Leaves turning white

[metalarclemon]

What is your experience level? experienced

What type of hydro set-up are you running?

This is a variation of flood & drain, the sytem consists of 2 6' 4"x4" pvc tubes, with 16 2" net cups with ez clone foam plugs no medium, spaced about 11" apart. Hortilux 1K on hydrofarm mover in a ventilated hood on a 12hr cycle about 14" from the canopy.


Your nutrients and water:

I am using Botanicare nutes, at 1400ppm and a ph of 6.0, tap water with a base ppm of 100, 18 gal res with air bubbler, 396gph pump, water at 75F, no foliar feeding, no ph or ppm fluctuations.

Your growroom:

this is a 12x14 room, fresh air intake, lights exhausted, 68F lights out, 78-80F lights on, nice roots, 35% humidity, no signs of any pests.

Your strain:

Sensi Seeds Super Skunk, fast finisher and vigorous growth. Ordered 2 fem seeds both fem and have same pheno & grow characteristics. all grows are from clone.


The problem (I say problem loosely) is only on one branch of 1 plant out of 16 sharing the same nutes light etc. there are a few fan leaves that are bleach white on half of the leaf from the margin over and on one the far 2 blades are white and now one closer to the top is starting to bleach at one half. There really is no adverse efffects yet, but they are only at day 11 of flowering and don't want it to get out of hand. The wierd part is that only the one branch on the one plant is doing it. It's sharing root space with all the plants around it, matter of fact all the roots are intermingled at this point so I am at a loss. all the clones are from the same plant as well. At first I thought I may have gotten some nutes on it as it was only on 1 leaf and is perfectly white. now there are 3 leaves total with some white on them. I have never seen this before in many years and is quite baffling as this has been a trouble free very tasty strain so far. I would post pics but my junk hp digital camera decided to give up on me, maybe later. Any help or suggestions will be appreciated.

metalarclemon Reviewed by metalarclemon on 02-02-2010. Leaves turning white What is your experience level? experienced What type of hydro set-up are you running? This is a variation of flood & drain, the sytem consists of 2 6' 4"x4" pvc tubes, with 16 2" net cups with ez clone foam plugs no medium, spaced about 11" apart. Hortilux 1K on hydrofarm mover in a ventilated hood on a 12hr cycle about 14" from the canopy. Your nutrients and water: I am using Botanicare nutes, at 1400ppm and a ph of 6.0, tap water with a base ppm of 100, 18 gal res with air Rating: 5

[Faddenator]

What is your experience level? experienced

What type of hydro set-up are you running?

This is a variation of flood & drain, the sytem consists of 2 6' 4"x4" pvc tubes, with 16 2" net cups with ez clone foam plugs no medium, spaced about 11" apart. Hortilux 1K on hydrofarm mover in a ventilated hood on a 12hr cycle about 14" from the canopy.


Your nutrients and water:

I am using Botanicare nutes, at 1400ppm and a ph of 6.0, tap water with a base ppm of 100, 18 gal res with air bubbler, 396gph pump, water at 75F, no foliar feeding, no ph or ppm fluctuations.

Your growroom:

this is a 12x14 room, fresh air intake, lights exhausted, 68F lights out, 78-80F lights on, nice roots, 35% humidity, no signs of any pests.

Your strain:

Sensi Seeds Super Skunk, fast finisher and vigorous growth. Ordered 2 fem seeds both fem and have same pheno & grow characteristics. all grows are from clone.


The problem (I say problem loosely) is only on one branch of 1 plant out of 16 sharing the same nutes light etc. there are a few fan leaves that are bleach white on half of the leaf from the margin over and on one the far 2 blades are white and now one closer to the top is starting to bleach at one half. There really is no adverse efffects yet, but they are only at day 11 of flowering and don't want it to get out of hand. The wierd part is that only the one branch on the one plant is doing it. It's sharing root space with all the plants around it, matter of fact all the roots are intermingled at this point so I am at a loss. all the clones are from the same plant as well. At first I thought I may have gotten some nutes on it as it was only on 1 leaf and is perfectly white. now there are 3 leaves total with some white on them. I have never seen this before in many years and is quite baffling as this has been a trouble free very tasty strain so far. I would post pics but my junk hp digital camera decided to give up on me, maybe later. Any help or suggestions will be appreciated.

Never had this happen, but I believe your plant is just showing signs of albinoism... from what I can gather it wont affect the plant, just the color of a few leaves. I'm not sure if it actually is a problem though.

maybe somebody else knows about albinoism?

[metalarclemon]

Just an update, here are pics of the mysterious white leaves. As you can see by the second pic everything is going fine at day 21 of flower and you could never tell which plant had the white leaves now that I plucked them. I never saw this before and thought I'd save someone some worry if they ever see the same thing. They are just mutants and were healthy until I took them off and grew to full size. This was only on 1 branch of 1 plant of 21 clones taken from the same mother. So if you see this just keep on truckin because it caused no harm, just odd looking as they really are white.

[Rusty Trichome]

Might be time to switch to an all-fabric bleach? :thumbsup:

I'm not a hydro guy, but is this a progression, or did they just appear that way overnight? Is there any indication on new growth? I know they are tangled, but have you carefully checked it's rootball for damage, black or brown spots or slime? Yellowing leaves I could understand, but white isn't a normal color found on cannabis. Roots, yes. Foliage, no.

Were they bagseed, I'd mention that DJ Shorts is offering a variegated Blueberry strain. Perhaps of the same basic lineage? Perhaps a result of decades of uncoltrolled cross breeding...? Perhaps a new strain of killer quality and flavor...? Perhaps spilled nutes or splashed phosphoric acid...?

[metalarclemon]

The plant first showed just a part of a white leaf about 6 days into flower and then as the plant grew 2 more leaves showed the same trait once they reached their current level of whiteness they just progressed as normal. I thought I had spilled something as well, but as I saw new leaves grow after the first with the same thing I knew it wasnt that. It's sensi seeds super skunk.

[Weezard]

Sounded like light bleach until you posted a picture.
It looks like a genetic "hiccup".

Close up pic, might make a nice T-shirt.

Aloha,
Weezard

[Rusty Trichome]

Mix-up's do happen. Could you search for examples of DJ Shorts Blueberry line, and see if the growth habits and breeder description are similar to your plant? Not sure I've seen any growlogs for his Blueberry in here, but ya never know...

[Dutch Pimp]

I light bleached these puppies...week #3 flowering. Using 400 watt CMH bulb...

Once the white appeared on the fan leaves...it got worse and worse...VERY gradually...and the plants never recovered. After I chopped them down; after 8 weeks...I noticed the underside of the fan leaves was still green?...very strange.

The buds never did show any change of color and the plants quit growing after 5 weeks. I guess?...I stayed too close, with the light?...and switching to HPS didn't help, either...

[Weezard]

I light bleached these puppies...week #3 flowering. Using 400 watt CMH bulb...

Once the white appeared on the fan leaves...it got worse and worse...VERY gradually...and the plants never recovered. After I chopped them down; after 8 weeks...I noticed the underside of the fan leaves was still green?...very strange.

The buds never did show any change of color and the plants quit growing after 5 weeks. I guess?...I stayed too close, with the light?...and switching to HPS didn't help, either...

Hortilux 1K. onna mover.


Just took a closer look.
That's not light bleach.
The definition tween white and green is a sharp line.
It's like the chlorophyl gene got switched off.
Some kine bio-screwup.
I've seen something similar with Lemonskunk clones, only it was bright yellow instead of white.

Now, I wish I'd taken pics.

Aloha
Weeze

[Dutch Pimp]

I agree...Weeze..:thumbsup:...light bleaching is fairly rare. I'm suprised I figured out how to do that, in such a short time...:stoned: