Flush or not to flush, that is the question

DoobieDoobs said:

Thanks for the link, I might just give them water then for the final 2 weeks if no improvement was found, that way I can save some nutes for the next runs.

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jondamon said:

Take from it what you will but I read that taste was better, terpenes were better, concentrates had better clarity from the non flushed buds.

the age old stoner myths of flushing the excess nutrients from the plant isn’t what happens. Flushed buds present more final iron Fe left over in cell tissue versus the non flushed.

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DoobieDoobs said:

I should have said no 'mayor improvement', yea maybe two weeks is too much, quite a few said it tasted more earthy and I don't want that for my buds.

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TAngel444 said:

Can somebody take a look at my picture and see if I'm ready to flush/harvest? As I'm following my first grows progress, my plant is in its 5th week of flower, I'm getting over 50 amber pistles but no yellow leaves but the trichs look cloudy.....I'm not sure....buds aren't that thick...I dont know what to do right now.

My plant is very sticky..here are my pics... I clipped a bud....

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jondamon said:

This bit doesn’t happen.

the article I posted actually shows elevated levels or Fe being Found in tissue samples due to flushing.

For example.
Tomatoes.
If you flush copious amounts of water through tomatoes you get tomatoe fruit split especially if you have a wet dry cycle that’s too extreme.

Rhizosphere balance is a fine art.

too much of a change in either direction can cause reverse osmosis to occur in the rootzone.

this is where the plants roots actually begin to exude water!!!

Regardless of if your hydro soil or soiless.

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m99smith said:

Were talking about weed not tomatos

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