Probably wouldn't hurt it, but if it was nute stress, there would be other signs. Browning/yellowing, blotches, curling and burned tips, are a few signs of excess nutes. I don't see that, there. I am not saying you are wrong, just that I think this is how that strain rolls. 49 days flowering should mean a couple weeks,max and it is done. Sure flush it if you think It'll help. I grow organically, and see no need to flush mine, but to each his/her own.
Fan Leave Going Purple the Day After Adding Molasses
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Kingrow1
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I live in a farming country and if i go outdoors at harvest to the farmers feilds 90 percent of his plants are pretty much 100 percent green leafed when harvested, we have grape vines that stay green until the day the grapes are plucked and made into wine, we have farmers markets, competitions, events and highly prized fruit and veg without a green leaf, i eat cabbage that still has its roots on from the farm with 100percent green leaves and so on! Yer in the parks where no one really fertilizes the soil apart from the actions of mother nature and where stress, disease and fungi are rife yet alone the thousonds upon thosonds of pests that visit their trees every year, yer the leaves are falling well before the fruits but my country stays green until the frosts and its farms are some of the best around and if they grew weed they would keep most leaves green until harvest. I appreciate your point of veiw but the farmers round my parts would argue against you. Even i get yellowing and purpling but the biggest and best of my plants are always the greenest, mother nature has nothing to do with my grow, its all down to me really. I also would point out that farmers do not flush their feilds and we all eat fertilized plants wether they be organic or inorganic, i fail to reason why a pre harvest flush is even nessesary for a lot of grows as well and there are a lot who would agree that you dont need to flush as long with the right conditions. Please do not bring the wether to flush or not to flush point pre harvest up as that is for another thread and not relevant here.
Kingrow1
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http://www.growkind.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18155
This short thread sums it up for me, know you might disagree but hey its healthy to diagree.
This short thread sums it up for me, know you might disagree but hey its healthy to diagree.
I do really appreciate your opinion, and you may very well be right, but don't think I am that much different. I also live in farm country and raise all my own fruits and veggies. I make my own compost and fertilizer teas. I eat only my home grown fruits and veggies, and raise my own beef and eggs. But, I was raised in California and have been smoking since 1973. I have harvested mega pounds of purple weed over the decades. I was enjoying California Purple Indica and Humbolt Skunk, when Ted Nugent was a noob. Sure it could very well be as you say. But, I'll bet that smoke turns out sweet, and delicious. Of course, I don't know it all, so all I know is what I have seen, and heard.
There is a big difference between food crops, and deciduous trees. You have never seen an oak or maple drop its green leaves, or it was real sick. Cannabis is the same way. Some, not all strains, discolor and begin to drop fan leaves. This is a natural occurrence and IMHO should be treated as such. I have found that after twenty five years of producing my own smoke, indoors, it is often possible that less is more. I am not here to contend with you about this, I just gave my opinion, and if you were here, I'd be honored to show you my success. I would hope WW and Neville's Haze is to your liking. Peace.
I refuse to hijack this thread one more post. I bet you grow some chronic bud, and I'd be proud to sample it. We'll just have to agree to disagree. Enjoy.
It is totally copacetic.
rzza
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king ...
as summer ends and autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter. This is how the trees "know" to begin getting ready for winter.
During winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis. The trees will rest, and live off the food they stored during the summer. They begin to shut down their food-making factories. The green chlorophyll disappears from the leaves. As the bright green fades away, we begin to see yellow and orange colors. Small amounts of these colors have been in the leaves all along. We just can't see them in the summer, because they are covered up by the green chlorophyll.
http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/leaves.html
as summer ends and autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter. This is how the trees "know" to begin getting ready for winter.
During winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis. The trees will rest, and live off the food they stored during the summer. They begin to shut down their food-making factories. The green chlorophyll disappears from the leaves. As the bright green fades away, we begin to see yellow and orange colors. Small amounts of these colors have been in the leaves all along. We just can't see them in the summer, because they are covered up by the green chlorophyll.
http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/leaves.html
Kingrow1
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This is surely after fruiting with marijuana, old age is old age and agree that leaf drop and yellowing normal but not at peak harvest when the bud is mature, after this yes the plant has reached its zenith and things decline, even now new growth and revegging can be achieved. I see plants that stay green till harvest and get some myself, i also grow white widow and have finished plants with little or no yellowing many times, would you say i did somthing wrong not to get a yellow leaf or purpling on those plants??
Kingrow1
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All through the growing period marijuana leaveas discolour to ph, temp, waterings and nutes, they do it at the end of their lives and apparently this is normal. There are no genetics that say to do this only genetics that say this plant is stressed somehow. If your plant starts to die before finishing the bud and its transport systems break down then maybe suggest a different strain. There will never be a right or wrong in this topic of to have green leaves or not but there are certainly a lot of very good growers who have perfect leaves the whole way through and would say differently. All i say is that with a few weeks left till harvest you should be carefull what your plant is doing and not just say, hey thats natural all them purple and yellow leaves right before harvest, im sure the bud will be just fine to smoke, this is the most critical time of the plants life, months of hard work for this moment and you ignore her, great lover you are. Anyway its been good to talk and i gotta go to bed now. its like 4 oclock in the morning in my country. Peace and looking forward to the pics of the buds.
REALSTYLES
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Say I have another question. Why such a long explanation? I have a short attention span lol. My attention is on the craft of growing nice plants and understanding them. It seems like your copying and pasting your knowledge and I'm not trying to be a dick but.....I myself grow monster plants
CanadianEh
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Hahah, that fucking wall of text will do it every time to you.
MrCatatonic
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Someone requested bud close ups, this is just about as close as I can get. You can tell which ones the purple plant
REALSTYLES
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Maybe pic 6 I can see a slight purple to it in the flower
lambofgod
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ya I have to force myself to read a wall of text. hurts the old eyes.
rzza
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when they look close to done, then they have a couple, three weeks left. right now, they have alot more than that. it looks good though and ill bet in a couple weeks the purple makes its way to the bud.
MrCatatonic
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I looked at the trichomes this morning through a 100x viewer I bought at radioshack, they all look milky to me. But I will wait as others have suggested.
I wasn't going to add anymore nutes but since the estimation is 2-3 more weeks I suppose I should and hold back on flushing? My fiance is nagging the hell out of me to chop them, I guess I'll be fighting her off for a good while yet.
Also I flushed the one with the worse burn from the cha-ching again this morning. So 2 flushes, should I add nutes again next time?
Any advice would be appreciated.
I wasn't going to add anymore nutes but since the estimation is 2-3 more weeks I suppose I should and hold back on flushing? My fiance is nagging the hell out of me to chop them, I guess I'll be fighting her off for a good while yet.
Also I flushed the one with the worse burn from the cha-ching again this morning. So 2 flushes, should I add nutes again next time?
Any advice would be appreciated.
