Fan leaves on a flowering plant

bunnyweed

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What's it mean when all the fan leaves have fallen off, but it's still only like week 8 of 12/12? basically none of the trichs are amber yet, and the pistils are still 99 percent white.
 

silentzombie

Active Member
your plant is probably hungry. are you feeding her enough? she might be using all her nutes for flowers and is pulling them from the lower leaves.
 

bunnyweed

Well-Known Member
it is indeed turning yellow before falling off. However, i am giving them enough nutes for sure. 1/4 strength of schultz 10 54 10. plus a tbsp of molasses per gallon of water.

that's more than enough nutes. i've never heard of this type of thing happening. i usually see people with finished grows that have a lot of fan leaves still on there. I wonder why all my fan leaves are yellowing and falling off. like there are 0 fan leaves left.
 

Ellis D. Williams

Active Member
I usually lose alot of fan leaves, especially by week 8. If the rest of the plant looks good and the its not lacking nutrients I wouldn't worry about it. How long is the flowering period for the strain you're growing?
 

johnnyballs

Member
if your fan leaves are yellowing and falling off towards the end of the flowering cycle, that's normal as the plant sucks up some nutes from the fan leaves. does it start with the lower leaves? i think you're fine as logn as there aren't any other nute deficiency symptoms.
if you don't know what strains you're growing do you have an idea of how far along the buds are?
 
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