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Hey guys.
I'm towards the end of flower. It's a sativa from a bag of seeds I had collected over the months from high quality strains that got accidently pollenated. It's specimen #19. It's going on week 11 of flower. Microscope shows closer 1%-5% amber trichromes, still a lot of clear trichromes and plenty of cloudy ones but hard to tell under the blurple lights that are over powering my white microscope leds. It's in a 3.5L pot (50/50 pete/vermiculite). The TDS reading on it isn't skyrocketing as I would have thought with the pH lockout and actually shot down after I flushed 6~ liters of water that was pHed down to 5 or 4.8~ with vinegar since I have no KOH or anything more proper to lower the pH. After putting 6 L down the pipe the pH is still not really going down. How much water do I need to flush it completely?? Is it an opportunity to just flush it now? I wasn't planning on flushing as it was my first grow and several sources say that one should consider not flushing and observing the complete life cycle for a first time grow. I wasn't planning on flushing any of the plants anyway since I read a couple studies saying that flushing was not statistically significant when it came to increasing terpine content. Sure there was a couple of percentage points different but not enough to warrant doing it (unless you're trying to save money on nutrients I guess). I was going to try to harvest it when it was 15-30% amber but with this pH issue I'm not sure how to proceed.
I'm towards the end of flower. It's a sativa from a bag of seeds I had collected over the months from high quality strains that got accidently pollenated. It's specimen #19. It's going on week 11 of flower. Microscope shows closer 1%-5% amber trichromes, still a lot of clear trichromes and plenty of cloudy ones but hard to tell under the blurple lights that are over powering my white microscope leds. It's in a 3.5L pot (50/50 pete/vermiculite). The TDS reading on it isn't skyrocketing as I would have thought with the pH lockout and actually shot down after I flushed 6~ liters of water that was pHed down to 5 or 4.8~ with vinegar since I have no KOH or anything more proper to lower the pH. After putting 6 L down the pipe the pH is still not really going down. How much water do I need to flush it completely?? Is it an opportunity to just flush it now? I wasn't planning on flushing as it was my first grow and several sources say that one should consider not flushing and observing the complete life cycle for a first time grow. I wasn't planning on flushing any of the plants anyway since I read a couple studies saying that flushing was not statistically significant when it came to increasing terpine content. Sure there was a couple of percentage points different but not enough to warrant doing it (unless you're trying to save money on nutrients I guess). I was going to try to harvest it when it was 15-30% amber but with this pH issue I'm not sure how to proceed.