Mephisto Genetics 1 Newb.. 4 plants!! Holy Mephisto Batman!

[Yeatster]

Yooo.. Your BW was the reason I ordered the strain. Your journals were the 1st I found on AFN so I bit your style pretty hard for awhile! Hahaaa! And great question! I wish I had a great answer, but I dooonnnttt!! I guess we can call it trial and error (Kanye Shrug).. I've been going back and forth for about a month on whether or not to flush at all.. So when the time came, I was still undecided and kind of rode the middle ground I guess. I REALLY want to have a focused dialog on the subject because I honestly dont KNOW what I'm doing yet.. Lol.. I'll try to explain my thinking behind it in a nutshell..

(Hypothetical scenario)
Sooo.. In full flower lets say normal feeds are in the 1100ppm range and so is the run off.. I do a "10 day" flush with just water.. Flushing gets rid of all stuff stored in the soil so regular flush would flush out all the extra nutes, built up salts ect.. Then its straight water till harvest. To me that didnt make sense.. I thought to myself why flush out all the good stuff you worked so hard to put in there..

The flip side would be no flush at all.. Continuing full feeds up to harvest.. That didnt make much sense to me either. Lol.. In my mind there has to be a way that affects taste or end product..

So I kind of played middle ground. I wasn't comfortable doing a full flush and wasn't comfortable doing full feeds till harvest. What I would really like to know is what impact the ppms of run off actually has.
For instance. Lets say feeds are 800 ppm.. And so is the run off.. This doesnt tell us how or how much the plant is feeding. The runoff ppm will stay about the same as the feed. Why am I even looking at this number? I'm not sure how or when it correlates.

But after playing around in my head lately, what actually makes sense to me today (probably not tomorrow though) is to keep feeds to around 800 ppms max going in and feed with water only or Herculean Harvest ect for the last 10 days.. But not flush.. And no watching ppms of run off.. Feeding has beem my Lex Luther.. Thats part of the reason I went to organic soil and super soil amendments. Lol..

I'll be honest, I don't even have a meter for ppm's.
I have tried finishing a few different ways. What I've liked the most is something like this, reducing the feed by 1/2, 2 weeks from chop. Then 1/4 for the last week, maybe straight water for 1 or 2 of the last feeds. I think a flush of 3x the volume is doing more harm than good, shocking your roots. Giving just water till a little leeches (15-20%) is a lot less stressful, allowing the plant to uptake what's left in the medium, rather than a drastic change towars starvation. I have found zero evidence of any negative effect, feeding til the end, other than using more nutrients/ $. A good cure and my smoke is smooth and ashes are white. If you want bigger yields, don't stress and starve, right at max swell.
I'm still very much learning myself so take it for what it's worth.

 

[Proph]

I'll be honest, I don't even have a meter for ppm's.
I have tried finishing a few different ways. What I've liked the most is something like this, reducing the feed by 1/2, 2 weeks from chop. Then 1/4 for the last week, maybe straight water for 1 or 2 of the last feeds. I think a flush of 3x the volume is doing more harm than good, shocking your roots. Giving just water till a little leeches (15-20%) is a lot less stressful, allowing the plant to uptake what's left in the medium, rather than a drastic change towars starvation. I have found zero evidence of any negative effect, feeding til the end, other than using more nutrients/ $. A good cure and my smoke is smooth and ashes are white. If you want bigger yields, don't stress and starve, right at max swell.
I'm still very much learning myself so take it for what it's worth.

This is pretty much where my mind has settled. This was the last time I will "flush" a plant.. Instead, just lower feedings the last week or so before harvest.. I think thats the reason the AVT hasn't filled in as full as the white crack. Forever learing! Lol

 

[Proph]

@slowandeasy I'm loving this strainvso far. Nice, short but fat structure. Mine was topped though, so I can only image the main cola she would have produced. Im letting her go a little longer because she still seems to be making trichs. I was trying to wait till I saw a few ambers (mostly milky now) but I keep seeing new clear ones. Lol. Next weekend she wont be able to talk me out of it! Lol. I saw your journal yesterday! Quite the garden you have there bro!

 

[Proph]

And they said unto him "Take us, for we are ready.." And so he took them.

Tomorrow is the day! Did some defol to save a bit of time.. These two combined smells are CCRRRAAAZZYYY.. The AVT and White Crack have spoken. My job is simply to listen. Lol.. Day 77 and 76 today. Went to my storage space for a few things... Found my little Nikkon. First time in a while that I'm not using a phone to take pics. Lol.. [HASHTAG]#OldSchool[/HASHTAG]

AVT: Day 77

White Crack: Day 76

 

[Roasty McToasty]

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[IzzyTheGrower]

I just started 4 White Cracks, I see you are taking yours pretty long. I have not seen too many threads on it, what's your opinion so far? Good work I will be watching

I just finished up a white crack and 3bears og in autopots.... The white is simply amazing very loud and gassy the 3bears was my fav during the grow but after chop and smoking the crack hands down [emoji91]


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[Proph]

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Thank you brotha!

 

[Proph]

AVT: Taken down on day 78. I could have went one more week. I left the larf on the plant (see pics). The entire bottom third. Mostly my fault. The rest mother natures. March temps averaged about 91 degrees outside where I am. Smh.. I had to dim my hps from 600 to 300 several times, for a few weeks total, while in flower, due to heat issues. Then there was the whole "under feeding"/Flush experiement. Lol.. Again, I'm still learning and not yet growing for yield. I want to perfect the process. Numbers will come. Lol.

Wet Weight: 147g of dense cola buds and a good amount of mid-sized buds.

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[Proph]

White Crack: Taken down on day 77. I went a little longer than all of the other journals I've seen on her. Mainly to try to offset all of the issues she had to endure while flowering. (Same issues as the AVT). Not much larf at all. The little there was, was at the base and should have been trimmed off in veg.

Wet Weight: 90g of some sweet smelling and looking bud. Easily the best looking buds Ive grown so far. She was only in a 2 gal pot. So the potential is there for big yields.

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[SouthCarolinaYardDog]

Very nice you will be enjoying them.
The white crack is my favorite so far I've grown about 6 different ones so far plenty more to go lol
This is a nice grow and a nice journal you are set for success.