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Fan leaves turning extremely yellow late flower

Smurfingbro
Smurfingbrostarted grow question 11 days ago
Hello. Day 61 of flower, Green Crack 2.0 by Humboldt seed organization. Soil based. All of a sudden all the fan leaves are turning yellow. Trichomes are clear, no exceptions. Is it from finishing or did I mess up watering/nutes in the last couple of weeks? Thanks in advance.
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ATLien415
ATLien415answered grow question 11 days ago
I'll stand up and disagree here. We can't be throwing around the words urban myth and bro-science without backing yourself up a bit more quantitatively. For example, up until your DLI target for the day (aiming to mimic a nice summer day likely), more photons hitting the bud surface does indeed result in denser nugs. This is trivial physics, bordering on the graduate level with respect to optics. As space on the flower surface fills with cannabinoids and such, the gaps in-between get smaller and smaller. More photon density means more light locally in-between these gaps. I think the problem with the response below is understanding where the micro level and the macro level meet. Even at the simplest form, cannabinoids are deposited to shield the plant from the environment - one factor of which is LIGHT. Or, for example, 'common dogma' about N in flower - well the common dogma is pretty easily demonstrated with nutrient requirements shifting when you try to reveg, right? Like you could just show that to yourself, repeatedly, if desired. Possible deficiency? Sure. Possibly 100% normal for the plant late in flower? Sure. I wouldn't be giving this plant anything other than pHed water and/or a flushing agent. Either way, you're about to harvest and why waste nutrients? Do this long enough and every move you make in your room is about pennies and efficiency. And not for the hat trick, but I also disagree that you defoliated too much. That is an incredibly subjective finding. I grow for my medicine, and I demand white ash that floats on the wind and flavor. I purposefully flush to force this type of effect late in flower (especially in soil whether inert or not). There are many reasons why I do this. One reason is to try to burn up as much in the foliage around and intertwined with the bud as possible, any sugar or chlorophyll you get out now is going to be less you have to get out later. Really that just makes your dry and cure phase more amenable to something going wrong in the future, and is not a mandatory step.
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Krisis
Krisisanswered grow question 11 days ago
All of the sudden my plant was showing it’s on day 61 of flower.
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Hashy
Hashyanswered grow question 11 days ago
Day 61 of flower and the plant is starting it's fade. Possibly a little low on Nitrogen, hard to tell from just 1 picture and no diary. Fuck knows what them 2 1st answers are waffling on about.
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00110001001001111O
00110001001001111Oanswered grow question 11 days ago
looks like n-deficiency... did it start at lower/middle areas first? even more reason to assume N-deficiency. Despite common dogma, a flowering plant still needs a good amount of nitrogen in flower. It depends a lot on how much you fed before any formula change too... relative to how much N i provide in vege and how much the plant nstores up from that choice, I only need about 75% of that concentration in flower phase. Still providing 90-100ppm... could probably dip to 70-80ppm. This won't necessarily translate for soil or if you feed at different levels for the month or two leading up to flower phase. this stuff is a culmination of choices you've made from the start and less so about what you did last week or last night... relevant, but only a small piece of the pie in total. it's too far awya to judge other potential symptoms. So if everythng else looks okay, bump N while maintaining other levels of nutes as best you can. Don't go too crazy.. the goal is to slow and or reverse the trend before the leaves accumulate too much damage and become worthless. Also, I can tell you over-defoliated this plant. Your fan leaves are mostly small and immature with a few that had time to grow out a bit. This too will influece fertilization.. you likely cut off a lot of useful stuff that was stored and would have given greater resistance to this progression of symptoms. Don't blindly defoliate. The proper way to avoid congestions is not to over crowd the canopy. there should not be gaps in the canopy in which you can see the soil or floor... this just means a shit ton of light is being wasted. Also, light hitting flowers does not make flower bigger, this is an urban myth. Flower material has 1/00th or 1/1000th the chlorophyl of leaves... yes, it can do 'some' photosynthesis,' but we are talking about 1% or .1% of what a leaf provides... the math here should be obvious why the bro-science about defoliation is utter bullshit. cocoforcannabis - "to defoliate or not..." is an excellent article to read. that site has by far the least amount of bullshit bro-science nonsense, as long as you avoid the forum comments... that shit is loaded with misinformation like everywhere else, lol.. because people's beliefs about this hobby are more about their ego than facts.
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