Week 8 Flower
Flush flush flush π¦π½π¦π½π¦
It's extremely important to flush for at least 14 days when using synthetic nutes, or any bottled nutes in my opinion. The aim is to make her cannibalize (fade) as much as possible before she's chopped. By doing this, she's using up her stored nutrients, causing the leaves to eventually die. The better the flush the cleaner the smoke ππ¨ even when in an organic set up, the plant needs to be nicely faded before being harvested. Otherwise she's still full of nutrients. I still feel I'll be able to get an even better flush when I eventually make the switch to RO water, as my tap water holds a ppm value of approx 150. It's not too much, but 0 is always better.
She was taken down on Day 57 flower, after a 16 Day flush. I didn't want to take her any further as she was quite stressed being so close to the light. So to avoid getting seeds I waited until she had a beautiful fade before giving her the chop βοΈ I always take my girls down about 30mins before the light turns on so there is minimal chlorophyll production in the plant. This is to ensure the best smell, taste and overall burn after drying and curing.
A subtle but very sweet-ish tropical fruit skin kind of smell to her. Her buds are super dense and covered in trichomes. I trimmed off all fan leaves and then each branch was hung in my drying box and placed in a cool area. She was dry after 6 days and ready to be dry trimmed and jarred for curing. I'll post those pics with the harvest update!
Thanks for following and happy growing! πΊ
@biggreens420, @magnetous, seems to be a common thing! Haha. I left her to try and open up herself for most of the day, but she didn't make any progress so a couple hours before lights out I opened her up. I'm pretty sure she would have died otherwise. I only popped the one. I'll look forward to seeing yours too mate βοΈ I upload at the end of every week.
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The exact same happened to me too with one of the seeds, had to open the shell myself. We'll see how it goes for the 3 others that are popping right now after more than a week in the smart start! (against 48hrs for the first two)
Did all of yours open quickly?
I'll be putting my diary online next week as I wait for all the beans to be planted.
Indeed looks great man! I myself have some fat bananas (3) in the tent so I've been watching biggreen and your diaries close. It's my first time so I hope you can do a good report about the flush I still don't really get if you should just give water the last week(2?) or run the 30 liter threw it or both!? π Anyways this gives me good feeling about the strain good luck bro!!
@XII_XII_MRGreen, nice one man πππ for the last 14+ days I flush up to 30ltr every time until I have a low enough ppm value in the coco. After that I just water as normal, but by then they don't need feeding as much as they drink less βοΈπΊ
@TheFoxFarmer,exact same with mine bottom buds were a lot better formed than the top hope u get better top buds than me all my buds were like 2pound coin size at the biggest but solid as hell and grinds out well
@biggreens420, yeah it's more the light than anything. Her tallest top buds are foxtail-ish and light stressed, but the lower tops have normal structured top buds. All of her lower nugs are fattening up beautifully ππͺ cheers mate βοΈπΊ
I'm gonna give that a try because every time I transplant I water to runoff and could be slowing them down nice one fox looking nice and healthy beautiful roots as always
Amazing frost here!! You won't be running out of trichs with this one! The shape of the buds is so beautiful! The colors too! Nice one!
Mines are tricky... lot of amber trichs but they really don't look like they are finished at all! π
@Magnetous, cheers mate πβοΈ that's a strange one, although the trich's aren't necessarily my first indicator for harvest. I look at the whole plant, the bud structure and also how well flushed they are. I don't mind taking them a little further to get a better flush πβοΈπΊ