Smoking buds from nute locked plants

hey all first auto flower grow...
Soil, 3 gallon pots
400w hps
20/4 light cycle
Super blooming nutes that I'm diluting and giving at half strength 10.30.20(full strength)
Strain: Visions AK-49

Okay so I have a few different strains Goin and I'm only havin problems with one of the AK_49 plants. A few things that I cannot understand are happening and I would appreciate any advice. So I have 2 ak49 plants that are apx 80 days from breaking soil ( breeders stated 57-63 day flower time, but I know not to go by that) the trichomes on the healthy plant are about 90% cloudy/milky and the trichomes on the sick plant are about 75% milky. It seems the sick plant is suffering from major nute lock because of the waters uncontrolled ph. I have NEVER pH balanced the water and all of my plants including the other ak49 are doing great. The plant in question started showing pH problem signs about 4 weeks from breaking soil with spindly thin new growth... It grew taller than its healthy counterpart, faster and hardier but the fan leaves showing brown spotting, the leaves turned dark green and actually hardened, other leaves yellowed and died.yet the buds continued to grow. It smells exactly like a freshly cut/peeled orange and has nice trichome development. As of today most of the brown spots have turned orange and some of the hairs have turned the same unhealthy looking orange. I have no intention on getting a pH kit anytime soon so what should I do? Should I cut her down now, trim her up and dry her?or Let her keep Goin and see what happens? Can I smoke the buds with the orange hairs? What happens if I don't do anything and she starts dying? Could I still smoke her?

I had a plant with a serious acidic soil problem, lockout. I foliar fed it while working on increasing the ph of the soil, often using harsh methods like hydrated lime. It ended up producing a lot of bud and it was the richest, deepest, smoothest smoke I've gotten from that strain.

I don,t think it will get any better with age. Judging by it,s current condition I can only assume that the plants overall health is undergoing exponential decay. Smoke it if you got it.

Your other plants by the way look outstanding.
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Yeah, I was leaning more towards chopping her down also... I sampled her 2 weeks ago and she got me stoned but I've got 5 successful grows under my belt all of which I could have let go a little longer and didn't wanna make the same mistake again.... Thx folks.... I'm thinking I'm gonna cut her down in a few...

Any clue why the sickly one smells of peeled oranges and the healthy like a dirty sock?

haha.... sometimes they give off odd aromas.

I was a little mad because I would have preferred the healthy one smell of oranges.... Read somewhere it has something to do with phenos