It's Official - It's A Girl. Tell Me I'm Not Killing Her.

I've posted randomly about this plant over the past few months now. I don't have a grow journal. This was a bagseed that I planted in a pot of miracle gro potting mix (the stuff with a 3 month supply of nutes) around the last week of February. I noticed the hairs for the 1st time yesterday. I'm in Southern California. I have never checked the PH level.

My concern: Lower fan leaves turning yellow and dying. I think I've read more than the average noob about how to grow and how to identify and solve this problem. After 3 months into the grow I started adding small amounts of miracle gro all purpose fertilizer: 15-30-15 NPK ratio. I did it about 1/4 strength a couple of times and recently bumped it up to 1/2 strength.

Given the size of the plant, I'm thinking it could still be deficient in Nitrogen. I was going to add some fish emulsion (5-1-1) when I water it tomorrow. The yellowing and dying leaves all started right about the 3 month stage, when my miracle gro nutes were exhausted.

My understanding is that some yellowing/dying of lower fan leaves is normal, particularly at this stage, but more than a few usually indicates a problem. I've been encouraged by reading most of Uncle Ben's posts on this topic, and understand how important these big leaves are to my plants health throughout the flowering process.

Any thoughts, advice appreciated. I've been trying the "less is more" approach, but now that I'm dealing with a girl it's gotten serious. Cheers.

Holy shit niceeeee plant there man. That plant looks very healthy. Just pick of the dying ones, if it starts spreading up flush it ^.^

i think you nailed the situation dead on, just running a little short on nutes a few weeks early
looks like one sweet harvest, +rep for a nice 1st grow

Cool, thanks guys. I've recently purchased seeds and CFL's to start a closet shelf grow, and was surprised that this bagseed turned into a female. It's been a good cheap plant to learn with while I get my indoor grow set up. Unless anyone suggests otherwise, I was going to go with a nearly normal dose of the fish emulsion tomorrow. I think the plant is big and healthy enough to take it.

Off topic: I've scoured this website and can't find any information as to the purpose behind the "rep" system. Why do folks rep each other, and what effect does it have? I've been "rep'd" a few times and not sure what the rep etiquette is. Cheers! (and maybe "rep"?)

rep is just a small favor for info
not sure if anybody tracks it too close, maybe some do

nice bush u got there

Damn dude that thing is going to be monstrous. +Rep

Thanks again. I'm Excited! Hopefully I won't go batshit crazy and start posting incessantly about every friggin problem. I'm thinking about starting a journal, more than anything so I can have a consolidated chronicle of what the hell I'm doing - something that could be useful in the future.

I'd give that beauty a good transplant for sure, she is probably root bound all to hell and not able to get the nutes that a monster like her needs. Get some good grow nutes like Advanced Nutrients, I use Grow, bloom and micro, a three part base system. What ever you decide to go with for nutes get them up to full strength ASAP as that girl is looking hard for lunch. Nice Plant BTW.

TallToker said:

I'd give that beauty a good transplant for sure, she is probably root bound all to hell and not able to get the nutes that a monster like her needs. Get some good grow nutes like Advanced Nutrients, I use Grow, bloom and micro, a three part base system. What ever you decide to go with for nutes get them up to full strength ASAP as that girl is looking hard for lunch. Nice Plant BTW.

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Will do. Thanks for the tip!