Why is my plant all green and purple?!?!?

DjSuperman

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So I got this Gorilla Glue #4 strain.... It is in the flowering stage....
It is turning green and purple on me!!!!

I Googled, "Why is my plant turning yellow?" and the Youtubes said it is pulling nitrogen from it's leaves to feed the buds....
But it is not even yellow,,, It is green and purple!!!!
Like what the hell is going on?!?!?!

It is kept at 85 degrees with 2 computer fans blowing on it, with a 1000 watt LED light 24/7, 120 watts actual....
Giving it fish fertilizer at 10-0-1, and Bloom nutrients at like 6-10-9

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DjSuperman

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It is at like 10,000 lumens bro!!!! I also have 2 25 watt LEDs at like 500 lumens.... I had 125 watts on the top and 2 25 watts on both sides and it turned yellow on me from too much light......
They are all LEDs

Yes I researched how many lumens the light puts out before I ordered it....
 

Blitz35

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It is at like 10,000 lumens bro!!!! I also have 2 25 watt LEDs at like 500 lumens.... I had 125 watts on the top and 2 25 watts on both sides and it turned yellow on me from too much light......
They are all LEDs

Yes I researched how many lumens the light puts out before I ordered it....
First off, lumens don't mean anything..so if you were using that parameter to look for a light, that's already a mistake! On another note..10000 lumens is not that much either way.
As to the issue at hand...that's not light burn! I assume this is an autoflower? What week is it in from sprout? She seems to be near the end of her life, but she never developed...and without knowing all the details, like how much you fed and at what rates, your source of water, your medium, ph levels, its hard to say what came in to play. Just from the post, if you used both fertilizers throughout..that would be too much nitrogen, especially for such a small plant using weaker lighting..the excess nitrogen may have prevented the flowering process.
 

boilingoil

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It is at like 10,000 lumens bro!!!! I also have 2 25 watt LEDs at like 500 lumens.... I had 125 watts on the top and 2 25 watts on both sides and it turned yellow on me from too much light......
They are all LEDs

Yes I researched how many lumens the light puts out before I ordered it....
And a 400 watt MH push about 40,000 lumens And a 250 watt MH about 18,000 lumens.
 

OldMedUser

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The colour change is pretty normal for a lot of strains but she looks like she's got some toxic salts buildup.

A 4' T-12 fluoro light has 3000 lumens and the 400W Hortilux MH I'm using now has 55,000 so 10K isn't all that much.

I suggest you get some decent nutrients and maybe upgrade your lighting if possible. You say you run the light 24/7? Is that an auto plant?

Kept it alive and that's what matters. We all get better at it the longer we do it.

:peace:
 

jtrizzy

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All my plants start doing this on the last 10 days of flowering usually week 9 as I start to decrease nutes especially calmag and she starts the final stretch. The pic Below is also GG. You needed some calmag bud. Kind of late for that Now though.

And Also 1000w hps puts out on average around 140,000-150,000 lumens.... so no 10,000 is no where near a 1000w fixture. More like a 100w fixture. I know my QB100 v2 puts out 15,000 lumens and that’s a 100w that I use as a starting light.
 

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DjSuperman

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So I turned off my 1000 watt LED, and just used the 2 50 watt LEDs, and within a week the purple leaves started turning back to green again.
It was waayyyyyy too much light....
It wasn't because it was being over-fed...
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xtsho

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I can guarantee that light isn't too much. You probably had the light too close. LED's need to be farther away than HID's. I use a 600 watt HPS and it puts out 8 - 9 times the lumens as that light you have. I've never had my leaves do what yours are doing and it's 12" from the top of the plants putting out way more light than that 125 wall LED you have. You have more than one thing going on. What's all that green stuff on the top of the soil?


600 watt High Output HPS bulb emits 95,000 lumens – standard 600w HPS bulbs which emit only 80,000 lumens.
 
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