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Feeding until near of harvest causing no fading or cannabis fade anyway even if feed them full dose from feeding charts?

Snakeking
Snakekingstarted grow question 5 months ago
Do cannabis plants needs to cut nutrients to fade when get matured or it will fade anyway?
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Shinsimilla
Shinsimillaanswered grow question 5 months ago
Think of trees. They have almost unlimited access to nutrients, but the leaves on some still change colour in autumn.
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RickSanchez
RickSanchezanswered grow question 5 months ago
every plant is different. i learned that cutting of nutrients will make them fade faster. but many genetics will fade even if you keep feeding them with a max. amount. just check trichomes for harvest - the plants appearance does bot indicate its flowers quality 🌱💚
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 5 months ago
If they have been well fed their entire life, they generally won't fade, but not always. If they have had a medium feeding schedule or pre-mature end to fertilizers, then yes, they generally will fade, but not always. "The Fade" is not a necessary process or requirement for determining harvest maturity. However, most people generally stop all fertilizers, feeding, supplements and stimulants about 2 weeks before the estimated harvest date and this may lead to a natural fading occurring.
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00110001001001111O
00110001001001111Oanswered grow question 5 months ago
It depends. I've had plenty of plants look nearly pristine at harvest and others have some symptoms, and still others show the fall colors (reds/purples). So, genetic variety is at play, here. Senescence can be a major factor, but depriving a plant of nutes for some silly reason will cause a fade. Not sure how starving something is a net-positive. Especially since most of the nonsense used to push this "bro-science technique" has been proven false or bat-shit crazy. reds and purples are gentics and/or cold temps at night. this is for the same reason colors change outside. the temps screw with the biological processes of the plant and it's slowly dying. Growing indoors doesn't necessarily follow that path. We control the environment to some extent. Even so, some plants likely still turn red/purple at end of life due to genetics in absence of cold temperatures, but not all.
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m0use
m0useanswered grow question 5 months ago
Fade is caused by temps and end of life processes within the plant. Premature fading based on underfeeding is not the same, it also does not have as nice of colours, its mostly just yellow/brown, but fade fading is pretty with crimson and purples mixed in with golds. I feed my plants till the end mostly, I use amendments so when I mix them in they continue to feed for aorund 3-4 weeks. if its going over the time where I would top dress again and its at its end of life cycle I don't give them anything. This is not the same as flushing or tapering their feed. I just let them use up what is left in the medium and mature. Some like to cut all food and flush the medium. Its useless and just stresses the plant. a stressed plant with no food can't make more things from nothing. So a lot of the logic of end of life stress to increase things is bunk. Good Luck!
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Shinsimilla
Shinsimillaanswered grow question 5 months ago
It will fade either way. The plant is getting ready to die and that happens whether you feed or not. Genetics will be more of a factor in the fade than the feeding.
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