No way EVER …not to me .
I had no idea a plant could shut down its water uptake
Or about how the leaves wilt to divert the sun … amazing stuff
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Anything with the word WORM Is not good if you ask me lol
Glad you were able to be home
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Thank you!
You must live close by to me… that’s how our sky looks too.
And I jut call those worms bud worms. the closest thing I’ve seen to what they technically are is a tobacco bud worm but I have found different ones probably in different stages of their lives. the first ones I found were much smaller and had more black dots, but it looks like as they got less black spots, then started changing to more of a lighter orang-is color.
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I’m intrigued because only 2 of my plants are in smaller cloth pots. the others are either in ground or in half wine barrels.
The only ones with yellowing leaves are the ones in the cloth pots.
When I up their water and nutrients it slows way down but I’m gone M-F and this week my food delivery system that pumps into my sprinkler system (just for the weed) ran out and hubby didn’t notice it. I returned home to those two plants yellowing again. the leaves turn yellow then almost immediately turn crispy brown and fall off.
I back way off on N during flower but I had to up all of it to get rid of the yellowing.
So why do you think it’s just those two plants that have yellowing leaves?
When I grew indoors, this never happened. My plants stayed healthy looking all the way until almost the very end (when I stopped feeding and went to straight water).
We’re between Georgetown and Cool…
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You might want to look up Asian hemp borer, those little bastards were in my plants last year. The crappy part with them is the bore into the stem of the olant and BT cant touch them, there is really not much you can do except pick the ones you see off by hand. I sprayed BT several times and battled with them all fall. It was horrible, I probably lost a quarter pound if bud off 1 plant to bud rot because of them.
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That is curious? Perhaps the cloth are the culprit? Maybe they dont retain enough water? Or perhaps the you water them more because the drainage is better? Then there is other factors such as genetics, nutrient retention, and possibly other factors. Make some changes to 1 plant and not the other and document them. A/B the results in other words. They look great otherwise.
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Well howdy neighbor!!!
We live just south of the ridge of Coloma (SE of Lotus)!!
Did you evacuate? Do you need anything? Please holler if you do!
Hmmmm… not sure… they get watered to little bit of runoff (I can tell because those are sitting on top of a wooden shelf and the water runs off between the boards) I was actually starting to wonder if those 25 gallon pots were just too small for an outdoor grow. I had a beautiful plant in them last year but it was an auto… hmm… 
One of the poor things has literally lost almost every single older leaf and is now growing new ones… they started popping back up after I gave her a few good top dressings everyone gets) but I added a small oamont of blood meal for the N.
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Thanks! Our place is right on the line. We left Thursday, but came home yesterday since outlook for our area improved a little.
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We’re using 45s and I have quite a bit of root mass growing through the bottoms of those. I have friends using the 25s as well and their yellowing seems a little worse than mine…
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If you are growing long season cannabis in small pots it can be a struggle. Eventually the medium runs out if nutrients and you need to feed them hydroponically. That means, that in a soiless medium the solution you feed them becomes their only source of food. The down side to this is that nutrients get used up at different rates and while you feed the olant some of what is lacking you may also be adding to that which is already there. This causes an imbalance in soil chemistry. Its part of the reason I champion using real soil such as garden soil without containment. This enables the plant to reach out for food as it grows. In turn this creates a much larger root surface area which makes a great anchor and provides a greater capture area for water and food. Dont underestimate decent garden soil and maunure.
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Quick update: with the cooler weather the past few days the yellowing has slowed way down. Not completely sure it’s just weather because we also reduced water because of the weather. Either way they’re looking better. Any thoughts on how long this gdp has left? It’s in week 7
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I have a GDP at six weeks. You are well ahead of me! Good job.
Any thoughts on how long that has to go? I was thinking maybe 2 weeks?
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