Cannabis Leaves Turning Yellow? Here’s How To Treat Them And Prevent Them In The Future
This article was originally published on Cannabis.net and appears here with permission.
Cannabis growers all over the world encounter one problem or the other with their plants at some stage as not every plant can grow without issues and this is regardless of them being beginners or experts. These problems could occur in any form whether over or underwatering of the plants, lack of nutrients, grower error, or pests and diseases that attack the plant while growing and are likely to cause some damage to your plant yield and quality if not quickly attended to.
The yellowing of cannabis leaves is evidence of a plant condition called chlorosis (lack of chlorophyll) that makes the leaves of your cannabis plant wither and turn yellow. It occurs as a result of insufficient nutrients, water, lighting, and attention for the plants causing its leaves to turn yellow, wither and eventually die if not quickly treated.
It is necessary to confirm that it is yellow leaf disease that has affected your cannabis plant before moving on to know what causes it and then finding solutions or means of treating it so that the disease doesn’t spread to other plants. Also, you have to ensure not to make hasty decisions regarding the removal of the affected leaves because carrying such out might affect the overall growth of the plant is carried out on a young plant but might not have any effect on plants in their last flowering stage. This is because the natural yellowing and death of plants (senescence) usually …