How close?

First time grower growing one single outdoor plant from clone. I don’t know when she actually went “into flower” cause she’s outdoor. I’ve got a general idea when I saw my first pistils but I’ve been winning the battle against aphids(hand digging through the buds so it’s distorted the shape of them greatly but I basically don’t see any new pistil production and I don’t have a jeweler Loupe to tell if they are amber, in the phone they all just look white and cloudy but it’s hard to tell.
Any insight from these pics? I feel like the digging in the buds is stressing it out and it may be stunted, it had a good burst of growth after defoliation in what I thought was about week 3ish and I just don’t want to wait too long and the longer I go the more i continue to dig for aphids and I did find like 3 seeds and those seeds look mature. Or very close to it.

also I don’t wanna chop if it’s gonna turn a corner and fatten up. And I’d lose potency and yield. I know that the last few weeks of flower is when a lot of the magic happens.
I’ve used the success nutrients line that the “three a light” guys use the whole time and if I’m not done I want to continue to use it but I’ve been heraring a lot about flushing being unnecessary and so I’m considering feeding all the way to chop. If i do this.... what part of the feed should I continue with? Here’s also photos of the nutes she’s still on. I’ll add them in a comment
Thanks in advance

Nutes she’s still on

Stop the nutes and chop when you think it’ll burn clean. It is finished. Fully swollen.

I don’t know how heavy you have fed etc or anything but if you’ve been giving them that silicon supplement recently I would want at least a week of water at this point.

Hard to tell... pics zoomed in, at best I see blurry Pixelmator trichs where some look clear some look cloudy.

Just go old school, clip a small nug off, and dry it. I use a dessicant chamber (damp rid in a closed container with the bud *dont touch bud to chemicals lol*) of some sort to get it done quick without it destroying the high profile.

Will take a day or so to dry out enough to smoke, and will be harsh because it wasn't dried slowly/cured, but you will be able to accurately gauge the plants current high profile, and make a judgment based on that.

Your really confident she’s done? I didn’t see any amber trichs and i thought I would see some yellow leaves or something maybe

also, consider your night time temps. You want to avoid frost. And your dealing bugs, so keep that in mind as well... depending on where you live, id say you have a few more weeks left, but it really depends on your region of the world.

14/10 light is when flowering likely would have begun. For a lot of the US, thats mid/late August if I'm not mistaken, which means your likely at 7-8 weeks of flower right now if your in the US, possibly even later, as some strains need even less light hours to fully initiate flower

BluntMoniker said:

also, consider your night time temps. You want to avoid frost. And your dealing bugs, so keep that in mind as well... depending on where you live, id say you have a few more weeks left, but it really depends on your region of the world.

14/10 light is when flowering likely would have begun. For a lot of the US, thats mid/late August if I'm not mistaken, which means your likely at 7-8 weeks of flower right now if your in the US, possibly even later, as some strains need even less light hours to fully initiate flower

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I’m in colorado

BluntMoniker said:

also, consider your night time temps. You want to avoid frost. And your dealing bugs, so keep that in mind as well... depending on where you live, id say you have a few more weeks left, but it really depends on your region of the world.

14/10 light is when flowering likely would have begun. For a lot of the US, thats mid/late August if I'm not mistaken, which means your likely at 7-8 weeks of flower right now if your in the US, possibly even later, as some strains need even less light hours to fully initiate flower

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So I’ll keep a close eye on the weather and the bugs and stop the silica and try to ride out 2 weeks ish.

many of the other nutes I should stop if I want to feed till chop?

AC303 said:

I’m in colorado

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Yea, so flowering likely wouldn't have started until late august, even early September. Definitely 2-3 more weeks id say just based on what I can find on Google about your light cycles for this year

AC303 said:

So I’ll keep a close eye on the weather and the bugs and stop the silica and try to ride out 2 weeks ish.

many of the other nutes I should stop if I want to feed till chop?

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I mean, you dont need to stop for the sake of "flushing" as that isn't a beneficial practice. But if you WANT to stop feeding, and your plant can survive and be HEALTHY for 2 weeks without feeding her, then sure id stop feeding.

But really that's your discretion, not a necessity of growing/harvesting a good product

BluntMoniker said:

I mean, you dont need to stop for the sake of "flushing" as that isn't a beneficial practice. But if you WANT to stop feeding, and your plant can survive and be HEALTHY for 2 weeks without feeding her, then sure id stop feeding.

But really that's your discretion, not a necessity of growing/harvesting a good product

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Yeah I don’t wanna stop. But that dude said stop with the silica... I was wondering if any of the nutes I’m using I should stop even though I continue the rest.

AC303 said:

Yeah I don’t wanna stop. But that dude said stop with the silica... I was wondering if any of the nutes I’m using I should stop even though I continue the rest.

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Different people will tell you different things. Everyone speaks from experience, so not everything that works for one will work for another, ya know?

He may be right and I may be wrong... but high silica levels help slow down bugs because it makes the plant matter harder to digest, so i personally wouldn't slack on it. Keep the silica for reasons above, ween back the ferts, because the plant simply isn't using them in the final weeks the quantities it did in the weeks prior... so no need to waste the nute ($$$)

I also wouldn't go out of my way to increase it lol, but id (again, personally) keep things just the way you have them now, and in another week, ween your ferts back a bit, leave silica the same to the very end.

Then next time, do organics

AC303 said:

Yeah I don’t wanna stop. But that dude said stop with the silica... I was wondering if any of the nutes I’m using I should stop even though I continue the rest.

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Well that dude doesn't know what he's talking about.

But seriously, ya you don't need to keep giving them silica. I'm just being a smartass.