Its just a matter of time before its dead, I need your help!

matman4444

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I am growing indoors, 270w hps agro light, with a couple cfls and a 2' tube.
Growing in soil, black gold organic with 25% mg perilite. I water about every 3 or 4 days.
These were clones which I vegged for about a month, and have been flowering for about 3 weeks.

I am using a technaflora Recipe for Success Starter Pack - Worm's Way
starter kit, when I was using their veg mixture my plants were super dark green, I used that at 1/4 str all through veg. I also used plain water, and sometimes molasses water.
My water is only distilled gallon jugs, and the ph of the nutes says its 6.04 or so, so I imagine the ph of my mixture has to be in between that and 7.

Since switching to the flowering nutes is when my plants have started to go downhill. I was using the nutes still at 1/4 str and I thought maybe they were getting burned so I flushed and used plain water. They continued to get worse. Basically the oldest leaves are dying off, when they die the next oldest leaves die. I think, if I dont figure this out, eventually its going to make its way up and kill my buds.

I just fed them with a mixture of 1/2 str of the flowering nutes but instead of using the bloom I used the growth with has more N because I am thinking that could be the problem.

Any ideas?
 

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Sharkman

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If you're trying to keep every leaf green,you're gonna make yourself crazy.

Just pull the yellow leaves off, or better yet,let them fall off naturally.

Do not be tempted to increase the nutes too much. You will burn your plants and reduce yield.

Those plants have plenty of green on them. I'd continue with 1/2 strength nutes and let them flower for 8--9 weeks or until the trichs are mostly cloudy with some amber.

Don't sweat it. Your plants are small, but they look generally healthy.
 

rivers2gates

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It looks as if your plants are very normal. while flowering the plant sucks the fan leaves dry of nutes in order to give it to the buds. This is normal. I wouldnt change a thing ,imho.
 

It's 5 o'clock somewhere

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Don't give flowering plants nitrogen... They are supposed to suck the nitrogen out of the plant. You should be feeding them full strength if they are that far along and into flowering, they take alot of energy making themselves ready to reproduce (jokes on them, we never let that happen) and will need what you give them. Don't forget to flush them out 1 or 2 weeks before harvest with plain water because the nutes will effect the flavor....
 
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