The Best Harvest Procedure

ShabbaDanks · Sep 17, 2015

OK so I been flushing for 2 weeks and I just turned the lights out on these babies yesterday morning. I heard that 48 hrs of darkness does them some good. I never did the whole 48 hour dark thing and never got any complaints. However, I'm always open to suggestions for improvement. No matter how good we think we are... this is a infinite learning process and we can always get better! With that being said...is this a waist of time?

Diabolical666 · Sep 17, 2015

looks like they could have gone longer under the lights

Bugeye · Sep 17, 2015

Look into the benefits of not flushing...perhaps you were leaching? Flushing on this site is defined as running about 3X your container volume of water through your pots. Pretty hard to do this for 2 weeks.

Agree with Diabolical, those pics look like you harvested early. If you learn to properly dry and cure you can feed all the way until the end and take the guess work out of when to start water only.

ShabbaDanks · Sep 17, 2015

Diabolical666 said:
looks like they could have gone longer under the lights

Damn Seriously?? What are you basing that on the pistols not receding?

4ftRoots · Sep 17, 2015

ShabbaDanks said:
Damn Seriously?? What are you basing that on the pistols not receding?

Yeah I would also let it go longer. Just flip the lights back on if I were you

ShabbaDanks · Sep 17, 2015

4ftRoots said:
Yeah I would also let it go longer. Just flip the lights back on if I were you

Thanks... I'll Flip the lights back on!

ShabbaDanks · Sep 17, 2015

Bugeye said:
Look into the benefits of not flushing...perhaps you were leaching? Flushing on this site is defined as running about 3X your container volume of water through your pots. Pretty hard to do this for 2 weeks.

Agree with Diabolical, those pics look like you harvested early. If you learn to properly dry and cure you can feed all the way until the end and take the guess work out of when to start water only.

Yes you are correct... wrong terminology. I flushed every 2 weeks (I'm in CoCo). So I was leaching. FYI I do have mostly cloudy pistols and about 20% amber Trics. However based on what you and a few others are telling me... I'm flipping the lights back on. Thanks

akmatanuska · Sep 17, 2015

You want pistols to change color most common color is orange. Those buds have quite a ways to go. How long have they been in flowering

ShabbaDanks · Sep 17, 2015

akmatanuska said:
You want pistols to change color most common color is orange. Those buds have quite a ways to go. How long have they been in flowering

9 weeks two days... its a 8 week strain. It's a 10x 9 flower room... some on the other side look like a God damn orange Ice pop! Everyone says forget about the hairs... look at the Trichomes... so that's what I did... they are all milky so I figured...lets do it!

ShabbaDanks · Sep 17, 2015

akmatanuska said:
You want pistols to change color most common color is orange. Those buds have quite a ways to go. How long have they been in flowering

I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed but some strains pistols don't turn. Obviously this is not one of these strains so im inclined to believe you are 100% correct. I'm just basically typing because I have fingers over here! :confused:

northside novis · Sep 17, 2015

Personally i like to wait till ALL the white hairs/pistols are gone (maybe a cpl here & there) but majority turned brown/orange and most of the trich's full amber. I've found that when they're close to ready an easy sign to look for is the trich s heads start to break off as tho they become brittle? Looking at the pic I would leave them under for another good 4-5 wks then those big buggers will be SOLID & won't shrink as much when dried & cured plus the high will be much stronger and let's Favre it that's what we're after haha Keep it green good wrk.

ShabbaDanks · Sep 17, 2015

northside novis said:
Personally i like to wait till ALL the white hairs/pistols are gone (maybe a cpl here & there) but majority turned brown/orange and most of the trich's full amber. I've found that when they're close to ready an easy sign to look for is the trich s heads start to break off as tho they become brittle? Looking at the pic I would leave them under for another good 4-5 wks then those big buggers will be SOLID & won't shrink as much when dried & cured plus the high will be much stronger and let's Favre it that's what we're after haha Keep it green good wrk.

Thanks for the advice... I'm going to keep that logic in mind moving forward!

mr sunshine · Sep 17, 2015

ShabbaDanks said:
9 weeks two days... its a 8 week strain. It's a 10x 9 flower room... some on the other side look like a God damn orange Ice pop! Everyone says forget about the hairs... look at the Trichomes... so that's what I did... they are all milky so I figured...lets do it!

Don't listen yo people that don't know shit...look at the whole plant not just tricomes... I'm sure you've bought good weed before .. Has it ever looked that white and premature? 12 days to go at least.

ShabbaDanks · Sep 17, 2015

mr sunshine said:
Don't listen yo people that don't know shit...look at the whole plant not just tricomes... I'm sure you've bought good weed before .. Has it ever looked that white and premature? 12 days to go at least.

Cool Mr. Sunshine. I'm gonna give it till the end of the month!

northside novis · Sep 17, 2015

ShabbaDanks said:
I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed but some strains pistols don't turn. Obviously this is not one of these strains so im inclined to believe you are 100% correct. I'm just basically typing because I have fingers over here!

I think you'll find most plants will most definitely change colour to the brown/orange they jus need to be given the time to do it believe me even tho it sucks going thru the waiting period ot is certainly worth the weight/wait lol the results will speak for themselves of u don't think so and are gna pull them u should ay least keep 1 so u can see the difference good luck

ShabbaDanks · Sep 17, 2015

northside novis said:
I think youll find most plants will most definitely change colour to the brown/orange they jus need to be given the time to do it believe me even tho it sucks going thru the waiting period out is certainly worth the weight/wait lol the results will speak for themselves of u don't think so and ate gna pull them u should ay least keep 1 so u can see the difference good luck

I had the lights out for 48 hrs thinking I was gonna cut them down this weekend. I can just flip them back on and keep it moving? Will there be any I'll effects due to stress?

akmatanuska · Sep 17, 2015

Yep they can be turned back on, no prob.

4ftRoots · Sep 17, 2015

ShabbaDanks said:
I had the lights out for 48 hrs thinking I was gonna cut them down this weekend. I can just flip them back on and keep it moving? Will there be any I'll effects due to stress?

Yeah just keep the same schedule. I would start asap so they can think it was super cloudy or something

ShabbaDanks · Sep 18, 2015

4ftRoots said:
Yeah just keep the same schedule. I would start asap so they can think it was super cloudy or something

Cool

swagslayer420 · Sep 20, 2015

flip the lights back to 11/13 for a few days then 10/14 for a week and they will be ready.

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