first harvest need some info

so im going on my 6th week flowering this friday and only have 3 weeks to go. im feeding them general hydroponics flora nova and liquid kool bloom... im just trying to get some info on what you do the last week before i cut them down?

dwcrookie said:

im just trying to get some info on what you do the last week before i cut them down?

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Mostly salivate.

Haha true. That's garenteed! And I thought hurricane season was over!

But for real tho, do I keep them in complete darkness? Feed them only water? For the last week. Should I flush/ leach nutes out?

If you have more than one plant try different things.

At 6 week you can start dropping your ppm they are not going to need full strength. I have a 9 week cycle, by the end of the eighth week my ppm are 1/2 full strength. They get flushed on the 9th., when they get there final watering my ppm is just over my tap water at 250-275.

qwizoking said:

If you have more than one plant try different things.

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what kind of things would you suggest?

While the reasoning behind most of these "techniques" sound logical, that doesn't mean they are.. an extra 24 hours may indeed allow the plant to collect lighter terpenes and get any last bit of thc out without risk of degredation from the following light period. Makes sense however we have already let a sizeable portion degrade when we see amber heads, those particular glands are done producing thc and will not produce any more even during the following dark period...same logic applies to flushing, sure it sounds logical...sort of. The idea that your removing nutes from buds to make them taste/burn cleaner. However a deficiency is defined as lacking 10% or more of a nute, if the buds were indeed being "flushed" they would look like the fan leaves yellowing. The buds retain the exact same levels of all nutes before and after the flush that is in essence the fan leaves job. To keep the buds from yellowing...um I kinda forgot what I was saying and I don't like to reread and stuff.. but yea I personally don't flush however the plant will naturally need less nutes. I also haven't noticed a difference between buds picked at the end of day and at the beginning of light...in other words......wives tales bro, just my personal opinion

I would suggest you simply cut down when its ready, the top is usually done first, you can cut it and let the bottom mature but it will usually throw of the leaf to calyx ratio horribly to compensate....just cut it when you see half amber if an indica, if sativa shoot for 25%.. also just my opinion

appreciate it man thanks!