Hello, Folks!
I've got two Alaskan Thunderfuck plants growing outside, and one of them is getting lots of fully yellow leaves, which are also drooping. I took off about a dozen yellow leaves a couple days ago (totally yellow), and there are many more on it right now.
Is it a good idea to pinch off the fully yellow leaves? Can those come back to green, or is it best to get them off and let the plant's energy go to healthy growth?
Also, I am trying to figure out what is causing this. These 10 weeks plants are over 2 1/2 feet tall, and a few weeks ago I transplanted them from 1.5 gallon pots to 5 gallon pots.
I have been watering them more since putting them in the bigger pots. I'm guessing maybe I'm overwatering. I've watered every other day roughly, and generally added nutrients (Big Bloom) with every other watering, but I alter it when we've got rainy or dry spells here in Colorado. I use spring water, but they have gotten a fair amount of rain water too. We get lots of short showers, and we've had some long sustained downpours recently.
I'd appreciate any advice, particularly about whether (and how) to pinch off fully yellow leaves.
Here are a few pictures:
1. Yellow Leaves on the plant today (7.11.10):
2. Droopy leaves a few days ago, after I'd pinched off about a dozen yellow leaves (visible behind the pot to the left):
3. The yellow leaves I pinched off a few days ago (next to a weed on the lawn):
Thanks for any help you can offer!
I've got two Alaskan Thunderfuck plants growing outside, and one of them is getting lots of fully yellow leaves, which are also drooping. I took off about a dozen yellow leaves a couple days ago (totally yellow), and there are many more on it right now.
Is it a good idea to pinch off the fully yellow leaves? Can those come back to green, or is it best to get them off and let the plant's energy go to healthy growth?
Also, I am trying to figure out what is causing this. These 10 weeks plants are over 2 1/2 feet tall, and a few weeks ago I transplanted them from 1.5 gallon pots to 5 gallon pots.
I have been watering them more since putting them in the bigger pots. I'm guessing maybe I'm overwatering. I've watered every other day roughly, and generally added nutrients (Big Bloom) with every other watering, but I alter it when we've got rainy or dry spells here in Colorado. I use spring water, but they have gotten a fair amount of rain water too. We get lots of short showers, and we've had some long sustained downpours recently.
I'd appreciate any advice, particularly about whether (and how) to pinch off fully yellow leaves.
Here are a few pictures:
1. Yellow Leaves on the plant today (7.11.10):
2. Droopy leaves a few days ago, after I'd pinched off about a dozen yellow leaves (visible behind the pot to the left):
3. The yellow leaves I pinched off a few days ago (next to a weed on the lawn):
Thanks for any help you can offer!