Hey guys, I'd like you to take a look at something and tell me your opinion, even if you say I'm crazy. This plant is in it's 4th week of flowering. When you see it in real life it has a very limey, yellow hue. The same thing happened last winter indoors with my SS chronic grow at about the same time. The soil mix was different each run, but I've grown a lot in the earth and never do I have this happen so early on. This plant should still be green at this stage of flowering. You can see a lot of bug damage to the fans from katydids and flies, but that's not what I'm talking about. I took 3 pics at twilight, and I'm not sure if they captured what i'm seeing. The one thing that was the same for both soil mixes was the generous amount of epsom salt I added. And no I really didn't measure. I just sprankled, as we say down here, over the soil while I had it laid out on a tarp until I though it was good. Question: Could this be caused by too much Mag locking out calcium, or possibly too much Sulfates? It's funny how the plant was brillisnt green till a week ago, then started yellowing. The same thing happened at the same flowering phase with my indoor Chronis, which proves it's not environmental. Edit: I think whatever is causing this is causing me to lose yield considerably. I know this strain inside-out, and right now is the point where the flowers should be noticably swelling by the day.Instead, it like the plant is saying, ok, let's shut her down boys and try to ripen as fast as possible. I took a pic with and w/o flash, and another so you can see about the stage of flowering she's in
It should be at least 3 more weeks typically for an outdoor seed grown plant of this strain at the minimum, since it was a mid-summer started plant.
Can you estimate at all how much epsom salts you added (just roughly)? Like, a few tablespoons, maybe 1/2 cup, or more like several cups? And I know about some spranklin .
That doesn't seem like it would be enough to cause a lock out, did you have another major source of magnesium in the mix? I'm not sure, but it doesn't seem like enough enough mag to cause a problem. It might just be that your soil mix is running out of gas. Maybe a hit of some kelp meal/alfalfa meal tea would perk her up.