kram rollen
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What causes your plant leafs to turn red? First time grower in soil. My plants are near harvest time, the leafs seem healthy otherwise just turning red.
Red leaves
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Some Strains will do that, cooler temps will make them throw out more/darker colors if the Strain is prone to purples etc....
Yup it's genetics. Nice job. 
indoor one:
some outdoor ones from this year (different strains though):
Like some trees leaves go different colors in the Fall.
some outdoor ones from this year (different strains though):
Like some trees leaves go different colors in the Fall.
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I cant prove it yet, but my theory is that its the Illuminati harvesting the chlorophyll psychicly to keep the lizard overlords a healthy shade of green.
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kram rollen
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That's what I was thinking...
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kram rollen
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Thanks
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kram rollen
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ThanksYup it's genetics. Nice job.
Not ALL genetics but its part of it.
Senescence + Translocation followed by abscission.
Completely natural and expected and why I let the leaves "fall" off. Its actually a plant hormone that does this process.
Instead of staying green there's a sort of valve in the leaf stem (abscission layer) that lets nutrients (chlorophyll) go back to the plant thru that one way valve in the abscission layer.
The leaves begin to loose the green color (chlorophyll) and turn yellow, red blue purple even black then they fall off.
The really cool part is that energy going back to the plant is how the flowers get bigger via translocation of nutrients (chlorophyll).
Here's some black leaves for ya
Here's an example of senescence and abscission. See the flower right were the leaf that is giving back its nutrients via translocation to the flower that is closest to the older leaf.
Senescence + Translocation followed by abscission.
Completely natural and expected and why I let the leaves "fall" off. Its actually a plant hormone that does this process.
Instead of staying green there's a sort of valve in the leaf stem (abscission layer) that lets nutrients (chlorophyll) go back to the plant thru that one way valve in the abscission layer.
The leaves begin to loose the green color (chlorophyll) and turn yellow, red blue purple even black then they fall off.
The really cool part is that energy going back to the plant is how the flowers get bigger via translocation of nutrients (chlorophyll).
Here's some black leaves for ya
Here's an example of senescence and abscission. See the flower right were the leaf that is giving back its nutrients via translocation to the flower that is closest to the older leaf.
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kram rollen
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Thanks for the explanation and picturesNot ALL genetics but its part of it.
Senescence + Translocation followed by abscission.
Completely natural and expected and why I let the leaves "fall" off. Its actually a plant hormone that does this process.
Instead of staying green there's a sort of valve in the leaf stem (abscission layer) that lets nutrients (chlorophyll) go back to the plant thru that one way valve in the abscission layer.
The leaves begin to loose the green color (chlorophyll) and turn yellow, red blue purple even black then they fall off.
The really cool part is that energy going back to the plant is how the flowers get bigger via translocation of nutrients (chlorophyll).
Here's some black leaves for ya
Here's an example of senescence and abscission. See the flower right were the leaf that is giving back its nutrients via translocation to the flower that is closest to the older leaf.
