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biggest factors would probably be growing medium and the strength of nutrients it has been fed. Also some just give plain pH adjusted water while others use an actual flushing product such as FloraKleen by GH.
I think soil takes the longest to flush, then coco and hydro is quickest (I could be wrong though, I've only done 1 grow)
 
I completely agree!

Just as a general rule of thumb: If growing in soil, many growers give two weeks of plain water before harvest. In coco you need a week or less, and in hydro you only need a few days of flushing. In coco and hydro it's easy to wait until your plant looks basically done, start flushing, and harvest the next weekend. With coco and hydro, the main worry is flushing too early, so you want to wait until the buds are already in the harvest window (you have about three weeks to harvest after the harvest window opens before buds start degrading).

Soil is more forgiving about flushing since there's some amount of nutrients in the soil and even after you're already giving plain water they'll have some amount of nutrients in the soil to use up.

In soil, if you want the most psychedelic effect, you'd start flushing when nearly all the trichomes are white with just a few clears left. This sets you up to harvest when basically all trichomes are white (highest levels of THC). If you want more relaxing buds with more of a body effect, don't start flushing until basically all the trichomes have already turned white with zero clears left. By the time you harvest you should have some trichomes turning amber, which is the perfect time to harvest for more of a body effect :)
 
Curious if anyone has tried (and succeeded) to make feminized seeds using colloidal silver spray with autoflowers? Would you be able to make feminized auto seeds this way?
 
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I've never tried it myself, but using either colloidal silver or gibberellic acid is how auto-flowering breeders make feminized seeds, just like photoperiod breeders. I was talking with a rep from Dinafem about it :)
 
Um...NebulaHaze, total pot goddess. Thank you for just everything. Priceless info. So grateful. :) GOALS. This is transforming my life rn. Seriously.
 
I dnt wanna be a buzz kill but it's way to hard to tell u a perfect nutrient schedule, because there's so many different nutrients and strains! Each strain needs something different and evach seedling needs different things even tho there from the same batch all plants grow different and need different things. U can get awesome baselines of each nutrient and strain but the end of the day u need to tweak it to what ur plants need.
 
usually what nebula said is called flushing from what i remember(you water with just nothing added to the water for the last 2-3 weeks of flowering
 
My interest is heirloom strains.Varieties like Lambsbread which have been around literally for decades, centuries or millennia.If I acquire seeds for one of these, how do I keep a pure strain going to make seeds for future years?Can’t really use clones since it gets too hot here for a few months each year to run lights. Open pollination indoors would limit me to a single strain grow to keep them from crossing with anything else, but it works in theory.Any suggestions would be appreciated.
 
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I'm sure Nebula can answer better than I can but you should be able to pollinate a plant grown from feminized seeds just like any other. The plant that produced the feminized seed is forced into being a hermie chemically as opposed to having a genetic trait that allows it to hermie naturally or under stress. Naturally occurring hermies will produce seeds/offspring that are more likely to hermie because they contain that genetic trait. Chemically induced hermies produce normal female seeds/offspring with no more tendency to hermie naturally than any other seed.
 
Could you grow a few plants enough to produce even more seeds, then just grow them when you want. Seeds last a long time if kept well. Then every few years if you are running low, grow a few for the purpose of making more seeds again.
 
For lack of any better ideas, that's what I'm considering right now. It's about to get very hot here for a couple months, but perhaps I can keep a few small LEDs running at night and do an 'open pollination' grow of just 3-4 plants. Sativas are native to hot regions of the world, and many of them are happy with just a few weeks of 'veg' light time before going to 12/12. Two or three plants could provide a LOT of seeds....
 
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