Yellow leaves

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My large and small leaves more toward the bottom of my plants are turning yellow. They are in pots of 1/3 potting soil, 1/3 coco coir, 1/3 worm castings with vermiculite, bone meal and some lime. Six are budding beautifully with one 1 lagging by a few weeks and not sure why. But, my question is why are the bottom leaves turning yellow? I'm thinking they are eating the nutrients so fast that they want more. I have plenty of worm castings and will toss more on top but I am wondering if I should add molasses, wood ash, more bone meal or anything else. Like I said the buds look sweet but I know that the yellow leaves are a sign of something. Oh, and I have been spraying them with epson salt solution every week or two. Thanks for reading and any replies!

 

[The Hemp Goddess]

Yellowing leaves usually denotes a lack of N. If you are wanting to use a a super soil where you do not need to feed your plants through the entire grow, I believe that you are going to need far more added to your base soil than what you have put into it. I use NV's super soil which has about 12 different things added and I still need to supplement with some organic teas.

 

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Thanks Hemp Goddess. You always helped me learn even though you may not have ever known it from me reading your replies to other people's posts. But I looked on the leaf chart from the sick plant section and it definitely looks like a nitrogen deficiency yet I don't want to add a nitrogen supplement and blunt the flowering process. I think I will keep doing what I am doing and add more worm castings, epson salt foliar spray and maybe some molasses and maybe some diluted kale juice as I have a juicer and lots of kale.

 

[gourmet]

How far into flowering are you?

 

[The Hemp Goddess]

Thanks Hemp Goddess. You always helped me learn even though you may not have ever known it from me reading your replies to other people's posts. But I looked on the leaf chart from the sick plant section and it definitely looks like a nitrogen deficiency yet I don't want to add a nitrogen supplement and blunt the flowering process. I think I will keep doing what I am doing and add more worm castings, epson salt foliar spray and maybe some molasses and maybe some diluted kale juice as I have a juicer and lots of kale.

I would recommend making a tea and watering your girls with that. I like this one that Ozzy posted:

5 Gal Dechlorinated water(I dont check or pay attention to PH)
5 TBL(tablespoon) Blackstrap Molasses
2 Cups worm casting
1 Cup compost
5 TBL Epson Salts
5 TBL Blood meal
5 TBL Bone meal

Brew for 48 hrs in a aeration bucket(air stone in a bucket) the more air the better.Then strain before mixing or using. Then mix 50/50 with plain dechlorinated water and water your plants. For a treat for my ladies I Use 25%Tea/75% plain dechlorinated water as a folier spray.

Any thing that does not desolve in the brewing time just gets added to the compost pile."

I like this tea and everything needed is readily available. If you use this you can quit foliar feeding with epsom salts. I generally only foliar feed if I have a bad deficiency that I feel needs to be addressed immediately.

 

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How far into flowering are you?

I want to say 4-5 weeks so far.

 

[2small]

Brewing that recipe you posted with just a little less blood meal.