Mango smile Mephisto genetics

autof - if the buds don't also pale, then what make you think there is less chlorophyl in the flower? LOL ... whether you flush or not won't make a difference in output. can save you a little effort and a few pennies in fertilizer. If any of those symptoms are from a toxicity, diluting or a water only irrigation wouldn't hurt the health of the plant and make for a healthier rootzone. i stopped flusing after the first year. never get a hay smell, lol. burns white. tastes great. smoking for 30+ years so as far as consuming it, i know the spectrum of what is out there. killing fan leaves is all you accomplish with a heavy flush. and, if those leaves don't contain enough building blocks for growth (ripening is growth), only hurts the outcome -- talking about a matter of days out of ~100, so a small effect either way. i would argue keep it healthy as you can. the symptoms i see should have been addressed long ago when they started. The coloration is likely senescence, but the burnt and necrotic bits are probably nute-related. looks isolated at the top with some tacoing, could be light-related or heat related from the light. it doesn't look overfed, even some slight chlorosis in leaves not at the top. I don't see a major reason to have a big shift in fertilization unless you want to save a little effort. the 'peanut gallery' is more representative of the person that thinks less chlorophyl in fan leaves somehow impacts what constitutes the flowers, lol. the dead leaves definitely have less chlorophyl, lol, but the buds still have the same shade of green, at least while on the plant. That green color comes from chlorophyl. For it to 'gas off' your buds would have to bleach.

You should be safe with a 10 day flush. Leaves will turn yellow, but that's ok. As there will be no more nutrients available in the soil, the plant will take them from the leaves. A plant doesn't have to be totally green till the very end. Fall or autumn is yellow, orange, red and brown. Sometimes even purple, but that's more genetic to the strain.

As autoflowerssucks states flushing does not lower mineral contest in the buds. its just starves the plant. Flushing to fix a issue in the medium is a good tool should it be needed. Giving just water for the last few weeks or week of life is just fine as well. Dumping copious amounts of water into the medium is not helping. it will stress the plant out and stress causes lack of growth with no nutrients it won't grow and can't recover. The plant is going to be pulling all the energy it has from bigger fan leaves into the buds. mobile nutrients. If the buds are still green and the fan leaves are yellow its the same as green buds and green fan leaves, you are not curing or smoking the fan leaves. A good dry and cure is just as important as a healthy plant in veg and flower. If double blind studies from cannabis connoisseurs say they can't tell the difference of a flushed and unflushed properly cured weed, then i doubt anyone else can. Tests show the buds content of minerals does not change in any significant way. so whats the point of flushing if nothing has changed in the usable product in the end. Looks more into how to cure your weed. auto burping and best drying conditions. There is much more to all this but boiled down flushing is myth for the advertised reasons why people should do it. Good Luck!