Greenrocket
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I dont think GreenRocket has even said how long they've been flowering, so we dont even know where he's at in flowering. The 12 week time for this strain is very low. There are a few Thunk threads here, and people reported plants taking 20 weeks in these seeds. He might have another 6 weeks or more, who knows.
There is a big reason why you focus on the leaves before buds. The leaves will show the first signs of problems. Water stress, heat stress, nutrient stress, will all show in the leaves before the buds. This is why you want healthy green leaves, so that when they do take a turn for the worse, you'll know something is wrong.
The leaves act as a buffer for water and nutrients when these are in short supply. They also protect the buds from too much light as I have witnessed with my Skunk Hazes. The buds are always last to show signs of damage, so keep those leaves around as an alarm warning, and food reserves.
Here is a link that will describe more roles of N for plants.
Now onto under-watering. When the plants supply of water is limited, it will start removing water from the lower leaves to supply it to the top of the plant(apical dominance). When this water is pulled out of the leaves it loses its turgidity and collapses(wilting). This is the point where the green leaves start to go yellow if water isn't restored soon enough. If water isn't applied soon enough, the leaves will completely go yellow, and fall off, or sometimes stay attached and it shrivels up dry.
Gday Dave,
All is good, on this occasion the leaves are yellowing because Im holding of on the nutrients. I know its ok to do this at this stage of flowering because there is only a small section of the top of the plant that I am waiting on. I keep a close eye on under and over watering. I always expect some yellowing of leaves a few days into flushing, with this particular plant the yellowing came on rapidly so maybe I started to flush a bit to early. But I gave her half nutes for a few days and now the yellowing is as expected.
I cant really say how long the plant has been flowering for exactly, I have never really needed to know as I can usually go by eye but its my first grow with a haze so it was better to ask just to be sure.
Thanks for the link!
PS: Any luck with those Satoris?