Good day. Today marks week 8 for me in the flowering stage. This is my first grow and I don't have the tools needed to look at the trichomes to tell if they are ready or not. Personally I was going to just wait until all on the remaining leaves turned yellow. I don't want to start flushing it too early and I know that waiting to long will cause me to have some put you to sleep reefer. I'm just trying to figure out if I should start flushing now or wait a little bit longer
When should I harvest my plant
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snoeman032
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What’s your strain? I can tell you this I got eat alive for even mentioning flushing on here lol
I'm not sure of the strand. Flushing is people's personal choice. I've used fox farm the entire grow but I'm not trying to risk tasting the nutes. I'm trying to upload a pic but it's taking forever
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I've been researching drying and curing since before I even started out. As far as flushing, I have a personal grower who has shown me the difference in doing so and not. Again, it's one's personal choice. I'm just trying to figure out if I'm close to the time I should be harvesting or not
snoeman032
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You are very very close, you could go now and it would be fine. Maybe another week tops
Lordhooha
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That’s fine I’m not going to try and convince you on flushing as most don’t want to learn the reason they taste what they taste hint though it’s not nutrients. However go for it and cut her now.
He had 2 plants of the same strand. The one he didn't flush had a horrible taste and smell while burning. The only thing he did different was flush one and not the other. I'm no grow expert but I do know tastes. But I appreciate your help
Lordhooha
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One you starved and chlorophyll had been breaking down already and one was more than likely dried in poor conditions and too fast. More than likely overfed. No offense it happens a lot the smell and taste was simply that. I forget who but someone once said if you haven’t been tasting your nutes straight from the bottle then how do you know what they taste like?
Thundercat
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For you to get the effect you actually want to see from the "flushing" process. I would say start only giving it water now, and let it grow for 2 more weeks. Maybe 3 if its still real green.
The only effect flushing can have on a plant is starving it of nutes to allow it to feed on itself to finish the flowering process. Some people believe this can jump start the curing process by allowing the plant to use up extra N thus turning colors.
I assure you I've tried both on identical clones, not just the same strain which can have different tasting phenotypes. I stopped flushing years ago with no change in taste since I had already learned to dry and cure well.
However I have other friends that swear by flushing. Like you said to each their own I suggest everyone do the actual tests themselves to decide what works best in their grow.
The only effect flushing can have on a plant is starving it of nutes to allow it to feed on itself to finish the flowering process. Some people believe this can jump start the curing process by allowing the plant to use up extra N thus turning colors.
I assure you I've tried both on identical clones, not just the same strain which can have different tasting phenotypes. I stopped flushing years ago with no change in taste since I had already learned to dry and cure well.
However I have other friends that swear by flushing. Like you said to each their own I suggest everyone do the actual tests themselves to decide what works best in their grow.
Your right about that one. I'm definitely not taking a sip from the bottle lol
Lordhooha
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I’m just saying read up you’ll find that they don’t flush I any sort of crop. Especially in high dollar cigar tobacco. It’s all about not overfeeding and proper conditions drying. You can make or break a harvest the last stage. The last thing you want to do is deprive your plants at the last couple of weeks when they should be upping their final weight and such.
I feel you. This is my first grow so I can use every advantage that I can possibly get. My next grow will be in a tent so I'll experiment more since I'll have more plants
Lordhooha
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You have ventilation in there?
Kingrow1
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New growers are suckers for bad info, far to trusting and of the assumption weed is magically different to every other plant.
The premise of flushing required very well grown green plants not scraggly half yellow overferted ones. It was a pro tip not new growers, even if you wanted to flush youd need to get better to see any difference in final bud.
You neewbs dont get given the other half of the story
wizard cabbage
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flushing is like Christian Science some people believe in it ,just not scientists .
Kingrow1
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There is some truth to flushing, nitrogens easy solubility in some forms and that less green on harvest can speed the cure but its not accepted practice and more an oddity some pro growers enjoyed pissing around with.
If you grow a perfect full leafed green plant a week before harvest there is a lot of stuff you can have fun with and not screw up your bud, until then you just need to keep it simple