Sweet Tooth AF - Curling dry leaves

[wbttk]

Hello everyone,

I'm new to growing AF's on my patio outside. I have 6 plants ( 2 Sweeth Tooth AF, 2 Blue Treacle AF, 1 Mexican Airlines AF, and 1 Haze XXL AF). They all germinated on roughly 20May2016, so about a month ago.

*All are doing great, except I'm noticing one Sweet Tooth is having leaf issues, curling down and possibly dry? I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.

The plants are on 1/2 strength nutes (Dynagrow Foliage Pro 9-3-6) and I water 2-3 days a week (I push my first knuckle into the soil, and I water if it's dry). San Diego temps are 68-80 this time of year.

In this picture, you can see all of them. The Sweet Tooth with the leaf issue is bottom left:


More leaf shots on that Sweet Tooth:










Any ideas? I'm looking for great smoke, so I want to be all over this if possible.

Thank you so much, I'm so stoked on growing my first autos!

Mr. Pepper

 

[Waira]

... looks lioke some physical damage bro', likely earlier, but as the leaf grows out, the uneven expansion caused by damaged tissue make for distorted growth,...

 

[wbttk]

Thanks Waira, I'll keep an eye on it to make sure new growth isn't doing this. They grow so much everyday, that shouldn't be too tough.

 

[wbttk]

Just an update, my new growth is still dry and curling down and to the left or right. I looked into PH and it was 7.5. I immediately got some PH down and am giving the plants a 6.5ph solution now. So hopefully they'll come back

Only one plant has started to bud after about a month, so my question is, does stunting the plants during the vegetative stage reduce the quality of the bud after it flowers? I know I'm going to yield less because the plants are smaller due to previous ph issue, but is the flower quality going to be affected now that I'm correcting the PH. Still a couple months to go, I'm just hoping I at least will get some quality bud out of this. Thanks, I could use the advice.

 

[Waira]

well, it might, but not necessarily,.. keep true to the bloom nutes, just use carefully, as a small plant has a small draw,... If the growth is still deforming, then shes a mutie of some sort probably, though that high pH still needs come way down! near 7 and over, some of the micronutrient metal lock out fast, and defc.'s will show on new growth, so keep a weather eye out...

 

[wbttk]

Yeah, I'll keep a close look out. I'm glad I at least caught it now as its at the very early stages of budding. I'm ok with lower yield because of the veg issues its already had, but I'm monitoring my babies like a hawk from now on for possible ph/nute deficiency issues. Thank you Waira, I appreciate your help a ton!!!