Lil help with determining when to harvest

Hey guys. Just trying to figure if I'm doing this right. My plant is on day 81 and it appears to have all clear trichromes. I started reducing my feed schedule about a week ago. The plant was kind of starting to yellow on it's own (2 weeks ago maybe) but I don't think it was anything other then late flowering yellowing.

Anyway, I wanted to know if planning a harvest date prior to trichromes turning is okay. I wanted to flush for 2 weeks and worried that if I waited till trichs were 90% cloudy, then I would have considerable degradation while flushing the last two weeks. Should I be fine harvesting within a 10 day window from now?

I can try and get a better pics of the trichs if necessary. Thanks

BTW. It's an autoflower, Ultra Lemon haze by Auto seeds.

I relooked at your post. Flush for 10 days an chop

Nice grow, I would harvest when it gets to an average of 80% cloudy and 20 % Amber. Then you will a window to flush it for 4 to 6 days.

Id give it a few more days to about 10-15 days. If it were me, a lil snip here and there then dry for a bowl or 2 in 2 more days. If you get a good high then you decide, the longer you want it to ripe, just dont over ripe it. That sickly feeling is not really thn talking but cbn (not sure if you can compare it to couchlock) when amber is more than cloudy. I SHOULDNT REALLY BE GIVIN ADVISE SINCE IM TO HIGH

Thanks guys. I smoked a bud about 10 days ago and felt like I just snorted two lines of coke, lol. Seriously, never been that jacked up from weed. I would like it to mature longer, but was worried that if I waited I wouldn't have time to flush. I think I will give her some nutes and see if I cant't hold out another another week before I begin final flush then.

Been feeling bad for her lately yellowing up like she has, lol.

I use to flush all my harvest, until i found out that i dont have to. They sort of need the nutes the best time they can. Yellowung leaves is natural when plant about done onw her cycle

I am just growing my 1st indoors. Hydroponics, nutes... What is the flushing supposed to be good for?

I just started my 1st indoor crow using hydro, nutes.... what is the benefit of flushing supposed to be?

Ya know, I've heard so many arguments on both sides for so many things growing related, it's hard to separate truth from fiction. I'm inclined to think it's unnecessary, but I was feeding fairly aggressively, so figured it wouldn't hurt to step her down a bit. I just don't want to start too early and starve her for too long.

I actually ended up starting with a 300w LED light and adding 600w HPS because of the whole HPS > LEDs or LEDs> HPS debate. Same with starting in a DWC then coco,and finally settling on a soil grow, lol.

Have heard the term coco a few times over the last few days, not familiar. what is it?

seedycharacter said:

I am just growing my 1st indoors. Hydroponics, nutes... What is the flushing supposed to be good for?

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Nothing, really. I only do flushing when i fed too much to remove salt buildups. Imo i flush a bit before feeding to make sure all my roots are wetish. People flush thinking it will remove any chemical taste, which to me doesnt make any sense since its the leaves who gets the nutes and energy which transported to flowers.

cloudy is cool its when you start getting over 10% amber that some people like to cry

I like 20% to 60% amber 20% is easy but trying to get more the plant normally starts to degrade before then, some hybrids will give a crazy amount of amber even early on

You have to watch out with autos they start going shitty all by themselfs don`t seem to be able to elongate there flowering as much as you can with normal plants

normally 6 to 10 weeks past when they sex their done

Oh flushing is good when you plan on not trimming ur buds properly from leaves.

Just for a finish up on this, I ended up harvesting a week ago. Had a equipment failure that sent temps soaring to 131 F at the canopy. Breaker box needs a permanent fix, so I nixed my plans of letting her go another two weeks. Trichs were partly cloudy/clear and this was a sativa heavy strain, so daytime smoke for sure. I hung buds for 4 days, then allowed 2 days of additional drying on layers of paper (very airy gift bag paper) laying flat. Kind of like a brown bag method, but without the brown bag, lol. Anyway, after manicuring to just the nugs to go into jars it weighed exactly 120g. I'm pretty stoked. I know it will lose more weight curing and I hope the buds tighten some. They don't feel as dense as I would like, but maybe it will change with the cure. They do look nice though and I will post up some pictures here shortly.