Mid last week my plant began to yellow. My initial diagnosis was nitrogen deficiencies. I flushed on Thursday and started over with fresh nutes hoping whatever was wrong would be fixed (maybe I fucked out the ratio or something).
Day by day the yellowing continues to worsen. Upon reading and consulting with friends it appears it is light burn. I have 2 x130 watt mars-hydro sp150s running over 6-8 sqft. also had the lights low - about 6-8" of the canopy. I was measuring LUX with my LUX meter and hitting around 50-66k lux which many sites suggest. But it looks like this is just way too much given the reduction of metabolism during late-phase flowering. At least that's my current hypothesis.
So - I have raised the lights to 18" and reduced to just one light.
Mars Hydro suggests 12-18" above the canopy - I should've gone with that recommendation. I might be over reducing at this point but I am desperate the leaf death hasn't gone to far.
This is my last fix - hope this one works. I hope the plant recovers with 3-4 weeks of flowering to go. We shall see.
Oh damn those are some gorgouse looking buds. Fat frosty and colorful what more could you want. Spectacular work growmie. Keep doing what it is you've been doing and may the ganja garden gods give you good fortunes until the end
Did the leaves turn green again after you corrected the light? I would guess they would stay yellow (irreversible), or does the pictures fool me lol (pictures from last week)
Nice buds mate!
Thanks, @magicUmbrella,
Once they turned yellow, they were pretty much useless. I trimmed all the ones that were unhealthy to get them out of the way. I had a friend tell me they will use energy just being there, so its best to trim sick leaves off.