Need Help Please All BAD ;(

[MARY-JANE]

:hairpull: What is going on with my mother plant (white widow) can't figure it out for nothing. Growing in soil ph stick says 6.5-7 water when needed. feed everyother new growth lookesg great but all the rest all bad please help.

 

[HippyInEngland]

Looks like a combo of PH out and over feeding, can you link us a page to see your PH stick?

You should have come sooner, this is getting advanced.

 

[pothead4life]

how much nutrition are you feeding them?

 

[CasualGrower]

I am not a soil grower...... but kinda looks like a burn to me... Maybe even a lockout.... You say you feed everyother watering, when was the last time you flushed out the soil??

White Widow, at least in Hydro, can be a lil picky about the nutrient levels in their medium.... Usually grow WW with a lower PPM than you would other strains.... But that is in Hydro... I would think same would apply to soil...

But that is my guess... I think you might have gotten your soil too hot for her.... Give her a good flushing and set your Ph back on target... Then go a couple weeks without feeding and see what she does.

If I am wrong on this, someone jump in here and correct me pls.

 

[MARY-JANE]

ok here is my ph stick in soil so you can see my ph. I just flushed and run off is crystal clear no color to it at all.

 

[HippyInEngland]

7 is too high, you need 6.5.

You have nute lock out caused by wrong PH, the more feed you give it the more salt is building up.

A flush is not colourised, a flush it washing the soil. you need to pour 3 times the soil volume through the pot.

Yup, 3 times the pot amount.

P.s., I think those probes are far too innacurate.

 

[CasualGrower]

3 times the soil amount MINMUM!!!!.... I would do a couple extra to make sure.

 

[godspeedsuckah]

Are you using tap water, if so do you have hard water? You may want to use distilled water to flush her out and also from now on.

 

[Alistair]

Mary Jane, I think you did well to flush. However, that type of pH meter isn't reliable. In most people's opinion, those meters are no good. A digital pH meter would work much better.

 

[CasualGrower]

Will those meters work with a liquid????? maybe not perfect but just asking...


If so.. Maybe get some calibration solution to see how accurate it is.

Just an idea... I am a water man myself.

 

[The Hemp Goddess]

The trouble with having your pH out of whack is that you can get both nute lockout and nute burn depending on the pH. I think a flush is needed, too.

When we kept mothers, we always wanted to keep them small. I never fed more than once a week and never had any problems with them.

 

[MARY-JANE]

OK thanks everyone for the help any more advice is very much accepted.

 

[The Hemp Goddess]

Will those meters work with a liquid????? maybe not perfect but just asking...


If so.. Maybe get some calibration solution to see how accurate it is.

Just an idea... I am a water man myself.

Meters for soil and meters for water are different and are not interchangeable. Ph meters for water are substantially more than ones for soil (however, I also find the ones for soil are not accurate and are therefore not worth much).

 

[MARY-JANE]

Hemp goddess That is what i do feed once a week and some times i wont feed for two weeks so I'm confussed.

 

[The Hemp Goddess]

Hemp goddess That is what i do feed once a week and some times i wont feed for two weeks so I'm confussed.

Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were feeding them more often for some reason .

Your pH is a bit high--this may be entirely nute lockout. Here is a link as to nutrient uptake at different pH levels.

http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1908[

 

[MARY-JANE]

Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were feeding them more often for some reason .

Your pH is a bit high--this may be entirely nute lockout. Here is a link as to nutrient uptake at different pH levels.

http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1908[

how do you work with the charts here?

 

[HippyInEngland]

 

[The Hemp Goddess]

how do you work with the charts here?

Sorry, I don't quite understand your question ? Do you mean, how do we utilize the information here to our best advantage?

 

[MARY-JANE]

yes
not good with charts

 

[The Hemp Goddess]

The chart on the right give the info for soil. The pH levels are listed on the left hand side of the chart. The first nutrient listed is N (nitrogen). The green line runs from about 6.2 to 8. This means that nitrogen is available to the plant when the pH is between 6.2 and 8, P-Phosphorus between 6.55 and 8.0, K-Potassium between 6.2 and 8.5 etc (these numbers are approx). So if you are running your pH at 7, your plants have N, P, K, Mg, and B available, but Mn, Fe and some other micro nutrients will be locked out. IMO, that is why a little pH drift is a desirable thing.