Deficiency late in flower?

[bongoman]

Hi there

Have got some ((Panama Red x Destroyer) x Deep Chunks) outdoors, at 7 weeks now from pre-flower. One of the plants has purpling on the fan leaves in the middle of the plant. Some of the fans are showing very dark and stripey.

Not in a position to take a photo unfortunately, but have been hand watering with Canna nutes and otherwise the grow has been fine. The pistils turned last week on the main cola and the plants seem to be ripening and stopping budding.

I reckon I'm pretty close to chopping - no sign of amber trichomes yet, but mostly cloudy trichomes and actually gave a solid flush of water thinking I might start them on a week of flushing to chop them in case the problem is getting worse.

But I'm curious what this issue could be. As I say, only on some of the major fan leaves and a dark reddish/purple coloring.

Any clues appreciated.

 

[SEEDYNONO]

sounds to me like you grew some dank.

that deep chunk should have cut the flower time way down.. not that i can see the plants or anything but they may already be done.. in which case you should have already flushed.. but yeah that's normal.. for plants to stop flowering and change color at the end of their flower cycle.

 

[bongoman]

Shit, sorry - that's seven weeks since pre-flowers showed, not 70 days!!

Seven, seventy...what was I thinking.

And I haven't had a smoke for over a week...

Not the safest time of day for me to be out there snapping pics and the neighbor is home but I grabbed a quick closeup anyway.

 

[gaiusmarius]

this could be a genetic thing, or it could be that you have cold temps at night. on the other hand the plant could be coming to the end so naturally lets the fan leaves die off as it uses that energy.

 

[bongoman]

Thanks - I'm going to continue the flush even if it means I'm a little early.

The Deep Chunk is very domininant as you can see by the leaf shape, and it will have had 8 weeks from pre-flower by the time I chop. As I say, all is cloudy right now so give it a week and I shouldn't be too premature.