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Seems like I did almost exact same thing you did. I am in 3 gallon pots myself. And have done about 4 gallons in past 2 weeks.
I read this wrong didnt realize u were flushing how did it taste?
Yea, i haven't smoked any of the product yet so I'll let you know I'm 2 weeks if the ash is grey. If it is then we did good enough or maybe even perfectly
I think im going to water 1 last time. With 2 gallons. 1 gallon makes it run off pretty good so I'm sure 2 gallons will be good. Then I'll wait to dry out and will harvest either Saturday or Sunday.
Yea if you do the 2 gallons and wait until it dries, I'm sure all the nutes would have been utilized and thrown out by then.
Yea I really wanted to go for it but I want to be sure. I can wait another 3 to 4 days.
So are you drying at the moment?
Also I forgot to mention, don't wait too long if your plant is for THC. If your growing a CBD strain it's okay to wait extra time, but THC degrades the longer you wait, if you have at least 30% amber trichs than your better off pulling it now instead of waiting for the flush, otherwise your losing a lot of potential THC
I went back through my pages and last feeding was 8/9.
So been 12 days and within that time I have watered them 4 times. So 4 gallons. Is that enough??
I kind of want to water them 1 more time but with about 2 gallons of water. Just to be sure that I get the nutrients out. What do you guys think or is the 4 gallons in the past 12 days enough?
This is very interesting. I'm here talking with my gf and she was confused. Lol she said to try it.
How do you wash the buds. I'm scared of doing that. Lol it doesn't do anything to it?
The weed man wat else lol
Did you ever pick up a ppm meter? If you want to take some of the guesswork out of it, look at ppm going in and then test the run off. If they are close to the same ppm going in and coming out, it's safe to say you don't have build-up... nutes depleted.
The idea behind flushing is to flush out residual nutes from soil so the plant begins pulling energy from its leaves and transporting it to the buds. This ensures that the nutes in plant are fully metabolized by harvest time. So basically you clean the soil and the plant cleans itself. When don't properly, most of the leaves will be dead or dying by harvest.
That's my take on it anyway. A couple of my plants were still green at harvest and I didn't do a full fledged flush. I had stopped using my meter because I didn't see the point after I had started to back off on nutes. That was dumb. Tracking everything is the best way to compare results and improve methods. Anyway, I'm going to do the standard 3x soil volume flush this time and see if it makes the bud smoke smoother, and most important to me, have as little residuals in the medicine I make as possible.
The reason I looked at washing is because I had some white powdery mildew. But as I read up on it I saw that many are washing just to get the hair and dust off it. These sticky buds catch everything the air movement blows around!
I explained my wash in post #52 in my journal. This was my first wash. Subsequent washes I lowered the first bucket temp by five degrees and increased the temp of the final rinse by 5 degrees. On the first wash I found some trichomes in my wash buckets. Too cold and they get brittle and fall off. Too hot and they melt off. You can just use room temp water. All they need is gentle agitation and a few up and down dunks... about 30 second in each bucket. I was a bit aggressive because of the mildew and so lost some trichs.
Aside from cleaning the junk off the buds, the Hydrogen Peroxide sterilizes them. It really gave me some confidence in the dry as I believed because of the H202 and lemon juice, the chances of mold are significantly reduced.
I did get one. I don't know why I did not think of doing that. Im still going back and forth on wether i should harvest or water 1 last time.
My plants are like yellow. Well the leaves are almost all dead. A few green one on the lower buds. But not many. And there light green turning yellow. I'm sure my pictures look very yellow. Lol
I will go through and see how you did it when I get home.
I'll be too afraid that I'll take off alot of tricomes
Do you have amber trichomes on the buds? My current run is at 40 days and already I have some amber on sugar leaves, but it on the buds that one needs to go by. Any time after most trichs on buds are cloudy is a good time to harvest. More heady effect with just cloudy... more body effect as they turn amber.
If you only have a few amber trichs on buds themselves, I think I would run 5-6 gallons of water thru them, let them dry out fully... maybe a week, and then harvest.