Day 72 flower and my buds are dieing!?!?

Ok i have an 8 week strain i decided to make it 10 weeks cuz thier do small and probably a joint each... Well aside from my shitty yield some of thd buds are dieing!!' like getting dark and brown while the majority are normal. All crystals or trichomes are half milky and amber but im waiting so it can pack more weight. Is it doing that cuz im past harvest date? Or sonething wrong? All fan leaves died off only buds left
 
after a point the plant will stop flowering and the THC starts to break down. if it is a 8 week grow cut your losses and start preping for the next grow. don't let some okay stuff become worthless, remeber 30% of somthing is better than 100% of nothing.
 
Yeah, it's a natural process, once the buds reach maturity, they begin to degrade. You can't just keep flowering expecting to get bigger buds. Chop now and cut losses as was said.
 
^I don't mean this in an ignorant way, but.....if you only got an 1/8th off them, the mistake was your's, and had nothing to do with veg time. Sounds to me, like the buds never filled out properly, and you ended up with a bunch of "airy buds"?
 
^I don't mean this in an ignorant way, but.....if you only got an 1/8th off them, the mistake was your's, and had nothing to do with veg time. Sounds to me, like the buds never filled out properly, and you ended up with a bunch of "airy buds"?

I had a bad yield on my kush too. My Aurora Indica seemed to do ok though.
 
^Some strains are very sensitive to nitrogen overdose during flowering, while others are not. I'm guessing that if the problem wasn't a light leak or excessive temps, it was too much nitrogen. It can revert budding energy into energy directed at producing new foliage, stalling bud-development. I did it recently, and it drooped yield from 2 ozs per plant, to about 20 grams per plant. The buds never put on any density. IMO, it's way better to have them yellow early, rather than be too green(excessive n). I've had plants that yellowed waaay early, and still produced some great smoke. Doesn't work that other way around.

Also, it could happen if you trimmed a bunch of fan leaves. That'll kill a harvest quick, of you get carried away with the trimming. My buddy just found out the hard way. I gave him some of my extra clones a couple months ago(his first grow), so his and mine, were all the same age. He vegged his for 3 weeks longer than I did. I finally got to see his last night, 7 weeks into flowering(8 week strain), and he was expecting me to be really impressed. They looked decent for a first attempt, although somewhere airy and small, but nowhere near what mine were. Then, I brough him to my house, to see mine, which are ready for chopping. He almost shit. Mine are twice as big, and have 6x as much bud on them. He wouldn't listen to me to not touch the fan leaves, but noooooo.....he read about it in High Times, and thought I was talking out of my ass. That, was until he saw it with his own eyes. Let me tell ya, he'll never touch his fan leaves again.lol
 
From what I gather, Sakhal was saying 0 days of veg, the plants were 72 days old, 12/12 the whole time. That will make any strain yield 1/8th per plant, so it had nothing to do with strain, and was all about veg time.
 
^Ahhh, okay, that's different. I was thinking that he put them on 12/12 at 6" tall. He mentioned 6" somewhere, so it had me confused.


Hmm....OP, we need an update. :)
 
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