Well in the garden today i have some leaves with necrosis and curling, nothing major a few tips are a bit brown and not all leaves are curling. Having researched and looked at my own situation (plants have been on same concentration of nutes for weeks now with no previous damage) I am thinking nute lockout by salt buildup. I flushed them today nothing but fresh water. I will do 50% nutes next feed, then 75% then back to 100%.
Im nuting all the way to harvest...Im not a full believer that flushing at the end does anything good...logically as far as im concerned there are nutrients in the plant no matter what i do...The roots take up nutrients sure, and it SOUNDS good flushing them out seems to make sense...but the curing process is there to remove unwanted chemicals...This is my first grow, i know for a fact the stuff i smoke when i buy it isnt flushed nor cured...I look forward to curing my stuff properly...i may do a plant next grow that i will flush, compare the difference...
anyways, more pics when you ask, or i feel its time
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my estimate for harvest of missy is within weeks now, we have milky trichs as you can see in the pics..but im in absolutely no rush at all...got plenty to smoke for weeks yet, I am determined not to cut early.
When i see the first sign of amber trichs im going to keep very close eye on things, 10 - 25% amber and shes coming down.
I have a theory regarding trichs and color change. Look at the pistils..start out clear go milky then go brown. If you foliar feed your plants with the lights on they go brown faster (burning).
Trichs start out clear and fat..they have high water content.
The water evaporates making them cloudy or milky.
They begin to oxidise, causing them to brown ( i dont know if its an actual color change, or just a change in the color we see...but i do believe this is the BEST way to judge harvest.)
By waiting for 25% to be amber we are allowing a quarter of the trichs to over ripen. This gives immature trichs time to mature, and the plant has a last chance to swell...If we cut when all were milky we would theoretically have "firmer" fruit, possibly better..but with the chance of immature fruit getting through too...
(immature trichs dont do much, over ripe ones make you feel couch lock...id rather MORE properly mature trichs plus some couch lock ones than a whole heap of do nothing trichs and the rest are normal...get a higher thc - plant matter percentage from allowing some to over ripen)
ITs like when you buy a bunch of banannas... so you get the whole bunch yellow to eat now, or a few yellow then some greens that will ripen over time to be eaten? (in australia banannas are cheap and common, substitute for any fruit that can be ripened off the plant and you will see what i mean.
I know some of you reading this are clenching your fists saying "dude, stick with th plan..people have been doing this for longer than you have been alive - dont change anything) - well im not am i...im harvesting at 25% amber like advised...im just airing my theory and giving my peronal reasons for the no flush and the 25% amber harvest.
The fact of the matter is, when we invent something we hate for it to be changed...we hate on people trying new things and we ridicule them for not conforming...until they ake a discovery of a new better way to do things...then we love them and worship them..
End of the day i LOVE hearing peoples ideas and opinions, and im not talking about drowing a seed in nutes to help it grow, thats ridiculous...but what i mean is, its not a potion we are brewing here ,theres no magic involved...we are growing a fruit beaing plant...other people have studied and come up with perfect balances of nutrients for our fruits, yet other people again have come up with sucessful harvest methods, others still grow methods (sog, scrog lst, aero, hydro, organic, synthetic....if theres a variant its probably been done)...do you think the first guy that cut the top off his plant was applauded? or do you think people told hm he was a dickhead and cutting the plant wont do anything but stunt it? look at us now, everyones topping...MJ Culivation is an ever changing process right now, and WE are still pioneers. Theres no industry for mj like there is automobiles, the people growing it dont have combine harvesters and stuff, we still grow on plantations basically, like the settlers.
Ideas YOU come up with might be read by people in 100 years and those people will go shit we still do that, or haha they stopped feeding their plants weeks before harvest!!! they were so dumb... (hey remember, we used to drill holes in peoples heads with NO anaesthesia wigth sharp rocks to let the evil spirits out and we thought that was real medicine!)
I guess i been realising lately how "young" humans are...we think we are on the cutting edge of science...we are still in diapers...we think we have all the best grow methods and all the best techniques already, i guarantee we dont...LED is only the beginning...its like NASA say...to get humans on mars for nasa to do...20 - 30 years? If the pubic were allowed to do it, probably do it in 5, and do it better. Just because we dont all have JOBS in agriculture, doesnt mean you are wrong when you think "hey this mght work".
We give people recipes when we dont trust tem to make smart decisions...
If left to our own devices i KNOW i would have killed my plants. Im still not experienced enough yet to come up with any huge breakthroughs...i would have overwtered overnuted and killed my plants without the help of good old faq (the recipe in this case). That being said though, what the point in delicious food if everyone makes it the same...The top chefs are the chefs who put chocolate with chicken, they arent scared to try new things...we need to do the same...K1ng for instance, always changing things up in his grow...I love it. I love reading his grow (i read like 120 pages before i could join it as it was already that long!) I know it doesnt always work the best, but he has knowledge of each individual grow method...in his hed he has all the data and hes coming to conclusions himself on how to combine lighting nutes, nute delivery methods and grow mediums, along with his spce and equipment and he is coming up with great results...thres some drama...but of course there is...but at the end of the day, hes a happy guy when harvest time comes around.
I get a bit pissed when i see people in others threads getting angry a them for doing something..its their money right..
That person is just trying to help...they dont want to see money and tim asted on bad ideas...and having thought of that im less angry and more thankful we have people who care enough to look out for us...
anyways im gonna stop here, im not stoned haha, but i am anxious as hell...got to go to court today...so im trying to kill time before it. dont stress its nothing drug related lol, and im not going to jail or anything like that..just a small claim..
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lol...buds are filling in so good now lol, its cool to see how they spread from budsites to go all the way up the stem. Then i get to see them fill out...
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kudos! 