Soil or hydro or coco: Soil -- 1/3 soil conditioner (rice hulls + a little fertilizer), 1/3 soil conditioner, 1/6 peat, 1/6 worm castings, some dry fertilizer (5-5-5), kelp meal, azomite, dolomitic lime pellets
Strain: Norcal strains from local clone distributers
Photo or Auto: Auto
Plant age: Clones were planted about 10 weeks ago
Pot size: started in 1gal, moved to 5gal after a month. Smart pots
Nutes or additives used and how often for soil: some dry fertilizer (5-5-5), kelp meal, and azomite in the soil at the start. Compost tea (worm castings, OG Biowar, molasses) every week or two (foliar and root drench). Always water with molasses unless i'm feeding tea. A bit of urine at the beginning for nitrogen. More recently, foliar feeding with kelp+worm casting tea as well.
Air temps (max min): Outdoor. Normally daytime = 70F/21C, nighttime = 55F/13C. Hottest is daytime = 80F/27F.
Humidity: outdoors.. not sure
Ph level: Usually watering with tap water treated with vitamin C and molasses, ends up around 6.2-6.6. Runoff is higher, around 7-7.3
Plants were super happy. I was feeding compost tea (foliar and root) every week or two. I made a "super soil" so I figured with the good microbiology I wouldn't have to give them much nutes.
I started spraying with kelp a couple weeks ago. First application, they loved it. Second application about a week later, I started getting yellowing leaves soon afterward. This was also around the same time that many of them started to flower. This was about 1.5 weeks ago.
It's just been getting worse since. The leaves at the bottom of the plant get yellow, with brown spots, and then fall off. They start off getting splotchy yellow -- it's not an even shade of yellow like typical N deficiency. The yellow is quickly moving up the plants. There's also some little bits of rust here and there.
The past few days I've sprayed with Epsom Salts and given a bit more urine, thinking that it might be a Magnesium or Nitrogen deficiency. I haven't seen any improvement yet, but it's only been a couple days.
Please help! This is my first real grow and I'm afraid I'm going to lose all of my babies
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