white widow start week 8. MY FUCKEN LEAVES ARE ALL YELLOW AND GETTING BROWN AND DYING
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wanagrowbigbud
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Sr. Verde
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This is correct. Leaves (mainly fan leafs) yellow and die off late into the flowering cycle.This is natural in late flower, the leaves turn yellow because the plant is absorbing the nutrients from the leaves and storing them in the buds. I'd give the plant maybe 1 more week then chop it down, good luck
Not to be rude or anything, but it doesn't help to give incorrect advice. Please make sure you know what your talking about before giving advice. Particularly with the 'harvest now'...
stillcantroll
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Those buds look ready to start flushing if you haven't already. The yellowing doesn't look too out of the ordinary as far as i'm concerned. It's a little sharper than what I've typically seen in soil, but you're on the home stretch and they arent drooping, and the buds look great. I'm sure you'll be fine... your buds just want the nitrogen out of those fan leaves before harvest. Good luck!
wanagrowbigbud
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thanks majek. had me a little stressed.
Sr. Verde
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From what I can see those trichs look great, some round heads on top of the stalk.
Keep an eye on those trichomes. When some start to turn amber that means the THC levels have peaked, and the THC is now degrading to CBD/CBN. This is usually the best time to harvest but some people like more amber trichomes for a more stony/couch locked high.
I remove my yellow leaves so that the light can get to the lower buds.
You should start flushing if you haven't like the above poster said
pics of my grow with yellowing leaves:
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wanagrowbigbud
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stillcantroll when you say flush do you mean rinse the soil with 3x as much water as the volume of the bucket. or does just watering do the trick. I fed them yesterday. soil is pretty wet. if im flushing do i wait for soil to dry before i flush again. Sorry about all the questions. this is my fourth plant to harvest and i want this white widow to be good.
wanagrowbigbud
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i have better pics of the trichs. there is no amber ones yet. is there a special place to look. i have looked over all the buds on the top and their is none. they would be the buds done the fastest am i correct.
mrboots
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I have a plant that looks almost exactly like this, in about the same stage of flowering. I dont think that there is anything to do about it this late in flowering, just let it go a little longer and harvest what you can, but i was wondering how much yellowing at the end of flowering is too much? i see some peoples plants that they are cutting down that are still all green. Might there have been something that wannagrow and me could have done earlier in the life of the plant to prevent this kind of thing?
Sr. Verde
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Try quoting people, look at the bottom right on there message, "reply with quote".
Google articles about flushing, there are many. It's basically using JUST water (ph balanced) and running it through your pot (as in pot/dirt not pot/weed). The water should remove the dissolved salts in the soil, and remove all the nutrients. Then from then on you just use plain water, and flush again a few days before harvest. Then your plants uses the nutrients it has and *flushes* the nutrients out. So when you smoke it you aren't smoking nutrients still in the plants. A good flush will result in a good taste and burn among other things.
You want to look at the actual bud for trichomes, not sugar leafs. Trichomes on sugar leaves will degrade much faster than the trichomes on the buds.
Sr. Verde
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Look at my pics above, I remove most of the fanleafs.
Some people think that plants need nutrients the most at the end of their lifecycle. To each his own really. But flushing (to my knowledge) is a widely accepted method.
stronghits
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mrboots
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I know flushing is widely accepted, but your plants look a lot greener than wannagrow's and mine. do you think a slight nute deffenciency in like the middle of the flowering stage (maybe that wasn't even noticed) would cause excessive yellowing at the end?
wanagrowbigbud
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Sr. Verde
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Maybe, but you would have seen yellow leaves before.
On the mine looking greener:
I removed all the yellow leafs by the time of the pic with the ruler (day 75). I figured no point in a yellow leaf, all its doing is cutting down airflow and light penetration. I left all the green ones. Then I chopped and trimmed after the picture.
I started watering with plain water for a few weeks, then flushed, and resumed with the pure water for another week. I was unsure when I would chop so I figured this method was best.
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wanagrowbigbud
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i have a hunch that my yellow leaves are a combination between spider mites and flowering....
quietguy420
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EEP!!! Stay away!
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