Hey @Badchoice hope your Thanksgiving was great. Wondering about your flushing regiment. I have a handful of plants that are getting close. I've seen multiple posts about this subject and there seems to be heavily divided opinions on this.
Plants in question are in coco/perlite
1 of the 5 is ready, all cloudy trichomes with a couple amber.
Other opinions are very welcomed as well. I will put some pics up of trichomes tomorrow. @Aqua Man @AnselAdams @beluga
Opinion on... flushing or ripeness?
Flushing... I'm on team flush. But, for me, just at the end... no more than a week before harvest. I think they need all the resources they can get up to the final point and it's only necessary to leech nutrients and stuff out at the very, very end. I do 24-48 hours plain water in hydro.
Wrote a little thing on it
here.
Ripeness... definitely use the typical trichome/pistil retraction cues... but it's a feel thing at the end of the day. And, to me at least, preference. I probably like mine a little underripe than a lot of people... just like bananas. But I realize that means you're perhaps missing out on some of the finalizing... in terms of weight, terpenoids, cannabinoids, etc...