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re: Rex Pigeons Flies the Coop & Goes Perpetual in 2015
When you speak Weasel I listen, your blathering is always welcome, I'm not going to tell you again
You bring up some great questions so, I think it's only fair that I put down my phone and take this to the key board.
I love the size of my room, but at this very moment I am not capitalizing on the full space. As you can see there is a lot of room for some more girls. This was my primary motivation to plant 15 some seeds and get something on the go. I'm running HPS and Metal Halide in the grow room so, I'm thinking was these two girls are out of there I can briefly use it as a veg room.
I'm just not sure if that's going to set me back on my supply of medication. If I use the grow room for veg, that means I wont have anything harvesting for another 10 or so weeks and that's a bit of a problem. I require a lot of medication a day to keep me functioning and to have a lull in harvest could hurt. However, I often have to remind myself, that this is my first attempt at a perpetual grow and who's going to get it right the first time?
I do have a couple game plans that I've considered so, as usual, I'll take it day by day.
FLUSHING
Although, I have changed a few things from harvest to harvest, the process is generally the same thing.
I quit nutrients at week 8 according to Green Planets Ultimate Feed Guide. As usual, the girls aren't quite finished at this point. So, based on what I see, I will either water her or flush her. As I see now on the Bomb, I'm looking for more milky, few clear and the occasional amber trichomes. This tells me that she's ready to flush.
On a brief side note, I'm also looking for the pistils of the bud to stop reaching for the sky and start to curl. Many people say that you can't tell whether your herb is ready by the hairs. Maybe this is true if you're just using the hairs to tell. But if you're looking at both the trichomes and the hairs you should find a nice happy medium of curled hairs to milky/amber trichomes.
Now where was I? Yes, what do the trichomes look like after flush. After the flush, which doesn't always have a set date as to when I'm done. (I've flushed for 4 weeks while my girl finished up. Don't ask me how. But, typically anywhere between 2 maybe 3 weeks flush.)
The trichomes will now have very few clear, almost all milky with about 10% amber trichomes. When looking in my microscope I take a few peaks through it and count the trichomes and take a general reading from there.
For the first week of the flush I can probably do it twice. Say Monday and Thursday. Taking readings from the run off water with my PPM meter. I put through approximately 5-7 gallons of water every flush, based on a 5 gallon pot. The readings at first will be quite high, somewhere around 900-1200 PPM. That's good for the first day. On the Thursday I will do it again and the PPM should be somewhere at 300-600 PPM mark. I let her dry out real good before the next flush on the following week maybe towards the end of the 9th week.
The 10th/last week of flush will be done with RO water with a PPM of less than 20. Typically about 10 gallons. Taking readings and trying to get the runoff water less than 60 PPM.
After all flushing is complete I let her dry out completely before harvest. I hope that answers your question
When you speak Weasel I listen, your blathering is always welcome, I'm not going to tell you again
You bring up some great questions so, I think it's only fair that I put down my phone and take this to the key board.
I love the size of my room, but at this very moment I am not capitalizing on the full space. As you can see there is a lot of room for some more girls. This was my primary motivation to plant 15 some seeds and get something on the go. I'm running HPS and Metal Halide in the grow room so, I'm thinking was these two girls are out of there I can briefly use it as a veg room.
I'm just not sure if that's going to set me back on my supply of medication. If I use the grow room for veg, that means I wont have anything harvesting for another 10 or so weeks and that's a bit of a problem. I require a lot of medication a day to keep me functioning and to have a lull in harvest could hurt. However, I often have to remind myself, that this is my first attempt at a perpetual grow and who's going to get it right the first time?
I do have a couple game plans that I've considered so, as usual, I'll take it day by day.
FLUSHING
Although, I have changed a few things from harvest to harvest, the process is generally the same thing.
I quit nutrients at week 8 according to Green Planets Ultimate Feed Guide. As usual, the girls aren't quite finished at this point. So, based on what I see, I will either water her or flush her. As I see now on the Bomb, I'm looking for more milky, few clear and the occasional amber trichomes. This tells me that she's ready to flush.
On a brief side note, I'm also looking for the pistils of the bud to stop reaching for the sky and start to curl. Many people say that you can't tell whether your herb is ready by the hairs. Maybe this is true if you're just using the hairs to tell. But if you're looking at both the trichomes and the hairs you should find a nice happy medium of curled hairs to milky/amber trichomes.
Now where was I? Yes, what do the trichomes look like after flush. After the flush, which doesn't always have a set date as to when I'm done. (I've flushed for 4 weeks while my girl finished up. Don't ask me how. But, typically anywhere between 2 maybe 3 weeks flush.)
The trichomes will now have very few clear, almost all milky with about 10% amber trichomes. When looking in my microscope I take a few peaks through it and count the trichomes and take a general reading from there.
For the first week of the flush I can probably do it twice. Say Monday and Thursday. Taking readings from the run off water with my PPM meter. I put through approximately 5-7 gallons of water every flush, based on a 5 gallon pot. The readings at first will be quite high, somewhere around 900-1200 PPM. That's good for the first day. On the Thursday I will do it again and the PPM should be somewhere at 300-600 PPM mark. I let her dry out real good before the next flush on the following week maybe towards the end of the 9th week.
The 10th/last week of flush will be done with RO water with a PPM of less than 20. Typically about 10 gallons. Taking readings and trying to get the runoff water less than 60 PPM.
After all flushing is complete I let her dry out completely before harvest. I hope that answers your question
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