Plant dying 6th week of flower (unknown strain)

Hi, first time grower/first time poster...
I was hoping to get some insights here as to what might be going on with my plant .

Long story short I got the plant from a work mate when it was about a foot tall still in veg , I've grown it outdoors for the last 9 weeks and apart from the common first timer mistakes of over watering at the start and a bit of heat stress from time to time there's really been no other issues up until 2 weeks ago.

I noticed a couple weeks ago some nanners I caught late and pollinated some bottom branches and only a few seed pods developing everywhere else. I've removed them and kept watch for more and none has showed up since.
Around that time my fan leaves started to yellow around middle and bottom of plant I suspected aI had a ph imbalanced and magnesium lock out and flushed my soil.

It recovered for a bit but recently it's picked up and a lot of leaves are dropping , its starting to effect the leaves around the buds now. I don't think it's nitrogen because its all over the plant and the symptoms look like magnesium but I've given it Epsom salts and doesn't make much of a difference.

I gave it a little nute burn on the tips from pk13/14 but nothing major and I've tested water run off and ph is perfect. I've looked over so many sites and finally decided to sign up and post a thread here as this plant is really unhealthy and is a few weeks away from finishing and I'm not sure if it will make it now . I'm not sure on the strain, it reached 1.2 metres tall , no odour till 5th week flower, it could even be an auto because I didn't have to do 12/12 but being outdoors I expect the days got shorter and changed to flower naturally.

It's now midway through the 6th week and just looking for any advice on what my next move is and what to expect from here ,
Thanks in advance !

Here's another pic

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needs nitrogen

yeah i forgot which form? but you want to do a light nitrogen foliar of I think sulfate? Thats gonna be a long flowering sativa and its too early to be going yellow.

Add some veg nutes with NPK? no foliar during flower.

i you feed nitrogen via roots itll hit them too long. Id foliar but avoid spraying buds just lower leaves/

I would still put in some veg nutes, even at 1/4 or 1/2 strength, Foliar is not going to fix this but you can do what ever you feel comfortable with.

Cheers for the feed back guys , how many more weeks do you think are left then , the pistils just starting to turn brown and a lot more tricombs developing and a lot stickier , I thought you don't want to give nitrogen this far into flower but il trust your word you guys have been doing this a lot longer then I have, il hit them with 1/4 veg nutes tomorrow and see how they go , I should be able to flush and to cure out the extra nitrogen after harvest later on down the track no problems if I add it now right ?

7th Jan


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4th March




Sorry Just to clarify one more time ,As you can see from these pics from 7th January to now that in the last couple weeks I have lost nearly all my leaves except bud leaves , by looking at the pics and timeline how much longer do you think it has to go and still should I add the veg nutes tomorrow, also what should I expect now with such a huge loss of leaves as I know they are the plants engine , thanks in advance

Next time don't use a compost with so much wood in. I'd feed it a bit of Epsom salts now.

First time grow didn't fully research it as needed to be transplanted when I got it, didn't think it was too woody , it's just some 20 kilos organic soil mixed with some coco and perlite and has been perfect for the last 2 months , I gave it some Epsom salts 4 days ago as I stated in the initially post, it's still yellowing so I'm now leaving to what the other guys said about nitrogen but no idea how far it has to go and effects of adding it now will be , but so far unless someone else has another opinion I'm gonna follow their lead and add some veg nutes in the morning

you have to look at the trichromes to see where they are at

That plant is still far from done.

Just curious, how much bigger do you think the buds will get from now on till harvest? And im not sure if there's an accurate way to tell and I'm sure it varies on a number of things but as I don't know the strain or length of flower period , how would I determine when's there's 2 weeks left so I can flush my plant before the right harvest time, I'd probably go for a finish with all milky trichs and no or very little amber, would 50% cloudy trichs be about right time to flush ? Cheers for any info sorry about all the questions !