1st Time Grow White Widow & Seedmakers Autoblue

from what i can tell its best to flush around 14 days before harvest, if your growing in soil then it says to flush with 3 times as much water as the size of the pot, so a 3gallon pot would need 9 gallons of water, this seems a lot, but i have also been told that you dont need to flush with a soil grow, so instead of flushing you just stop giving nutes for the last 14 days of growth, this will then make the plant use up everything in the soil and will get it ready for harvest,

so taking both these ideas into practice i plan on doing a small flush so the run off runs clean, then just leave it at that, its mainly with hydro that the flush is important, it just depends on the nutes in the soil, so ill do a small flush, my plants are in 3 gallon pots, so ill place them in the sink and fill a few jugs and keep watering till ive got plenty of run off, then ill leave it at least 14 days before harvest, doing this should flush out the most of the nutes but still leave a small amount in the soil for the plant to use up before harvest.

when i harvested my last lot of plants none of the leaves turned yellow so this points to the fact that the soil had to much nutes in, so this time ill give them a flush and leave them 14 days before harvest or until i can actually see the leaves turning yellow due to lack of N in teh soil
 
Im not too sure on how big of a container my plants are they were just dollar store garbage pales . They look small compared to the 5 galon plant i have growing so im thinking maybe 2 galon container? Maybe a little over a galon. But i just poured a full galon of water on my auto blue because i am prob going to harvest it soon. I actually broke off 2 bottom side branchs and i plucked them and hung them in a little cardboard box in a darkish area. When i cut the branchs off i was thinking will it scare the plant and die? Should i be worried?
 
soysawce said:
Im not too sure on how big of a container my plants are they were just dollar store garbage pales . They look small compared to the 5 galon plant i have growing so im thinking maybe 2 galon container? Maybe a little over a galon. But i just poured a full galon of water on my auto blue because i am prob going to harvest it soon. I actually broke off 2 bottom side branchs and i plucked them and hung them in a little cardboard box in a darkish area. When i cut the branchs off i was thinking will it scare the plant and die? Should i be worried?
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I'm coming up on my first harvest so I'm not sure. That said I have looked in on other grows where folks have done this. I think you'll be OK. Surely it shouldn't kill the plant. Where are your Trich colors at?
 
soysawce said:
trich is the white on the leafs? i dont have a microscope or anything yet i couldnt find one
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Yep. They will tell you when to harvest based on your preference. search trich and you will find tons of info. Get the scope soon. It will help. Very cheap.
 
i got a small pocket size scope off the auction site for 99p, its small and fits in a matchbox so its not the best size, but it has lights on it so i can see what im doing,
 
if their clear they look like clear ice or water, if their cloudy they will have a milky look to them, and if their turning amber than you should notice that the trichs start wilting, the mushroom part at the top wont be standing up right it will be bent over to the one side, the plant is actually ready when the trichs are 100% cloudy, but letting them go amber is letting the trichs go to far, so the best point to harvest based on when the plant is ready is when the trichs are all cloudy, but i like to go around 10% amber just to make sure the whole of the plant is past the 100% cloudy mark
 
DonPaul gave some great advice. I'm shaky as hell too with my scope!! Practice man! I found that I needed to pull the plant in question out into the open. Then check. It takes some getting used too. My issue is everything is reversed when I move the scope around! I have to navigate my hand differently!
 
Well i'm not an expert but get a few opinions. There are different theories as to when. What % would say are amber? IMHO check the main cola to make the guess.
 
I had a hard time differentiating between clear and milky until I caught 2 trichs right next to each other that were clear and milky. It's weird, especially with how sensitive the focus is with any movement. I say pull your girl out and set her on the kitchen table and have a good look all over lol. That's what I did with Diva today. I was surprised to see very few ambers here and there, but I still have a lot of clear ones. I think donpaul's theory of 10% ambers means almost 100% milky is very practical and makes a lot of sense.
Mine is definitely still at 1% at best. I only saw very few over the whole plant. I think I got about 2 weeks left tops. Maybe a few days earlier :high-five:. Good luck man, take your time while looking at the trichs. I just sat there and looked all over just to get familiar with my cheap scope and what's clear or milky.
 
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