White Widow Feeding Issues

[InHumboldt]

I'm having particular trouble with my Early White Widow as well as my two different White Widow Autoflowers. The plants are doing great untill the side branches start to develop. They clearly needed more P and got it and it helped but then needed more and more until I can't believe any other plant I know of could take it. The yellowing took on a more N deficiency look gave N and at first seemed to help but then a hooking of the tips and wrinkling of texture. So now I think K here are picksView attachment 188687 Yellowing of new growth-under this light it shows bad add P it helps then more and more and more until the amount is insane! At the same time a minor hooking in the tip got worseView attachment 188688 I altered my ph to a bit higher as what I use (Cutting Edge) works by low ph and hi feed that as it runs and the feed is used up the ph also goes up to a better absorption level- but I'm not DWC or recirculate, just dump and drain. Adding ph up can over a very narrow range over feed the plants, so ph change is a very delicate and difficult change when the plant is already in distress but a mild ph up helped too. Now I'm wrinkling and lately I'm Swiss ChardingView attachment 188689 My normal veg grow mix is-- 5cc bloom and 15 to 20 cc grow. I run pre bloom of 15 bloom and 5 grow full bloom is 20 Bloom 0 Grow Right now I'm at 25cc Bloom and 25cc Grow and Audrey Junior still needs more! 50 combind is 100% more than anything I've seen a plant take! Only the White Widow and WW autos. PS my Cal/Mag is at 10cc/gal I use RO water and keep my eye out for carbonate precipitate and endosporagenic lithiatrophic bacilli. I have seven other strains going right now on the Cutting Edge Solutions two are auto strains my experience in soiless is novice.

 

[happily]

Looks like overfert to me now. I have experienced yellow new growth recently but they green right up after the veg stage and go dark green it been narrowed down to lack of fresh air/ temp hitting 65f. I'm in dirt Don't know if that helps you any. I've been co2 bombing and foliar feeding kelp(helped alot) Does it start at the base and work out to the tips and hit all new flowers?

sometimes an led combination could affect certain strains

 

[InHumboldt]

No not a bottom to top Mag deficiency. It's new growth that starts to come in pale and then it greens slowly-- unless the P is too low then older leaves develop yellowing between the veins--add Bloom and it helps. And I too think some nutes may be going too high now but it's not over greening like N is too high.

 

[happily]

sulfur?

 

[atoz]

As my primary planting is still in process but i have decided to get few white widow seeds in. I termed them in 2 saucers with paper towels, they popped after a copula days, one of the tap roots was really long the other was normal length.

 

[InHumboldt]

What I have so far found is all my plants were suffering due to Cal-Mag+ mediated nutrient lock. My Cal/mag got low and I started using a long pipette to get it out of the jug---there was residue on the bottom. This causes a nutrient lock that is most dramatic in P. After I found it I saw some plants with Mag defficency so I upped the Cal/Mag (new jug of it) and P lockout came back!!

My White Widows and hybids still need some tweeking on the feed and I see a trend that WW is a high P plant. More on the White Widow side of this as I see what it takes to get Audry Junior to stop demanding " Feed me I'm Hungry ---I need food!!!"

 

[GCase]

IH--I see you are using a nute line that I have not heard of before. I took a quick look. Seems it was developed some time ago by growers up your way.

I noticed the bloom is negative on the N. And the three part has a separate micro.

Even though you have this minor issue--how is this line for autos. And is your ph buffering well.

 

[InHumboldt]

I'm new to auto's and so I've got a collection of errors here but I'm progressing. This stuff works dead on, on certain strains. In DWC and recirculate the stuff lasts a long time. As the ph increases the feed level drops so it balances well. At one dispensary all the clones are selected to work with this system-buy a clone, grow it in this stuff just read the label and presto-perfect medicine just the same as the house top dollar stuff.