Hello moving into veg stage. Im a second time grower indoors. Have 4 Gorilla glue #4 in soil. Moved out of small containers two weeks ago. Now in slightly larger than 5 gallon. Soil is mixture of FF ocean FF frog Schultz top end potting Schultz top end top soil and perlite. Translate went perfect and they started to take off. Two weeks ago three days after reporting I started the first and only dose so far. Was FF wholly Mackerel and B-52. I used A third of recommended three days later a small drink of plain water. Then when I water I put 3 or 4 drops of Schultz plant food recommended is 7 drops. As you can see they started to take off but the last two days they haven't grown and the stems to water leaves has turned purple red and the inter veins of the leaves are red. The main stock only in upper section has purple red running vertical. Ive tried looking it up but not having much success. Any ideas
Stopped growing
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Welcome to 420 Magazine Tex!
Are you sure they quit growing? They look pretty perky. A lot of growers worry about reddish purple stems - thinking that it might be a deficiency of some kind (usually thought to be P). It could be, but P def isn’t really that common in commercial soils. Many strains have a purple tint and it means nothing. I wouldn’t worry about it yet. They could be a bit hungry if you only fed them a half dose once - you might up your Shultz dose to the recommended 7 drops.
Are you sure they quit growing? They look pretty perky. A lot of growers worry about reddish purple stems - thinking that it might be a deficiency of some kind (usually thought to be P). It could be, but P def isn’t really that common in commercial soils. Many strains have a purple tint and it means nothing. I wouldn’t worry about it yet. They could be a bit hungry if you only fed them a half dose once - you might up your Shultz dose to the recommended 7 drops.
Agree with FB they do look a little hungry to me too - a slight shortage of P/K maybe but nothing to stress about
Mayne
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absolutely impossible they need more food. Ocean forest will feed these plants for a long time.
Calmag is most likely the issue here.
Calmag is most likely the issue here.
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Thank you for the input. You were all right. They hadn't stopped they were filling out. I increased the feed to 2/3Rds dose and the FF Big Bloom is being used as foliar. I'm putting a calmag tea. Going to brew it Saturday next watering is Sunday. So far they are looking good. They are between 3 to 5 inches taller.
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In the pictures you can see a couple of the water leaves have turned sideways. I thought something was wrong but as the morning is coming to a close. I see now that the plant is doing it so the spurs can soak up direct sunlight. I had never seen that before. Very cool. Have a good one to all.
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