Chromophore,

as I said in the long intro, beginning about week 3-4 of flowering, they began dropping fan leaves. I allowed them to continue with just sugar leaves but they basically went nowhere. as it progressed, even the sugar leaves would shrivel up and die. the plant would go another 3-4 weeks but they were clearly not happy about it.

the stalks would begin to brown and harden, though when cut showed no sign of fusarium.

on the bag of 'soil mix' they are pretty clear that there are enough nutrients for a month, but it is peat, after all and really has no nutrients. as to salts, I wouldn't think that would be an issue as I don't use salt based/chemical ferts much. I'm sticking with organics.

hang in there with me, please. if they do it again, perhaps we can find a solution. in the end, it could just be the heat factor which I can't control.