k def - newer growth in flowering?

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@Waira can you help me out?

This plant seems to be showing odd symptoms, only newer growth is really affected. She’s being fed 2ml old timer grow 3-7-5, 2ml pk 4/8 2ml topmax and 1tsp Epsom salts per litre. Other plants are absolutely fine. Just this one struggling along I originally thought it was mag def but now looks more like K def or a very unlikely chlorine def?

I would up feeds to increase K but she is already showing mild nute burn on the tips. Any clarification on if it is K def. the bronzing is confusing me.

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Biobizz lightmix soil, no ph measurements. Growing liquid organics and never have, although I am getting to the bottoms of this bloom bottle and the separation of the liquid within may have changed values (tbh I’ve not been overly impressed with oldtimer bloom anyway)
 
:smoking: Hey bud-- Is anything like this showing on the lowers? If it's all up high like this, it's most likely an immobile micronutrient defc.,... I'd say Zn by the looks of it.... K too can hit along the margins/teeth like K does, but with K they get necrotic fast, Zn is more of a color fade at first..... I think micro' defc.'s are more common with bottled organic nutes,... they can also lead to off-pH in-pot, just not as likely as with synthetics; pH adjusting the solution is generally not recommended, so that's where I think this mistaken assumption comes from,.... organic nutes are acidic as well, BTW.....but once in the pot, there are many pH influencing factors in play! So that takes us to determining if you have a simple lack-of defc. or a lockout due to off pH,.... you've seen me bark about this before -:rofl:-- an Accurate 8 soil pH probe would solve this question in about 2 minutes! ...... Get me a whole plant pic too please, just to be sure,... but I leaning toward this being a lack-of deal,.. what's your water source, pH and TDS/EC reading? ... using Ca-Mg? I'm looking for potential sources of alkaline inputs,.. For a micro' supplement, I like Earth Juice Microblast- :thumbsup:... treat the soil, and do foliar sprays as well since this is the fastest way in,...you'll need a wetting agent to make this more effective, spraying tops and bottoms of leaves,... The very best and fastest way is with using Optic Foliar's Transport along with the micro' supplement,....
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Hi @Waira the main issues are on the upper leaves. Lowers have some typical K symptoms but don’t seem to have deteriorated. Ph going in is somewhere around 6.6, tap water is high 7’s but is brought down with nutes. I feed every watering. (Always do).

Here are the lower pics and full plant pics as requested.
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:dizzy:--stoned eye's, I missed this- sorry mate! The epsoms, at 1tsp/L is too much, too often!... that's a dosage to treat a Mg or S defc. for 2-3 rounds, but repeated inputs will cause salt build up and that leads to either burn and/or uptake restrictions...basically it makes the ion concentration too high outside the roots, which then screws up osmotic balance, also creates a competitive cation uptake problem,.. this might be why you have K defc. symptoms down low,... in fact, these symptoms up higher may also be K related,...there's some overlap early on in how both Zn and K look, both hitting along margins.. K usually hits lower too, but under some circumstances, it'll affect higher up too,...as mentions, K tend to burn , where Zn does not,... In any case, confirm the epsoms' input for me, if that's been going in every feed, you have a salt build up problem, and that'll need a flush to purge out the excess.. as long as the EC/ppm in the root zone is way too high, not amount of other inputs, even foliar, is going to fix this,... I'd still get the micronute supp too,...
 
:dizzy:--stoned eye's, I missed this- sorry mate! The epsoms, at 1tsp/L is too much, too often!... that's a dosage to treat a Mg or S defc. for 2-3 rounds, but repeated inputs will cause salt build up and that leads to either burn and/or uptake restrictions...basically it makes the ion concentration too high outside the roots, which then screws up osmotic balance, also creates a competitive cation uptake problem,.. this might be why you have K defc. symptoms down low,... in fact, these symptoms up higher may also be K related,...there's some overlap early on in how both Zn and K look, both hitting along margins.. K usually hits lower too, but under some circumstances, it'll affect higher up too,...as mentions, K tend to burn , where Zn does not,... In any case, confirm the epsoms' input for me, if that's been going in every feed, you have a salt build up problem, and that'll need a flush to purge out the excess.. as long as the EC/ppm in the root zone is way too high, not amount of other inputs, even foliar, is going to fix this,... I'd still get the micronute supp too,...
Cheers for the info @Waira I managed to hold any deterioration off for a while. Stopped the Epsom feeds and gave some micros. All was good until the last few days and then this. She’s getting a good feeding but I’ve obvs screwed up on the mag input. What would be your advice to see her to the end. Never had an issue like this before. Also what would you suggest for Epsom doseage on future plants and. How often? Info is conflicting I’ve found

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...do you have an EC or TDS meter? I'd like to see what the salt load is in there,.. symptoms have progressed a lot, still thinking this is K defc., maybe some P starting too, (Zn is out now that symptoms have resolved more clearly)... and the K isn't going to get better as long as the soil is still loaded with Mg; too much of that inhibits K uptake,.... a flush might be needed, the lesser evil IMO,... Using epsoms regularly, like 1/4 tsp/gal is OK,...if you need it at all! That will depend on your nutes, medium, water,....
 
...do you have an EC or TDS meter? I'd like to see what the salt load is in there,.. symptoms have progressed a lot, still thinking this is K defc., maybe some P starting too, (Zn is out now that symptoms have resolved more clearly)... and the K isn't going to get better as long as the soil is still loaded with Mg; too much of that inhibits K uptake,.... a flush might be needed, the lesser evil IMO,... Using epsoms regularly, like 1/4 tsp/gal is OK,...if you need it at all! That will depend on your nutes, medium, water,....
Cheers @Waira will work from that.
 
@devileyezzz -- :toke: mate, this isn't an Infirmary issue, and please don't post in another's thread for such things,.. start a new one if needed, otherwise it gets lost in the scrum here! That said, look into the Harvest/cure section here for info on that,.. basically you need to assess your trichome's colors and ripeness stage... clear= immature, cloudy = ready, amber = past ripe, starting to have THC decay into CBN, a narco-sleepy cannabinoid.... how much amber you let form depends on what kind of buzz you want, and the strains general characteristics,....
 
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