Yellow spots!

[greenmonster]

hi
r these spots caused by a lack of manganese? whats that then?

my thinking behind these spots with my very limited knowledge is that they are caused by the fact that the water i have been using is 6 -6.2 as i wrongly thought that it was the correct level. what does the clan think? also how to i reverse this?


For soil i should be nearer 6.8?

please help guys as i need to knock this on head right now!

greenmonster Reviewed by greenmonster on 01-22-2006. Yellow spots! hi r these spots caused by a lack of manganese? whats that then? my thinking behind these spots with my very limited knowledge is that they are caused by the fact that the water i have been using is 6 -6.2 as i wrongly thought that it was the correct level. what does the clan think? also how to i reverse this? For soil i should be nearer 6.8? please help guys as i need to knock this on head right now! Rating: 5

[greenmonster]

somebody? anybody? knome? zander? am i right about the spots? should i cut these leaves off as they r looking pretty dead?

[niles007]

The ph of your water may be fine, but what is the ph of your soil? Did you add dolomite lime before planting? Check the ph of your soil, and then we can eliminate that before going any further.

Cheers,

[Garden Knowm]

hey GREEN..

DOnt cut the leaf off.. no need...it still has areas that are performing photosynthesis..

STart watering with 7.0 from here on out.

I need to see the whole plant...

: )

[greenmonster]

cheers for the help guys. Niles i agree with what ur saying: i have no idea what the ph of my soil is and unfortuantly im real skint at moment. see i am a lazy person (a lazy pothead, never) and what passes for my job at the moment is sitting about playing online poker and unfortuantly i am having the biggest pile of shit luck i have ever seen ever at the moment and im real skint so i cant afford to buy a soil ph kit. any ideas if i could make one somehow?

knome ill put some pics on later but that leaf was pretty much out on its own, some of the others have same thing but on a lesser scale.
cheers again chaps

[niles007]

If you can check the ph of your water, then you chack the ph of your soil. There are two ways to do it. You can dig down a couple of inches in one of your pots of soil, and take a soil sample, put it in a dish. Add some water(check the water ph first to see where it's at) and make a little mud. Now check the ph of the mud water. You could also water a plant with the water until runoff, and check the ph of the runoff.

Cheers,

[greenmonster]

fantastic niles, thats a real help i will go do that now. i had actually thought of that but i never believed tha

[greenmonster]

cheers niles, thats all good. i had actually thought of that but i never believed that it would work, just thought it was too obvious or so. going to do it now....

[greenmonster]

sweet it looks like my soil ph is 6.8-7, which is nice.