Indacouch
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Lol.....
dark period before harvest?
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Budley Doright
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I'm the same as chem, I do it when I can, kids and all 
. But I thought there was a correlation between starch content and harvesting before the light but I also read it was a 12 hour thing. Anyone hear of this?
. But I thought there was a correlation between starch content and harvesting before the light but I also read it was a 12 hour thing. Anyone hear of this?
Budley Doright
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The black mold is a myth, tried it when I was 14 and all it did was turn what was probably shit even shittier and black lol.
chemphlegm
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its not a myth, it really does happen, people really do this as I described. If they didnt believe it was an improvement
I would have to wonder why they did it at all, those frisky tribes got some strange rituals so....that part might be a myth, one they believe in
gotty
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What y'all smokin on!..wtfs spunk n soda pops got to do with a grow?...I had to ask cause never heard of spooge
Budley Doright
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Well no I guess myth is the wrong word because yes it was something I had read in one of the old grow books so I tried it, also along with boiling roots lol, which was done after the plant was harvested to help all the THC drain from the roots while hanging. What I meant was it's a myth that it does anything good to your weed, it doesn't iol. It was the 70's after all lol.
SchmoeJoe
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Flushing is absolutely necessary if you're using liads of synthetics and carbs from things like molasses create spikes on microbial activity which can have lots of different benefits. As for the rest...
neckpod
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Imo yes you can smell the difference between cured and uncured, Good bud will always smell nice but cured bud will smell sweeter and taste much better.
As the cure goes on mines always smells better and better.
But no amount of curing will make bad weed smell or taste good. Shit weed is shit weed haha.
Budget Buds
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Used to do it, I never noticed any difference, I'd say dont bother....
Flushing is for toilets... What contributes to a great smell and taste is a proper dry and cure...
neckpod
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I think a flush is only needed in soil/coir as salts can build up, dwc/rdwc does not have this issue so your best to gradually reduce the nutrient levels down as the plant needs less and less.
I agree with above a good slow dry and proper cure makes good weed even better but as i have stated before if the weed is shit it will stay shit even after a cure. SHIT IS SHIT......
Dr. Who
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Ah yes, the guy growing 104 outdoor plants with no pictures, and questionable advice....
How's things?
You just showed your hand! Your full of it! Now take the time to actually READ the following!
So just what is "shit weed?" I have never seen any weed, NOT benefit from a proper dry and cure!
I got asked about this in a PM by a member after seeing the disaster another thread became. He asked where to find books and papers on "flushing" and said he might try the "fade".
Here's my answer to him......I felt it needs to be seen,,,,,,again!
Your looking for post grad work. You would do better to search papers......The thing is, NOTHING in agriculture gets 'flushed" and that leads to little to no research in the area. You see, the thing is, the whole "idea" of "flushing is nonsense! Plants don't work that way! They do not take up nutrients or salts as most of you think of them! They do not "store" them in the sense you think of them! Not only that, but the nutritional "stores" in a plant are not in buds or budding or flowers! NO amount of "flushing" will "exchange" plant "stored" nutrition back "out" of the plant!
Scientifically impossible by the way most of you guys understand......Ok, that's my word on "flushing". (No one listens to this in threads if they don't want to hear it or accept it.)
Now then, you propose the "FADE TO FINISH" method. Great idea in theory but, and this IS a BIG BUT! Remember when I said above that "the nutritional "stores" in a plant are not in buds or budding or flowers!" ? This shoots that theory in the ass right away. You see the main amount of stored nutrition is in either the roots and the rest in leaves and some in small amounts in transit in the phloam (the sap that actually moves the nutrients around the plant)......
Now when you "starve a plant" it will draw from it's self by actually breaking down the needed parts of it's self to do an "emergency" attempt to reproduce! (This can happen in certain plants even in veg! A kind of last ditch effort to continue the species.)
With that in mind you take the fact that the plant is not "moving" nutrients "out" of buds, but into them to speed growth and as fast as it can - "reproduce". This single minded process the plant now puts it's self on causes the plant to stress it's self. This self induced stress can, in many cases if done long enough, lead the plant to go bisexual, and produce "banana's" in a last ditch effort to reproduce and "carry on the line" and produce seeds...
Basically put, In reality you are moving nutrients that you're "attempting" to get rid of,,right to where your trying to remove them from! You are also stressing the plant in the way for "Herming" to actually happen easier!
I and many others that have tried to convey this actual plant science, are called everything you can think of and those 'impossible of understanding these facts", fight so hard against us that many of us have simply chosen to avoid the issue or don't fight to hard.
Anyway, there you are in as short and sweet and as simple/understandable as I can...
The thing is you have to understand Botany and Horticulture (and there are LOTS of subsections to those that are involved here) to truly put together the pieces of the puzzle to get your head wrapped around the idea that flushing and the "fade" don't work for what they are intended or alleged to actually do!
There you go Mods, nice, polite and to the point. (Sorry about the other thread Sunni)
There you go, Now have at it!
I'm stepping back to watch the circus.
Read this too!
https://www.rollitup.org/t/the-truth-about-flushing.409622/
SchmoeJoe
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I've been too busy to care to respond to your challenge. It was actually 120 plants, although I haven't I had a chance to get pictures of the plants on the third tax lot. Between working for this farm and having my own to deal with I haven't had the inclination to respond.
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Dr. Who
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SchmoeJoe
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I don't flush. But I also don't use massive amounts of chelated salt based nutrients. I've definitely seen weed that was so loaded with crap that it crackled and flashed when burned. I have no actual proof but the only thing that made sense was that there might be an excess of magnesium.
Roger A. Shrubber
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i think it more likely it was full of mites, popping like popcorn
SchmoeJoe
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Miites are too small to account for the scale of the sound and light flashes. It even actually sounds just like magnesium shavings burning. Not to mention that I've been familiar with spider mites ever since I built and ran my first indoor gardens when I was 15 with my dad. Between that and having very good eye sight I can promise you that it definitely wasn't mites.
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gotty
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Nice one...good read....timelord
Fractured but whole
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48 hrs of dark can't fix 3 months of bad growing, that is for sure!
Dr. Who
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Crackle and flash is improperly dried and cured weed. "Sugars" in the material, not broken down by curing yet...
Over ferting is a personal problem of novice growers who don;t take the time to learn anything about growing before attempting it.
I disagree with folks who say "treat it like a tomato".....
Treat it like an indoor tropical...
If you can get an African Violet to grow and bloom.
Your not going to have trouble with Cannabis.