No in my schedule i actually start a flush if you want to call it that way early. I chop mine with aboit 10 percent amber most of the time as well. Ill post a run down of my feed regiment here. I actually run nutes hard the first 3/4 of the plants life then the last quarter i use siol bennkes and organic nutes only so the taste is fine.
In my dealings and experimenting once the plant is developed flowers there are nutes buikt up in the leaves and soil. The siol admendmnets like RECHARGE (great product) break down the stored up nutes in the soil and the plant still feeds off them for a while after the actual feeds are stopped.
This is actually one of my last plants ill be growi g with bottled nutes. I love them and they do a great job but feeding i plants at varying stages at all times gets time consuming so i switched to GBD created Mephisto Autoflower Mix so its water only except the 1 time weekly dose of double strength recharge.
Hmm autoflower mix I might give that a try once I run out of nutes. I hear ya about the time consumption. I feel like I’m mixing nutes every other day.
Starting the flush early seems like a good idea too. It takes the guess work out of equation.
The reason I brought it up was because the consensus seems to be 2 weeks prior to chop. However, breeder estimated dates of plant life are based on perfect conditions, and let’s face it, not everyone can have perfect conditions. I surely don’t have that. I’ve always tried to chop with 10%, but sometimes I’m still in nutes, or I stop nutes way early trying to predict 10%. Seems like starting the reduced nutes early would actually work out.
Thanks A-Train! I might give it a try this time around
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