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New guy from Oregons' Willamette Valley. Have 4 plants, each one growing in a 15 gallon container, and looking forward to harvest. Plants are from 4 different clones: Cherry OG, Choc kush, Blue dream, and Snoop dream. The BD is around 9' tall now with the SD close behind. The Cherry OG is a very bushy 4' tall and the choc kush somewhere between all of them.
I'm confused about the flushing and harvest times. Reading about everything I can on this forum and others, shows many strong opinions with actual techniques all over the place. Some say you need to feed, feeed, feed during bloom for large and flavorful buds while some say to stop feeding nutrients and let the plants die off during the weeks leading up to harvest. And those are just 2 of the many opinions out there.
I'm at day 124 of the grow from clones. My soil was a mix of composted soil and potting soil with my additions of organic blood and bone meal as well as an Natures Care organic blend plus Alaskan fish food. Started feeding again in August as the plants started showing stress from lack of nutrients. At the time, I had been using a drip watering system and feeding them each 2-3 gal/day at 5 am. I was told that was way too much water and to cut back to 2-3 gallons once or twice a week. The plants started wilting like crazy so I started a schedule of 4 gallons every couple of days. All plants seemed to like that, especially during our 90 degree plus days. Also feeding ProteK and Humic acid.
Mid August, blooms were developing so started adding more hi-phos bat and seafood guano. 1 tablespoon each with 4 gallons of water every 3 days. Now have some huge buds on all the girls. ph is staying in the 6.4 to 6.8 range. Tap water is at 7.0 with mixed nutes 6.5-7.0. Have been adding the dry fertilizer to water and then run an air pump with airstone in the bucket for 3 days prior to feeding. Then add molasis and fish fertilizer.
Seeing a few trichomes getting amber heads, but those are on the outer edges of the larger leaves, and not on the buds themselves. Some of the posts I'm reading indicate it's within a few weeks of harvest and should start to flush. But it doesn't make sense to me to shut off nutrients when the buds are still growing and filling out. My intention of a flush was to just use the normal amount of water and water at my current schedule. But now very uncertain as to when I should start the flush. Wait until there are more amber heads on trichomes and then flush? And then for how long?
Sorry for the long post. Wanted to make sure I was giving people enough info to formulate a decent answer. Thanks in advance for the help.
I'm confused about the flushing and harvest times. Reading about everything I can on this forum and others, shows many strong opinions with actual techniques all over the place. Some say you need to feed, feeed, feed during bloom for large and flavorful buds while some say to stop feeding nutrients and let the plants die off during the weeks leading up to harvest. And those are just 2 of the many opinions out there.
I'm at day 124 of the grow from clones. My soil was a mix of composted soil and potting soil with my additions of organic blood and bone meal as well as an Natures Care organic blend plus Alaskan fish food. Started feeding again in August as the plants started showing stress from lack of nutrients. At the time, I had been using a drip watering system and feeding them each 2-3 gal/day at 5 am. I was told that was way too much water and to cut back to 2-3 gallons once or twice a week. The plants started wilting like crazy so I started a schedule of 4 gallons every couple of days. All plants seemed to like that, especially during our 90 degree plus days. Also feeding ProteK and Humic acid.
Mid August, blooms were developing so started adding more hi-phos bat and seafood guano. 1 tablespoon each with 4 gallons of water every 3 days. Now have some huge buds on all the girls. ph is staying in the 6.4 to 6.8 range. Tap water is at 7.0 with mixed nutes 6.5-7.0. Have been adding the dry fertilizer to water and then run an air pump with airstone in the bucket for 3 days prior to feeding. Then add molasis and fish fertilizer.
Seeing a few trichomes getting amber heads, but those are on the outer edges of the larger leaves, and not on the buds themselves. Some of the posts I'm reading indicate it's within a few weeks of harvest and should start to flush. But it doesn't make sense to me to shut off nutrients when the buds are still growing and filling out. My intention of a flush was to just use the normal amount of water and water at my current schedule. But now very uncertain as to when I should start the flush. Wait until there are more amber heads on trichomes and then flush? And then for how long?
Sorry for the long post. Wanted to make sure I was giving people enough info to formulate a decent answer. Thanks in advance for the help.
