towards the end of your budding cycle your leaves will turn brown and fall off. One ez way to think about it? You are reproducing fall! It is the same thing that happens in nature also. Been growing for just over a year myself and I fertilize well, right up to 2-3 weeks before i harvest. My plants have always gone thru a fall ready for winter look to them. mabe im wrong mabe im right but the budds are sure nice. sry for no pics. i started off with a closet, took over another closet, bought a 4x8ft grow tent and its got 12 budding plants now as first closet is my clones, 2nd veg, i have them maturing about one a week for constant smoke. I let them cure for 2 weeks. I put them in a dresser door cut in pieces and palm leaves thrown in my compose buckets. 3 days later i take out, ( rolling them around 2x a day ) and trim the buds, the bud trimmings are extra that i smoke when i dont want to get toasted too bad. I use glass chars now and have open one day closed one day till all the moisture has been slowly drawn from within the buds then i just leave closed and open 1-2 times a day and roll jars.