Do yellowing leaves actually matter?

Not an experienced grower, probably done about 6 grows in total. Often I've got really stressed out because my plants didn't look green and pretty. In fact I got really ocd about it and it kind of put me off growing. Anyway just as example these plants looked awful leafwise pretty much the entire flowering time and it really pissed me off. However the end result produced really nice weed and for me a decent yield. Seems like the worrying was pointless and that weed plants don't really need green leaves to produce. Anyone else find this is true?

You have bugs
The white dots look like thrips bites
Hard to tell exactly not the clearest photo.

Jjgrow420 said:

You have bugs
The white dots look like thrips bites
Hard to tell exactly not the clearest photo.

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Agree. Prob why the herb is fine, it’s more defended
from the flowers resin than fan leaves.

John Rollwan said:

Agree. Prob why the herb is fine, it’s more defended
from the flowers resin than fan leaves.

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That's pretty heavy infestation. I'm sure they're all over everything.

Jjgrow420 said:

That's pretty heavy infestation. I'm sure they're all over everything.

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Time for a few thousand lady bugs.

John Rollwan said:

Time for a few thousand lady bugs.

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There's better options. Ladybugs are wild caught.

Jjgrow420 said:

There's better options. Ladybugs are wild caught.

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Sorry I should’ve been more clear. Don’t buy lady bugs. They are mainly wild caught which makes them invasive to your region typically, and extracted somewhere else. Instead like all of nature, be symbiotic, give and take.

Well... hell.... why not just strip off all the leaves then? All they do is block buds anyways. Saves on trimming in the end.

Citric acid for thrips.

Yellow leafs just means you fucked up something at some point in time.top too much bottom too low.and they will never go back to green after fixing the problem.soo yelow leafs "dont matter" they are just signs.

That doesn't really look like thrip damage to me..

amneziaHaze said:

Yellow leafs just means you fucked up something at some point in time.top too much bottom too low.and they will never go back to green after fixing the problem.soo yelow leafs "dont matter" they are just signs.

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Green leaves help facilitate eating. The less green they are, the less they eat.



The less they eat, the less weight they put on.







so.....I guess after they yellow, youre right, they don't matter. That's why the idea is to keep them green.