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I was dealing with RH in the 30s, so I made my own DIY humidifier setup that got it up to around 47%. I’m sure other people have done something similar before, but I came up with this on my own and figured I’d share it haha.

One of the tent vents is open behind the shirt, so when fresh air gets pulled into the tent, it passes through the damp shirt first. The Crystal Geyser jug acts as a reservoir so the shirt can continuously wick up water. Before this, I was just soaking the shirt and rehanging it every few hours, but it would dry out within 8 hours or less.

I know having a large open container of water in the tent probably isn’t ideal long term, but this is only temporary. I’ll be changing the water weekly and keeping an eye on the shirt so it doesn’t get musty or funky. The plant is going outside in a couple of weeks anyway, but I figured this might help someone else dealing with low humidity.

Sharing this as a newbie because I think it may help someone catch something early.

What I saw does not look like typical nutrient burn or general stress. Early on it can very easily be mistaken for a calcium or magnesium deficiency, which is honestly what I would have assumed at first.

It starts as small isolated brown necrotic spots on lower leaves. Each spot has a clear dead center with a faint yellow halo around it. At first the rest of the leaf stays green between spots, which makes it really easy to miss.

The best way I can describe it is the leaf looks like it is bubbling up with necrosis from within. Small dead islands appear, expand, and then slowly start to merge until the leaf fails.

Compared to nutrient issues I have seen or read about, which usually follow edges, veins, or new growth, this is more random circular spotting with defined centers and halos.

I am not fully certain on the cause, just sharing what I am seeing, but it does point in the direction of a fungal issue like Septoria.

The main reason I am posting this is because of something I learned from other Redditors in earlier replies. A few people mentioned that leaves touching soil is a big risk factor and should be avoided. Looking back, some of the first affected leaves were actually resting on the soil surface for a while, and that might have been a key factor.

If there is one takeaway, it would be to avoid letting leaves sit on or touch the soil.

Has anyone else seen this same early “bubbling spot” pattern before it spreads?

*full plant pictures are before and after defoliation

The close up is just a bit ago and the zoom out is about 9hrs ago. It’s a weird damage pattern I’ve never seen before and was sure if anyone could identity?

Its last several waterings were with some nutes and not sure if it’s burn or something else. I think it was stunted early on from underwatering 😞

Outdoor Blue mystic AF, 47 days old and started started preflower day 22. Five gal pot, Mostly ocean forest but mixed with seedling mix, I water with Crystal Geyser.

Pretty sure it got stunned from being underwater over its first month of life and maybe didn’t develop the root system it needs to drink as much?

The lower growth die off has been there from a month ago and barely progressed beyond what you see, I think it’s at least in part due to me, not giving it any Veg nutes.

Each of the 5 waterings since then has had some bloom nutes since 4/23 (I know you’re supposed to alternate with plain water…) so also not sure if that’s play.

I think I need to give it at least five or 6+ days to dry out because it had already dried out for four days with a couple 80° days leading up to this….

First auto and only transitioned outdoors cause I can’t flower indoors due to smell (ironically my AC/DC is stinking up the place with a carbon filter while vegging haha).

Definitely underwatered and underfed early on, some LST and not expecting much but it has seemed pretty healthy at least in terms of its leaves color (minus its bottom leaves)

First pic is at 45 days, 2nd at 43, last one is at 38 days.
Edit: Now realizing how well it responded to its watering on day 44 🫠 I swear the finger moisture test keeps deceiving me…

I thought this 6yr old vine was toast… chopped the flower because I don’t love the smell haha… but listened to bad advice on Reddit by cutting it too close to the main vine and caused necrosis. The plant has been vigorous throughout its life and was pleasantly surprised to learn that it’ll sprout a new vine if the main one is affected. Love learning new stuff!

The bottom leaves seem to be suffering from nitrogen deficiency but is that the case for upper most stripped looking leaves or something different?

For context, Started this AC/DC from seed on 3/27 in solo cup then transplanted in to this 3 gallon pot 2-3 wks later; lower 2/3 is 75% ocean / Forest in 25% black and gold seed mix, with the top third actually 75% seedling mix and 25% ocean forest. Very first feeding was 5/3 of 5tsp Dr earth tomato, herb and vegetable. It also suffered from an under watering event, went 10-11 days without it (200ml on 4/20 then no water til 5/1) because it had decent turgor; gave it 1200ml spread across 5/1 and 5/3.

(Pics are from 5/1 til today) I think this was dealing with being under watered and it was topped 3/27 probably right in the middle of that time where it could’ve used a moderate watering then went several days more because it seemed to have decent turgor till yellow started progressing and I got concerned.

One person said lockout. Other research is symptomatic of nitrogen deficiency.

For context, Started this AC/DC from seed on 3/27 in solo cup then transplanted in to this 3 gallon pot 2-3 wks later; lower 2/3 is 75% ocean Forest in 25% black and gold seed mix, with the top third actually 75% seedling mix and 25% ocean forest.

I’m a complete newb but feel like I’ve got pretty good info and have kept the plant happy.

I topped it about 4 days ago and have read that some lower leaf die off can happen as it’s redistributing energy but wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing anything.

It seems to be praying, good turgor, got its color back after the minor transplant stress a few weeks ago(my phone camera shows it as lighter but I included an up close picture that is more accurate) It’s in ocean forest which is supposedly good for 4-6wks? so it hasn’t gotten any nutes yet (if it’s not “asking for nutes don’t give them” to risk stacking and burning / lockout later?) It hasn’t been super thirsty either, pot has decent weight, still cool 2-3” down, but being new, it’s been a challenge to resist watering.

It’s a ACDC photo, seed planted 3/27, started in a solo cup and transplanted after 2-3wks to a 3 gal with just oceanforest (but top 1/3 was blended with some seedling mix to “cool” down the soil for the transplant stress)

I use Crystal Geyser spring water because its ph is automatically dialed in. 400ppfd