I generally use the "I need room, so you're outta here" method of chosing when to harvest, but other than a mini-flush a day or two prior to harvest...I do nothing special.

Keep in mind, as you pick-n-choose harvest techniques...that there are shitloads of 'old wives tales' that are generally benign. They won't really damage your ladies, but they don't help, either. Folklore was, in the old days, a farmers' replacement for knowledge.

Stuff like 3 days of darkness before harvest...Restricting all of the plants energy (the light) is thought-of as a way to increase trichomes. Really? Trichomes produce the compounds that are the active ingredient in cannabis smoke. They (trichomes) grow in response to light, as a defense against the light. (especially UVB) If you cut the light, you cut the production of trichomes, and by extention, the thc and cbn. Why the fuck would you quit just before the finish line? Look at your skin. See all the pores? What this technique is trying to say is...that darkness will increase the numbers of pores per square inch, in your skin. Does this sound legit...? It shouldn't...because it's not. The strain's genetics told that leaf how many pores per square inch to produce, and restricting light for a couple of days is not going to change this.

Flushing the nutrients out of the plant is another. You can flush from now till mid-term elections, and not be able to flush the nutes out of a plant. I believe the idea started-out as flushing the soil, (a normal and proper technique) and digressed into a biologically stupid technique. Keep in mind, you can restrict nutrient uptake, but trying to flush them from the plant is unlikely at best, harmful and damaging at worst.

And my favorite...waiting till Scorpio leaves Saturn before harvest. Planet-allignment theology is a man-made phenomenon that plants are unaffected by. (nobody has let them in on the joke) And I don't remember ever talking to one, but I'm positive that the etherial gods couldn't care less when you planted or when you harvest. They care more about how and where you planted, feeding and light schedules, and other proper gardening techniques.

Finally...coffee is ready. HAGD :thumbsup: