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Since you are - and have been flushing your soil, you should not expect much more growth. Due to the fact that you have caused a deficiency by removing the essential nutrients (the food if you will).

Clear trichomes contain pre-cursor cannabinoids which are not psychoactive (you cannot get high off of smoking/eating them). Amber trichomes contain degraded THC --> CBN. There is a loss of about 90% potency (psychoactivity if you will) from cloudy trichomes to amber. Clear and amber trichomes...

Who said two days of darkness? The thing about darkness before harvesting is the same discussion as pre-harvest flushing. Those who speak for doing so, have no scientific evidence or research proving it works. People claim all sorts of miracles will happen, like the plant pushing out more...

The final stage in a trichomes development is turning amber. Therefore you cannot just wait for every trichome to stop developing. Since you will end up with a majority of amber trichomes and a product which is much less potent than what it potentially could have been. You won't have to check...

Sounds like you have a proper setup. You should be fine with a 6-7 dry but the longer you can string it out the better. Go with whatever the buds are telling you, if they start to get too dry, jar them up for a bit and dry them again for a day or so. Or you can just start curing straight away...

I would leave them the way they are. Some people prefer to dry the entire plant, to allow for a longer and slower drying time. But a lot of people do it 'your' way. You just have to make sure that you can get at least 6-7 days drying time without the buds getting dried out. I assume you want to...

Seems like America has so much money and so little debt it can afford to throw away billions worth of taxable plants.. And how much did these operations cost the taxpayers of your 'free' country?

No need for insults.

Very much appreciated :weed: And on the note of strains which never amber, I have experienced that just once, and I think it might have been down to genes acting up or disease/mutation, but who knows really. I have also experienced pistils not turning any other colour than white, yet still...

Did you read the entire first post? It clearly states that there are other factors important when determining 'peak harvest'. Such as; Calyx development, pistils and the general look of the plant. You aren't seriously asking why a 31 day plant is not ready to be harvested based on the info...

If you search my nick (or just go to my profile and read through my posts) you can find threads on flushing where I have posted links to all the studies I quote and all the books. I even posted 2 links in the sticky thread on the subject of trichomes, those two links relate to the discussion of...

Well done, you pick up the information very quickly :weed: Ellewoods post has perfect answers to your questions East Coast.

But you must've had low resolution settings on the camera? I can see that you uploaded the images in ~219 x ~295 which is quite low resolution. I'd suggest you set a resolution of at least 1MP (1280 x 960) or if possible 2 or 3MP (it'll improve zoom quality a lot and make the image a lot...

Ello, The images are not high enough resolution to get a good look really but of what I did see were some clear and some cloudy trichomes. It's hard to give you a proper judgement, if you could get a microscope you would have a much better sense of the trichomes appearance. My guess would be...

Scientific research is carried out with stringent rules and regulations. I'm not saying all research is to be trusted fully but if it's done properly it's certainly ascertained as fact in the scientific community. I have not linked to pseudo-scientific research. Organic growers still use...

Sugars which are produced as a result of photosynthesis are stored in the roots as starch. This process doesn't have anything to do with dark hours. These sugars don't 'migrate back to the buds'. They are used when needed. Where did you read the information? Link?

What? I'm not quite sure what your point is or how you came to the conclusion. Please provide the scientific information you have on how nutrients are stored in the calyxes. I have linked to a scientific study (conducted by educated scientists) on nutrient storage in plants, in a different...

Nutrients are not stored in the calyxes (buds). Nutrients are used up very quickly when they are transported around the plant, especially in the calyxes. Nutrients are 'stored' in the roots, stem(s) and the leaves. It takes a lot of overfeeding (the plant would be visibly damaged and probably...

^ This. It is that simple.

How about not pre-harvest flushing? Flushing (not pre-harvest flushing) is only useful when you have a salt build up, unbalanced solution or another error in your grow. Pre-harvest flushing is very basically the same as taking away the food from the plant, letting it get a deficiency in the...