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hi again I have 5 gallon plastic pots. lucas formula and I go light on feeding nutes so 2ph water feeding then one nutes and I feed when the pot start to feel a little lite and top soil is dry.

This looks like the natural process of healthy plants. The plant want to give you nice buds and remove nutrients from the leaves and put them in the buds for you. Next grow you can try a heavy feeding but if the buds are nice you can grow like this. Is the new growth healthy?

 

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I use city water 7.4 I think im gonna go a head and try some different soil any advice im at the end of this run I minds well try something else I was trying to support the local economy but whats best thanks guy soilless soil

It's because you are growing with peat moss. Either switch soils or add dolomite and stop watering so much.

Peat is some of the best stuff to grow in and it's allready amended with dolomite if it's not for plants that like acidic soil and we don't use that. Maybe try to use more nutes from the start or amend it with something and put clay pebbles in the bottom of the pot and/or mix it with the soil.

 

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Sometimes when I read threads like this I feel people forget that it is an annual weed. It's supposed to suck the nutrients out of the leaves and put it in the seeds before it dies. When it can't make seeds it will do the same and put it in the buds. It makes little sense to find out exactly what nutrients it takes from the leaves, add more nutes to the next pot if you want to delay the process or just like to harvest green leaves or whatever. Just a thought but if the buds are nice the smoke will be nice too. Often these nutes are micro too so the solution is to add micro to the pot when you mix the soil or pour it in the next grow.

 

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Fluxuate you pH. Looks like a calcium def (or lockout) use a range of pH to allow other nutrients to be taken up by the plant.

 

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i thought this may help with the remo nutes i use these with coco and i sometimes get problems if i dont water to run off all the time with my top feeding plants also i cant advise as i dont use soil @barbarca

 

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Fluxuate you pH. Looks like a calcium def (or lockout) use a range of pH to allow other nutrients to be taken up by the plant.

Where will calcium deficiency show, new growth or old growth?
Outdoor I don't notice this, I come back and find dead leaves and the buds look fine, don't mess so much with the soil cause the plant know what soil it is growing in and adapt itself like this. If you begin pouring in all kinds of things in it and give it PH up and down and flushing it so the soil change too fast the plant don't know what's going on and can't adjust for it. When the issues are sorted it may be too late cause it's time to harvest.

 

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k first thanks so much for the help second I got another ph pen I had the 7pro one but just bought the bluelab pen this other pen was off by 4 points so the new one says 6.2 and the other one said 5.8 so that might be the problem im not giving up on this soil yet thanks guys I hope this is the problem got dinafem mobydickxxl dutch passion auto glueberry and a nova og got for free it says auto version

 

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k first thanks so much for the help second I got another ph pen I had the 7pro one but just bought the bluelab pen this other pen was off by 4 points so the new one says 6.2 and the other one said 5.8 so that might be the problem im not giving up on this soil yet thanks guys I hope this is the problem got dinafem mobydickxxl dutch passion auto glueberry and a nova og got for free it says auto version

What is in this this soilless soil btw?
Edit- it's classic peat and perlite mix with dolomite and nutes. It will be good with an inch or two of clay pebbles in the bottom of the pot if it's deep, it will help with any nutes you use mixed in soil or mixed with water.

 

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Where will calcium deficiency show, new growth or old growth?
Outdoor I don't notice this, I come back and find dead leaves and the buds look fine, don't mess so much with the soil cause the plant know what soil it is growing in and adapt itself like this. If you begin pouring in all kinds of things in it and give it PH up and down and flushing it so the soil change too fast the plant don't know what's going on and can't adjust for it. When the issues are sorted it may be too late cause it's time to harvest.

Generally lower/older growth will show first. Dead leaves on the outdoor or indoor? (If indoor could be lack of light to those leaves) Next watering should be fine to water with.

 

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Generally lower/older growth will show first. Dead leaves on the outdoor or indoor? (If indoor could be lack of light to those leaves) Next watering should be fine to water with.

Yes outdoor the plants kill the lower leaves first cause they are almost useless and contain important nutrients, then it's moving up and it's nothing that stresses me out, it's natural and weed can do it and still make nice buds, maybe even better smoke too. What I mean is that we have two variables, health of the soil and health of the plant and this natural decoloration of the leaves may not indicate that something is wrong in either one just because we can offset how the plant control nutrient uptake in hydro or by other actions. It can take some nutrients from the soil and some from the leaves and both the soil and the plant can still be in good shape. It's just something beginners should know and how they do with the next pot will be a more intelligent decision than to just add something cause someone say so.