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This was not a help for when to harvest type thread. Just wanted to read the views of others and whether they strive to keep there plant green throughout the whole grow, bar the odd leaf turning or go fullon to make the whole plant turn on itself and yellow up.

Just interested to see why the regulated gear is nice and green yet so many state to yellow the majority of the plant and to lose almost every fan leaf come harvest.

auto-flower to me means just that, it will flower under any light condition. The rest I view as a standard canna plant. I've yet to get any bud within 7/8 weeks from seed in 3 tries with 5 plants split between them grows. Somehow all my autos have taken between 4-6 weeks before even showing preflowers. So - so far my typical standard grow for an auto has been the same as a photo with a grow of around 3 months.

Even the reply's here are split :) some forcing there plants to "starve" and some plunging away with the feed in till the plant is ready and then chopping with maybe a week flush. I am just following the program for my feed and can see they are going to cross the finishing line pretty much all green and the thought of stopping the feed mid flower to allow this yellowing to occur seems a bit odd.

Science does not bear out this whole concept of "cleansing or flushing". Minerals like Mg that have been absorbed are not readily transportable. Once its in the plant it stays there. The only thing used up are the sugars that the plant needs for energy. Do starving animals put on a sudden burst of growth??? IMO your doing more harm than good to your plants by starving them at the end, when they need their energy the most. The so called "ash test" is a fallacy also. color of the ash is affected by moister content, not by minerals in the plant.

All yellow leaves tells you is that the plant is dying. The best guide to when to harvest is to watch the trichs. Commercial growers harvest at a point, know to be best on average, for the strain they are growing, as quantity is their most important goal. However, don't think most commercial growers ignore quality though, however, that has little to do with harvest time on a general level. Home growers have the luxury to try their strains at different points in time, to see what works best for their needs. I've heard that the color/state of the pistils can be a gauge also. I'm not convinced as to how accurate that is either, but I believe its a better gauge then yellow leaves. For me, I find that 70-80% milky trichs is when I get the most bang from my buds...lol!
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Regardless, empirical testing of flushed and non flushed showed to me that the flushed weed tastes better. My $0.02
 
what we need, is a double, blind, test. That would be more definitive really. not likely to happen anytime soon, so the debate lingers on...lol! :Sharing One:
 
Thanks you all this has made for some really good reading. and turned one question into another for me which is always a good thing.
 
I'm blind in one eye and deaf in the other

Actually said that to a cop who pulled me over once :)
 
Not to open the can of worms too wide Pop, but cleansing isn't about removing magnesium from your plants, it's about removing salts. As you flush salts from your soil and the concentration(read: # of sodium ions) drops lower than that of the vascular system, the ions in higher concentration flow into the lower concentration area. I'm very much interested in reading the articles you're referencing.
 
Pot growing is full of bubbameisters. (Google it) It used to be said the world is flat.

I'm with Pops on the non-double blind anecdotal flushing issue. Way overrated. As a practical matter many growers won't decide it's time to cut till they roll out of bed one morning, lean over their plant, jeweler's loupe pressed against their socket and seeing some newly ambered resin glands deteriorating before their eyes grab the executioner's shears. There's no way they could have predicted this moment two weeks ago. Imagine putting the plant on a starvation diet for 2 weeks only to see a healthy mix of clear and cloudy trichs and not a hint of amber. Oops. A little Tiger Bloom anyone?
 
The so called "ash test" is a fallacy also. color of the ash is affected by moister content, not by minerals in the plant.

Im gonna have to call bull shit there as someone who has fed up till 3 days before chop with Chem nutes and dryed the weed to a crisp And it wouldn't burn hardly it was harsh as hell and was black ash 2 week flush burned good ash was white to light grey
Now I am all natural promix and ewc blend blood meal bone meal eggshells crushed to dust and hickory ash and even damp not completely dry bud burns to white and I don't worry about flushing

so if Chem nutes flush natural nutes don't worry
 
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