Should she look like this?

Hello!

I see plants that look like this towards the end of flower. Someone please correct my thinking here. I am probably a cpl weeks away from harvest and the leaves start drying out and dying. In my head the plant is sucking the nutes out the leaves because there isn't enough nutes in the soil so it's doing what it can. I feel this is good so it's not all loaded with nutes, I don't smoke the leaves so who cares about those and I will flush before harvest to get all the shit out. Now I know flushing is bro science but I'm going to. Then I think we'll, it needs more nutes give it more so it'll grow bigger buds but I'm close to harvest and want to let it suck the leaves dry of whatever it needs to finish up "naturally" and get as much of the nutes out before I harvest? Am I even making sense? OR did I mess something up and my leaves should remain green until harvest?

Flushing removes nutrients from the soil, but doesn't remove anything from the plants. I feed up to harvest without any feed back from anyone that it tastes any different. Also, I don't get the idea that if a plant is cannibalizing itself for nutrients it needs why removing accessible nutrients from the soil is a good idea.

My blueberry cupcakes do this regardless what I feed them up until the end. Like LeastExpectedGrower said, taking away nutes from the soil so the plant cannibalizes itself isn't a great idea. That said, if you want to taper feed a little bit at the end of the grow to save a couple pennies, that's not gonna hurt much.

LeastExpectedGrower said:

Flushing removes nutrients from the soil, but doesn't remove anything from the plants. I feed up to harvest without any feed back from anyone that it tastes any different. Also, I don't get the idea that if a plant is cannibalizing itself for nutrients it needs why removing accessible nutrients from the soil is a good idea.

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this is only my second grow.... my thought was that it has less nutes to take up and will use up what it has in the plant...well, some of...leaving less in the bud.

Orin190 said:

this is only my second grow.... my thought was that it has less nutes to take up and will use up what it has in the plant...well, some of...leaving less in the bud.

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Note that if it's moving nutrients from the leaves...it's moving/using them in the buds...so in the end it's not going to remove from the areas you're keeping anyway.

Orin190 said:

Hello!

I see plants that look like this towards the end of flower. Someone please correct my thinking here. I am probably a cpl weeks away from harvest and the leaves start drying out and dying. In my head the plant is sucking the nutes out the leaves because there isn't enough nutes in the soil so it's doing what it can. I feel this is good so it's not all loaded with nutes, I don't smoke the leaves so who cares about those and I will flush before harvest to get all the shit out. Now I know flushing is bro science but I'm going to. Then I think we'll, it needs more nutes give it more so it'll grow bigger buds but I'm close to harvest and want to let it suck the leaves dry of whatever it needs to finish up "naturally" and get as much of the nutes out before I harvest? Am I even making sense? OR did I mess something up and my leaves should remain green until harvest?

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A plant without green leaves doesn’t function as it should. Yellow leaves = less chlorophyll = reduced photosynthesis, while that is the energy required for using nutes and creating trichomes.

“In my head the plant is sucking the nutes out the leaves because there isn't enough nutes in the soil so it's doing what it can.”

There’s a plethora of possible reasons other than not enough nutes in the soil. The opposite might be true.

It also depends a bit on your drying process. Simple test: quickdry a lush green bud from an optimally fed plant on a radiator (or hps hood or w/e) and do the same with buds from a yellow plant. The latter will taste less like grass/hay. I think that’s the origin story of the ‘bro science’ about flushing.

Also, I recommend removing those necro yellow leaves and make sure humidity stays low cause the way it looks now is a recipe for bud rot. Especially the small sugar leaves coming out of the bud on the left, brown and curling up. If they come loose very easily you have a problem. Healthy green plants are much better at protecting themselves. Flushing early means weakening the plants, opening the door for more problems including rot.

i never had that when i gave food to the plant. and everybody that had that never had a diary to document it soo.... feed your plant. or dont... flush it let it starve in the end
best advice i can give you is inspect your plant for dead leafs because when they are half hanging on the plant they mold easy and that infects the whole plant