I got a pH test kit. The distilled water seems to be around 6.4. I put a sample of soil in a coffee filter and poured some water through it and the pH dropped down to around 6.0 =/ so maybe it is a lockout problem. I'll properly test the runoff pH when I get up tomorrow.

Whatever the problem is, it's getting worse pretty fast. Today the leaf in the first picture is completely shriveled and dead, and the leaves in the second and third picture are much more discolored. I'm afraid the whole plant will be dead within a week if I don't figure out what's wrong. If the runoff pH is low I'll probably end up doing a flush.

My tap water's pH is about 7.5, so I mixed that with the distilled to get a gallon of 6.6 water if I do need to flush, is this a good pH to aim for? Also, if I do flush, should I give it a light feeding immediately after? Or wait a day or two?

Thanks again.
Ziggilus Reviewed by Ziggilus on . Leaf discoloration/death I think I have a deficiency of some sort in my plant. Four days ago I noticed a slight discoloration in some of the lower sets of leaves. I figured it had probably eaten through the nutrients already in the soil, so I decided to give my plants it's first feeding. The discoloration has now begun moving up the plant, and the lowest sets of leaves are dead. I've read through descriptions of nutrient deficiencies but most of them are pretty ambiguous and I'm having trouble pinning down what Rating: 5