sir_isOanswered grow question 4 years ago JoeyGonz
"The change in color is generally attributed to the appearance of anthocyanin, a water-soluble pigment that plants generate either due to their genes or due to potassium deficiency, and low temperatures can also mess with color."
It's not necessarily potassium, imo it's more likely phosphorus in that case. But anthocyanin production is affected by a number of factors including potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen. Typically I find it associated with phosphorus related issues though.
It is not necessarily a bad thing and is fairly normal as the plants mature, so they use up energy/nutrient stores in the plant, phosphorus for instance, is very mobile and pretty heavily utilized in flowering.