time to flush
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steve kelley
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flushing will not help your plants, will only hurt them if anything! Believe me its not going to do anything for your plants, would like to know who came up with that. They will not taste better, just an old myth.
JoshTheMadTitan
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Disregard this poster. Not only does he not know what hes talking about, he is unfortunately trying to bring others down with him.
Flushing has one main benefit, it WILL increase taste, and if you do it during the last week, it will NOT hurt your plant. What it does, is helps draw out the nutrients, so you are smoking more plant, and less plant food, at the same time, while you plant is starved for nutrients, it will be pulling what it needs from the remaining leaves and pumping them into the buds, ensuring a strong and healthy harvest.
All you need to do is flush for 3-7 days just before harvest. This is when you feed the plants only water.
If you are doing it hydroponically, its easy, just remove nuts and replace with 100% ph balanced water.
For soil however I am not as sure, I would just water as normal, but with only water, though it may call for over watering or under watering to an extent, though don't quote me on that.
LemonAssistance
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Many people have found that flushing in soil grows is not necessary as no nutrients are stored in the plant or buds, but only in the soil and roots. Read up on it and decide for yourself whether you want to flush or not.
I did it on my last grow, but wont be on my current after reading up on it.
I did it on my last grow, but wont be on my current after reading up on it.
okay if nutrients are only stored in the soil and roots explain a deficiency to me. Like Josh said ^^ the plant DOES in fact store its food in it's fan leaves this is why in a hydroponic system such as DWC putting only water and no nutrients as a flushing method makes the plants leaves turn Yellow as they suck the remaining food(nutrients) out of them just like soil. Think about it in nature not as you are growing weed to smoke but a plant growing trying depserately to survive. Just as a human who is severely dehydrated/hungry... Your body starts breaking down fats(eating itself) to survive. The fat in our bodys is our energy just as the starches/ sugars/ nutes are the plants energy source. It makes sense.
canefan
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There is no need to flush in soil. This does nothing but starve a plant of nutes, disrupts your soil web. The last weeks of flower are when you should see an explosion of growth which isn't going to be as good when the plant doesn't have the materials necessary to transport to the flowers. If you have over fed your plants and soil doing the grow just water at the normal rate with plain water but excessive watering will only hurt you in the long. I will give you a link to get you started reading, then just go to google.
The taste and smoothness will come from learning to dry your buds as slow as possible without mold and a good long cure.
https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/409622-truth-about-flushing.html
Good Luck
The taste and smoothness will come from learning to dry your buds as slow as possible without mold and a good long cure.
https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/409622-truth-about-flushing.html
Good Luck
Nukebisket
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From an administrator at Sensi Seeds
And now all of a sudden no one needs to flush anymore. well I've flushed and not flushed and the flushed plants ALWAYS come out with better flavor and burning qualities.
Try to flush 10-14 days prior to choppin her down
racerboy71
bud bootlegger
flushing is a bunch of shit... i grow veggies outdoors and never flush them, and not one tomato tastes like chems, nor one pepper, nor one w/e...
flushing is a myth, and a bad one at that... there is no stored nutes in the buds that you end up smoking, so what exactly dumping tons of water through the soil is going to do for taste is beyond me..
i say flush, if you want to eat or smoke the soil, if not, don't... or if you take a deuce, it's always nice to give a courtesy flush as well..
flushing is a myth, and a bad one at that... there is no stored nutes in the buds that you end up smoking, so what exactly dumping tons of water through the soil is going to do for taste is beyond me..
i say flush, if you want to eat or smoke the soil, if not, don't... or if you take a deuce, it's always nice to give a courtesy flush as well..
racerboy71
bud bootlegger
how on earth does dumping tons of water through the soil have one bit of effect on the taste of the buds?? please explain..
racerboy71
bud bootlegger
oh yah, b'cuz every farmer flushes their crops.. nice try, but fail..
JoshTheMadTitan
Active Member
for a moderator, you are surprisingly uncouth.
This is an explanation as far as I understand it, I may have it wrong, I don't do my own scientific research into the matter, I only read studies of others.
Flushing is done to remove as many of the chemical nutrients many indoor growers use to increase yield, many of which are in a much higher concentration than any used in normal agricultural applications. Farmers don't use the same kind of nutrients at the same levels, it isn't cost effective, they simple plant entire fields and it makes up for the yield per plant, further more farmers DO flush, every crop, several times a grow cycle, every time it rains, they are effectively "flushing" their crops.
grapesnowcone
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use only water, and allow for 30% runoff. i overwater the shit out of mine during the flush.
jonnyquest
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Fuck off a couple of inches of rainfall does not compare to putting 3 times the amount of water through your soil, so no farmers don't flush so no you can't use that as fodder in your empty argument flushing soil does nothing but starve your plant when it needs food most
clobbersaurus
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I've always heard that the quality of your nutes determines whether or not you should flush; budget nutes = flush, pharma grade processing = not needed. Could be bullshit, but makes sense.
JoshTheMadTitan
Active Member
Fuck off? Coming out of left field so harshly? Can't help but think it has something to do with the fact I called you out when you suggested ripping people off is the best way to use your trim.
Might make this my new signature, I do like it.
But I'll still do my best to answer you anyway. If we cut up the average rainfall across the heartland, where most farming int he US is done, we get around 25 inches a year. Meaning that each month there is two inches of rain. But we all know that weather doesn't work that way, rain tends to pile up around the fall and the spring. This adds up to more than a few inches, and if you may not know, a few inches, is in and of itself, a lot of water. Also I believe even at this, that the farmers are not using the same form of concentrated nutrients requiring a flush, as I stated before, if you bothered to actually read it, I just added that there is a flush, in a manner of speaking, happening naturally, not that the farmers need said flush. I'm sorry if you didn't understand, I'm sure that's my fault and I should have been more clear. There are also food regulations put on farmers that simply do not exist for individual pot growers, most of the products used to cultivate pot, though clearly intended for pot, are under the label of ornamental flower products, such as roses, and being a none consumable, are not held in check by the same food safe products that farmers must use, only leading further credence to my theory. This is not an invitation for an argument to claim that not everything a farmer uses is perfectly safe, just an acknowledgment that checks and balances do in fact exist in the agricultural community.
Which brings me to this.
This more or less I believe to be true. If you use all natural, top grade nutrients, flushing is most likely less of a concern.
jonnyquest
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Ha my phone screen requires me to scroll left to see who I'm replying to didn't notice it was you until the qoute read your name nice way to divert attention though. As for your the claim the depth of saturation that your avrage rainfall produces is nowhere near comparable to the standard practice of you flushers of dumping an over large quantity of water through your soil. You say you understand farmers don't need to flush congratulations nor do cannabis growers farmers use the quantity of nutrition necessary to optimize there grow and they don't feel the need to flush it out because there fruits do not suck up the flavour of the product that supplied the various different compunds and mixtures of base molecules, cannabis plants do not do this either.