Drive bye. Girls are looking good. I'm not sure what your using in fert's, but I'd throw some heavier nitrogen at them, alot have been looking kind of hungry. just my 2 cents. Always good to go as lite as possible with fert's unless they show signs of needing more. Buddage is looking sweet my friend, Keepem Green
Yeah they were all fed today and were very hungry.
Vegging specimens got 20-5-10 nitrogen dominant fast action D&S Step 2, while the flowering plants all got 3-9-4 Dr. Earth flower Girl probiotic brewed tea.
For the budding plants, I don't like to feed nitrogen dominant fertilizer once they have developed their heads, so they sometimes start to yellow off and change colors pretty quickly which is fine. I usually prefer it for the plant to become fully yellow by harvest time, I've found that if I feed a nitrogen
dominant fertilizer to a flowering plant "just to get her green" it will only make the buds more leafier around the calyx clusters and also
may (sometimes) lend an unwanted "grassy" chlorophyll flavor to the flowers. So the minimal nitrogen that they're getting from the tea and the broken down organic matter in the soil will be enough to sustain their chlorophyll needs.
I'm more concerned with replenishing their phosphate pools and giving them minimal nitrogen during flower. I want them to go yellow, and if I feed a flowering plant a nitrogen heavy fertilizer, I will probably ruin the ability for the yellow fade at harvest time. The yellow fade is a good thing in my opinion, it forces the plant at harvest time to begin breaking down its stored up nutrients, and gets rid of all excess nutes floating around, this is something that I think contributes to enhancing the essence of the flavor.
But yeah for the vegging specimens I for sure want them to go green. I want my flowering ladies to fade yellow slowly as they break down the organic matter in the soil.
The 7 strains of bacteria that are in the Dr. Earth tea will also help the plants obtain nitrogen from the organic matter, rather than in any kind of fast action feed, which I will avoid serving once the centralized flower head has formed. I want the plant to break down its own nutrients at harvest time. If it stays green up until harvest time it won't know to break itself down and harvest its own nutrients, and will just stay alive. But if I wanted to re-vegetate a specimen then I might consider doing a N heavy fertilizer in mid/hard flower.
I guess that's just my personal philosophy though