The Aptus "nutrients needs" graph? I'm not fully knocking it because it doesn't really tell a full story but it seems kind of boiler plate? It also stops at 9 weeks? What about after that?
Like many things like this, it's usually more complex than that, a combination.......why do most trees' leaves turn colors in fall? It's not because we make it happen (yes, cannabis is not a tree). But they do change colors because winter is coming........but it's because they're going to lose their leaves, this year's set of leaves has used up their usefulness. The soil isn't depleted of nitrogen, otherwise where do next years' leaves get theirs from? They do lose chlorophyl, but not because the sun can't give it to them, there's something more natural, seasonal, genetically coded going on. Everything is process, stages......some plants finish up and shed leaves, hibernate, or outright die, not when winter freeze comes but way before that. Others hang on and on until winter literally does kill them.
There's this area indoors where nature blends with nurture. The natural cycle of cannabis, outdoors, tends to have a stage where leaves age, lose their usefulness (even the flowers will age and lose their usefulness, go past their prime, overripen, and prepare to die).......
Indoors, we can nurture, and tweak ñnature, fool nature.......but only for so long. We can keep feeding, sunning, extend life, keep leaves green.....is that "natural"? We can have a plant that we started indoors in early spring, that's fully mature, ripe, ready to harvest, but still with productive, green leaves......right around New Years, or after. During a raging snow storm. Is that "natural" or "normal"?
Yes. If it's an 18 week flowering Thai. Send it to me for complete analysis. ;)
.. play nice or bye bye
