Can I flush yet?

I posted some pics about a week ago and it seemed that they needed about 3 weeks more or so. But I got a bit lazy and stopped giving them nutes for a while, which I reckon has probably affected my yield. The leaves are turning yellow now so I guess they have started using up all the extra stuff. My question is can I still feed them nutes for another week and then flush for a week, baring in mind that I want to harvest early rather than late for the more energetic side of things. What is everyones' guesses for how many weeks left??

also everyone says that the bud fatten up in the last week loads, are we talking about the last week of nutrients and then flushing or will they fatten up even if they haven't had nutes for the last two weeks of the lives?

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and a couple more, there are two different plants, not sure if you can tell but one is looks more mature and has generally quite compact buds compared to the other but are smaller, I'm hoping to harvest them at the same time as my grow room will become my dry room which won't work if the other one is not ready

so what does everyone think???? I can get away with another 2 weeks right?

They look great! I would start flushing immediately....... they look like they could possibly go another two weeks but would run down to radio shack and buy a magnifier and take a peek at the trichromes.

flowergurl said:

They look great! I would start flushing immediately....... they look like they could possibly go another two weeks but would run down to radio shack and buy a magnifier and take a peek at the trichromes.

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cheers, so you reckon they look almost done, I mean I don't want to push to the point of a lot of amber maybe just a few more days of nutes then. I have checked on a microscope and near the bottom they are mainly cloudy but up at the top they are mainly clear.

also does anyone know much about flushing when its in coco, does it flush quicker than soil, that would be my guess??

I like to wait till the ambers are more darker at the top before i cut them down i like 60 40 or as close to it as i can get. also i wouldnt add the nuts just flush so in a week or 2 cut them down

izzo420 said:

I like to wait till the ambers are more darker at the top before i cut them down i like 60 40 or as close to it as i can get. also i wouldnt add the nuts just flush so in a week or 2 cut them down

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yeah might stop the nutes then, only thing is the are still quite a few white hairs, especially on one of them, not sure if you can see in the pics because of the hps

id say feed them a few more days then start flushing. what strain and lights are you using? nutes?

JayDRO said:

id say feed them a few more days then start flushing. what strain and lights are you using? nutes?

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yeah i ended up starting flushing but yesterday decided to try get to grow some more so i started nutes again, still quite a few white hairs that look like they could fill out a bit more, particularly on one. Think i've started and stopped flushing twice now lol. I'm growing ak-48 with 250 watt hps in coco so i'm using canna coco nutes. Had been giving them quarter strenght feed but now i'm giving them an eighth of it.

a little up date, i started flushing them on friday and then stopped on monday, lol and gave them a bit of nutes until today (for better or worse). I am continuing one on nutes as it seems to make a difference in the size of the buds and it still has lots of white hairs. I would of kept on flushing but it just seemed to stay as it was for the few days it was doing so....anyway the one on the left is smaller but up close it looks a lot more ripe than the other one.

Also checked the trichs on the bigger one and there are still a few clear ones at the top, the other one has mainly cloudy with some that i can't make out, do the amber ones go a bit clearer than the cloudy ones because they kind of seem like they were just before they were fully cloudy but with a tint so i'm really not sure.

Anyway do you think that i'm doin it wrong, maybe should be flushing both, will the other one grow even if i flush it (just seems like the nutes make a difference)

edit: oh yeah the second pic is of the bigger one that i'm not whether to flush or not.....

there looking good,,,,,,sometimes under a hps the hairs will stay looking white,but when you look at um in normal light most of the hairs look orange,,i duno if im the only one whos experienced this???

mrskitz said:

there looking good,,,,,,sometimes under a hps the hairs will stay looking white,but when you look at um in normal light most of the hairs look orange,,i duno if im the only one whos experienced this???

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yeah its just harder to notice the orange ones i think, when i take the smaller one out you can notice them but the bigger one even out of the hps have about 70-90% white hairs

by the way those two photos were not under the hps, just with the flash from the camera which really brings out the trichs