Less water consumption towards the end?
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tuinman
They tend to wind down a bit as they're finishing off in my experience.
yup, they are almost done
mine slow when turned, then again at week 4'ish
and the last 2 weeks are slow
your plant has a few stages:
seed/clone
vegetation
transition
bloom
ripen
they are all worth understanding, to give the best end product...
good luck
B.
mine slow when turned, then again at week 4'ish
and the last 2 weeks are slow
your plant has a few stages:
seed/clone
vegetation
transition
bloom
ripen
they are all worth understanding, to give the best end product...
good luck
B.
M
Mountain
Absolutely in the last bit water uptake goes down. I see peeps flushing hard then and probably the worst time to be flooding a soil medium IMO.
R
rick shaw
Wade through this link you'll learn a lot.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC439254/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC439254/
as the plant nears ripening it starts to wind down, water, nutes, light, co2, photosethesis slows, the plant starts to die...it's a normal part of the plants life.
although the wild hemp in my area doesn't really fully die until first frost, long after it is fully seeded. the birds go nuts and tear up the colas for the seeds till their is nothing left, yet they still cling to life, the leaves go purple from the cold nights and then turn brown when the frost hits, eventually all that was left of the buds also turns necrotic and the plant is just a brown stalk for a year or two till it falls down. my plants leaves definitely lose that lush green feel nearing harvest, although flushing contributes to this, i know the process has a name, i forget what its called... The last few weeks of flowering are more about ripening than actual bud growth i think, everything is slowing down, and you will notice it more and more as they ripen.
although the wild hemp in my area doesn't really fully die until first frost, long after it is fully seeded. the birds go nuts and tear up the colas for the seeds till their is nothing left, yet they still cling to life, the leaves go purple from the cold nights and then turn brown when the frost hits, eventually all that was left of the buds also turns necrotic and the plant is just a brown stalk for a year or two till it falls down. my plants leaves definitely lose that lush green feel nearing harvest, although flushing contributes to this, i know the process has a name, i forget what its called... The last few weeks of flowering are more about ripening than actual bud growth i think, everything is slowing down, and you will notice it more and more as they ripen.
M
Mountain
If you have to flush your plants/medium at the end to remove excess nutes you've overfed. Just my opinion.
Yeah, thats what I was thinking also...I give nothing but water (RO/Tapwater mix) starting in week 6, but these were clones that according to my records started showing preflowers under 12:12 on 4/30, so these are pretty much at week 6, and look to have one more week to go tops (judging by the trics which are ~ 80% milky 20% clear, with a few amber scattered here and there.)
Funny, I never really noticed or paid attention to this...been growing ten years or more indoors also with fairly good success.
Transcendence66
Member
Dude! Thanks for that link pretty cool info> PeAcE!
Just a fun fact, you can use defoliation of big fan leaves as a supplement to flushing to speed up the process. That is, begin flushing later, as our end goal is accomplished more rapidly by 'hard' flushing fan leaves. That is, picking them.
