Flushing....Whats your technique?

Rrog said:

Salts will buildup if you're using some bottled fert product, which isn't natural soil, and so a flush would probably be a great idea.



Incorrect. Rain will not flush a plant like is done with containers. Plants aren't flushed in nature.

If you have been using ferts, then flush. If using natural soil, no flush.

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Fair enough and agreed, but moot as you point out there's really no comparing a container plant to one in the earth -- they are completely different environments worthy of different considerations. Bottom line, the argument that "I don't flush my in-ground plants therefore flushing is also useless in container plants" doesn't really stand on its own.

+rep for getting it.

wbd said:

And I imagine it will continue be discussed again and again. If you're tired of talking about it or aren't willing to hear what other people have to say, don't participate in the discussions. So simple.

If you can't see why flushing might be more necessary in a container than in the earth, then I'd say there's at least one more thing you can be taught. I have a background in common sense, they don't teach that you know... (oh how I wish they did)

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Heard you the first time, I'll be flushing all container grows from now on...not.

All you people need to smoke a bowl!

I always flush, and as people say, I have done side by sides and I can deffinately tell the.difference in many areas. I feed with flora clean followed by five days to a week of straight water, ph.d to 6.0. To be honest...im.glad most people dont flush, it only makes my bud comparatively that much more valuable.

Also, I use promix and cutting edge solutions 3 part with various.additionals

Bottle ferts are not the problem. Lack of basic plant nutrition is. Marketing and pretty labels are what make plants grow fat, sticky buds, right?

Filthy Phil said:

I always flush, and as people say, I have done side by sides and I can deffinately tell the.difference in many areas. I feed with flora clean followed by five days to a week of straight water, ph.d to 6.0. To be honest...im.glad most people dont flush, it only makes my bud comparatively that much more valuable.

Also, I use promix and cutting edge solutions 3 part with various.additionals

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Flushed weed more valuable, heard it all now...........

When people buy a product, or buy in to a technique, they "want" to believe it works. So they do.

Illegal Smile said:

When people buy a product, or buy in to a technique, they "want" to believe it works. So they do.

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Exactly, mind over matter in a less than completely factual way......

Filthy Phil said:

I always flush, and as people say, I have done side by sides and I can deffinately tell the.difference in many areas. I feed with flora clean followed by five days to a week of straight water, ph.d to 6.0. To be honest...im.glad most people dont flush, it only makes my bud comparatively that much more valuable.

Also, I use promix and cutting edge solutions 3 part with various.additionals

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It's arguments like these that have caused me to do 3 seperate flushing experiments and after a 2wks cure no one can tell a difference. did you wait untill the cure was over? did you participate in the blind taste test?

Most the time I think everyone is too stoned and they think they notice a difference in plants by the nutrients in the buds when there isn't one. were you using seperate strains? you realize mariuaja is a plant and it's going to differ like how one human differs from another. I've got 3 types of nug right now and they all taste different and I didn't flush one. Like I said go ahead and starve your "better buds" because you flush. lol great advise.

So you think that the nutrients you poor into the soil are just sucked up through the roots into the plant and they chemicals store in the nugs untill you smoke it? instead of listening to hear say do some research on how plants work.

SirLancelot said:

So you think that the nutrients you poor into the soil are just sucked up through the roots into the plant and they chemicals store in the nugs untill you smoke it? instead of listening to hear say do some research on how plants work.

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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

This is exactly what they think. It goes with the belief that you can add flavorings that somehow make their way to the buds. Plants take what they need from the soil or water and they metabolize it. At the point most of you are flushing (unless you are doing it too early) the plant has probably stopped uptaking anything, and there is no evidence it can leech anything back out. So I keep asking the question - the gunk that is supposedly being flushed out, where is it being flushed "to?"

Yep Im 100% organic and it is so smooth and tastes great,

SirLancelot said:

It's arguments like these that have caused me to do 3 seperate flushing experiments and after a 2wks cure no one can tell a difference. did you wait untill the cure was over? did you participate in the blind taste test?

Most the time I think everyone is too stoned and they think they notice a difference in plants by the nutrients in the buds when there isn't one. were you using seperate strains? you realize mariuaja is a plant and it's going to differ like how one human differs from another. I've got 3 types of nug right now and they all taste different and I didn't flush one. Like I said go ahead and starve your "better buds" because you flush. lol great advise.

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Theres no need to insinuate things.aboit a person because they say they notice things you cant. I can tell the difference between english and french thyme, italian and thai basil, potatoes put into water amd boiled vs potatoes put into boiling water, the diff betqeen ginger and galangal, and yes, between flushed and unflushed
weed. Its ok if you cant. A few things I notice from my flushed buds, same strain grown many many times,
same time, same light, same nutes, some flushed some.not, t he flushed buds burn better, are smoother on mymy throat, and yes, have a more pronounced cleaner flavor. And they dont make a cracking sizzling sound. But again, its cool if you cant tell the difference, not everyone can...

That's bullshit bro, there is no taste difference, why would there be? Tell me what flushing does to make your buds taste better? Explain to me exactly how and why it works instead of just implying the rest of us can't taste properly?

How come farmers don't flush their veggies or fruits? why is Mj so magically different? I just don't get it. But no one knows what works best for you except for you. I will note that every time I did the experiment I couldn't tell which was flushed and which wasn't regardless if you grow fire nugs your gonna have fire nugs.

Harrekin said:

That's bullshit bro, there is no taste difference, why would there be? Tell me what flushing does to make your buds taste better? Explain to me exactly how and why it works instead of just implying the rest of us can't taste properly?

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I cant man...i cant explain to you exactly how it works. Just in my oppinion, it does work. I will always flush mine, I honestly can no longer be convinced it does nothing.

You dont need to approach this as a challenge buddy. You can do yours your way, and I'll do mine my way. Chilllllll

I didnt say the rest of you cant taste properly,i simply said I taste things others dont. Perhaps its I who taste improperly, yet I do taste a subtle difference.

Have you ever heard of super tasters? I am not saying I am one of them, but I bring it up to illistrate that there are varrying degrees among people of taste experience. Not everyone can taste things equally, some more some less than others.

Again....chillllllll....its not an attack on you simply because I said about you exactly what you say about yourself, that you cant taste the difference....

Oh, and also, my friend is a level two somalie (professional taster), and yes, she can blindly tell the difference.....

Some people think things taste better if you pray over them or perform some other ritual.

I'm beginning to think flushing is just that - a ritual performed by true believers.

ok super taster I'll give you that, but that's like only 25% of the population. SO i guess if your in that 25% you would be able to tell a differnence and I guess im not since I can't tell a taste difference...

SirLancelot said:

ok super taster I'll give you that, but that's like only 25% of the population. SO i guess if your in that 25% you would be able to tell a differnence and I guess im not since I can't tell a taste difference...

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Do you notice that about 3/4 of responses say they cant taste the difference?