Questions! Week By Week - 4th and 5th week flowering photos - Also, Deficiency?

So here is a few photos. 1 is of my lady from today, the other is one "cola" shot from last week and today. I can certainly see some differences. Mainly, the buds are a bit bigger which is of course good, and also frostier. However, since last week, the fan leaves and everything look a little off too. They look like they are either burnt or deficient. I forgot to get the close up photo of the "rusty spots", but it is visible in the photos. I have looked it up and believe it may either be a phosphorus deficiency or even burn as I have fed the plant twice this past two weeks with extra bloom nutes, but I am using Bio-Bizz and maybe just figured I couldn't really over feed the phosphorus. After using some h202 a few times for PM, some of the edges of the leaves burnt (must not have had ratio right), but that seems to be over with now and if it comes back I have Green Cure. Now it is just like the edges are a little burnt and I have the rusty spots in the leaves, in about 35% of my leaves. So I have some questions...

1. In your opinion, how does the plant look at this stage?
2. Since I don't know the strain, from your experience, does this look like it is on track for an 8-9 week harvest?
3. Would you guess burn or deficiency? My soil does NOT drain very well either.
4. Fun Question - What kind of weight would you expect off a plant like this? Take a guess and when it is time to harvest I will upload dry weight to see if anyone was close.

Thanks a lot for your input guys!
 

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Diabolical666

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Yes it looks on point for 8-9wk sativa. Your bucket doesnt drain most likely because it is seriously root bound. Poke into the wholes in the bucket and see if you can make some drainage happen. When/if you do this it will require more waterings , probably twice a day. Plant is hungry and needs cal/mag supplement for the rust spots
 
Really? I didn't see anything that I thought looked like a nitrogen deficiency? Where are you seei that at, especially going into week 6 of flower.
 

hotrodharley

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Yes it looks on point for 8-9wk sativa. Your bucket doesnt drain most likely because it is seriously root bound. Poke into the wholes in the bucket and see if you can make some drainage happen. When/if you do this it will require more waterings , probably twice a day. Plant is hungry and needs cal/mag supplement for the rust spots
Agreed. Suggest some black strap molasses as well to feed the good critters in your soil.
 
I will look into the black strap molasses and into poking some more holes. I do already have lots of drain holes in the bottom of the bucket, but I am assuming you are meaning to poke a hole about all the way to the top from the bottom of the bucket? I don't think I am seriously root bound right now, I think it is mainly my soil. I had about half a bag of FFOF and half regular ground dirt from a garden. I threw in perlite and dolomite in the beginning with it and from the start it didn't drain very well, but this plant had already been through a ton of stress from the beginning with being moved around and transplanted three times, I didn't want to go through the hassle of taking it out and doing it all over again. I figured if the plant can grow in the ground normal, then this will work for now, and it has. That said, I will check to make sure it isn't terribly root bound, but even if it is, there isn't much I can do about it at this point with it having only about 3-4 weeks left and in a 5 gallon bucket. I actually didn't think this plant was going to make it, but it has been amazingly hardy (hearty?). At one point when I was about a month into veg, i accidently ripped off 60% of the roots when I trasnplanted. Plant didn't even act phased by it. Another thing. It has been getting cooler where I live. Days are still mid 70's, but nights are dropping down to the mid 50's on most nights and some nights as low as 40. Doesn't really appear to be affecting it too much right now as those nights have been scarce, but I am wondering it the cold could have had something to do with the rust spots or "burnt" edges?
 
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