My plant looks really sick 40 days into flowering

My plant has just been getting more and more yellow, and the leaves continue to droop. She seems too far away from harvest to be getting this sick looking already. Any ideas what's wrong with her? I've tried watering with plain DI water, then used weak veg nutes, and am back to molasses and weak flower nutes, but nothing seems to be making her feel better. I'm worried she's just going to die before harvest time comes around. Please help.

P.S. the sugar leaf tips are turning purplish.

Looks like Nitrogen deficiency. could try giving it a dose of veg nutes. Pretty typical of late flowering though. How many weeks you think you have left? 2ish?

- this is all from what i hear, im a noob myself.

Ya, hoping about two weeks to go. The pistils are about 50% brown. I haven't started checking triches yet, but I probably will once the pistils are like 70% brown.
However, when I posted some pics of her in the 4th week of flowering, mygirls told me I had at least 6 weeks to go, so could be longer. If it takes longer, I don't know if she'll live that long

Shit the leaves will start to go yellow at that age this is because the plant is utiliseing all the gooness from the feed and all the feed is going into bud production 40 days in come on dude you got to know that.if i was you i would flush with water set at ph/5.5 and drence the sucker this may cause it to wilt alittle more or it may pick up it look like you may have excess salt build up.let it dry compleatly before adding anything else,you may also be over watering water once a week twice at most but when you do water wet the suckers through.when hey look like they are dry stick your finger down the side of the pot and if its damp upto a couple of ince then water ut get into the watering 1 a week if it's been a hot day outside this can effect indoor grows you may need just to put a small cup full of water in till the plant wants its drenceing.too many people over water get into the watering once mode .but this looks like a plant that may have ecess salt build up.

I "Kinda" had the same prob, but I fixed it, It IS Nitrogen Def, is your flower nutes have less then a 1-3-2 ratio? at least 1 N if the rest are still whole numbers. The 3-2 are subject to change and if you can get away with 2N go nuts but don't over do it lol.
And giving her some vegs nutes is good it has high N but make sure you mix it low b/c she wont need ALOT of N right now, and It's easy to overdue it, and as to your yellowing not being "fixed" by this.
It's not going to, the damage has been done, They may get a little greener but at this point clorophyll production has been decimated so they will never revert back to there "Healthy" looking self.
What you need to look at is the NEW growth, the little bud leaves on tops watch them like a hawk, for good green color, if there tips start to yellow or burn pull back on the N and possibly Heat if your lights need to be raised.
*Now don't get me wrong, although I say watch new top growth like a hawk, don't forget about the rest of the leaves, although they won't really get vibrant again make sure you don't allow them to worsen...hard to do and under the HPS the light fools you into thinking there less green then you remember.
Pull her out of the hps and look under a CFL or outside light for a sec to inspect her. NOTE don't leave her outside in direct light for too long, since you've grown outdoors that POWER of the sun would sunburn your babes.
Hope some of this helps!

tyke1973 said:

Shit the leaves will start to go yellow at that age this is because the plant is utiliseing all the gooness from the feed and all the feed is going into bud production 40 days in come on dude you got to know that.if i was you i would flush with water set at ph/5.5 and drence the sucker this may cause it to wilt alittle more or it may pick up it look like you may have excess salt build up.let it dry compleatly before adding anything else,you may also be over watering water once a week twice at most but when you do water wet the suckers through.when hey look like they are dry stick your finger down the side of the pot and if its damp upto a couple of ince then water ut get into the watering 1 a week if it's been a hot day outside this can effect indoor grows you may need just to put a small cup full of water in till the plant wants its drenceing.too many people over water get into the watering once mode .but this looks like a plant that may have ecess salt build up.

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Yeah, well I knew the leaves would start to turn yellow, but I've compared my plant with pics of others' at this same stage, and they are considerably greener, and the leaves aren't all curled under like mine, so I figured there might be something wrong.

DmnSpawn said:

and as to your yellowing not being "fixed" by this.
It's not going to, the damage has been done, They may get a little greener but at this point clorophyll production has been decimated so they will never revert back to there "Healthy" looking self.

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Thanks for that info, I should have realized the leaves wouldn't turn green again, but they are getting worse. I think my bloom ferts are a 1-2-2 ratio, and my veg a 2-1-2. I'll try flushing, drying, then adding some weak veg ferts.

Also, where can I get those pH testing strips?

You should probably JUST flush, and continue flushing until this thing is done. IT looks about finished. Flush all the old nutes out and let the plant realize it's actually supposed to be dying, not just confused, and it will in turn fatten out those buds as a last ditch effort to reproduce before it dies. Looks like it's already trying to do it on it's own you just need to facilitate the process a bit more.

Revolution101 said:

You should probably JUST flush, and continue flushing until this thing is done. IT looks about finished. Flush all the old nutes out and let the plant realize it's actually supposed to be dying, not just confused, and it will in turn fatten out those buds as a last ditch effort to reproduce before it dies. Looks like it's already trying to do it on it's own you just need to facilitate the process a bit more.

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Sounds like a good approach as well. I'm getting some litmus paper tomorrow from my roommate who works in my schools chemistry department, so I can test my tap's pH before I flush. I'll probably end up just giving her straight water til harvest now that you said that. Thanks for the advice.