Didnt Flush

i didnt have time to flush - long story - - ... is there anything i can do now; post harvest, to get rid of nutes etc. or at least minimize their effects... ie water curing...

any help or suggestions is most welcome....

thanks!!

slow dry and long cure will help alittle.

You will be fine, no other plant that i know of gets "flushed" before harvesting..not even hops. Too me personally, I feel like flushing is a preference, but I wont tell you not to flush if you want to or feel you need to.

2d9s said:

i didnt have time to flush - long story - - ... is there anything i can do now; post harvest, to get rid of nutes etc. or at least minimize their effects... ie water curing...

any help or suggestions is most welcome....

thanks!!

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I dont flush either.

It will be best to not trim the leaves after you harvested it...slow drying , it will help a lot in the end...last time i fed a heavy nutrient and same day i had to harvest it and hanging whole plants with fans intact and i had to went somewhere...it surprised me that slow drying it will bring best aroma out of it and no harsh at all. But potency is always there

happy gardening.

good thing you didn't flush

to flush........or not to flush.........that is the question..........

depends on your nutes whether there may be any benefit or not . . .

I have seen a lot of folks here who like the taste of non-flushed bud. Some folks liked Zima as well.

Flushing is a myth.

If you give it a good slow dry i doubt you will be able to tell if its been flushed by taste. Its not like the nutrients are sitting in your plant in the same form that you gave them anyway.Plants absorb the mineral ions and use them in chemical processes that make starches and sugars ect. I really think the flushing idea came from plants with way too much nitrogen in them at harvest. Lots of chlorophyll in plant matter makes it taste bad. If you slow dry and cure that chlorophyll will gas off. If you quick dry its trapped in the buds.

Shivaskunk said:

If you give it a good slow dry i doubt you will be able to tell if its been flushed by taste. Its not like the nutrients are sitting in your plant in the same form that you gave them anyway.Plants absorb the mineral ions and use them in chemical processes that make starches and sugars ect. I really think the flushing idea came from plants with way too much nitrogen in them at harvest. Lots of chlorophyll in plant matter makes it taste bad. If you slow dry and cure that chlorophyll will gas off. If you quick dry its trapped in the buds.

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Agreed, If i can't taste the fertilizers in my hops when i do my boils, I highly doubt I would taste fertilizer in a bud.

thanks for all the responses and advice!! ( :

i was in Amsterdam last June and bought a lot of different seeds. in trying a few in one grow, some mistakes were made (lighting, positioning etc...) so some of the ladies had to be harvested earlier. in doing so, i didnt have time to do a flush. i tried some strawberry haze 2 days after the chop and it tasted 'tangy' with a lingering after taste... i thought it may have been the unprocessed nutes.
i tried again yesterday and it seems a lot smoother. im guessing the nutes have been processed (or released) as well as the chlorophyll.
am trying to make it long dry and very long, slow cure... hopefully that should remedy any bumps from the quick harvest...

thanks for all the support!!!

Shivaskunk said:

If you give it a good slow dry i doubt you will be able to tell if its been flushed by taste. Its not like the nutrients are sitting in your plant in the same form that you gave them anyway.Plants absorb the mineral ions and use them in chemical processes that make starches and sugars ect. I really think the flushing idea came from plants with way too much nitrogen in them at harvest. Lots of chlorophyll in plant matter makes it taste bad. If you slow dry and cure that chlorophyll will gas off. If you quick dry its trapped in the buds.

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thanks! im thinking it was a little harsh due to the freshness of the harvest... gonna give it some time and hopefully it will 'cure' itself...
will write an update in a week or so..

thanks!

IMO flushing does nothing but deprive the plant the necessary nutrients it needs in a critical time just before harvesting, i have flushed and not flushed and done it again and compared and there is no difference between the buds, as long as your not pushing 1500-2000 ppm at the end of your grow and you do your shit right flushing makes absolutley no difference, ill prob get shit for saying this but i dont really care im sick of people spreading myths, flushing DOES NOT make a difference, you can tell yourself whatvever you want to but i could give you buds that were flushed and that werent and i guarentee not one person could tell the difference, i dont care how much of an ''expert'' smoker you are or any of that shit, it doesnt make a difference, period

and for people that say ''it doesnt burn right'' or ''i can taste it'' or shit like that then YOUR doing something WRONG with YOUR buds pre harvest. it has NOTHING to do with the nutrients your using guess what, nitrogen, potash, phos, mag, cal, all of them they are ELEMENTS, naturally occuring no matter what they are going to be in your plant, you cant FLUSH them out, jesus im sorry but just saying it is fucking stupid, u cant take something out of a plant while leaving one thing or something else in, thats not how it works. now if you u douse your plants in high nutrient content water alot and they get alot of nutrient build up, then yes they can taste different, but theres a big difference between giving your plants nutrients and giving them to much. if you do it right there is NO REASON TO FLUSH

haha you keep telling yourself that friend. denial is best when no reality is needed.

Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible By Jorge Cervantes says that flushing removes nutrients from the growing medium. Plants should be flushed a week or so before harvest so that the roots take in clean water and the plant expels fertilizers which can give it a bad taste when smoked. The plants should be flushed with a couple gallons of water 7 to 10 days before harvest and the only other time to flush is if you've added too much fertilizer.

Trousers said:

Maybe a bit in soil, but not in hydro, unless you like shit pot.

I can taste unflushed hydro, it doesn't burn right.

organic soil might not need flushing at all.

I only grow in soil outside.

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Lol. You are soooo full of it. You can't taste fertilizer if you don't flush and it doesn't make the shit burn funny either. If your buying weed from dispensaries and it tastes like shit, then whoever grew it don't know what they're doing. You grow autos and buy weed from dispensaries, I doubt you're as experienced as you think you are.

Shivaskunk said:

If you give it a good slow dry i doubt you will be able to tell if its been flushed by taste. Its not like the nutrients are sitting in your plant in the same form that you gave them anyway.Plants absorb the mineral ions and use them in chemical processes that make starches and sugars ect. I really think the flushing idea came from plants with way too much nitrogen in them at harvest. Lots of chlorophyll in plant matter makes it taste bad. If you slow dry and cure that chlorophyll will gas off. If you quick dry its trapped in the buds.

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This is the one of the best explanations of why the idea of 'flushing nutrients' out of your plants is a misconception. Rep for you. Right, the nutrients are converted to plant starches and sugars. Flushing is a myth.

I do cut my nutrient feeding back at the end of flower. I peak with high ppm in week 5-6 and draw back towards the end. This is mostly to conserve nutrients and because the plants dont need it. I cut N out almost completely in the last half of flower. This leaves my leafs looking pretty yellow by the end. Like i mentioned before though this is more because i hate wasting money. The only thing (aside from shitty grown or dried weed) that i have noticed affecting taste is abundance of nitrogen in late flowering and that can be mitigated by drying properly.

As for how herb burns well i smoke joints and one hitters so i dont pay much attention. I have had weed that i bought refuse to burn in a joint though.