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MDMA99
MDMA99started grow question 4 years ago
Yellow leaves ... What could be the cause? And the remedy? Are at 10 week...
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Leaves. Color - Yellow
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DrStrain47
DrStrain47answered grow question 4 years ago
This is good, nature taking it's course. The plant is using all the nutes in it for bud production
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Guerilla_outdoor_gromie93
Guerilla_outdoor_gromie93answered grow question 4 years ago
she is going to die :D
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 4 years ago
Fairly normal and not a problem, and no need to panic. There is no remedy at this stage. Your plant is simply re-using nutrition it has in the older leaves to use for growing the flowers. Due to this "re-cycling", the leaves go yellow. Had you defoliated, there would be no source of these nutrients for your plant to re-use and you would have vastly smaller flowers than you do now. In future, switching to bloom nutrients a bit later than you did this time can help prevent this. Personally I like to use grow nutrients for the first 2-3 weeks of flowering, before switching to half grow, half bloom for the next 2-3 weeks, before then switching again to just bloom nutrients right through to harvest. This seems to prevent the plant exhausting itself and looking like your plant. Had you asked this question 3-4 weeks ago, when this first started happening, rather than wait until it got to this advanced stage, there would have been a simple remedy of a dose or two of half strength grow nutrients to top up the nitrogen levels in the soil, but...... It looks like your plants are well and truly ready for harvest anyway, so doing anything now is not needed. Just give your plants plain water for a couple of days as a flush and harvest ASAP. At this stage of over maturity, THC will be rapidly breaking down into CBD and CBN, giving you flowers with a heavy and sleepy body stone, rather than a mind bending head trip of earlier harvested flowers. Then again, it depends on which effect you prefer. If you prefer a mind trip, harvest when there are 90-95% brown pistils. If you prefer a body stone, harvest when there are 100% brown pistils. Leaving flowers much beyond 100% brown pistils will produce inferior buds as the plant is close to death and its' metabolism can not support healthy trichomes anymore. Judging harvest timing based on pistil colour is far more reliable than using the often quoted "30% amber" method, as some strains will never get amber trichomes, meaning a lot of people are harvesting near dead plants waiting for this magical "30% amber trichomes". On the other hand, some strains will have 75% amber trichomes after only 4 weeks of flowering, and harvesting at 4 weeks would be foolish. Pistil colour/condition will more accurately reflect plant health, and it is plant health that determines trichome composition. Trichome composition is not determined by colour, colour is mostly determined by genetics. There is also no real need for grossly extended flushing for weeks on end, 2 or 3 irrigations with plain water over 3-7 days is all that is really required in my experience, unless you are growing with a product like "miracle grow", but who grows with this sort of product these days? Hope this helps, Organoman.
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SpiderMite
SpiderMiteanswered grow question 4 years ago
100% nature at work. Just feed water let them do their thing.👊
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Hashy
Hashyanswered grow question 4 years ago
Your plant is coming to its natural end. I would start flushing for the next 2 weeks to remove nutrients and salts from the plant before harvest.
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