Flowering, but leaves are yellow and dying - Please help

[taylor324]

Hey, so here's my deal....

I have two plants. Both started as feminized seeds. One is White Widow, the other Easy Bud.

I vegged for about 7 weeks and now I have been flowering for about 4 and a half weeks.


Most of the lower leaves on both plants have died or fallen off. There are a lot of bud sites, but even some of the leaves by the flowers are yellowing, curling and dying.

Using 400 W HPS with relighting bulb (supposed to be similar to hortilux). Used 400 W MH for veg.

The only ferts I'm using are Canna Flores and I only use it once every 2 or 3 times I water.

What should I do? Is this normal? And how much longer should I flower?

Thanks!

taylor324 Reviewed by taylor324 on 06-21-2006. Flowering, but leaves are yellow and dying - Please help Hey, so here's my deal.... I have two plants. Both started as feminized seeds. One is White Widow, the other Easy Bud. I vegged for about 7 weeks and now I have been flowering for about 4 and a half weeks. Most of the lower leaves on both plants have died or fallen off. There are a lot of bud sites, but even some of the leaves by the flowers are yellowing, curling and dying. Using 400 W HPS with relighting bulb (supposed to be similar to hortilux). Used 400 W MH for veg. Rating: 5

[taylor324]

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[SeedlessOne]

Over nute maybe?

[iwantFUEGO]

wow thats a shame... id be freaking out.

[mscaboo]

your plants have a nitrogen def,at what time did you stop using veg nutes?

[OmegaVermelho]

I´m no expert but it looks like over nute burn....and how far is the hps from the top of the canopy????

[Garden Knowm]

Hang in there chief.. they are gonna get bigger.. i see ZERO brown hairs...

[taylor324]

i stopped using veg nutes when i stopped vegging. so that was 4 and a half weeks ago. at that point i switched to flower nutes.

hps is about 8-12 inches from main colas and 20 inches from other bud sites...

anybody got any suggestions? do plants look good otherwise?

[taylor324]

can anybody suggest anything? thanks in advance

[sjacobs713]

flush em, and then let them recover and start over w/ nutes....
read this article about flushing them in the bathtub, makes it a little easier..
forgot the link to the article, but basically it said:

fill your tub w/ water, and then set your pot in the tub and the water will soak to the top of the soil from the bottom ( let sit there for about 5 mins ),
pick the pot up and watch all the yellow liquid fall out..
repeat same process until water comes out clear... i had to repeat 3 times w/ 3 gallon pots..
FYI ..... i use those cheap , plastic pots, and they come pre-holed, but i have found that the water does not drain properly from just the 6 holes.. i drilled holes on the bottom of my pots, and drains alot better...

also the guy at the grow shop that i spoke w/, told me to not let the soil get too crunchy... ( i had read somewhere on these boards that it was good to do that so the roots can get oxygen , and i was doing that!) it's not goo to do that, when there is no water for the roots they start to pull moisture from leaf's...
just some thoughts!

i am working on my first grow , so i am far from any kind of expert...

GOOD LUCK