[CRISIS ALERT] Autoflower 13 Weeks, lots of leafs dying!!!!

[DarthMaul]

My Auto Nothern Lights is almost 6 Weeks into flowering atm.
I flushed around 2 weeks ago and since I flushed lots and lots of my leafs have been turning yellow and brown and eventually fell off.

I lost around 15-20 leafs this week, some say its normal others say I might have flushed too early and my plants are basically starving to death. Thinking about harvesting soon... Not sure if they are ready its my first grow no magnif. glass atm.

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SOIL: 100% Organic soil

Nuts: Biobizz 100 % Organic

What strain? Nothernlights Auto Flowering

How old are the plants? ( Total Almost 13 Weeks old)

What type of lights and how many watts? 2x 125 Large CFL lights 6300K (Switched to 3x125W large CFL 2400K flowering)

What is your watering frequency and source of water? Watering them according to weight of pot. Every 3-4 days 20% of the pot

What are the temps and humidity in the room? 67 degress and 30 rH humidity

 

[SCARHOLE]

NL should be about 8 - 10 week Finnish?

Give it N. longer next time it won't ruin the taste .
That mainly caused by bad dry cure.

I don't flush or starve for N any more.
Idk........

 

[Waira]

:tiphat: Hi Cyklos- It's looking like you might have started the "flush" (more on this term vs. cleanse later) a bit too soon,... what's happening is the plant is so nute' starved that it's cannibalizing itself in order to gather what it needs to finish the buds off... Plants nearing maturity will do this to some degree regardless, a perfectly normal process, and is one of the important indicators of your buds ripeness (trichome color being the other)... Check out this article on flushing vs. cleansing- https://www.autoflower.org/f2/flushing-vs-flushing-12578.html ....this should give a better idea about what's going on..:smoke: Also, in the new growers section, they are several other articles (sticky's) at the top which will be of immediate interest to you....:thumbs:

Another thing, her lateness in finishing is unusual,... 13 weeks is overly long for auto's in general to finish,...but no matter now, she's nearly done!

 

[DarthMaul]

:tiphat: Hi Cyklos- It's looking like you might have started the "flush" (more on this term vs. cleanse later) a bit too soon,... what's happening is the plant is so nute' starved that it's cannibalizing itself in order to gather what it needs to finish the buds off... Plants nearing maturity will do this to some degree regardless, a perfectly normal process, and is one of the important indicators of your buds ripeness (trichome color being the other)... Check out this article on flushing vs. cleansing- https://www.autoflower.org/f2/flushing-vs-flushing-12578.html ....this should give a better idea about what's going on..:smoke: Also, in the new growers section, they are several other articles (sticky's) at the top which will be of immediate interest to you....:thumbs:

Another thing, her lateness in finishing is unusual,... 13 weeks is overly long for auto's in general to finish,...but no matter now, she's nearly done!

So are you advising me to give her a nice big 6L of extra extra nuted water so she stops cannibalizing herself?
Should I spray epsom salt i heard that might help?
It took me 13 weeks because I was stupid and repotted (my first grow im a real noob sorry)

EDIT: Just read the article... yes I was the noob who thought to run 3x the amount of water. Now my plant become a cannibal and my yield is gone FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
I'm such a noob for listening to people on other forums. I just killed my plant great ... Im sad and angry now sooooooo pissed off wow.

What do I do?

 

[Waira]

... Well, like the article says, cleansing is about forcing the plant to scavenge the last extra nutrients in available in the soil, and start drawing on it's own internal reserves in order to remove any extra stuff that may foul the smoke, and hasten the final ripening of the buds... So, at this point, it's too late to go backwards! Your buds are very close to done, and adding nute's now would be a disaster...:stoneslap: I know she looks awful, but you're going to remove most all the tapped out leaves anyway,... You still have decent looking buds, so don't hack on yourself so much Cyklos! This growing thing is not a simple as it sounds, and auto's are indeed more difficult than their photo' cousins! Noob mistakes are part of the learning curve, and you've done better than many others who have fried their plants beyond saving, for whatever reason,... Besides, now you're here at AFN!! :dance2: "wg's Cool" LOL! Everything you need to know to do better next run is right here, in the sticky articles, grow threads of others, and of course help gladly given just for the asking from other growers, High Team, Asst. Mods, and Mods! Look around, do some homework, ask questions, and you'll avoid many pitfalls along the way to growing some fine, fine herb! **** This NL girl, from the look of the pistils, and leaves (LOL!) is nearly done... without a good look at the trichomes, I can't can't give a better evaluation, sorry,...see if she can go another several days, then harvest! ...when you can, get yourself a magnifyer, 8x-10x at least, and look at those trich's, and follow Muddy's advise in there! :tiphat:

 

[DABaracuss]

Also take a sample see how it smokes ..I sent you a reply PM ..Its all good man..You have done better then most really LOL

 

[DarthMaul]

Thanks for all the tips ! I will do a quick update in several days.
I think they are almost done

 

[DarthMaul]

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Ready or not for harvest?

 

[Waira]

.... I think she could be taken anytime now, no sense in letting the nice smaller sugar leaves go all yellow and nasty! :smoke: I see some great frosty stuff on there too, mate,... great job! "wg's Cool"