New Grower quick flush???

[Darth Vapour]

I'm a couple days from harvest, started flushing about a week ago, my medium is fairly heavy so when I water it takes about 4 days for the medium to dry out, should I flush again say a day before harvest if she is very dry or just keep her dry?

My instincts say I should flush one last time since its just water but wondering whether that will affect the curing process and drying time

I should add that my harvest date is set due to a few external factors

 

[Larky.Derry]

if your harvest date is set in stone then i wouldn't water again if it takes 4 days to dry out, is the pot dry just now or is it still wet? i will only harvest when the soil has totally dried out then you know the plant has taken up most/all of the water from the last time i watered. hope this helps

 

[Mr Piggy]

Don't trust those instincts, they're lying to you. Let her stay dry.

 

[Darth Vapour]

if your harvest date is set in stone then i wouldn't water again if it takes 4 days to dry out, is the pot dry just now or is it still wet? i will only harvest when the soil has totally dried out then you know the plant has taken up most/all of the water from the last time i watered. hope this helps

One is almost dry and the other is moist, one girl has been drinking quicker than the other, I'll keepem dry, this is my second harvest so I'll dry a 24hour dark period also, appreciate the help larky

Don't trust those instincts, they're lying to you. Let her stay dry.

Those darn instincts get me every time! I'll keepem dry, thanks Mr piggy

 

[Mr Piggy]

Just so you know, the 24 hr dark period is an urban legend. It doesn't do anything. Keep them under the light until they're chopped, every day of light is one more day of trichome development and bud swelling. A lot of the bud swelling happens in the last two weeks.

 

[Darth Vapour]

Alrighy sounds good, I'm on 20/4 so I'll stick with that and harvest just before lights on or maybe even just keep lights on 24/0

 

[faded187]

Just so you know, the 24 hr dark period is an urban legend. It doesn't do anything. Keep them under the light until they're chopped, every day of light is one more day of trichome development and bud swelling. A lot of the bud swelling happens in the last two weeks.

thts right,just an urban legend

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Just so you know, the 24 hr dark period is an urban legend. It doesn't do anything. Keep them under the light until they're chopped, every day of light is one more day of trichome development and bud swelling. A lot of the bud swelling happens in the last two weeks.

thts right,just an urban legend

 

[pop22]

Only if you want some mold in your buds. Once you cut your plant you need to immediately start the drying process. Keeping it moist will invite bud rot. Also, there is no way in hell a cut stalk is going to uptake more water than a root system. If you don't want too much chems in your plant then:
1) don't over feed it
2) give it a good bleed off of nutes at the end of it's life instead of a flush
3) or just go organic and forget about it.

A strawberry is an evergreen perennial that produces fruit and lives. A cannabis plant is an annual that puts all of it's energy reserves into one season of breeding before it dies, so yes, the yellowing is actually natural on cannabis.

Apples and oranges people.

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Which is why most chem nutes are chemically altered to bypass those natural systems and force feed the plant. This is why they can be burned with bottle nutes but do fine in TLO. The method of uptake you are describing only happens with True Living Organic soil.

No offense, but opinion has no place in a scientific discussion.

No offense taken. As to the "altered" minerals, care to explain? Chelation is the same process microbes use to break the minerals down into their ionic form so that the roots can absorb them. Again. if you read the article. roots are very limited as to what can pass thru into the plant. And an ionic salt of a mineral will have no other compound attached, or it will not pass thru.

The whole idea of the color of your ash has been debunked too, and is not a valid argument. Resin content has more to do with ash color than anything, as well as how fast the cannabis is burned. Get 4 people smoking from a bowl and it will stay hot and burn to ash. A pipe that it lit and goes out several times will have black/dark grey ash because of the partially burned resin..

As to a taste test, when i see one done as a double blind study, I'll believe it otherwise, what people believe is more likely "placebo effect" . The exception to this I would think would be those who are foliar feeding, there lies a path into the plant that bypasses the root system, and is the reason I won't use foliar feeding, at least with non organics.

Lastly, take a look at the MSDS sheets for various commercial nutrients, you might find it very interesting.

As to organics, the only organics I would trust would be those I made myself from my own compost. Even then, I'd refuse to use grass clippings, who knows what the last guy put on the lawn???

 

[sunkist]

If you flush it or not, nutes from your soil and the rest of your plant are still going up into those buds when you flush it. Besides that nutes don't drain out of a plant that way, the plant has to use it and convert it to energy to get rid of it....

Nutes don't get changed into energy.... all the energy comes from photosynthesis.

Read this: Science does not support your suppositions. Nothing "synthetic" ever reaches the flowers/buds. Salts, accumulate in soil and in the roots, as this is what they are meant for

EXACTLY right. It's why "chem" ferts work, and quite awesomely. The plant can tell no difference between an "organic" nitrate ion or one mined from the earth. Roots simply don't pick up most of the stuff put into those fancy plant foods, and actually depend on a few months (FAR longer than the lifespan of your usual 10 to 12 week auto) of biological processing to break down many of these components into something the plant can use.

As far as I can figure, the whole "flush" thing is an attempt replicate a condition such as that found in nature when it gets colder out, and the temperature begins to affect the ability (or bioavailability) of the plant to (by pH or by solubility) absorb nutrients, creating a kind of senescent state where various sugars are broken down as the plant loses it's ability to produce more.... to help it into "dying", if it were...