Taylorhalsey
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My plants are 7 weeks in flower and going yellow and leaves dying
Yellow leaves help????
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Bilbo Baggins
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without pics hard to be specific, but youre plants are prob 3 weeks away from dying a natural death and Ive always found that in the last stages of any grow leaves are yellowing, shrivelling up and having to be picked off regularly, could be and most likely is just the natural progression of things during the latter stages.
Ninjabowler
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Could also be over feeding, more details would help. What are you feeding them, how much, how often do you feed, what soil are you using. When did you change over from grow to bloom nutes?
GOD HERE
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They tend to do that at the end of flower.
cowboylogic
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Nothing natural about a cannabis plant yellowing and shedding leaves at any phase of its growth, especially late in flower. What you speak of is forum myth started to make growers feel better about their lack of ability to keep a plant green and healthy to the end.
Most likely Taylor your plant is very nitrogen deficient due to you using so called bloom foods instead of a balanced diet during flower. This is an assumption though but I bet a pretty safe one. Pics and more info would help us be sure. And do yourself a favor and dont listen to anything Ninja has to say. He is just an internet parrot with little or no actual experience. His advice is about as poor as it gets around here. And thats saying a lot!
cowboylogic
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Yep, its called nitrogen deficiency aka yield killer........
Bilbo Baggins
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I Defer to your knowledge in this matter cowboy, I guess the '' natural death '' philosophy is kind of negated by the fact that folk are able to keep mothers going sometimes for years, I use Biobizz and their feeding chart says to keep feeding their basic vegging nutes right through flowering to the end. So knowing this maybe you will be proved right. I will see.
RIKNSTEIN
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He is proved right!!.. Healthy leaves are what feeds them buds, they draw sugars and other nutrients they need from them, if they're dieing then your buds will not be as full or as potent as they could be...and by the way your mothers should not be flowering, this will stress the cutting as it will have to reveg, this could take up to a month...not good...good luck with your grow buddy.
Nice green leaves
Jimdamick
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I never stop using grow formula to keep up nitrogen, but add bloom supplements with a higher P & K ratio for bud growth. Some of my leaves will turn yellow at the end of bloom, and I believe this is due to simply being the end of the plants life cycle. If it never goes thru the 12/12 cycle is will not turn yellow. That is what I have found to be the case in my experiance at least. peace
*BUDS
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Yes and its due to the ph being neglected, too late now, next time watch the ph from the start 6.5. The more green leaves you have at harvest the heavier the weight and better quality.
brownie689
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if you want your weed to taste like total shit and snap crackle and pop when it's burned then don't flush. Depending on your strain (I don't know what you're growing or how long the flowering period is) The leaves should be yellowing out and falling off on their own near harvest time. My plants NEVER do this until I force them too. It only happens when I am flushing 2 weeks before harvest. If you aren't flushing and you have more than 2 weeks to go AND leaves are yellowing then you have a problem. If by yellowing out you mean they turn a very light yellow and almost whitish and look sorta see through they need more food.
My plants yield amazing and are extremely potent and smell great, taste like cotton candy and burn slow and smooth. I'm editing this comment because I guess it depends on what nutrients you use also. I have grown outdoors using organic methods and my plants stayed green until harvest but that's because you can't flush plants when they are in the ground lol. I use very powerful nutrients and I need to flush my plants to get them out before harvest and they always turn out phenomenal. The truth is you can keep your plants DARK GREEN until the day you cut them down if you choose to do that. I just want to warn you that your weed might taste like nutrients and burn horribly... I've seen it happen with other peoples bud.
When I flush my plants they love it. Fan leaves turn yellow and fall off, the buds turn all kinds of crazy colors, red, blue and purple. The buds really swell up when they get flushed good.
My plants yield amazing and are extremely potent and smell great, taste like cotton candy and burn slow and smooth. I'm editing this comment because I guess it depends on what nutrients you use also. I have grown outdoors using organic methods and my plants stayed green until harvest but that's because you can't flush plants when they are in the ground lol. I use very powerful nutrients and I need to flush my plants to get them out before harvest and they always turn out phenomenal. The truth is you can keep your plants DARK GREEN until the day you cut them down if you choose to do that. I just want to warn you that your weed might taste like nutrients and burn horribly... I've seen it happen with other peoples bud.
When I flush my plants they love it. Fan leaves turn yellow and fall off, the buds turn all kinds of crazy colors, red, blue and purple. The buds really swell up when they get flushed good.
cowboylogic
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Now how exactly do you come to the conclusion its related to pH with the little info given? If a plant becomes N deficient due to pH then many other issues would have shown themselves long before the n problem would surface. Nitrogen is pretty damn available over a very large pH range from the high 5s to near or at 8. There are many other elements that have a much narrower range than this. Bet you read runoff pH and believe it...
cowboylogic
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You are so far off and only know what you have read on forums. Guess your like the rest and lack the skills to keep a plant green till harvest. And take the easy way out, pass the blame...typical.
And if you would learn how to properly dry and cure you weed then the Rice Crispy gang would never visit your harvest.
brownie689
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Cowboy did you not see that I edited my post??? I guess I need to post some pictures to prove to you that I know what I'm talking about. My buds never get crispy and they taste and smell amazing are are the most potent buds in my area hands down. I've never smoked better bud than mine and I actually go looking for other peoples bud and go to dispensaries to check out the competition and I can say they can't touch my stuff.
Like I said before I CAN keep plants green until I chop if I choose to. But I choose to flush with plain RO water and Black Strap Molasses for 2 weeks before I chop my girls down. The results speak for themselves obviously.
My bud is so good I have people taking pre orders on it lol. They give me money before it's even done because they know how good it is and how fast it sells and they want their bag before I run out.
Like I said before I CAN keep plants green until I chop if I choose to. But I choose to flush with plain RO water and Black Strap Molasses for 2 weeks before I chop my girls down. The results speak for themselves obviously.
My bud is so good I have people taking pre orders on it lol. They give me money before it's even done because they know how good it is and how fast it sells and they want their bag before I run out.
cowboylogic
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Blackstrap molasses the last few weeks huh? You speak volumes Polly...um I mean brownie. brownie need another cracker? Now thats funny.....
cowboylogic
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Its called visual proportion....
[video=youtube;nO62scTZ7Qk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO62scTZ7Qk[/video]
hyroot
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Yellowing leaves - blotchy - nitrogen def
Yellowing with brown tips - phosphor def
If in soil and bottom leaves are dying. Soil is drying out too much
If leaves are clawed like talons and growth has ceased. Its ph/nute lock out. Both are the same.
Yellow edge - mag def
Rust spots - Cal def or potassium lock out
Purple edges - molybdenum def.
only flush if there is inorganic salt build up. Ie synthetic and chem nutes. Real organics do not flush.
Its all about a balance
Yellowing with brown tips - phosphor def
If in soil and bottom leaves are dying. Soil is drying out too much
If leaves are clawed like talons and growth has ceased. Its ph/nute lock out. Both are the same.
Yellow edge - mag def
Rust spots - Cal def or potassium lock out
Purple edges - molybdenum def.
only flush if there is inorganic salt build up. Ie synthetic and chem nutes. Real organics do not flush.
Its all about a balance
70's natureboy
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This is my favorite quote of the week roflmfao. You noticed that in only 2 months like me. If you don't mind I may just quote you in my sig. Peace bro.
brownie689
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Cowboy you're just ignorant and don't know any better. You grow your way and I'll grow my way. I know I have the best weed in the state and can back it up. I try to find better weed than mine and nobody is growing anything better.