What’s going on here?

[stephyyy]

Hey friends,

Can you tell me what’s going on here with all these yellows? Have the plants possibly outgrown their pots? I hope not cuz they’re over 7 feet tall and starting flowering so I won’t be transplanting them. They’re in 10 gallons so what the hell that should be fine. Lots of very yellowing leaves throughout and I’ve had to prune a few of the huge fan leaves Pics below

 

[stephyyy]

What in tarnation ...

 

[Emilya Green]

yes, the problem does appear to be slight complaints about being in the "small" containers... with this size plant a 20gal would not have been out of the question. The easy answer is to transplant. The hard answer is going to be to tell you to water twice a day and provide nutes on one of them.
So your plant is going to do what it has to do since it is now flowering... it is cleaning up a bit, and casting off leaves that are not getting as much sun. A steady yellowing from the bottom up would indicate starvation, but I don't see that going on here. You are simply going to lose a few leaves during the grow and that is to be expected... it is not a crisis and it is not forcing you to trim any of the fan leaves, you have just chosen to do so.

 

[stephyyy]

yes, the problem does appear to be slight complaints about being in the "small" containers... with this size plant a 20gal would not have been out of the question. The easy answer is to transplant. The hard answer is going to be to tell you to water twice a day and provide nutes on one of them.
So your plant is going to do what it has to do since it is now flowering... it is cleaning up a bit, and casting off leaves that are not getting as much sun. A steady yellowing from the bottom up would indicate starvation, but I don't see that going on here. You are simply going to lose a few leaves during the grow and that is to be expected... it is not a crisis and it is not forcing you to trim any of the fan leaves, you have just chosen to do so.

Oh darn I was hoping to not have to transplant again at this size. Last few days I’ve been doing nutes every morning and plain water every afternoon, they’ve always needed to be watered twice. I’m hoping the everyday nutes helps. I know the rest of the plant looks healthy and I maybe shouldn’t have taken some of the yellowing leaves off yet but I got startled seeing so many at once. I know last year I had to transplant at this stage but the plants were smaller and it was still super inconvenient to do so haha. Do you think they can stay in these 10 gallons til harvest if I do the nutes everyday? Or is transplant inevitable?