Chop, Fix, or just wait... (another) late flowering problem

Single-plant, micro/stealth indoor grow. Indica dominant strain. 7.5 weeks in flower. Medium is 30/30/30 soil/coco/perlite, but the "soil" is also 50% coco (weird I know but not the topic, just FYI). I have treated more as if a straight coco grow. As a micro/stealth grow, this has been CFL-only, with 6x during flower for a total of 258 real watts. I actually think there might have been some photobleaching in mid-flower, if that is possible with CFLs (they were very close)

Plant was great through veg and early flower stretch. Not trying to get into what went wrong (at this late stage), just some opinions from more experienced grower on what to do right now.

Around week 6 of flower, after tapering to bloom nutes, there was sudden excessive yellowing, and some random patches of necrosis. Wasn't too concerned until after I flushed the plant, at which time she completely stopped drinking. Back in veg this plant was drinking an entire watering in about a half a day. Now, its been 3 days since flush and the medium is still wet. The flush water was about pH 6.7 and first part of the runoff was around 5.5. After flush I fed the bloom nutes at 1/2 strength (just once)

Unlike a lot of other similar questions, I don't have any drooping/wilting, just more yellow and brown... and roots sitting in damp medium despite exellent air flow and low RH. Buds also stopped/slowed their fattening.

So I am including some pics of the triches (sorry about pic quality), because my question is just whether you think I should chop now, try and do something, or just wait another few days or a week and chop. Yield is not that important to me, but I do want to harvest at peak THC, if possible.

TIA for any help.

I mean your close to harvest, I wouldn't worry about it. just continue feeding and tapering off until harvest. You can't really fix the issue now. They look great, looks like it will be a nice harvest.

plants always slow up drinking for me in the later weeks... so just give it more time before watering and wait another week or two.. it will be better smoke!

Phatty McSpinner said:

So I am including some pics of the triches (sorry about pic quality), because my question is just whether you think I should chop now, try and do something, or just wait another few days or a week and chop. Yield is not that important to me, but I do want to harvest at peak THC, if possible.

TIA for any help.

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What do they look like now?

They are in cure at this point. Sorry my picture quality sucks but you can get the idea. I ended up holding out more than 2 weeks after my original post, watering a small amount every other day, and also foliar spraying with only water since she wasn't drinking much through the roots.

This turned out to be the right choice at that point. Not much was happening but the trichomes were increasing every day and wasn't getting many ambers. I ended up doing 72 hours of dark at the end, the last 24 of which were not planned.

...just a one plant all-CFL stealth grow in a tupperware bucket (haha). I think I know now what happened in late flower before my OP, but I'll need to update that later.