Can i still flush or am i too late?
Ducky_Budzstarted grow question 4mo ago
Both my baby's are showing amber trichomes, Smaller one is around 20-30% amber already. The bigger one is around 10% amber. (dunno how wel it shows on cam)
Can i still flush them? Or should i harvest? Do i w8 till all the hairs are brown?
Thanks in advance!
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Organomananswered grow question 4mo ago
Yes, too late for any type of long flush.............they are plenty mature and THC quality drops off quite rapidly from here on.
Waiting another 2 weeks would yield inferior buds.
Give plain water for a couple of days then harvest, you should be ok.
No need to drown your plants, this does nothing.............just water in normal amounts and let your plants do their thing.
Next grow, stop all nutrients and supplements about 10 days before guesstimated harvest day and again, plain water in normal amounts and at normal intervals is all that is needed for a flush.
Pumping gallons of water through the pots does nothing beneficial, your plants metabolism dictates how fast they "flush" themselves...........it can not be accelerated with gallons of water!
Crusty_Juggleranswered grow question 4mo ago
Auto at week 14 = chop now :)
Many autos keep pushing out white hairs way past maturity.
Looks good for a first grow, keep on keeping on đź’Ş
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00110001001001111Oanswered grow question 4mo ago
Sure, if you want. but what do you think it accomplishes? (rhetorical). By diluting whatever is in the medium, it doesn't change the constitution of the flower already grown. there is no excretion system for such things and running a bunch of water through rootzone doesn't flush the plant. It dilutes the medium and that does impact how much nutrients gets absorbed but doesn't do anything for an overfed plant, directly... the excess has to be used up to drop it to safe levels in leaves.
so, if you think it is overfed and the concentration of nutes in medium is too high, definitely get a little extra runoff... that's a matter of cause and effect, but dont do it to 'flush the plant of minerals' because that's not possible.
also, wouldn't adjust your harvest due to this fact.. if it is ready, do it. That should simply be an observe-and-react behaviour.. while an individual may have an opininon of what is best, your trigger is not an opinion. Experiment with early-middle-late harvest and choose what you like best, then stick to it.
fwiw, plant isn't overfed. Any blemish could easily be chalked up to senescence. I wouldn't bother flushing, but you could definitely give a normal irrigaiton with plain water if you want to save the hassle of mixing nutrients. The leaves have plenty left to give.
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GolliGrowsanswered grow question 4mo ago
If you’re already at 10–30% amber, you’re basically in the harvest window. At this point a “final flush” won’t magically improve smoothness or potency — most of that is decided by overall plant health and, more importantly, the dry and cure. The whole 1–2 week flush idea is largely bro-science; the plant isn’t going to purge stored nutrients from the buds in the last days. If you want a slightly more uplifting effect, you can harvest now (especially the smaller one at 20–30% amber). If you prefer heavier and more sedative, you can let the bigger one go a few more days until amber increases. Don’t wait for all hairs to turn brown — pistils are far less reliable than trichomes for timing.
Nice pics btw... ;)
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