Photoperiod To flush or not to flush and if so....When?

[icmoon]

Yay Hippy, Just a very good and thick black bin liner the industrial strength ones. I didn't even tie the bag at the bottom although this would be done if I had too much light in the kitchen. Works a treat, this one plant is just starting to drip trichomes.

 

[Hippy_BiotabsF70]

Yay Hippy, Just a very good and thick black bin liner the industrial strength ones. I didn't even tie the bag at the bottom although this would be done if I had too much light in the kitchen. Works a treat, this one plant is just starting to drip trichomes.

Man that is awesome. The simple ways are the best eh mate? A bin bag ffs! Brilliant

Makes me think a bell end like me may actually be ok with some photo plants lol.

 

[Arthur]

Man that is awesome. The simple ways are the best eh mate? A bin bag ffs! Brilliant

Makes me think a bell end like me may actually be ok with some photo plants lol.

You'll be suprized, autos are not your beginner grower weed, photos are. Your on your own time table, issues can be delt with as your not racing a short veg....you have time to work out the issues before you flip.

 

[icmoon]

Man that is awesome. The simple ways are the best eh mate? A bin bag ffs! Brilliant

Makes me think a bell end like me may actually be ok with some photo plants lol.

I agree with Arthur. With photos you can screw up more & get away with it definitely more forgiving at least in my short experience, yes they take longer but the amount of bud production is much more under your control where autos you just plug 'em in & play. I should have kicked mine into 12/12 mode earlier & it caused me a lot of problems, but all the plants survived and now I'm getting more buds on one plant than I would get on 4 or 5 of my autos put together!

Having said that I'm going to grow a batch of autos next just to compare with this grow, it is certainly easier that's for sure.

 

[Hippy_BiotabsF70]

I agree with Arthur. With photos you can screw up more & get away with it definitely more forgiving at least in my short experience, yes they take longer but the amount of bud production is much more under your control where autos you just plug 'em in & play. I should have kicked mine into 12/12 mode earlier & it caused me a lot of problems, but all the plants survived and now I'm getting more buds on one plant than I would get on 4 or 5 of my autos put together!

Having said that I'm going to grow a batch of autos next just to compare with this grow, it is certainly easier that's for sure.

I'm going to do the opposite! Just ordered a few autos to grow while I veg some photoperiods from seed for the first time. Wish me luck as I haven't got a bloomin clue at this point lol. Keen to compare what photos are like to grow compared to autos with biotabs and autopots.

 

[Hippy_BiotabsF70]

You'll be suprized, autos are not your beginner grower weed, photos are. Your on your own time table, issues can be delt with as your not racing a short veg....you have time to work out the issues before you flip.

Intersting point mate. I just really want to grow "traditional" weed as I think of it, so that I can directly compare the two for myself. For me much of the attraction of photos is having a couple of really good mother plants and just getting into a groove and trying to get better with my favourite strains. I find with autos there is literally too much choice on the market for a loon like me. I need a bit more of a regimented system

 

[weedified]

Flushing is usually commenced two weeks before harvest. If the plant has an 8-week flowering period, the flushing will need to take place 6 weeks after the start of the flowering stage. It is best to take a close look at the trichomes on your plant to assess when your cannabis is likely to be ready for harvest. If the tiny trichomes are just beginning to turn from clear, to a cloudy and milky colour, this could be a good indication that the plant can begin flushing. It should be timed so that the majority of trichomes will have fully changed to the desired colour for harvest after two weeks – this gets easier with experience, so stick with it! Flushing can also be a good way to reset the soil while a plant is in the vegetative state. Sometime, growers will accidently overfeed their cannabis, causing the tips of the leaves to begin changing colour and shriveling. This is called “nutrient burn”. Flushing the soil can remove the excess nutrients, helping avert the problem. However, it is a drastic measure at this phase of growth, so be sure that the problem is nutrient burn, and not something else first.

 

[pop22]

flushing" soil of excess nutes is usually an exercise in futility, often the plant never really recovers, worth a try though I guess.
But flushing plants is nothing more than a myth. Why because it is impossible to remove anything from a plant that it takes in. Look at a plant that has been flushed for 2 weeks. The leaves are all dying because your starving your plant to death. BUT where do the nutrients go???? To the nice, GREEN healthy buds! So first you have removed nothing but some sugars, and then you sent everything you think you want to get rid of, to the buds! Science will tell you the truth, not this old hippy myth!

And flushing obviously has no affect on how the buds taste, that's just more bullshit also. Or how about flushing keeps your buds from popping and sparking because you "flushed" out the Magnesium???? This makes me laugh everytime I read it! People actually fall for this?? Try this, make a 20ppm pile of Mg and light it on fire.............. good luck with that! Sparking and popping in weed is caused by the bodies of mites etc, exploding from the water in their bodies turning to steam!

Question everything! but don't just question it, go looking for answers that are based in science. The gardening world is full of ridiculous myths!

Flushing is usually commenced two weeks before harvest. If the plant has an 8-week flowering period, the flushing will need to take place 6 weeks after the start of the flowering stage. It is best to take a close look at the trichomes on your plant to assess when your cannabis is likely to be ready for harvest. If the tiny trichomes are just beginning to turn from clear, to a cloudy and milky colour, this could be a good indication that the plant can begin flushing. It should be timed so that the majority of trichomes will have fully changed to the desired colour for harvest after two weeks – this gets easier with experience, so stick with it! Flushing can also be a good way to reset the soil while a plant is in the vegetative state. Sometime, growers will accidently overfeed their cannabis, causing the tips of the leaves to begin changing colour and shriveling. This is called “nutrient burn”. Flushing the soil can remove the excess nutrients, helping avert the problem. However, it is a drastic measure at this phase of growth, so be sure that the problem is nutrient burn, and not something else first.

 

[Hippy_BiotabsF70]

Sorry you're saying that by giving water only you are "sending nutrients to the buds"?

 

[Boradan]

Sorry you're saying that by giving water only you are "sending nutrients to the buds"?

Not quite what he meant I think.
When you are feeding the nutrients, the Fan leaves act as a storage device for these nutrients.
When you 'Flush', you are no longer providing these necessary nutrients.
The plant then turns to it's Fan leaves as a source to grow/feed the buds.
These are the SAME nutrients that you had fed to the plant in the first place.
You Harvest the plant BEFORE your buds die due to not being fed.
You will still be smoking the same nutrients you fed the plant, except they went via the Fan Leaves instead of directly to the bud.
All the flushing did was stress the plant in its last few weeks of life by not feeding it.