More Trichome and bud pics. Opinions plz.

[bgmike8]

It's looking mostly milky to me but I don't trust myself enough yet.
I have been posting alot of pics under hps and people say it's got a few weeks left. Even to the eye, a lot of my buds look like they're full of white hairs. However when I block the hps it looks different.
So the bud pics tonight are taken with a lot of the hps blocked and with flash...

 

[bgmike8]

 

[Alec420]

that looks hawt

 

[Morbid Angel]

I'd say you could push that for another week, looks like it wants to fill out more. There's plenty of milk but still a lot of clear. Are some of those pics of lower buds?

Id say run it a ~week. Keep checkin. I think choppable now as well, may lose a bit of weight, but doable. Listen to your heart man, at this point its a matter of perspective/preference.

 

[Hessam]

Are all these pics from one plant?

 

[Hessam]

Have you started flushing yet?

 

[meowmeowmeow]

Meow.....
morbid Angel is right....let her go a little more to fatten up the calyxes, so you don't lose to much during drying IMHO.
Good job that flower looks dank.
You've been patient to this point , so a few more days is nothing.
I wish I could say the same for myself.
Good luck.

 

[bgmike8]

Thanks everyone.
It is two different plants.
I will not be flushing. Can not find any science supporting it.

 

[Wilderb]

Very nice looking. Keep us posted.

 

[Hessam]

I will not be flushing. Can not find any science supporting it.

The issue here is nutrient build up in plant tissues which leads to harsh smoke and bad taste. I don't know what science you are looking for. If you don't feed that much, don't flush!

 

[bgmike8]

The issue here is nutrient build up in plant tissues which leads to harsh smoke and bad taste. I don't know what science you are looking for. If you don't feed that much, don't flush!

You think about a week though?

Do I just wait until I see the first amber trichs and then cut?

 

[9leaves]

I like to watch the hairs turn all orange and curl. I tried by trichs. Always got reflections of light. Making them appear white. For me. I look for orange hairs all over. I wrecked far to many. So that is the way I approach it now.

 

[LegalizeNature420]

Those top colas w/ all orange hairs MIGHT be ready, but the others with white pistols, no.

Let that whole thing sit and stink up even more, at least a couple more weeks. You'll appreciate it later.

 

[hyroot]

brownish orange pistils will recede into the calyx before the trichomes are developed enough. Keep in mind light degrades trichomes so make sure to check them right when the light comes on. When the hairs recede, the calyx will swell

I'd say you have at least 10-14 days left.

with sativa doms there will still be white pistils when they're done.

 

[9leaves]

brownish orange pistils will recede into the calyx before the trichomes are developed enough. Keep in mind light degrades trichomes so make sure to check them right when the light comes on. When the hairs recede, the calyx will swell

I'd say you have at least 10-14 days left.

with sativa doms there will still be white pistils when they're done.

Thank you. My next is a sativa Dom.

 

[Cyrus420]

The issue here is nutrient build up in plant tissues which leads to harsh smoke and bad taste. I don't know what science you are looking for. If you don't feed that much, don't flush!

The harsh taste goes away during the cure. The difference between a flushed plant and a not flushed plant is one finishes the right way. Do you think nature "flushes" plants? No. Do out door growers flush their plants? No and most people say outdoor organic is the best there is.

 

[racerboy71]

brownish orange pistils will recede into the calyx before the trichomes are developed enough. Keep in mind light degrades trichomes so make sure to check them right when the light comes on. When the hairs recede, the calyx will swell

I'd say you have at least 10-14 days left.

with sativa doms there will still be white pistils when they're done.

i completely agree with this.. i like to wait till i see the hairs mostly all receded back into the buds, but like hyroot says, you might still get a few strays that pop up towards the end of flowering on some heavy sativa dominant strains, but for the most part, they should all recede back into the buds..
once i see that, and the calyx start to swell, i start to look at the trics.. i think it's more of a big picture thing, and i don't usually just go by the trics, i like to look at the pistils, are the calyx nice and fat, what's the over all look of the plant? what do the trics look like.. i know it sounds odd, but when a plant is ready, it will take on a different look, and once you learn it, it's easy to tell that it's done and ready to chop, dry, cure and smoke..

 

[bgmike8]

Thanks so much everyone. I'll try to update in this thread if I get replies

 

[Hessam]

The harsh taste goes away during the cure. The difference between a flushed plant and a not flushed plant is one finishes the right way. Do you think nature "flushes" plants? No. Do out door growers flush their plants? No and most people say outdoor organic is the best there is.

First of all, I personally do regular flushing and never feed more than 1.2 EC in coco, and I flush for the last 2 weeks and the smoke is fantastic. Very smooth lung expansive milky smoke.

Second, we are talking about indoor setups with chemical concentrated nutrients, very high ppm boosters and other stuff witch are easily absorbed at the root zone and make salt build up in plant tissues. And YES! Nature flushes plants through rains, but again we are talking about commercial indoor growing and quality of smoke is the first thing that matters!

 

[Cyrus420]

First of all, I personally do regular flushing and never feed more than 1.2 EC in coco, and I flush for the last 2 weeks and the smoke is fantastic. Very smooth lung expansive milky smoke.

Second, we are talking about indoor setups with chemical concentrated nutrients, very high ppm boosters and other stuff witch are easily absorbed at the root zone and make salt build up in plant tissues. And YES! Nature flushes plants through rains, but again we are talking about commercial indoor growing and quality of smoke is the first thing that matters!

Did you ever think flushing didn't have to do with your smooth smoke but rather the fact that you cured it before hand?

AND yes plants get rained on but the rain doesn't flush their whole root system of the nutrients they require so why would you do that to your plant? You can keep personally thinking it makes a difference but if you do reading you'd find flushing isn't as controversial as a subject as people think it to be and it really is doing little more depriving your plant of what it needs during the last legs of it's life.