Can anyone elaborate on the decrease in water uptake towards harvest time

Rickypsimer

Rickypsimer

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With some recent research I've discovered that once a plant is ready for harvest it will stop up taking water if somebody could explain this a little further to me or give me a link where I can research a little further that would be awesome but I have noticed that my power plant from Dutch seeds in northern lights have greatly decreased the amount of water they've uptake and the Coco coir which is usually drying one or two days is remaining wet so I believe I'm close to harvest and I am looking at trichomes I believe I have a few foxtails leading me to leave them a little longer than maybe I should but I'm only on day 50 of flowering gonna wait a week and start my flush now just to remove any built-up salts in the medium and not the buds themselves I've recently learned that flushing is myth in the since that it's not removing anything from the buds them selves but from the leaves and medium
 

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OldMedUser

OldMedUser

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Flushing removes nothing from the leaves or buds. It just reduces the amount of nutes in the media.

Coco shouldn't be allowed to dry out and does best with multiple waterings per day which is why I don't bother using coco. Drain to waste seems to be a good method for coco. I'd flush it thru with a medium level of nutes to see if that helps and don't let it get dry like you would with a peat-based media like ProMix HP which is what I use.

Have your humidity levels got higher recently? Plants drink a lot more when the RH is lower and slow down drinking at higher levels.

Looking good otherwise.

:peace:
 
kingromano

kingromano

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its normal that after full flowering period the plants start to drink less often

in fact you can use a few techniques to create a positive stress on the plant to maximise terpenes production, yield ..

"crop steering"

for end bloom you will "positively stress" the plant by simulating

dry climate
colder temps
lack of nutrients ( no yellowing please)
lumens increasing
...
and
lack of water

you want to progressively increase the drybacks .. exemple: 50 % water content in stretch .. 40 % in bloom 25 % end flowering..

with rockwool and a good moisture meter ( i use the delta t sm150 T, its a professional tool) you can let the medium dry until 10 % water content with some strains. remember you never want the plant to wilt, just before you chop eventually

the last watering before chop you want the plant nearly "die on the vine"
this will put the plant in terpenes secretion mode
 
bk78

bk78

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rkymtnman said:
post a link that supports any of your nonsense then. shouldn't be too hard.
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kingromano said:
broscience sunday growers that you are
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Speaking of bro science, Sunday driver bullshit

“the last watering before chop you want the plant nearly "die on the vine"
this will put the plant in terpenes secretion mode”


Wave that white flag now as France is known for.
 
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