What’s up DGC. Today marks day 80 from popping above ground out of seed coating (cotyledons)showing. I started a GG#4 Auto from expert seeds in coco /perlite mix’ placed in 2 gal fabric pot under 300w Amazon LED in 2x2x4 vivosun grow tent.
I started flushing 5 days ago and by flushing I was watering 2 liters of pH 5.8-6.0 twice a day. First 3 days i used flawless finish by Advanced nutrients and at this point day 6 I am noticing the amber trichomes have slowed production.. 5 days ago I noticed more on the leaves and about 5-10% of bud coverage. So I started flushing to get the synthetics i used out. Below are some pictures of her today and thinking she actually could use another 10 days or so. Should I keep watering just plain pH balanced water until harvest or since I’m in coco and can flush quickly, should I throw some Overdrive (advanced nutrients late bloom bud ignitor) for 5 days or whats do you guys think from the images. Thanks.
You want to use overdrive the week before you start flushing. Usually coco flush will be a week to ten days.
Flushing means running 2-3x the volume of your pot, so a 2 gal pot should get 4-6 gallons slowly in one watering. Then just plain regular watering after that. Only look at trichomes on the buds/calyx, top middle and bottom of plant. Lots of green she has plenty to use up of her own.
Hey thanks for reply. Wow though a flush needs that much water in one watering. I have the run off around 600ppm. I took another look under my digital microscope at the trichomes this morning and the buds are mainly cloudy and some amber. Very few. Once going to lower nodes I noticed the trichomes are all cloudy and some clear without any amber.
Should I keep adding just plain water until they are done(could be another week or so) or throw some overdrive in for a week then flush after. Just not sure if im gonna fuck anything up by flushing for 5 days and now adding nutes to just flush again. I want to make sure the flowers will have time to absorb the nutes and fatten the buds up without over ripening.
I forgot to mention but sounds like your already on it with testing runoff ppm. Getting it as close to 0ppm as you can. I know your dying to use the overdrive. You could give them a dose then a real flush about 5-7 days later. Just plain water inbetween and after.
I grow in Coco/perlite mix. I water/feed until I get 10-20% run off, EVERY watering. During flush, I do the same thing, plain pH water until about 10-20% run off. I don’t test run off unless I have a problem and I have never had a problem bad enough to test run off growing in coco. I grow in 5 gal Radical bags and for a mature plant under 600watt HPS, I use 1.5 to 2 gallons water per plant.
Your girl looks fat as hell, proper leaf tip burn from pushing her! If she were mine, I would continue to flush and try overdrive on next girl.
Thanks. I have critical blue autoflower in germ stage still in a 3gal radicle bag with coco/perlite mix. shes only day 3, and you can just start seeing her true leaves coming out. First time in a radicle bag and i think i will be watering alot more using that rather than the fabric pot im using now. I’m going to continue watering with PH balanced water and will hopefully see some ambers in the next few days. I want to get those flowers harvested and dried, but don’t want to get her down to early.
I heard the question on tge podcast tgis morning and if understood correctly am I waiting for the leaves to fade or yellow out and more amber trichomes or will these happen simutanesly while flushing. Ive moved to once a day now. They have slowed down absorption. Gettimg anxious is all and dont wanna fuck up the high and taste by cutting to early
This was featured on EP 910. Thanks for the post!