Would you feed her to the end?

[Roy Growin]

Looking excellent

 

[Doctor Trevor]

Did it get cold where you are? Even for a day? If so, the yellow leaves could be a nitrogen edficiency. This late in the game, there isn't much you can do.

 

[Fietchen]

Did it get cold where you are? Even for a day? If so, the yellow leaves could be a nitrogen edficiency. This late in the game, there isn't much you can do.

Yes winter here but inside it's room Temp so no problem. Yes it's a deficiency but that's normal in late flower she has nutes in the Reservoir left i don't add any nutes anymore

 

[SmokingWings]

What you think?

I will feed with a top dressing all the way until the last 5 days or so of flowering. If I do harvest on the day I had planned the fertilizer left on top of the soil is not enough to really cost that much or be a problem the next time I use the soil. If for some reason I cannot harvest on the day I had planned then the fertilizer is already there waiting and working its way into the soil.

But she's taking it from the leaves.. isn't that the point? what's wrong with a bit of senescence at the end of the cycle? Are we trying to avoid this now?

Something I have been thinking about. During the vegetating stage we try to keep the plants as green as possible. Anytime during this stage if a plant starts to show yellow or browning leaves the first reaction is that something is going wrong. The grower has to make changes so that they have healthy looking plants again.

Then why should we accept these same yellow and brown leaves starting to show up once the plant has started flowering? I have noticed that when growers who have maintained a fertilizing schedule through flowering that provides them with nice green healthy looking plants with large buds growing also get comments about how great their plants look.

For the most part senescence is an end of life process and is acceptable for perennial and sometimes biannual plants. Cannabis is an annual and most annuals will stay healthy and green until the very end. Then they die from the cold or the days being so short that the plant does not have enough photosynthesis going on to provide the basic foods it needs. Speaking of which yellowing or browning leaves are not able to provide the levels of photosynthesis that they could if they stayed a healthy green.

But she's taking it from the leaves.. isn't that the point?

Yes, it is. The plant has started translocation of the needed and stored nutrients and sugars from the leaves to the growing of the buds. Once it starts it seems that it will not stop. Except, sometimes, if enough of the nutrient is supplied in such a way that the remaining roots can take it up as fast as it is needed. When that happens the leaves stop turning yellow or brown though they damage has been done and will not be repaired nor will the vast majority of those leaves be replaced.

what's wrong with a bit of senescence at the end of the cycle?

What's right about a bit of senescence during the entire flowering cycle. When a perennial like a tree or shrub starts to show yellow or brown leaves it is an active part of the "shutting down cycle" as the plant prepares for being being dormant until the longer length of days and warmer temperatures return. It is an interesting process if we think about it. The leaves do not change color because of the temperatures so much as they start senescence because the plant shuts them off from the main part of the plant. A layer of cells is grown so that those leaves will no longer get water, sugars or anything else they need to continue growing and being alive. Though, the temperatures might speed up or slow down this shutting off of the leaves.

Are we trying to avoid this now?

Avoiding senescence? I thing we will be better off if we try. Better off in that we will get larger buds with more trichomes which seems to be one of the major goals of growing this plant.

 

[SmokingWings]

Well, don't listen to us, listen to your plant. She is running out of something that she needs (based on the yellow leaves) to do what she is doing.

Yes, this above. Let the plant tell us what it needs. Most likely it will start with a deficiency of nitrogen as the plant takes what it can from the older and larger leaves and moves it to all the new sugar leaves and green growth in the buds.

You have enough green leaves to support her til the very near end, so maybe it isn't that important, but I personally like to feed em all the way thru - that way they only get one bad day

What I have run into is that the plant eventually runs out of those green leaves as it produces more buds. And, it runs out while there is still time needed to finish growing the nicer large buds.

 

[Fietchen]

She looks ready too me it's day 97 maybe 3 day's then i will Harvest her what you think?

 

[Waywardwayne]

She looks ready too me it's day 97 maybe 3 day's then i will Harvest her what you think?

She looks incredible. I think the trichomes will say when the harvest is ready. She’s drinking less and the trichomes have changed, she’s ready.

 

[SmokingWings]

She looks ready too me it's day 97 maybe 3 day's then i will Harvest her what you think?

Most auto-flower growers include the days from the seed sprouting when they mention the age of the plants. Do you remember when your plants actually started to show stigma/pistils and the forming of the buds.

 

[Fietchen]

Most auto-flower growers include the days from the seed sprouting when they mention the age of the plants. Do you remember when your plants actually started to show stigma/pistils and the forming of the buds.

Day 19 she show Pistols

Here she is on Day 100 xD my weed getting empty so i have to finish her this week maybe tomorrow maybe wensday

 

[Fietchen]

Can i harvest her next week I feel flu is coming too me a week more for the plant maybe?