what are some of your guys fav pre harvesting techniques? like watering with flavors or giving it 24 hour darkness?
nothing but a good ol flush with distilled water two weeks prior and I water ONCE with 1tbsp/gal unsulphered blackstrap molasses after the flush prior to harvest
Yea man flush is deff important. you find that the blackstrap molasses adds a lil sweetness to your smoke? Isnt there a product out to help rid your soil of the salts, you like add it to water when you flush, anyone know what its called?
Most hydro shops carry products to help flush your medium of salts and nutrients but honestly water works just fine. I would add molasses 1 tablespoon / gallon when you flush it, this will give the plant a little bit of sugar to break down during the curing / drying process to help with the flavor. In general when pot is not cured right or dried too fast your going to be smoking sugar / chlorophyll and everything else that was not broken down. and its not going to taste great. Curing is everything, no sense wasting all that time growing it to rush the curing process.
bontanicare's clearex is a the salt leaching solution you may be refering to. makes a huge difference
I use botanicare nutes, and given the somewhat organic nature of the PBP line of nutrients, the addition of clearex very cleary "leached" every bit of salt buildup in the 2 week flush i do. I also dump the clearex solution through the hydroton netpots and make sure it get to all the roots. Ive done both (RO water only/and Clearex w/RO water) and i think its worth the 15 bucks it costs for a bottle of the stuff. And depending on the size of the grow and other technicalities, the stuff lasts 5-6 full veg/flower cycles.
I think i've bought a similar product: Grotek Final Flush I've been pumping a shitload of nutes and additives into my plant the last 3 months, so am going to try this suff in a week when i start flushing. I've allways grown organic outdoor, tried one organic indoor (which had bugs in soil), and for my second grow have been doing DWC with full chemical Nutes/additives, hopefully this stuff cleans it out properly, the "100% organic based product" is what made me decide to try it.
i like to let my plants dry out the last couple of days, makes the plant easier to handle, and imo the buds dry faster and more evenly