Fan Leave Going Purple the Day After Adding Molasses

FFOF with a tbl spoon of lime per gallon of soil. Fox Farm - Grow big, big bloom, tiger bloom, open sesame, beasty bloomz, cha-ching

Honestly I seen the most bud growth when I added beasty bloomz during the flowering stage, it is possible that it was just coincidence.

you should start flushing now they look ready so a week of flush now and you're good to go

Too many nutes, ph probably either way a flush would be great. I'd just keep it simple, bit of grow and bit o bloom but for now just a flush and weak nutes. It is not ready for harvest yet and got at least 2/3 weeks left in her. Not bad for the first time. By the way that purpling is bad, if you gave your plant somthing and it turned it purple i bet you wish you hadn't given it to the plant in the first place!

thanks, is it okay to flush when the soil is still wet? If it were the molasses that turned it purple why wouldn't it have turned the others purple? I think it may be a phenotype, I've been reading about that.

No it should be done as a watering, wait till you need to water and flush but in emergencies flush when the soil is wet, roots that stay wet for too long go bad, soil shouldnt stay wet for long periods.

Kingrow1 said:

No it should be done as a watering, wait till you need to water and flush but in emergencies flush when the soil is wet, roots that stay wet for too long go bad, soil shouldnt stay wet for long periods.

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By me stating he should start flush is when the next time he needs to water is when he should start flushing. I myself flush 7-10 days but that's my preference.

Kingrow1 said:

Too many nutes, ph probably either way a flush would be great. I'd just keep it simple, bit of grow and bit o bloom but for now just a flush and weak nutes. It is not ready for harvest yet and got at least 2/3 weeks left in her. Not bad for the first time. By the way that purpling is bad, if you gave your plant somthing and it turned it purple i bet you wish you hadn't given it to the plant in the first place!

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the purpling at the same time as the molasses being added is just a coincidence. The purpling is just fine unless it's a P deficiency.

You might think purpling is just fine but to me any purpling except purple strains is a sign of stress, either a nute stress, ph stress, heat stress, watering stress etc etc and leaf purpling is not good here. Even if the purpling and molasses was a coincedence somthing still went wrong to make big healthy fan leaves like that go purple and should fix the problem before adding molasses although molasses might help here but not sure. The plant looks like it will finish from here but what you don't want is to make the problem any worse. Honestly i see purple as a bad sign and only when my plants are health dose the purpling dissapear, even a lot of nute lockouts and toxicity's exhibit purple stems and stalks. There are strains that exhibit purple in their buds and occasionally strains that have purple leaves but i don't think this is one of them. A healthy plant should be a healthy shade of green come harvest time, some like them to be nitrogen deficient and bright yellow fan leaves from the plant relocating nitrogen to the new growth and finishing bud but this is the only exception in my eyes, any stress will make the flowering time longer as well. Never have i had a sick plant finish early or on time. I still recomend a flush with pH water.

Kingrow1 said:

You might think purpling is just fine but to me any purpling except purple strains is a sign of stress, either a nute stress, ph stress, heat stress, watering stress etc etc and leaf purpling is not good here. Even if the purpling and molasses was a coincedence somthing still went wrong to make big healthy fan leaves like that go purple and should fix the problem before adding molasses although molasses might help here but not sure. The plant looks like it will finish from here but what you don't want is to make the problem any worse. Honestly i see purple as a bad sign and only when my plants are health dose the purpling dissapear, even a lot of nute lockouts and toxicity's exhibit purple stems and stalks. There are strains that exhibit purple in their buds and occasionally strains that have purple leaves but i don't think this is one of them. A healthy plant should be a healthy shade of green come harvest time, some like them to be nitrogen deficient and bright yellow fan leaves from the plant relocating nitrogen to the new growth and finishing bud but this is the only exception in my eyes, any stress will make the flowering time longer as well. Never have i had a sick plant finish early or on time. I still recomend a flush with pH water.

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I plant doesn't look sick it looks done too me and most plants leaves turn purple at the end because the buds are drawing the last bit of stored nutes that are in the leaves. Question how long have you been growing?I've many many grows under my belt and I've seen my plants leaves do the same thing at the end of flower

Kingrow1 said:

There are strains that exhibit purple in their buds and occasionally strains that have purple leaves but i don't think this is one of them.

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Whys that? Not to bust your balls or anything, but op doesnt know the strain...I'm doubting you would either. I know people who have grown for YEARS and YEARS...and they couldn't get on here look at a picture and tell you what they believe the strain is. Your correct about purpling fan leaves being a deficiency, but this is usually accompanied with other signs. That plant looks healthy...not sick.

To me the plant still looks healthy, it's so close to being finished I don't think I'll worry about it. I haven't Ph'ed anything during this entire grow except when I first started... I used a ph test strip which said my water out of the tap was 6.8 and I added a table spoon of crushed dolomite lime per gallon of soil.

Yer there are two trains of thought and it seems to divide people, some want green plants at finish and achieve just that with barely a yellow leaf, mean they hit the the ferts spot on and grow environment. Some accept that yellowing and purpling is natural for the end of the grow. I wouldn't like to convince you of either but i am with the people who don't accept problems at the end of the grow with leaves. Besides the plant will exibit old age once it is past its peak ripeness and not before and when it is at peak ripeness then it should be harvested. That plant is not that healthy in my eyes but yer it will probably finish but i still think its got longer than a week with all them white hairs still showing. If you do think that a plant looking like that is healthy then ok but i can see a lot better examples of good finished bud and the leaves are all green. If the leaf is not green it makes it very hard for the leaf to absorb sunlight, although it can just not at a very high rate, and therefore is not working at its full ability. I have done maybe over 200 plants in the past few years and probably a lot more if i counted. I did biology to a very high level in school and appreciate the critisism as this is a constructive forum and appreciate your comments. The idea of yellowing leaves in final flowering is a cultural practice used by great pot growers, the idea is that the yellowing of the leaves signifys that the plant is not getting enough nitrogen from the roots and hence using the nitrogen stored in the leaves and eventually the rest of the plant. The reason we do this is so that we know that the plant is not storing nitrogen due to an overabundance in the soil etc etc This leaves us less nitrogen deposits in the finished bud and hence when smoking we are not smoking large amounts of deadly nitrogen. There is a reason some grow organic and thats to avoid bad chemicals in the finished bud. Some other growers think it is allright to let there plant become very sick at the end of flowering because of the pros letting the plant become slightly nitrogen deficient. Correct me if i am wrong on this but you'll need some kind of solid refrencing from wiki or somwhere trustworthy to make me change my opinion and knowledge.

We all agree that a flush is the best course of action though.

Hey, it's all good, it may not be the best looking plant you've seen but that's fine. It's my first time, I'm just happy it went as well as it did. And yes, I plan to flush as soon as she's thirsty

I just wanted to say that you got balls using all them ferts and additives, first grow and you certainly went for it. Yer thats a lot better than my first grow but not my second. Maybe just try it with the bloom and grow next time with minimal other stuff to see what the difference would be, when i started growing weed i never thought i'd end up being a gardener but thats what it makes you, i grow better jalapeno pepper plants than weed, they are my ultimate success out of all this, which is a shame because i prefer to be better at growing weed.

It was right of lambofgod and the others to pull me up over what i say as you can't have a discussion otherwise and they are right with not worrying about those fan leaves this late in flowering as it is no big deal but the plant is trying to tell you somthing by this wotever it may be. I still say you got a couple of weeks minimun till harvest and would let it swell up first. Pics please and of the close up buds. Thanks

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Kingrow1 said:

Yer there are two trains of thought and it seems to divide people, some want green plants at finish and achieve just that with barely a yellow leaf, mean they hit the the ferts spot on and grow environment. Some accept that yellowing and purpling is natural for the end of the grow. I wouldn't like to convince you of either but i am with the people who don't accept problems at the end of the grow with leaves.

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Kingrow1 said:

We all agree that a flush is the best course of action though.

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Then I would believe you have just contradicted yourself.

MrCatatonic said:

To me the plant still looks healthy, it's so close to being finished I don't think I'll worry about it. I haven't Ph'ed anything during this entire grow except when I first started... I used a ph test strip which said my water out of the tap was 6.8 and I added a table spoon of crushed dolomite lime per gallon of soil.

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Wow you never PHed your water AFTER adding tiger bloom?!?!?!

It's been quite awhile since I used fox farm nutes, but last time I checked it dramatically lowered or raised my ph (cant remember which one, I believe lowered though)

hey vantheman, your signature just made me shoot diet coke out my nose I laughed so hard.

A contradiction though it may be seem to you but there is a very real point behind it. Really you did misunderstand me though, i don't want him to flush before harvest, i think hes got a while to go yet and i merely wanted him to flush those nutes out of the soil since he seems to have overdone it, or at least in my valued opinion. The fact that we agree on the same thing for different reasons is where you are getting mixed up and thought there to be a contradiction, here is a chance to give the correct ph water as well.