didn´t curve down.

Feed:
Just water

Water source:
Artesian well - PH 6.3 - ppm 010

Strain:
Orange Bud Auto - 4th week in flower

Ligth:
Quantum board 200W

Climate:
Indoors - 20 to 29 degrees Celsius

Additional info:
These dots started to appear a week ago. It´s increasing.
 
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Yes, I do. PH it´s around 6.3
 
At most, just water, no nutrients and the dots are increasing in numbers.
 
Bone meal, rock powder and azomite have P

This soil rested for 3 months. I have a suspicion that it might be calcium def.
 
I´m wondering what to do..I need to find out which is the real problem, lack or excess. 4th week in flower it´s not wise to spray anything but I can brush the fan leaves with some solution.
 
I´ll try a foliar solution with calcium, boron and magnesium
 
While the experts come by to help you, Ill add that I've had those symptoms before, so maybe you can relate.
In my case it was either medium not properly mixed or something wrong at the root zone. I would use these organic powdered amendments that came in clumps and if i didn't make sure ALL the clumps were broken down well before mixing in the medium and evenly mixed with the rest of the ingredients, I'd get those symptoms.
Then I stopped using them because no mater how well i mixed and broke them down, i'd get at least one leaf with that symptom. For a while I didn't get the symptoms any more if i used very little of it, but they reapeared once when i began playing around with more watering. Never got them again once i changed into other amendments. Point being, you might have some "hot spots" of minerals in your medium.

Might be your case as well or not. But while you get a better diagnosis, I'd get some beneficials like Recharge or OG Biowar roots pack, just to make sure roots are getting microbes to help them be healthy. The tip of that big leaf on the second picture looks like symptoms i've seen several times of root rot begining. Does you runoff water have any smell?
 
The solo ingredients were very well mixed and settled for 90 days.
Regarding roots, it could be the problem. I´ve notice the coco fiber retains more water that I like and the bottom of the airpot is always wet, never really dries. When watering, don´t get run offs.

Anyways, I just applied a foliar calbormag solution, let´s see what happens.
 
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Hello,
I applied a foliar calbormag and seems the dots stopped.
Guys, you won´t believe. I checked de runoff ppm and it was..4.200ppm!!
After several flushes I managed to reduce it to 1.000 ppm.
So let´s see how the plant will respond.
 
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