Advice on flushing

Emilya said:
again sorry, but your math is a little off. The total surface area of the side of your container 20" tall with an 18" base is 1,130 sq inches. The area of the base is 254 square inches. That means the bottom is only 22% of the total area and 78% of your air pruning happens on the sides.
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Doh, like I said, was too tinctured up.
I was using "radius" as 18" on the calculator instead of 9" radius to get my 18" "Diameter"
So 22% instead of 30%, still pretty substantial.

But all else holds true.
Still much better off with airspace under fabric pots for numerous reasons.
 
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@Emilya @Chris Scorpio @Nunyabiz @gr865

6th week of flowering , i just realized this !! What is this? It looked like it's drying up, when i touched it just disintegrate
( The leaf that looks black and dry )

I just fed it and it felt super light, had to feed half a gallon to see a runoff. Only two leaves having this symptoms
 
jaynewbie said:
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@Emilya @Chris Scorpio @Nunyabiz @gr865

6th week of flowering , i just realized this !! What is this? It looked like it's drying up, when i touched it just disintegrate
( The leaf that looks black and dry )

I just fed it and it felt super light, had to feed half a gallon to see a runoff. Only two leaves having this symptoms
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Sometimes if your soil gets too dry the salts condense and can cause a bit more nutrient burn.
I'd water really well with some molasses in the water.
But at this point in the grow this is not unusual because the plant is dying, it's going through senescence.
There will be more dead and dying leaves soon.
 
Nunyabiz said:
Sometimes if your soil gets too dry the salts condense and can cause a bit more nutrient burn.
I'd water really well with some molasses in the water.
But at this point in the grow this is not unusual because the plant is dying, it's going through senescence.
There will be more dead and dying leaves soon.
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Emilya said:
This looks like a phosphorus deficiency to me... the plant is not dying yet and it is not a burn from the soil getting too dry?? lol, where did that come from Nun?
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I've got two possibilities, one it is closer to the light as my plant is around 30cm distance from the light, that's the maximum height i can reach for a 3x3 tent. Maybe tomorrow i'll flush the plants out try to adjust runoff to 6.3 pH and then refeed it.

Only two leaves out of like +/- 40 leaves has this symptoms at the edge. The rest just simple nutes burn at the tip.

Edit : Actually last week when i did a runoff with a 6.2 pH nutes mix , i realize the runoff was around 6.7 pH and i rebalance it again with pH RO water of 6.2 and re-calibrate it back.. but now it seems i need to do it again.

TQ Guys <3
 
@Nunyabiz @Emilya

I did a flush , runoff came to 6.02 pH then i manage to recalibrate it back to 6.3 pH.. The happiest new years news for me is that i found 1-2 amber trichomes on the calyxes on different cola. I'm aiming for full cloudy and i think i'm prepared to harvest it already. The sad part was i just fed the baby :(

Should i wait the coco to dry out then chop it??? Apart from chopping i heard you'll need to provide full darkness 24H before harvest ?? is that true?

Since i have 3 other babies in the tent in 5th week of flowering, will that affect if i provide 24 total darkness ?

I'm so excited , happy new year guys !!!
 
lol, well Nunyabiz and I disagree on at least half of the things out there, so this should be interesting. Full cloudy often corresponds with the first ambers showing up down low on the plant, and certainly would be the very earliest that I would pull. I would wait for a couple of things to coincide... no new white pistils at the top, and about 2% amber in the upper calyxes.
You don't "need" to provide darkness before the chop, and its more like 36-48 hours that does the magic, but darkness before the chop does help the trichomes to fatten up a bit without taking damage from the lights. It does help, but certainly not necessary to do so. Since you have other plants in the tent that would be confused by so much darkness, forget that idea... just chop them when it is time.

If you want a long slow dry, which is the most desireable, don't dry your plants out prior to the chop... I water mine prior to setting them in the darkness.
 
Emilya said:
lol, well Nunyabiz and I disagree on at least half of the things out there, so this should be interesting. Full cloudy often corresponds with the first ambers showing up down low on the plant, and certainly would be the very earliest that I would pull. I would wait for a couple of things to coincide... no new white pistils at the top, and about 2% amber in the upper calyxes.
You don't "need" to provide darkness before the chop, and its more like 36-48 hours that does the magic, but darkness before the chop does help the trichomes to fatten up a bit without taking damage from the lights. It does help, but certainly not necessary to do so. Since you have other plants in the tent that would be confused by so much darkness, forget that idea... just chop them when it is time.

If you want a long slow dry, which is the most desireable, don't dry your plants out prior to the chop... I water mine prior to setting them in the darkness.
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Currently there's no new pistil, mostly are orange in the top cola, only 5% pistil are a lil white crossing to brown . Since i fed it today , should i just chop it down tomorrow ?? or feed it first then chop it directly? Or feed it wait awhile then chop it?

It's my first harvest btw <3
 
Emilya said:
give us a good picture of it, just for the drool value if nothing else. :) If your intent is to chop, probably no need for feed on that last watering... just give it a good watering and then wait 12-24 hours for the plant to absorb all it can.... then chop.
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Here you go ~

looks so yummy <3
 
Emilya said:
There really aren't any rules... the factors in play are, more light allows for more development of the buds and movement of resin to the trichomes, and more light causes the start of the breakdown process of any trichomes that have achieved ripeness. It is your choice where in this interplay of forces that you decide to pull.
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Should i dry trim it or wet trim it ?
I build a DIY tote drying box, i let it run for few days without anything in it and i can achieve 23degree and 56 RH humid. Dry trim should be okay right?
 
Emilya said:
Trimming is mostly for looks... if the pot is for you, then it really doesn't matter if the bud is neatly manicured... but if that is important, then wet trim for the best looks. I tend to let the sun leaves stay intact so that while drying they curl up around the bud to help hold some moisture in, going for a long slow dry for the best cure.
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Oh , i didn't knew it's mostly for look, i checked some article and forum online it says dry has best quality. Damn, i didn't knew. Sun leaves are fan leaves right? So will you also trim away the sugar leaves during drying or keep it intact?
 
Emilya said:
@Nunyabiz @Emilya

I did a flush , runoff came to 6.02 pH then i manage to recalibrate it back to 6.3 pH.. The happiest new years news for me is that i found 1-2 amber trichomes on the calyxes on different cola. I'm aiming for full cloudy and i think i'm prepared to harvest it already. The sad part was i just fed the baby :(

Should i wait the coco to dry out then chop it??? Apart from chopping i heard you'll need to provide full darkness 24H before harvest ?? is that true?

Since i have 3 other babies in the tent in 5th week of flowering, will that affect if i provide 24 total darkness ?

I'm so excited , happy new year guys !!!
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First, if you're using coco then it should never be allowed to dry out at all, should stay moist at all times, water daily and use 1/4 strength nutrients.
In coco your pH should be closer to 5.9.
And if you're in week 6 of flower then unless you're growing a 12 to 13 week sativa you should start seeing a few yellow leaves.
That one leaf does look a bit burned, but hard to say from a picture.
Basically you probably got about 2 weeks left so I wouldn't fret too much, just water with light nutrients and a little molasses or Yucca extract for the next 2 weeks or so and you should be fine.
 
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