How much longer do you think I should wait before harvest time?...

MonsterMagnet said:

Thanks!

Weird. My previous posts are disappearing. I asked a perfectly good question about molasses & now it's gone. I'll try again...

If I was to use molasses in the plant's water can I simply add it in conjunction with the Bio-Bloom organic nutrients I'm feeding them?

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MonsterMagnet said:

BUMP...with a revised question...

So, I'm guessing from advice here & the supposed life cycle of my plants, that I'm 2-3 weeks away from harvesting.
I've been using 100% organic nutrients & am wondering if I should start flushing the plants now & stop giving them nutrients.
I also bought some molasses & was wondering if it'd be OK to add it to the water, instead of the nutes.


...or, if flushing a load of BS?

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You can use it with biobloom however sparingly as long as its unsulphured also your feeding higher than I ever go with bloom but your under LEDs i still rock hps/hids so you probably will need more that stands to reason

conor c said:

You can use it with biobloom however sparingly as long as its unsulphured also your feeding higher than I ever go with bloom but your under LEDs i still rock hps/hids so you probably will need more that stands to reason

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I’m probably giving them 3ml per litre, so not quite the full dosage. I don’t see any signs of nute burn but we’ll see how they are after a week of bio-bloom + molasses.
I’ve reduced the amount of bio-bloom slightly, just incase it’s a bit OTT.

MonsterMagnet said:

I’m probably giving them 3ml per litre, so not quite the full dosage. I don’t see any signs of nute burn but we’ll see how they are after a week of bio-bloom + molasses.
I’ve reduced the amount of bio-bloom slightly, just incase it’s a bit OTT.

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I don't use there charts mate I feel there always a bit on the high side ime but as I said under led you will go through more than me

So, I also have this little lady...



I started my autos in test pots (I discovered shortly after that I should've planted them straight into their final large pots). As a test I kept one growing in the tiny pot, transplanting the other 3 to 11 litre ones.
She's at the stage where all her large fan leaves have turned yellow & dropped off. To me this seems to be a more advanced stage than all the others & I'm wondering how much longer I should wait?...

You want your pistils darker color and half the size meaning the bud grows a few leafs around it that hide it.that will double the weight and when they go brown means they stopped growing and started dying.you will allways get new pistils growing but that time is good to cut

I feel your pain. So close yet those last few weeks take so long. Wait till someone complains they are stinking up the house.

I'm telling myself next week every week now.

MonsterMagnet said:

BUMP...with a revised question...

So, I'm guessing from advice here & the supposed life cycle of my plants, that I'm 2-3 weeks away from harvesting.
I've been using 100% organic nutrients & am wondering if I should start flushing the plants now & stop giving them nutrients.
I also bought some molasses & was wondering if it'd be OK to add it to the water, instead of the nutes.


...or, if flushing a load of BS?

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I think you're further off than 2-3 weeks, but it's a waiting game, keep watching the pistils and trichs, and wait for the buds to swell. Flushing accomplishes nothing except starving your plant when it's trying to pack on bud weight. It has no bearing on taste, smooth smoke is accomplished through proper curing. You could add the molasses if you like, Molasses feeds the microrganisms in the soil which in turn use the sugars to multiply and break down the nutrients to a form the plants can absorb, but the issue with molasses is the microrganisms it feeds (the plant does NOT use it directly), will exhaust the sugars in a day or two and their numbers will crash back to the pre-molasses levels. So you need to use it every time for it to be really effective. At this point, I'd look at it like chicken soup "It couldn't hurt".

So, a couple more weeks down the line & here we are. The large pilot leaves on all of them are starting to die, many of the other smaller leaves are curling downwards a little. Energy is definitely being directed away from the leaves & into the buds.



Plant 1 (Janis - the baby plant grown in a seedling pot)...





Plant 2 (Steve - grown & slightly trained in an 11 litre pot)...





Plant 3 (Jim - grown in an 11 litre pot with no training but with a quicker "seed to harvest" time than the others)...






Plant 4 (Jeff - grown in an 11 litre pot with no training & the biggest buds!)...






The main buds on the one with a shorter growth period (8 weeks, so technically 3 weeks past its "due date") are feeling quite crispy.
Much more ambering throughout the whole plant really, with very few new pistils coming through.

The others could probably wait a while more. What do you think?

Oh, to give you an idea of scale, the tallest plants are 75cm high...



That top cluster of buds on the lefthand plant is 6cm wide