Late flush! Please help me

[Sleepy350]

Hi guys I’m wrapping up my first season growing and I overlooked keeping an eye on my trichomes. They are starting to turn amber and I just watered with nutrients (half strength floratrio, MOAB @ 1ml/gal) 3 days ago! I’m growing outdoor in the ground using roots organic formula 707 soil. Today to attempt to flush my media I flooded my plants with straight water and dug a small hole at the edge of the media to the base of the hole for the plant and pumped the runoff water out of the hole. I did this 4+ times for each plant but I was still getting relatively high TDS readings from the runoff - the lowest I got to on one of the plants was in the low 400 PPM range and a couple of plants have double that PPM reading. I want to try and flush but I also don’t want to allow the trichomes to over-mature. I’ve attached a picture of the trichomes on one of the buds and one of the small leaves near the buds - hopefully they are clear enough, that’s the best I could do with my iPhone and a jewelers lope.

What should I do? Should I stick it out and give the plant time to flush or should I call it and harvest already?

 

[One drop]

Hi you want to look at the trichomes on the buds itself not the sugar leaves it gives you a better idea of where your at .

 

[jamk911]

ya yer done.. flushing is not a must .. thankfully for you.. but this is your last week most likely.. theyll eventually just gain more amber and probably be abt 30% in a week.. i mean depending on how often you water.. you may be to flush.. i only water once a week tho .. so id be late

 

[jamk911]

Im actually going to start flushing next week myself lol.. im probably abt 2 weeks behind you

 

[Sleepy350]

So do you guys think I should try to push it more days? It’s pretty warm out still in Northern California and I took all the mulch off the top of the soil to help dry out faster to help facilitate flushing. Or should I just use my day off tomorrow to chop them down already?

I really appreciate the help.

-Sleepy