Leaves turning yellow and not sure if it's a def

So my plants have been in flower for 5 weeks and they started to get random yellow leaves that eventually would just fall off after the first week of starting 12/12...but now that it's been almost 4 weeks and going on to 5 weeks since that started and a lot more leaves have fallen off since then...and I mean a lot like one of my nodes has no leaves now except the ones where the nugs are at the top of the cola, you'll be able to see it in the picture I attached in the left corner, no leaves but on the top. Anyway I'm trying to figure out if that's normal or if it's a problem cuz I know it normal for leaves to die off when it's closer to harvest but I don't think it should be the amount that I've been seeing come off, hopefully someone can help me out with this, and a side note: I've been feeding them budswell the past 3 weeks and they're doing fine, it's just the random leaves that pop up and fall off, and if it helps, it is only old growth like those big fan leaves

Sounds like a nitrogen deficiency, caused by either a lockout or simply not enough food.

Well the thing is, I feed them 2-3 times a week depending how light the pots are but the thing is, my budswell is supposed to fix that problem, is there another way to fix it? Is that a bad thing that my leaves are falling off though? Cuz other than that my plants look amazing

Looks like you are growing some nice bud to me. Plants look fine. Thought budswell was an organic powdered nutrient..how you would want to feed that or anything twice a week is beyond me.

Is that the 5-5-1 stuff that I saw when I googled it?
Why aren't you feeding more P and K?
The N is OK, but you're lacking in the Potassium.
I'm surprised you're not showing it yet.
How much longer do you think you have till it's finished?
If only a couple weeks, I'd just increase the strength of your feed a little if you don't have something with more K in it.
Plant looks OK to me to last another couple weeks.

It's the liquid tea mix and they have about 3-4 weeks left, atleast that what the expected time should be, but it's lookin like it's flowering faster than I thought lol and idk I just thought that the budswell would do fine, but ur recommending me to get another type of nute? Do u have any suggestions for p and k? And what do u guys think, do u think they got near 2 weeks left or around 4 weeks to harvest?

GSClover91 said:

It's the liquid tea mix and they have about 3-4 weeks left, atleast that what the expected time should be, but it's lookin like it's flowering faster than I thought lol and idk I just thought that the budswell would do fine, but ur recommending me to get another type of nute? Do u have any suggestions for p and k? And what do u guys think, do u think they got near 2 weeks left or around 4 weeks to harvest?

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TBH, you got a hard one there, if you think it's got a month left.
If you only had 1 or 2 weeks I would say let it be, but 3-4 weeks is borderline to what I'd say feed it more.
I would like to see more of your P and K throughout flowering than the 5-5-1.
For a month, if you don't want to order something, or don't have a shop convenient, I would look for something with like a vegetable food, maybe like 5-10-10 or something even higher if you can find it in the P and K, and give one feed, maybe two, then just water for the last week until you harvest.

Oh wow, that's some very helpful info, I really appreciate it man, I'll definitely go out and get some, do u know of any good brands I should consider as far as stuff that's 5-10-10 type

GSClover91 said:

Oh wow, that's some very helpful info, I really appreciate it man, I'll definitely go out and get some, do u know of any good brands I should consider as far as stuff that's 5-10-10 type

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Being as you want it right now, and you are just starting.......( meaning not investing a bazillion dollars for one grow), try a local nursery and ask for a veggie food, or something like that.
Read your labels, look for the P and K to be higher than the N.
A grass fert will have high N number, wanting to be green, but flowering or vegetable ferts will have higher P and K so they have flowers, not just foliage.

Bakatare666 I ordered this bioflores flower food and they said it should fix te problem if I add that with the budswell and I'm gonna post up pics of all my guys to show you guys what exactly I talking about cuz the GSC that I have is really turnin yellow, compared to the first pic I posted, u can tell it's changed significantly, here's some pics...it's definitely looking like a P def, I can see the dots on the leaves, I check under the leaves everyday, no bugs whatsoever so either P or K lol

Marijuana is extremely sensitive to guano products. The fact that you applied it multiple time in 3 weeks suggests it is the issue to me. Guano burns. I use it sparingly in my soil mixes which get composted before a plant ever touches it.

GSClover91 said:

Bakatare666 I ordered this bioflores flower food and they said it should fix te problem if I add that with the budswell and I'm gonna post up pics of all my guys to show you guys what exactly I talking about cuz the GSC that I have is really turnin yellow, compared to the first pic I posted, u can tell it's changed significantly, here's some pics...it's definitely looking like a P def, I can see the dots on the leaves, I check under the leaves everyday, no bugs whatsoever so either P or K lol

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Yep, it's gettin' worse.

Bugeye said:

Marijuana is extremely sensitive to guano products. The fact that you applied it multiple time in 3 weeks suggests it is the issue to me. Guano burns. I use it sparingly in my soil mixes which get composted before a plant ever touches it.

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This I think is true. To solve the problem is another issue..A decision must be reached..either they are underfed with respect to P and K as Bakatare666 suggested or getting some nute burn. New pictures required I think

You need more K in general. If your nutes are 5-5-1, you don't need more P, you need more K.

So I fed it Botanical pure blend pro bloom and it looks like it helped them a little, all those yellow leaves died off ofcourse but suddenly there's very tiny new growth that makes up for it and I can tell they just look a lot healthier and the yellow leaves stopped forming. I thinkin it's probably didn't give them a base nutrient to begin with, I should've used that all along instead of the budswell guano as a base cuz I realized that's just an additive, not a base nutrient