i dont think the soil ever lacked nutrients because its always had fresh soil, and im pretty sure i never overfertilized. i forgot to mention i had a spider mite problem up until a couple weeks ago. i bought a pest strip and theyre all gone now. this plant wasnt really affected too much by the mites but there were a couple on it. i also forget to mention i did spray the whole plant with soap in order to help get rid of mites and i thinking maybe the plant got burned in a few spots because of that. still, i don thtink that would have caused this much of a reaction.