For the most part my garden is cathartic and has been excellent for my depression and anxiety. It also helps me practice my patience and let go of things beyond my control. Hobbies that focus your attention outside and away from yourself are excellent for folks like us. Plus, at the end you usually gain some sort of reward whether it’s a beautiful flower, a veggie or a bud to smoke.
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Meesh don’t panic if its just a couple lower fans what’s the new growth on top doing ? since your in bud some changes are normal like yellowing and dropping fans . Smoke one and have another look good luck and one fat pillar isn’t the end of days .
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Omg… no wonder I throw myself 110% into hobbies… makes more sense for sure…
I also repeat the mantra: Not.my circus, not my monkeys. Trying to control what we cant, exacerbates things… been hard to accept that at times but the more I let go the better I feel at times.
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I’m glad you have found it so. Returning to nature, as much as is possible, has improved my life profoundly.
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Thanks @gramps I was thinking that it may just be from the transition to bud and it starting to uptake more Phosphorous now. You’re right its just some lower fans. The tops are green and plentiful and still growing. I think I may do a fish drench anyway. A bit of liquid fish never hurt anything.
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Just think of it like this… the plant is saving you the work of bucking fan leaves it no longer needs…
I have one unknown auto here that by the time I get.amber trichs will have no more fan leaves. It’s fed, buds got color, but the fan leaves drop more and.more…
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My Kashmir are dropping a lot of leaves at once. All yellow. It’s telling me the nitrogen isn’t needed in any large amounts anymore. Flowering has started.
I have a volunteer that is Meesh sized, and it isn’t shedding anything. It’s still growing but the pre flower pistils are picking up.
Fish has a way of improving terpenes. Root’s Organics has a bottle nute for the off weeks that is fish hydrolysate. It has other stuff, too, but it’s supposed to aid in flavors and terps.
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I feed fish fertilizer weeks 3/7 seems to work good.
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I’ve been picking dead and dying fans and one fingered leaf for over a month morning ritual . there’s always a lot of death after reverting lol . I keep feeding until I don’t they love salt in gramps forest .
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I actually have a theory that calcium gives buds the most flavor. Calcium is responsible for taste in other annuals ie… veggies, sunflowers . Why wouldn’t it be the same in cannabis?
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yeah, and lord knows the little buggers seem to love their calcium…
When I last grew 10 years ago, never an issue. Mighta been the miracle grow, who knows what an uneducated grower does LOL. Now that I am using FF nutrients, I gotta deal with cal / mag issues… Never in the past… Foliar and mix with each watering… I really gotta work on my soil mix again I think…
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Well, I still had to cal/mag drench every few weeks in containers using only organic soil no matter what I did.
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I bet it was the miracle grow. I cringe at what I did back then without much knowledge…
So much so because I never thought about it in the past (and come to think of it, the ladies outside are actually unaffected), but it seems I have been chasing it a bit since I jumped back in.
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Duuuuuuude. Glad the others said chill TF out before I got here! 
Remember some turn yellow & die, especially if you over water 
But this fish poo you mention 
I’d say add some kelp & foliar the ones that are less than week 3 flowering…
Here, 
have some of this LITFA 
on the house…
Aloha
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Don’t mind this lurker jumping in, but a major DITTO here.
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If possible try bump up the fungal life in your soil. Some mycorrhizae might help. One of the benefits of the thick mulch layer of leaf or grass helps maintain the fungal life that basically retrieves and stores water and nutrients the plants need. You can make it quite easily… just chuck down some rolled oats and mulch over it with some straw and give it a light water… keep it semi moist enough for the mycelium to start networking out and that in turn will work down to your roots. That network in turn will connect to the other plants network over time.
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This, and the myco feed on Humic acid as well. The two together will create that network of microbes and make life better for the plants. And, mulch will help to keep it moist for longer.
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I actually have a huge bag of mycos ,I can throw some down. I actually did mulch, the grass just grew over it lol
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I remember dirt weed bagseed, miracle gro, and fluorescent shop lights in my dorm closet. We smoked that bunk and thought ourselves kings! 
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