Red streaks in stalk

[DaReaper]

I am in the 3rd week of flowering and a week ago i noticed red stems. Today i noticed red streaks going up the stalk. The temps always 85 lights on 75 off. Humidity is 45-55. Water with ph adjusted to 6.7 after nutes. I watered them with tapwater at 8.2 to see where my runoff was and it was 5.8. So i flushed them until my runoff was 6.4. Im not sure if it was salt build up or over nute, but they look healthy other than the red. Here are some pics please leaves me some advice

[gypski]

I know someone who has a plant with the same. Its outdoors in a pot. Its in the species he thinks. More purple color then red though. :smokin:

[DaReaper]

this is definately red and not purple...I guess i will wait and see if the flush helped?

[WashougalWonder]

All my ladies do this. I consider it a normal healthy female. I have some that even have it in veg.

[PhatJay]

I second what Washougal said, my ladies do this, nothing to worry about.

[jamessr]

It is actually a deficiency which causes this. sometimes to much of one element and not the other can also cause this..I have a book i will dig out which shows which element.

[jamessr]

Phosphate, mag., calcium deficiency will cause this. Mostly phosphate. So the book says.

[GROWxMOREx420]

Phosphate, mag., calcium deficiency will cause this. Mostly phosphate. So the book says.

From my experience this seems true. I usually get the vertical purple/red striping up the stalk during veg, then when I start flowering them and give them bloom nutes with high doses of pottasium & phosphate they go a normal color. *Shrugs.*

[DaReaper]

Well today i went a got a soil tester, it test soil ph,nitrogen,phos,potash. And here are the results, PH 6.8 nitrogen low, Phosphurous med high, potash high. Im not sure wtf going on, i know its not mg as i doesed them with epsom salts a week ago. Here is a pic of the main stem look how red it has gotten....ANY HELP?

[PhatJay]

Well today i went a got a soil tester, it test soil ph,nitrogen,phos,potash. And here are the results, PH 6.8 nitrogen low, Phosphurous med high, potash high. Im not sure wtf going on, i know its not mg as i doesed them with epsom salts a week ago. Here is a pic of the main stem look how red it has gotten....ANY HELP?


Okay... That pic is a lot more red than before... Red stems are caused by having too much Phosphorous in your food, which marries up with the test you did. The reason I said to not worry earlier was because the streaks were very mild and you were more likely to cause problems trying to fix a minor issue than the issue would create.

Excess phosphorous is unlikely to kill your plant, but it is not good for you to smoke too much of it.

[DaReaper]

Thanks for the reply bro!! So what do you think i should do at this point. The flowering nutes are 12-55-6 and i use 1/4 strength. I went and got fox farms trio for here on out. +rep for you help!

[DaReaper]

Oh and BTW the red stalk is only about 12 inches long and about 1/2 way up. the main stalk itself is 61 inches...Dont know if that helps any on the prob or not:wtf:

[PhatJay]

So what do you think i should do at this point. The flowering nutes are 12-55-6 and i use 1/4 strength. I went and got fox farms trio for here on out.

12-55-6 < are those the nutrients you were using up until now?

I havn't used Fox Farms but a lot of people on these forums have and everyone seems to rate them highly. If you have switched from what you were using before to Fox Farm nutes then you should be O.K. You might want to ease up on feeding until a bit of the redness goes.

[DaReaper]

Yes those where the nutes until today. I guess they are my prob. Not going to feed again for at least a week, then i will use the fox farms

[PhatJay]

Yes those where the nutes until today. I guess they are my prob.

I think so aswell.


Not going to feed again for at least a week, then i will use the fox farms

Sounds like a good plan to me. :thumbsup: The redness should fade over time.

[DaReaper]

OK bro Thanks a million for you r help! I called a friend of mine and told him i had to muck phos and my redness. He told me to make a folier spray with epson salts, chelated iron and nitrogen. I went and picked up some chelated iron and some chelated nitrogen. After 30 min the red is considerably gone, I MEAN BIG TIME differance. He told me to apply 3 times a day until red in my main stem is gone. Tomorrow i will post a pic in this thread for you to see the differance. Thanks again for your input phatjay!

[jamessr]

OK bro Thanks a million for you r help! I called a friend of mine and told him i had to muck phos and my redness. He told me to make a folier spray with epson salts, chelated iron and nitrogen. I went and picked up some chelated iron and some chelated nitrogen. After 30 min the red is considerably gone, I MEAN BIG TIME differance. He told me to apply 3 times a day until red in my main stem is gone. Tomorrow i will post a pic in this thread for you to see the differance. Thanks again for your input phatjay!

Nice...this also solves issues for me also:thumbsup:..hope this info. is useful to others also as i hear this problem hits many of us;)...again, thank you.:D