First Documented, Third Grow

Lucky you. Its fairly humid (not uncomfortable for me) here. The ambient room humidity for me is like 50-60%. I have put a bunch of damp rid moister absorbers in the room and they help, some.

6 weeks in and you are getting some yellows Right on track. Jane been yellowing for awhile, and she is 7 weeks tomorrow. Yours sound nice and healthy bro!

 

Oh, sorry I wasn't clear. That is a deficiency and at this stage, its usually nitrogen. The plant is sapping fan leaves for nutrients. Your girl doesn't need much in the way of nitrogen right now, so she can start to burn her reserves (which is what you'll be doing after your flush). I've also seen this where a leaf isn't getting adequate light and the plant decides to drain it and cut it loose. This is a process that can take awhile. I've read that plants will do more than just drain leaves, but before they ditch them, they put "toxins" the plant wants to be rid of, into the leaf - pretty smart plant. I try to let the plant do its thing and remove dead foliage. If you have a couple turning yellow, no big deal.

If you start seeing large patches of canopy going that way, diff story I think. But at this stage, you are too close to harvest to really do anything except put on your seatbelt and ride this bitch out.

 

I've seen people do multiple flushes but Im not sure how much that does. What I try to do is a big flush (until the run off is clear or nearly clear) so that before harvest, the plant has time to take all that water/ evaporation and for the soil to become dry and cause the plant to go internal and begin burning all its reserves. Since the soil should be mainly stripped of nutrients, while it is drinking that fresh water, its also burning reserves.

The time it takes for your plants to dry the soil and nom nom on its internal nutes.... :/


sorry if thats more confusing

 

I would guess that the chop should be planned for closer to 7, maybe more depending how fast the soil dries. I like my plants to look pretty haggard when I chop em. I want to know that they've eaten most/ all their reserves.

I hate black ash.

 

From your last pictures, it looked like your plants were still very green with a few leaves starting to yellow. You'd be surprised how much she's got in there. This is cruel, but you gotta starve her. When you chop her, you want most, if not all your fans yellowing.

The way I do it, right or wrong:

Once I know when I am going to harvest, I will plan the flush. This flush counts as a watering (duh!) and after this final watering I like to leave enough time for the soil to dry (to the point where I would water if I were not harvesting) and then give it a few more days. On harvest day, that soil is dry, and I know she's been burning the candle internally for at least a couple days. Some people even put the plant in the total darkness for up to 3 days. I dont have the area for it, but what the idea is, you are trying to make the plant think that its about to die. Its final urges are to burn all the remaining nutes in order to build buds (plant is assuming it will get fertilized! lol poor bitch) and insure survival of the species. Its psychological warfare - with a plant.

 

FT, you're kinda confusing me here man. You do realize that you are going to kill the plant when you harvest it. There is no recovery. For the sake of argument: You could probably leave your plant alone for a couple weeks and get her back to healthy again (if you weren't at the end of flowering). These plants are tough. This shit is gonna look bleak when you are done. Here, lemme show ya what mine looked like. I wanted it to be more yellow than this. I had crazy yellowing at like week 4, gave her a bit of Nitrogen and I still ended up like this. All your plants leaves are full of nutes.


Here is Lola's final timeline

9/13/11: 100% strength Flower Mix
9/20/11: Water
9/24/11: Flush (~8 gallons of Ph'd water)
9/30/11: Harvest


I actually wish I could have waited longer between the flush and the harvest, but I couldn't. But I put 17 days between her last feeding and harvest and she still had some green left.

 

yeah I would probably go with your plan there. When letting her drink up all the water from the flush, just an extra couple days can make a big difference. Dont stress about it too much. You're gonna get some good bud. For me, patience is my biggest hurdle. I cannot simply make things happen; and it gets to me.

 

The plant is nearing the end of its life cycle. How is your bud density?

 

UPDATE.

THIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS.

 

You got lots of nice, pretty tops there. The end is the hardest time for me. Waiting those last few days is murder!