Help 7th week in flowering and leaves looking not too good

HeartlandHank said:

Whitnasty1 gave you bad advice. Leaves of healthy plants do not look like that. It's not just what the plant does.. It's not the circle of life... It's overfeeding. It hurt your yields in the end a little but it's not like the crop is ruined... Might have a harsh taste to the buds that you do not get with proper feeding.

It's pretty common in the MJ growing world to see leaves like that because of the nutrients that most people use with schedules that recommend 2-4x the feeding than the plant actually needs. Those dark colored and yellow tips, that is nute burn. Too much feed.
I would stop feeding them..taste could be negatively affected. Just give them straight ph'd water for a little bit.

The leaf damage is already done. You can't undo that. But you can stop any further damage.

Next grow try feeding more like 4ml/gal.. when plants are plenty green'd up, lay off the nutes little. More is NOT better with nutrients.
Drop the bloom boosters... they cause more problems than anything. There is plenty of P and K in most "veg" foods even.
Feed your plant according to its needs... not by a schedule or number. Feed more when it wants more feed, less when it is just right, back off when you see signs of overfeeding (tip burn).

I'de be careful about taking advice here on RIU.. Your thread almost met its end with you getting an uninformed/bad answer.
Lots and lots of bad advice given out on RIU. Most MJ growers are entirely new to botany. This is why we get baseless theories like "the circle of life".

See these pics... the leaves are not burnt up... yields were good... taste was excellent.
Healthy leaves are what drives flower production. When your leaves are damaged, flower production slows down.

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HeartlandHank said:

Whitnasty1 gave you bad advice. Leaves of healthy plants do not look like that. It's not just what the plant does.. It's not the circle of life... It's overfeeding. It hurt your yields in the end a little but it's not like the crop is ruined... Might have a harsh taste to the buds that you do not get with proper feeding.

It's pretty common in the MJ growing world to see leaves like that because of the nutrients that most people use with schedules that recommend 2-4x the feeding than the plant actually needs. Those dark colored and yellow tips, that is nute burn. Too much feed.
I would stop feeding them..taste could be negatively affected. Just give them straight ph'd water for a little bit.

The leaf damage is already done. You can't undo that. But you can stop any further damage.

Next grow try feeding more like 4ml/gal.. when plants are plenty green'd up, lay off the nutes little. More is NOT better with nutrients.
Drop the bloom boosters... they cause more problems than anything. There is plenty of P and K in most "veg" foods even.
Feed your plant according to its needs... not by a schedule or number. Feed more when it wants more feed, less when it is just right, back off when you see signs of overfeeding (tip burn).

I'de be careful about taking advice here on RIU.. Your thread almost met its end with you getting an uninformed/bad answer.
Lots and lots of bad advice given out on RIU. Most MJ growers are entirely new to botany. This is why we get baseless theories like "the circle of life".

See these pics... the leaves are not burnt up... yields were good... taste was excellent.
Healthy leaves are what drives flower production. When your leaves are damaged, flower production slows down.

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whitnasty1 said:

By the looks of it, he's maybe a week to two weeks from harvest max, there is nothing he is really going to be able to do in that short of amount of time, especially if he plans on flushing for one week, which is why I just told him to ride it out, if this was happening in say week 4 or 5, yeah something could have been done to fix the issue. This close to the end though, what is he really going to be able to do? The damage has been done, write it off as a lesson and finish them up.

I think if he makes any drastic changes at this point in the game, a flush or whatever, it will end up hurting him more than just riding it out, if he does a salt build up flush, it'll take a few days to recover and dry out well, arguably during the most critical time during flowering in the last two weeks when they really start to put weight on, which is why I recommended him to keep going. I would image he is going to start his final flush any day now?

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