10th week flower: Help

[Gnomex26]

So i have 1 plant i flowered early, now its thick but hasnt done ANYTHING this last week. 10th week flower. I will include pics. I have started flushing it a week ago and not sure if i should nute it again. There was a small period of cold temps 55f for 4 days not sure if thats issue?

 

[Gnomex26]

I cant see if trichomes are amber, they are too small, even with jewelry scope. But i dont want them to lose trichomes. Should i harvest??

 

[DaddyKush]

What strain?

 

[Eugor]

Im pretty new but 55f for 4 days sounds quite dangerous no? those colas look great to me though.

 

[Gnomex26]

Thanks, have no idea the strain, no smell, well maybe a sweet smell when i touch the colas, but no skunky smell. Ill just keep waiting... week 10.

 

[Emilya Green]

see how a lot of your pistils have curled back and changed color? Also note that you still have some new white pistils at the top? These mean that the plant is still flowering... still looking for a bee to land on it and fertilize that bud... still holding onto a small window that would allow it to develop seeds before the eventual death of the plant at the end of the growing season.
Bottom line is that as long as you keep seeing new white pistils at the top, you probably are not quite done yet... even at week 10. I am curious though, is this week 10 from popping out of the soil, or week 10 of actual flowering?
I think you are getting close, but still not finished.

 

[Gnomex26]

Week 10 of flower i actually started flowering May 10th. Thank you for the great advice. I read Sativas can flower a little longer. Thank you.

 

[Emilya Green]

Week 10 of flower i actually started flowering May 10th. Thank you for the great advice. I read Sativas can flower a little longer. Thank you.

yes indeed... some sativas can go 14-18 weeks! You are almost there! Kudos for being so patient!

Now lets talk flushing...
Watering with plain water is not flushing... it is starving the plant attempting to get all of the nutrients in it to be used up so that supposedly you will not taste them in the final product. Flushing is actually the act of moving 3x the container size in water, through the soil... flushing the salts and debris from the previous weeks of nutes out of the soil. Flushing has to do with cleansing the soil, not the plants. Giving plain water is simply starving your plants at the end, when they need nutrients the most... it is not flushing. The term flushing has been corrupted in the last couple of years to just mean giving water only for a week or more at the end, flushing the plants, not the soil, and this practice is NOT the best way to grow pot. It may be fine for lazy people who don't want to flush properly, but again, it is NOT the best way to grow pot.
A proper flush of the soil at the point approximately 2 weeks before the end, is extremely helpful and will help you achieve the best and biggest buds possible. Built up salt in the soil will restrict water and nute uptake and it is actually possible to give so many nutes prior to this point and build up so much salt and debris in the soil that you can achieve what is known as a salt lockout. Even prior to this disaster, any salt built up in the soil will cause a percentage of uptake restriction, and it is to your advantage to flush this salt out of the soil, just prior to the 2 weeks before the end, a period I call bud-swell, where the buds can actually double or more in size and weight.
Flush properly at this point and assure full uptake all the way through bud-swell, and give full nutes, even finishing nutes such as Terpinator, right up till the end. This assures the biggest and baddest nugs possible, and now that we know better, we know that all the taste of these nutes will be eliminated with a proper drying a cure process after harvest. There is no need to "flush" the plants, but there is a great need to flush the soil.

 

[TheStonyRoller]

yes indeed... some sativas can go 14-18 weeks! You are almost there! Kudos for being so patient!

Now lets talk flushing...
Watering with plain water is not flushing... it is starving the plant attempting to get all of the nutrients in it to be used up so that supposedly you will not taste them in the final product. Flushing is actually the act of moving 3x the container size in water, through the soil... flushing the salts and debris from the previous weeks of nutes out of the soil. Flushing has to do with cleansing the soil, not the plants. Giving plain water is simply starving your plants at the end, when they need nutrients the most... it is not flushing. The term flushing has been corrupted in the last couple of years to just mean giving water only for a week or more at the end, flushing the plants, not the soil, and this practice is NOT the best way to grow pot. It may be fine for lazy people who don't want to flush properly, but again, it is NOT the best way to grow pot.
A proper flush of the soil at the point approximately 2 weeks before the end, is extremely helpful and will help you achieve the best and biggest buds possible. Built up salt in the soil will restrict water and nute uptake and it is actually possible to give so many nutes prior to this point and build up so much salt and debris in the soil that you can achieve what is known as a salt lockout. Even prior to this disaster, any salt built up in the soil will cause a percentage of uptake restriction, and it is to your advantage to flush this salt out of the soil, just prior to the 2 weeks before the end, a period I call bud-swell, where the buds can actually double or more in size and weight.
Flush properly at this point and assure full uptake all the way through bud-swell, and give full nutes, even finishing nutes such as Terpinator, right up till the end. This assures the biggest and baddest nugs possible, and now that we know better, we know that all the taste of these nutes will be eliminated with a proper drying a cure process after harvest. There is no need to "flush" the plants, but there is a great need to flush the soil.

Thanks for the clarification!!

 

[Gnomex26]

Thank you

 

[Gnomex26]

One more quick question emilya first day of flush on this plant i flushed with 5 gal water. Should i do this everyday for a week or when it dries up about every 2-3 days for 1 to 2 weeks? First flush the run off went from like 1300ppm to about 200ppm.

 

[Emilya Green]

what is this first day of flush stuff? You either flush 3x the container size, or you are watering... watering with water only is NOT flushing... it is starving your plant. So 5 gallons of water... is that 3x the container size? If not, it was only a partial flush and didn't wash out the salts and debris from the soil as a flush is intended to do. Next time your plants need water, try doing a proper flush. From then on, go back to nutes/water/nutes/water right up to the end. Lastly, if you are in soil, runoff is absolutely worthless to measure anything about... its ppm means nothing... its pH means nothing. When you run a proper flush through the soil, of course the ppms of the flush runoff approach zero, but that number you gave simply tells me you didn't yet get it all.

 

[Gnomex26]

Thank you. I have watched many video's on flushing and how much water etc. and everything you say i am taking to heart, however do i flush thoroughly once at beginning then water or can i flush once and keep flushing thouroughly ever couple of days or every day?

 

[NolaGrow]

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what is this first day of flush stuff? You either flush 3x the container size, or you are watering... watering with water only is NOT flushing... it is starving your plant. So 5 gallons of water... is that 3x the container size? If not, it was only a partial flush and didn't wash out the salts and debris from the soil as a flush is intended to do. Next time your plants need water, try doing a proper flush. From then on, go back to nutes/water/nutes/water right up to the end. Lastly, if you are in soil, runoff is absolutely worthless to measure anything about... its ppm means nothing... its pH means nothing. When you run a proper flush through the soil, of course the ppms of the flush runoff approach zero, but that number you gave simply tells me you didn't yet get it all.

So if I'm using 3gal pots 9 gals of water poured threw the soil is considered a flush?

 

[Gnomex26]

I guess im asking is a FLUSH a FLUSH? Do i flush the hell out of it on day 1, then continue to water or nute or plain water till the end? No video is specific

 

[Gnomex26]

Soo sorry if im so ignorant, but next time your on youtube check it out, people say water plain for 2 weeks.... I got that point, just water with ph 6.5 for 2 weeks... then i read blast your plant double its capacity of h2o... for how long? Mixed messages, i am sooo sorry veterans of the grow, but sooooo many have such mixed answers. Do i double water ans drain everyday? Do i drain nutes on day one and water plain for 2 weeks? Or do i just Flood water drain all salts and let it go the week till i cut it down?

 

[Emilya Green]

Thank you. I have watched many video's on flushing and how much water etc. and everything you say i am taking to heart, however do i flush thoroughly once at beginning then water or can i flush once and keep flushing thouroughly ever couple of days or every day?

I am not understanding your question, and I believe it is because you still do not understand the term "flush." Flushing is moving 3x the container size in water, through the soil. A 3 gallon container of soil requires 9 gallons of water to do a proper flush. The only purpose of the flush is to wash the left over salts out of your soil. Once it is gone, you do not need to flush again until the salts build back up. It would never be appropriate to flush over and over again every few days, so this is where I am confused... are you interchanging the words Flush and Water, as in watering the plants? Most of the time in soil you would give nutes one time, and then water the next time, alternating that pattern all throughout the grow. If it comes time to do a flush, then you do that flush on one of the plain water days, cleaning the soil and watering at the same time.

 

[TysonOG]

Exactly! I've noticed an increase in bud swell when continuing to apply nutes until the end. Proper management of dosing throughout the grow can alleviate the need for a flush but sometimes it's necessary to reset the growing medium, especially around important times like the last 2 weeks.

 

[Emilya Green]

Soo sorry if im so ignorant, but next time your on youtube check it out, people say water plain for 2 weeks.... I got that point, just water with ph 6.5 for 2 weeks... then i read blast your plant double its capacity of h2o... for how long? Mixed messages, i am sooo sorry veterans of the grow, but sooooo many have such mixed answers. Do i double water ans drain everyday? Do i drain nutes on day one and water plain for 2 weeks? Or do i just Flood water drain all salts and let it go the week till i cut it down?

There are a lot of people out there making youtube videos who have no idea what they are talking about. They make it sound good, but the old idea of giving plain water at the end for 2 weeks has been debunked. It is passe... It is old discredited science.
There is never going to be a day when my expert advice is not countered with 10 youtube videos made by people with lots less experience than i have. On the other hand, I have never made a video, so the video online world is definitely in a deficit situation when it comes to what I know and teach in my writings.
Yes, unfortunately there are mixed answers out there. Since you can not follow all of the advice, your task is to find someone's to follow who seems to have a logical way of explaining things, and who probably has a huge following on a forum somewhere. If that person really knows their stuff, they would have tons of grow journals and tutorials trying to share their knowledge. They would have writings online that were shared by users all over the globe and they could have articles that were read 70,000 times, or so. A truly knowledgeable person would probably have lots and lots of followers, and would be writing many messages per day about their craft. A person such as this may have even been voted by their peers at some point to be a member of the month on one of the forums somewhere. Find that person. Follow that person's advice... even if they don't have a flashy youtube presence.

 

[ChefDGreen]

Your plants look green and Healthy, without problems. Do not change anything. Go on doing the same thing you’re doing until you harvest. If you see problems, then ask if you’re not sure.