When to start flushing, harvest, first grow so looking for some help.

Originally Posted by beanid

i agree with missphoebe, i dont flush my plants and nutes to the end.

post some pics up in a week or so so we can see how pretty they get!

good looking plant btw

Pics taken today...

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thats a pretty nice grow for cfls tho! best bet to look at trics with at least min. 30x scope but 100 preferable! possible 1-3 weeks

All trichs man.. Hell my last one went amber with white pistils.

Originally Posted by rjfortune25

thats a pretty nice grow for cfls tho! best bet to look at trics with at least min. 30x scope but 100 preferable! possible 1-3 weeks

I had NO clue the plant was going to grow this big. It's I believe 85% indica... Well, being 4 ft tall doesn't screm indica to me... All good though, I'm hoping to get a good chunk of weed off this... Next grow though I need to make sure I get a short plant. Even with all the CFLs, there are a ton of dark spots, but I can only do so much.

Going either tomorrow or day after to get microscope from radio shack... I think it's 30x or 50x... Well see then where the trichs are at.

Originally Posted by sudodaemon

First grow, in hydro, DWC. Using CFL lights for this grow, I have about 16-18 26Watt CFL's, a mixture of 2700k and 6500k. I started flowering on 4-11-12... So that makes today day 45 of flowering... I'm growing sensi seeds Big Bud, which according to their site has a flowering time of 50-65 days... I do not have any flushing solution, so I was just going to give her plain distilled water to flush before harvest. My question is, when? I've read to flush 4 days before, 7 days before, 10 days, and 14 days! I know I want to wait for about a 75% cloudy 25% amber to harvest, but if I want to harvest it THEN, how do I know when to start flushing BEFORE it gets to that point.

I have been reading lots'o different stuff too lately, but what I am planning on doing is to stop feeding approx. two weeks before and let the stored up nutes be used, which they will, and just use my RO water. Now... my next question is, "do we ADD cal/mag to that? Hmmm... I'm still reading.

Ur ladies look beautiful btw! Excellent job!

Ok, so pocket microscope was purchased over the weekend... Saturday morning I took a snippet off the plant and checked it out, all the trichs looked clear or cloudy... This morning I checked again, and well... here are the pics...

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As you can see there are a couple trichs that have an amber head, and then it looks like a mix between cloudy and clear to me... Any opinions? I'm thinking I check again in 24-48 hours and then start to flush... Any and all opinions are welcome here, first harvest so I'm open to anything.

Looked at another piece and I couldn't find any amber, just clear and cloudy... I guess we'll see what she looks like in a couple days.