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 splitsome 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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