First grow Heavyweight Fruit Punch

applejohnny

applejohnny

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They don't look so bad. The real question is what are you going to do ? Personally I wouldn't remove those leaves until they are dead. Difficult to see how they are nutrient deficient since you seem to have been giving them plenty.
 
Figgy

Figgy

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applejohnny said:
They don't look so bad. The real question is what are you going to do ? Personally I wouldn't remove those leaves until they are dead. Difficult to see how they are nutrient deficient since you seem to have been giving them plenty.
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I've pretty much done what I can with what I have to correct any N deficiency that I may have. I let the leaves fall off by themselves. They look like a lot of other grows I've seen where people say it's normal, but I've never been on that team. It may just be how they respond to the Earth a juice brand of nutes.
 
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highspeed6

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Figgy said:
I've pretty much done what I can with what I have to correct any N deficiency that I may have. I let the leaves fall off by themselves. They look like a lot of other grows I've seen where people say it's normal, but I've never been on that team. It may just be how they respond to the Earth a juice brand of nutes.
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yea your ladies look normal and healthy, id say its just a natural occurring process, some of my leaves turned just like yours, so I wouldn't worry about it to much unless more leaves start to turn yellow and die off. I I lost of few leaves towards the bottom of my ladies too, I just waited till they were past the point of no return and then cut them off at the stem.

note: you can look at fan leaf stems and most of the time they turn a purple color if there is a N deficiency!
also when faced with yellowing leaves I always stopped giving nutes and flushed atleast 2 or 3 times with plain water.
 
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Figgy

Figgy

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highspeed6 said:
yea your ladies look normal and healthy, id say its just a natural occurring process, some of my leaves turned just like yours, so I wouldn't worry about it to much unless more leaves start to turn yellow and die off. I I lost of few leaves towards the bottom of my ladies too, I just waited till they were past the point of no return and then cut them off at the stem.

note: you can look at fan leaf stems and most of the time they turn a purple color if there is a N deficiency!
also when faced with yellowing leaves I always stopped giving nutes and flushed atleast 2 or 3 times with plain water.
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The stems of the yellow leaves is purple for sure. I'm just going to stay doing what I have been. Live and learn.
 
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highspeed6

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Figgy said:
The stems of the yellow leaves is purple for sure. I'm just going to stay doing what I have been. Live and learn.
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awww man im sorry to here that, if I were u id just give plain water and let her grow till everything clears up.. remember, at the end of the day its a "weed" its gonna grow!
 
Figgy

Figgy

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I have been thinking low ph due to earth juice being so low. Ph'd the brew yesterday to 6.2. We'll see how they do over the next 1-1.5 weeks.
 
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drew15a

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@ Figgy- Growing Heavyweight- I'm on day 52 and I am noticing some purple develop towards the fan leaves. Maybe its just the nature of the strain?

I did 40 days Veg and now day 12 flowering.. On day 38 they were 6" tall. Its day 52 and they are 22" tall. The stretch I have had as been ridiculous. But I did put mine into Flowering a lot earlier then you did so maybe that's why I have more stretch?
 
Figgy

Figgy

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drew15a said:
@ Figgy- Growing Heavyweight- I'm on day 52 and I am noticing some purple develop towards the fan leaves. Maybe its just the nature of the strain?

I did 40 days Veg and now day 12 flowering.. On day 38 they were 6" tall. Its day 52 and they are 22" tall. The stretch I have had as been ridiculous. But I did put mine into Flowering a lot earlier then you did so maybe that's why I have more stretch?
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I am thinking this is just how the EJ nutes are. I pulled them all out the tent, and they look ok. I burnt them again last feeding pretty good though so I hope the water helps out. I checked pH of runoff and it was 7 so not a low pH issue.

I just watered, and removed the top dressing of EWC as I had a fungus gnat larvae party on top of it as the water piled before it drained through.

Also, I had to tie up the big girl. She's leaning like a drunk pimp, and I felt like I was going to snap a couple stems as I pulled her out the tent. She's easily almost 2 full weeks ahead of the others. Probably around 50% brown pistils.

The resin off these is insane! I brush my arm up against them, and I got arm hair that feels like I rubbed tree sap in it. They smell awesome, and buds have some good firmness to them.

Overall I'm still happy with them. I think I just get nervous as this first grow is so new to me. I'm going water again in a couple days, then get back on a feed schedule for the remainder of the grow. I'm going to drop some of the bloom nutes as these are what's burning the girls. A few more weeks and the tall one comes down. Hopefully a couple weeks after that the other two will be ready. Pics on Friday!
 
Figgy

Figgy

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drew15a, I had purple fan leaf stems most of the time. Started off spotted, then progressed in flowering.
 
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drew15a

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It might have been there all along...I wasn't paying attention closely enough to know when it started. The bottom fan leaves stem are completely purple.

Have you trimmed or cleaned up some of your lower leaves? I've heard mixed reviews on whether you should just let some of the leaves die off or trim them off.
 
Figgy

Figgy

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drew15a said:
It might have been there all along...I wasn't paying attention closely enough to know when it started. The bottom fan leaves stem are completely purple.

Have you trimmed or cleaned up some of your lower leaves? I've heard mixed reviews on whether you should just let some of the leaves die off or trim them off.
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The leaves that are yellowing now I'm letting fall off by themselves. Seems like all the N is getting pulled out. I had one plant, the biggin', that I trimmed some leaves off of in veg to try it out. So far she has the smallest buds, but she is by far the tallest. I'm not sure if there's any correlation between height and size of buds. She is also a MUCH faster finisher. After all my research I would say that leaving all leaves on is best unless training. I know when I do a SCROG with my other Fruit Punch and a Strawberry Blue I will be trimming everything below the screen.

I did just do a little flush. I really burnt the shit outta them with my last feeding. I'm also thinking I may have some kind of lockout. I'm going to go easy on the nutes from here on out.
 
Figgy

Figgy

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Update: Day 43 flower

Girls are recovering from a small flush due to some bad nute burn. I'm still not sure if the yellowing is the natural life cycle with the EJ nutes, or a lockout. I have a 3/4 strength brew going now that will be fed probably Sunday. Buds are still slowly fattening up on the smaller two. The larger in the back right of the group shots is the one who will finish early. Her buds have just been maturing not really getting larger the past 1-1.5 weeks. Hopefully the flush will allow these to continue to grow. The tent smells like sweet skunk, and the entire downstairs smells wonderful after about 2 minutes of it being open. The smallest is the one in the back left who has the largest colas and fattest buds. Front is the middle girl who is coming along great. Here are some pics...
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applejohnny

applejohnny

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wow they are looking good - it's a marathon and the end is in sight :weed:

BTW, I checked the stems of my fan leaves - also purple.
 
youknowthekid!

youknowthekid!

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nice nugs man. don't think of it as lockout necessarily, but more of an imbalance. either way youre looking great, but next time shoot for the 3-1-2, 1-3-2 that the vets recommend and you shouldn't see it. They may just be extremely N hungry, amp it up and see what happens.
 
Figgy

Figgy

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youknowthekid! said:
nice nugs man. don't think of it as lockout necessarily, but more of an imbalance. either way youre looking great, but next time shoot for the 3-1-2, 1-3-2 that the vets recommend and you shouldn't see it. They may just be extremely N hungry, amp it up and see what happens.
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Thanks. I'm abandoning the Earth Juice line for my next grow. Thinking about a possible coco or hempy bucket grow with Jack's Classic nutes right now, but that may change.

I upped and gave a good Grow feeding then fed again last feeding along with an ewc top dressing. Just burned the crap out of them. Regardless, I did a small flush, and now have a full EJ brew going to try and finish these off.
 
Figgy

Figgy

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applejohnny said:
wow they are looking good - it's a marathon and the end is in sight :weed:

BTW, I checked the stems of my fan leaves - also purple.
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Thanks applyjohnny. Yeah, this is a marathon for sure. I have nothing to smoke at the moment, and I swear I can hear these girls taunting me!

That big one in the back right will be coming down in around 2-3 more weeks I'm guessing. I have no clue on the other two. Those have just started showing some pistils changing to orange.
 
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