NEED help from proâ??s. Iâ??m about to punch babies!

[Abattoir Dream]

wow.... thats some fuckin eye candy lol!

[harris7]

Youre plants are fine! My plants did the exact same thing and lost almost all their fan leaves. i consider it as a sign that the leaves are actually being used to their fullest amount in producing buds. My plants turned out very good and i saw no defficeincy in bud bud potency or weight.
If you are 6 weeks in flowering i would stop feeding all together and only use water alone. this will increase the taste of your buds and break down cloraphyll (correct me if im wrong) to make it smother.

Here are some pics of my plants

have you noticed that yellowing is strain specific? or you just get it some grows?

[santacruz_organic]

i have noticed it to a certain extent on other plants that werent grown as well observed and cared for as this grow. Ive heard it to be a bad sign to have no yellowing leaves towards the end of vegetation due to the fact that it shows that there is still alot of energy being put in vegetative growth as well as flowering. Naturally when plants get to their final stages in life, like in the harvest season of fall, the leaves turn yellow and wither away. Also due to the fact you should be using ver little nitrogen during flowering your leaves will turn yellow. as long as you dont see any signs of problem besides fan leaves turning yellow, i would just let it do its thing.

[stickylove]

My plants ussually loose alot of leaves and yellow a good bit at that stage. But, yours is a bitt worse than I've seen. I would not do any more fish emulsion because this late in the game that is a little strong. The only thing that I would feed that late is Terracycle by OMRI-You can get it at Home Depot. It is a very mild organic fert made from worm castings, packaged in recycled coke bottles. My opinion would be to feed them now one does of that and then start flushing them in a week. But, even if you do nothing, you will still probably have healthy buds.

[harris7]

The big problem for me is how do I know when to flush. As we judge harvest by the tricomes. I pretty much need to predict when she'll finish. Do i just assume 8 weeks flowering?
This is all i know of the strain

Champagne
Species: 70% Indica – 30% Sativa
Flowering Time: 8 Weeks
Approx Yield: 450g p.s.m
Height: 125-150+ cm

[kindprincess]

i'd count on that 8 weeks being more like 9 or 10... i begin flushing when i see the first amber trich...

[stickylove]

Just have to guess at it. Flowering times are never exactly what the seed farms say they are. Since it depends on lights, fert, and temps.
I would think when the buds are starting to get fat, but before any hairs start to turn. But, I'm no expert.. I just plant em, love em and make the most educated guesses I can as to what they need. Good luck

[harris7]

well there some hairs turned a long time ago on probably every bud of every plant. but it isn't progressing. Zandor said somewhere that the hairs respond to different things and are only loosely related to maturity. I gotta go get a 30X microscope

[faithlessxxx]

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Hairs can start to brown weeks before the trichs do.
I'm harvesting my gals day by day, through a magnifier. Started 2 days ago, and I probably have another 3 days left to let each branch mature fully.
I'm noticing that it's not just the color of the trichs that is your only clue.

Generally, the mature buds are also the plumpest, ripest, darkest looking. I think of them as a fruit, like I'd judge a mango at the store, though if the trichs are getting too dark and the buds are still all not that plump, I chop them. Don't want the trichs decaying too much.

I also find that usually a whole branch ripens at roughly the same time, though not the whole plant.

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[harris7]

when do you find the buds plump up the most. is it really quickly in the last 2 weeks. or steadily for the lats 4? I've read that calyx development is only the first 5 weeks. Then they just swell in size and really pack on weight.

as well, do you harvest one plant over a few days?
if so, are you worried about stressing the plant out by cutting it?
or is that stress a good thing,
then again, what could that stress actually do