Indicators to flush unknown strain

[geemail]

Unknown Strain
Drip/Waste
Perlite

Are there any signs or indicators, I should start flushing
an unknown strain?

I've seen the pictures on harvesting, and tried searching,
but haven't seen what I'm looking for.

Thnx

 

[rollinmachine]

trics? leaves? pistils? all can be used to indicate when to flush. trics turning amber? leaves using up their resources and dryin out and/or changing colors? lots of pistils turning from white to brown or another color can also be used to figure out when to flush.

if u posted pics im sure people will help u out. when to flush also depends on what kind of smoke ur looking for... upity buzz or couchlock? sativa or indica dominant plant? how many weeks into flower? lots of factors play into when to flush and harvest the plants.

 

[FreezerBoy]

Best to check trichomes with a scope. The old fashioned way was when 50% of pistils turned color.

With scope, inspect regularly. Once you get an idea of how fast opacity changes, you guesstimate harvest date and start the flush. With hairs, start flush when 35-40% of hairs have gone dark.

 

[il19z8rn4li1]

Best to check trichomes with a scope. The old fashioned way was when 50% of pistils turned color.

With scope, inspect regularly. Once you get an idea of how fast opacity changes, you guesstimate harvest date and start the flush. With hairs, start flush when 35-40% of hairs have gone dark.

If one waited before for the hairs to nearly reach 90% all dark...

could be suggested that 90% is waiting to long just from reading your advice :-D

Could this increase or trigger hermy ?

 

[FreezerBoy]

If one waited before for the hairs to nearly reach 90% all dark...

could be suggested that 90% is waiting to long just from reading your advice :-D

Could this increase or trigger hermy ?

Proper harvest time is purely subjective. As such, I can categorically state that 90% is burnt to a crisp and best placed in the trash. Other's mileage may vary.

Hair inspection is an imprecise guesstimate from an earlier, pre-scope age. It will never be as precise as a scope. However, not everyone has a scope and so I offered an alternative approach.

 

[rollinmachine]

Could this increase or trigger hermy ?

it wouldnt matter if it turned hermi unless u were going to reveg it for a mother or to flower again. it wouldnt have enough time to produce the seeds that far along in flower right before the chop.

also most strains that are "female" will still produce seeds like in nature to make sure the plant produces offspring and the genetics are still being kept for the next generation of plants if it wasnt pollinated by a male.

if your conditions are optimal this wouldnt force a hermi. if its not genetic a hermi would only appear if ur grow has a light leak or sumthing else involving ur grow went wrong. stress/heat/etc... that would cause it to hermi.

 

[il19z8rn4li1]

Proper harvest time is purely subjective. As such, I can categorically state that 90% is burnt to a crisp and best placed in the trash. Other's mileage may vary.

Hair inspection is an imprecise guesstimate from an earlier, pre-scope age. It will never be as precise as a scope. However, not everyone has a scope and so I offered an alternative approach.

i dont believe we have same thinking on this one..

My plants were most def NOT burnt to a crisp my last harvest, they were actually VERY NICE, it was only a Blueberry plant that hermy'ed.

and I mean 90% of the hairs changed color....they do, do this as they age and move to maturity I have read and noticed from experience.

In my experience I hvae noticed that the hairs really dont mean anything, to me at least, for I always check my Trics with a loop/scope whatever you wanna call it, we thinking of same thing, and I always pull my plants when they tell me to.

Which is when trichs are about 80% amber and the leaves start to yellow during the flush phase... indicating that they plant is obviously using up its stored nutes in its leaves.

I just think the Blueberry hermed out because its so damn touchy.
The grow had only 2 Blues and all the rest of the plants, 10 others, were all of another strain, they grow out PERFECTLY in my eyes.

I have been messing with Blueberry for the past 3 yrs... and I can conclude that Blueberry is MOST DEF a very touchy little bugger and has to be grown with like strains or by itself and babied. lol :-D

Thanks for the help guys.


op: Buy a Loop or scope.. they are like $5 ...

 

[FreezerBoy]

i dont believe we have same thinking on this one..

That's what subjective means.

 

[il19z8rn4li1]

That's what subjective means.

Got ya... your mind set of the hairs changing to their mature color where 90% of them have reached this point is Cripsy Dry Buds... lol

Mine... simply the path of life that a strain takes for when its reaching maturity the hairs/Pistals start to change colors, not at all in any relation to moisture of buds ;-)


BUT heeh in the end... Trichs always give more useful info.


Could have great help here without different minds now can we heeh

Cheers my friend.

 

[FreezerBoy]

Trichs always give more useful info..

That's what I said.

 

[il19z8rn4li1]

That's what I said.

lol congratulations, that IS what YOU said... lol

^^^ That's all you really wanted to hear right....HAHAHAHAH

 

[Spanishwilly]

Unknown Strain
Drip/Waste
Perlite

Are there any signs or indicators, I should start flushing
an unknown strain?

I've seen the pictures on harvesting, and tried searching,
but haven't seen what I'm looking for.

Thnx

Hey there geemail,
How's it going with the perlite DTW? Tell all.
SW