I've got a purple Ryder plant at day 54. I fed it nutes about 3 days ago, should I begin flushing? I'm usin se grow nutes and I believe they're organic and some say no need to flush organic grows. Little help. Also my buds aren't very purple at all lol was hoping they would hense the purple" Ryder name
Indoor help when to flush????
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surffreak23
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Not trying to be mean but most of your questions have been answered already somewhere on this site, so try searching the site before asking basic questions like this; but for a quick rundown:
Don't go by days for harvest, look at the trichomes and leaf fade to determine when to harvest.
Most people flush for 7-10 days before the chop, so plan accordingly.
Even though a strain is named "purple" whatever, usually only certain phenos will purple up, not 100% of all plants unless it was IBLed to a certain pheno.
What brand of nutes are you using?
Don't go by days for harvest, look at the trichomes and leaf fade to determine when to harvest.
Most people flush for 7-10 days before the chop, so plan accordingly.
Even though a strain is named "purple" whatever, usually only certain phenos will purple up, not 100% of all plants unless it was IBLed to a certain pheno.
What brand of nutes are you using?
From what I've read, it seems that the Temps have alot to do with the some of the colring of the plant too. If you have a hot enviro, maybe she is not going to give you the color you want. Check out muddy's thread on when to flush
https://www.autoflower.org/f44/life-cycle-auto-flowering-cannabis-5113.html
https://www.autoflower.org/f44/life-cycle-auto-flowering-cannabis-5113.html
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surffreak23
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It's true that cold temps can make a plant turn purple, but a true purple pheno will turn purple regardless of temps....
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sativalover
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the purpleing up is a result in the change of availability of phosphorus due to lower temps
but an interresting thing to look at long term is type of phosphorus being more available at dif ph
but an interresting thing to look at long term is type of phosphorus being more available at dif ph
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as far as i understood it from a couple of horticulture texts...ALL marijuana plants are technically purple...
when chlorophyll works and captures sunlight its green, when xanthophyll captures sunlight its purple. ALL cannabis plants have xanthophyll in them, they are simply covered up by the chlorophyll, therefore all cannabis plants are purple, the ones that turn up not purple are covered up by the chorophyll green.
the ones that come up purple can be bred this way by manipulating the chlorophyll, causing it to die off through time and evolution you can someone can produce a stable purple strain...although, it can be caused by multiple variations for example nitrogen deficiencies can cause a plant to loose its chlorophyll or manipulating the temperature difference from day to night at a bout a 30 degree difference. This drop in temperature kicks the plant in gear sending signals to it to wipe that chlorophyll away and bring out the xanthophyll causing purple because to the plant the xanthophyll is like it's emergency secondary backup system that provides the about 30% of the plants energy
but just think for a moment...if you're growing a plant that is not bred specifically to be purple then i woudn't forcing it to do so take away from the plants potency potential?...The plant's energy gets turned into resin. That would leave me wondering how much more potent my plant could have been had i not killed off that chlorophyll... That's wasted energy that could have gone to more resin production (hence, more THC) Something to think about when desiring the pretty purple color.
here's a brief description of xanthophyll so you can see how it works in all plants. http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/12/07/jxb.err362.abstract
As for the flusing....if you are using 100% organic nutes then there is no real need to flush. It's kind of impossible to flush when using organic nutes because organics break down in your medium...they gotta work harder than the synthetics in order for your plants to get the food but once broken down your plant takes what it needs and never too much, which is why it's hard to burn your plants with organics. There should be no salt build up for you to wash away with organics but be weary of what is marketed as organic, sometimes the organics tend to be not the best quality of nutrients or lack important things like Nitrogen.
I use both organic and synthetic. If you need a good organic line to use, give Earth Juice a shot. I got good results from it. hope this rant helps you out any because I just realized this response has taken me 20 minutes to type out to make all my thoughts make sense and flow together lol :no:
good luck if this is your first grow
when chlorophyll works and captures sunlight its green, when xanthophyll captures sunlight its purple. ALL cannabis plants have xanthophyll in them, they are simply covered up by the chlorophyll, therefore all cannabis plants are purple, the ones that turn up not purple are covered up by the chorophyll green.
the ones that come up purple can be bred this way by manipulating the chlorophyll, causing it to die off through time and evolution you can someone can produce a stable purple strain...although, it can be caused by multiple variations for example nitrogen deficiencies can cause a plant to loose its chlorophyll or manipulating the temperature difference from day to night at a bout a 30 degree difference. This drop in temperature kicks the plant in gear sending signals to it to wipe that chlorophyll away and bring out the xanthophyll causing purple because to the plant the xanthophyll is like it's emergency secondary backup system that provides the about 30% of the plants energy
but just think for a moment...if you're growing a plant that is not bred specifically to be purple then i woudn't forcing it to do so take away from the plants potency potential?...The plant's energy gets turned into resin. That would leave me wondering how much more potent my plant could have been had i not killed off that chlorophyll... That's wasted energy that could have gone to more resin production (hence, more THC) Something to think about when desiring the pretty purple color.
here's a brief description of xanthophyll so you can see how it works in all plants. http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/12/07/jxb.err362.abstract
As for the flusing....if you are using 100% organic nutes then there is no real need to flush. It's kind of impossible to flush when using organic nutes because organics break down in your medium...they gotta work harder than the synthetics in order for your plants to get the food but once broken down your plant takes what it needs and never too much, which is why it's hard to burn your plants with organics. There should be no salt build up for you to wash away with organics but be weary of what is marketed as organic, sometimes the organics tend to be not the best quality of nutrients or lack important things like Nitrogen.
I use both organic and synthetic. If you need a good organic line to use, give Earth Juice a shot. I got good results from it. hope this rant helps you out any because I just realized this response has taken me 20 minutes to type out to make all my thoughts make sense and flow together lol :no:
good luck if this is your first grow
The Squid
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as far as i understood it from a couple of horticulture texts...ALL marijuana plants are technically purple...
when chlorophyll works and captures sunlight its green, when xanthophyll captures sunlight its purple. ALL cannabis plants have xanthophyll in them, they are simply covered up by the chlorophyll, therefore all cannabis plants are purple, the ones that turn up not purple are covered up by the chorophyll green.
the ones that come up purple can be bred this way by manipulating the chlorophyll, causing it to die off through time and evolution you can someone can produce a stable purple strain...although, it can be caused by multiple variations for example nitrogen deficiencies can cause a plant to loose its chlorophyll or manipulating the temperature difference from day to night at a bout a 30 degree difference. This drop in temperature kicks the plant in gear sending signals to it to wipe that chlorophyll away and bring out the xanthophyll causing purple because to the plant the xanthophyll is like it's emergency secondary backup system that provides the about 30% of the plants energy
but just think for a moment...if you're growing a plant that is not bred specifically to be purple then i woudn't forcing it to do so take away from the plants potency potential?...The plant's energy gets turned into resin. That would leave me wondering how much more potent my plant could have been had i not killed off that chlorophyll... That's wasted energy that could have gone to more resin production (hence, more THC) Something to think about when desiring the pretty purple color.
here's a brief description of xanthophyll so you can see how it works in all plants. http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/12/07/jxb.err362.abstract
As for the flusing....if you are using 100% organic nutes then there is no real need to flush. It's kind of impossible to flush when using organic nutes because organics break down in your medium...they gotta work harder than the synthetics in order for your plants to get the food but once broken down your plant takes what it needs and never too much, which is why it's hard to burn your plants with organics. There should be no salt build up for you to wash away with organics but be weary of what is marketed as organic, sometimes the organics tend to be not the best quality of nutrients or lack important things like Nitrogen.
I use both organic and synthetic. If you need a good organic line to use, give Earth Juice a shot. I got good results from it. hope this rant helps you out any because I just realized this response has taken me 20 minutes to type out to make all my thoughts make sense and flow together lol :no:
good luck if this is your first grow
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