Flowering Questions I need Answered! ( Just answer the ?'s you know)

1.) I have planted random seeds I've got dealing with a bunch of different medical strains & have 3 females that are just finishing up 4 weeks of flowering under CFL's. One's Indica, Two are Sativa, I was wondering how long should I flower these guys? I was gonna give em 8 weeks at least no matter what but IDK exactly what to look for to judge it by eye. The white hairs are starting to turn red in places right now there is starting to be allot of resin build up around the buds a whole bunch of THC crystals caking the flowers. There are still allot of just white haired buds though.

2.) How often should I water in the Flowering Cycle? I water ever 2-3 days & sometimes let em go through dry periods because research reads the roots love to be both wet & dry which seems to be working okay but i'm doing everything by eye so that's why I ask.

3.) What is your desired method for harvesting bud? Like how do you like the trichomes to be before you cut em down? What type of buzz do you want from your product? ect.

4.) What is the "best" Drying, Curing, & Trimming methods? Send youtube video or article if you want.

5.) Sometimes when Trimming buds there are some leaf that has such ridiculous amounts of resin all over & I never want to clip it off, what are some trimming techniques to capture the most thc & bud production for your finished product?

6.) I plan on making hash after harvest, water hash I'm guessing I'll do, probably order some cheaper bubble bags off amazon or something. How do you like to extract THC from your trim & plant matter after harvest?

7.) How close should these CFL's be to the bud? I put them like 1-3 inches away from the colas & it seems to be doing fine. I just wanna make sure the red hairs im getting now isnt from too much light & it's part of the strain.

8.) What week do I start flushing?

1.) buy a cheap 20$ microcope (30x-100x)

2.) agree ... I water evry seccon/tird day aswell in 6 gallon pots ..

3.) I heard 5% amber tricks rest cloudy ..

4.) dunno .. will just dry in a cardbord box with a small fan a week then cure em in big instant coffee glases for a month I belive (open em a few times a day)

5.) keep em and use em with them small popcorn buds and all the rest to make hash/Kif/oil

6.) bubel hash is ok .. I personaly like KIF/shake .. then I can also use the rest to make oil of and get it all out ..

7.) dunno .. I use T5HO .. but I guess its about the same .. I found out 2-4 inches away is best .. 1 inch seems a bit close .. new grow did`t like it .. I think ? (will do a mesurment with my new sun Analyzer when I begin new seedlings in a week or so)

8.) I belive week 6-7 with indicas .. dunno about Stavias ..depense I reccon .. I will just water last two weeks .. good with pure water as I did flush and only use Guano now ..

Sativas could take 10 to 12 weeks and mabe longer depending on the growing conditions, lights, nutes,temp.

"4.) What is the "best" Drying, Curing, & Trimming methods?"

I can help with this one. Think of drying and curing as one process, not different steps to take. The idea is to get your bud where you want it
and keep it there. If product is not properly dried you are open to mold. When pot turns moldy you toss it out. Bogus.

Here's the what and why of how I dry/cure. After harvest all my buds are placed on a paper towel that sits on top of a 16 x 25 x 1-inch furnace filter.
(0.88 at WalMart). After 2 days on the filters I flip over every bud so a different side is up. Check them after one more day and see if they are getting close to dry.
If not, leave them on the filters 24 more hours. Still not dry enough? 24 more hours on the filters. When you think it is close to right put all the bud into a glass jar
that can be sealed. Old canning bottles are tits. Seal 'em up and put the bottles in the 'fridge for 24 hours and check. What this does is allows what ever moisture is still
in the pot to be evenly spread out. If you skip this step your bud will dry unevenly with small buds drying fast and bigger nugs taking a week. If you are happy when the
jar comes out of the 'fridge you are ready for long-term storage. This means in the 'fridge around 40 degrees F. You still have to take each jar out once a week to burp
them. Just unseal the jar and leave open for 2-3 hours. Helps dispense surface water and water vapor. Check vigorously for signs of mold on any bud kept more than 30
days.

That's how I do it and it works for me.

Good luck, BigSteve.