Edge of fan leaf different colour

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Hi all, my planta are looking reasonably well and I have to do a defoliarion, not sure why I'm waiting for day 21 when it's day 19 now so should get in with the clippers.

Anyway one thing that bothers me is the edge of the fan leaves, it's a different colour to the mains and ive attached a video so you can see what I mean.

It's probably not a big issue but I'd lile to know what it actually is. I've looked at pictures on Google etc and think it might be nitrogen but I haven't really any idea lol

The new growth from around flower sites is great but I would like to know if so if anyone has any idea please

I'm using biotabs if that helps
 

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Your plants are very, very green. Your on par with nitrogen, but I think you're feeding too nitrogen heavy and now your potassium has gotten locked out. At least thats what it looks like to me. It could just be a potassium deficiency too, but how dark green your plants are tells me they got plent of nitrogen. Remember that no matter how much nitrogen a plant has available, nothing stops a plant from uptaking nitrogen so it will keep metabolizing it as long as it is present, not many plant nutrients are unaffected by the amount of other nutrients present like nitrogen is, but a few are directly effected by how much nitrogen is available, and potassium is one big one. Nitogen toxicity will start out as your plants becoming a deep forest green, as it continues it will start locking out potassium causing what looks like deficiencies, but in reality they are present but unable to be used by the plant because the nitrogen has blocked it out completely.

What soil are you using, and what are you ph'ing your water to? I see that you are using biotabs. If you mixed them in or top dressed your soil right away and your soil has fertilizer in it already this might have caused a build up of nitrogen in a peat based soil over time. Unfortunately the only thing you can do is to wait it out and water it out at this point if that is the case, also if your ph isnt being managed well this could cause a lock out of potassium as well but is easier to fix over time.

Also pop over to the autoflower infirmary page, doesnt matter if they are photos or autos. Start a thread there, at the top of the page will be a post from Mossy with a form you can copy and paste to your thread, fill it out. It has all the info everyone could need about a pictoral/info based diagnosis.

I know the following diagram is confusing but if you look at nitrogen and follow the line that leads to potassium, that line means that too much nitrogen leads to potassium antagonism or layman's terms potassium lock out.
Screenshot_20230103_002410_Google.jpg

The solid lines represent a negative interaction when the originating nutrient is to heavy the solid line an corresponding arrow and nutrients it leads to will be negatively effected. LOCKOUT

The dotted line shows a positive relationship, meaning the more from the originating nutrients will help your plant metabolize the nutrient the line and arrow is pointing to. HELP UPTAKE.

You will see this diagram floating around from time to time on there and it does get very confusing but it is to show the balance needed between all of a plants food for a plant to metabolize its required food.
 
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Thanks @Cannaficionado that's a great reply. Takes a little but of understanding but I think I get the jist of things.

The plant right at the front is mixed with silicium flash and only on a water only feed and I drop PH to 6.5 even though its no advisable when using biotabs. Lol so there's my 1st fuck up, not following the guidance but my ph is over 8 if I don't down it.

The other 2 I'm mixing biobizz light mix and biotab all in the soil, and they're meant to have 5week veg then flower but ive given nearly 15wk lol so I popped an extra tab in one and injected some silicoum flash. I'm about to move onto the compost tea now with the back 2 so they'll be the injection of the chemical needed for flowering cycle which I think is phrosporus.

That said the plants are looking the best I've ever grown over 6 grows in coco and think that's down to the biotabs.

My last grow with biotab I didnt ph and it wasn't great as alot of deficiencies similar to low PH in coco but this time I'm tweaking things a little and trying to keep PH around 6.5/7.0

Thanks fkr yhe graph and I'll no be afraid to post in the auto sick plants when it's a photo

Thanks
 
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