Bottom leaves browning and falling off!

[THE KONASSURE]

Yes I try to go for ones that haven't really started flowering (typically lower shoots) you can take them with a bud but the re-veg will be longer. It will throw one and two blade leaves while it figures what's going on then stabilize back to full veg

You can take cuttings anytime getting them to root is the skill

Yes you can chop off almost any stem as long as you get a few nodes and things go well it should root, plants 2 to 6 weeks into flower make great clones to veg for mums because they monster crop, if you`ve not seen it before its great you get loads and loads of branches

A cutting from a flowering plant makes the best mum as you`ll get 100`s of branches on it really fast when it roots


@OP Them pots are a little small and the bottom of the plants is not getting enough light I would just trim up the bottom`s if that`s all the space you have

Bigger pots and better spacing and air around them will mean they stay on there longer, plants will eat the bottom if its not getting the same kinda prime light and air as the top also remember bugs, fungi and bactrial will be trying to kill your leaves from the bottom up too as well as that there`s always that little bit of water/food that can splash the lower leaf and not to forget your hand is all up in there getting off the old stuff...... So many factors to consider..... but looking good Thaddeus

 

[SPLFreak808]

It's not moisture that attracts gnats. What are you feeding besides tea ?

What attracts the gnats?

 

[jarvild]

What attracts the gnats?

Fungal Spores, it's their food source.

 

[TheFuture]

Just GH flora series nutrients. And I gave them 2 doses of Azamax to kill the gnats, 5 days apart. And a sprinkle of mosquito bits also

Azamax will not affect fungus gnats as they do not feed on the plant tissue. Fungus gnats consume fungus and algae while their larvae consumes rotting organic matter in your medium including waterlogged and dead roots.
To get rid of fungus gnats you need to either allow your medium to dry completely between fertigation, add a layer of perlite or stone to the top 1" of your media surface to allow for a dry layer, or add predatory nematodes to the reservoir. Use of Bacillus Thuringiensis is effective.

Are you giving them any nitrogen? Just cause they are in flower it does not mean to cut nitrogen out fully.

I love this. Please don't stop giving your plant Nitrogen through flower. Just because most commercial fertilizer programs cut out nutrients at the end in favor of another, this results in an unbalanced plant. The plant still needs some nitrogen for growth processes. When the leaves die and fall off because they have adequately consumed the sugars and nutrients they have been collecting the life of the plant, they will fall off with a mere shaking of the plant. Leaves that are burnt and crispy brown that must be yanked off the plant are dying because of a nutrient deficiency or lockout. Instead of a smooth, sweet smoke, you end up tasting that nasty magnesium that became locked in the plant. When you flush adequately and the plant consimes its stored metabolites evenly, the result is bigger, more vigorous plants with higher quality yields.