Sudden black spots and crispy leaves a few weeks before harvest: What's happening?

pdgenoa

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This is a soil grow ScroG of Blue Dream and Northern Lights. It's my fifth grow with very little changing in any part of my process other than upgrading equipment (better tent, better screen, better quality lighting etc). Some time in the past week these black spots suddenly showed up. They're causing the affected leaves to dry and become crispy wherever the dark spots occur up to and possibly on the buds.

There's side by side pics of perfectly healthy buds next to highly damaged ones and the damage doesn't appear to have affected anything below the top leaves - as can be seen in the images.

At first I worried about a disease or fungus but I see nothing matching this when I search.

More than anything it reminds me of how it looked when I accidentally sprayed 409 near a crop a couple years ago but I can't think of anything that's been near these that would have done that.

I'm not ruling anything out though. Any help or advice is appreciated.
 

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22". It's an HPS at 600w. This is essentially the standard setup I've used for over five crops. I should have stressed that these areas appeared over the course of four or five days and is only in isolated spots. I think if you zoom in on the full shot from above you can see the damaged areas three or four inches next to perfectly healthy ones.
 
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