so bad news. my mites eventually came back strong(probably because it was difficult to spray the undersides of all the leaves in my SCROG). i came home one day to find webs on a lot of my tops. i decided to grab some Azamax. i did a foliar spray and a root soak. the mites are temporarily halted, but my plants are suffering. also i noticed this morning after the azamax, my plants look even yellower/browner and crispier than last night.
I was noticing some nutrient issues, which are now getting bad. i have everything, crispy leaves, spotted leaves, leaves that curl up, leaves that curl down, new leaves are light green for a day, then turn yellow to white and spotty, necrotic spots, stunted growth etc. it started on the lower leaves but has consumed all the way up most of the plant. i was trying to wait until the mites were gone to flip to 12/12 so i didnt have to spray the nugs, but now i think i may have vegged for too long(9 weeks).
my plants were showing all sorts of issues(what i assume are nutrient deficiencies), so i thought a PH problem was there(my unreliable ph meter said my soil was very acidic). so i fed them(earth juice grow, catalyst, and meta-k, which i tested and found was actually very acidic) and i mixed weed ashes(had no hardwood ashes) into the feed to raise the PH. days later, my PH soil tests showed about 6.5-7(hard to tell with those color charts). i did the NPK tests, the N was completely depleted(which would explain the yellow leaves), but my P and K were completely off the chart in surplus(which would explain the crispy, spotted, necrotic areas). it is like my plants are taking all of the N but none of the PK, which has me confused.
since my PH is in the right area i am lost. perhaps some of my pepper and soap spray got into the soil and hurt the roots? or maybe the spray clogged the stomata? perhaps the weed ashes had a negative effect on the soil that i didnt foresee? perhaps i just need to flush the soil with plain or PHed water? some leaves are almost completely covered in spider mite bites, maybe the plant is struggling to complete photosyntheses or something due to all the bites?
if you guys had any advice to save my babies it would be greatly appreciated. i can include some out of focus pictures if you guys wanna see, but it would be easier just to tell you that it looks like N,P, and K deficiency all mixed together all over the whole of the plants. it even looks like some leaves are heat stressed(wavy leaves with black, crispy sections) even though the temps are 68-72 and the humidity hovers at about 30-40%.
thanks a lot for reading guys, if you need better descriptions or more details let me know. i need to fix this within maybe 2 weeks if i am going to save this crop, thanks for all your helps