raised bed flush?

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#1inthahoodG

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first post newbie here. a resent test of the soil in my 10X3 raised bed shows me that its really lacking in nutes so ive decided to sacrifice my mircobes to the gods of foxfarm trio.(its not a long term bed so i dont care to continue amending it ) all flushing info i see is as related to potted plants . do i need to flush as much ? will the salt that accumulates be distributed out more, making flushing less needed?my environment is 90F or higher with 80ish humidity . my soil is waaay fungal dominant and i havnt seen a mushy pop up sense i applied the tiger bloom(its only been one day).................please post any anecdotal replies with your environmental conditions...also ive seen alot about how flushing dosnt work , i once grew a plant that tasted exactly ff big bloom. would it have tasted the same if i just gave it the 2 weeks nute break before harvest?maybe a curing issue? that taste was intense.... thank you!
 
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#1inthahoodG

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#1inthahoodG said:
haha i might as well have . havnt you ever had something taste exactly like it smelt? thx for the reading!
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def not going to discount this but i cant help but think that a company who manufactures nutes might be inclined to have folks not flush so they can use more nutes
 
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#1inthahoodG

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#1inthahoodG said:
haha i might as well have . havnt you ever had something taste exactly like it smelt? thx for the reading!
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that all seems legit. but i tasted what i tasted. could the difference be in the cure? i am a newb and it was a sad little plant so i never gave it its due time in the process. could the taste be somehow evaporating with the chlorophyl?
 
coreywebster

coreywebster

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#1inthahoodG said:
def not going to discount this but i cant help but think that a company who manufactures nutes might be inclined to have folks not flush so they can use more nutes
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That's a fair comment , normally any nutrient company sell a flushing agent too though.

There have been a few trials that came to the same conclusion over the last couple of years.
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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#1inthahoodG said:
def not going to discount this but i cant help but think that a company who manufactures nutes might be inclined to have folks not flush so they can use more nutes
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They didn’t make that argument though. They didn’t try to sell anyone nutes with that study. They simply showed the science behind things. That it doesnt make much difference if you flush or not it won’t drastically change anything. Which means the same conclusion can be derived about feeding nutrients till the end.

The biggest confusion about flushing is the way people have tried to alter the use of the term. Flushing means dumping huge amounts of water through the medium. It was determined a long time ago that didn’t help plants and could even hurt them.

So then people started trying to call it flushing when they just watered with plain water at the end. That’s just called watering though :). While it can save nutrients to use plain water at the end, that is really the only thing that is happening which this study proves.
 
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#1inthahoodG

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Thundercat said:
They didn’t make that argument though. They didn’t try to sell anyone nutes with that study. They simply showed the science behind things. That it doesnt make much difference if you flush or not it won’t drastically change anything. Which means the same conclusion can be derived about feeding nutrients till the end.

The biggest confusion about flushing is the way people have tried to alter the use of the term. Flushing means dumping huge amounts of water through the medium. It was determined a long time ago that didn’t help plants and could even hurt them.

So then people started trying to call it flushing when they just watered with plain water at the end. That’s just called watering though :). While it can save nutrients to use plain water at the end, that is really the only thing that is happening which this study proves.
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they may not have argued directly , but presenting information that favors not flushing is kinda of a passive aggressive argument. say for instance if how good of a cure you did has an impact on weather flushing does anygood for taste . and they print that info. i would read it and because im a newb i might use less nutes to be safe incase i screwed up my cure. and id buy less of their stuff. what you print has to be correct but you dont have to print everything.

sorry for the mouthful .THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CLEARING UP THOSE TERMS!!!!! i probably missunderstood so many post because i never considered that!
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Thundercat

Thundercat

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They presented information for both sides is my point. There is nothing passive aggressive about offering seemingly unbiased information.

Other people trying to impose bias on the study because the company makes nutrients, when otherwise they didn’t try to sell anything is a problem though.

Flushing does nothing beneficial for plants. I’ve ran multiple side by sides myself with identical clones, but didn’t have the financial or scientific ability to do all the testing to prove it like they did.

How well you dry and cure does have a huge impact on flavor and how the buds smoke, flushing does not.

Whether you grow a healthy plant and let it ripen fully has a huge impact in flavor, smell and smoke quality, flushing does not.
 
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#1inthahoodG

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oh gottchya . i guess its a bit silly to think they would expand their test to include shitty cures , or to add a taste test to the fresh harvest tests.or to ommit something so minor inorder to deceive. i do believe that business and industry is biased toward anything that creates profit . that bias imposes itself on its own ,its good to keep in mind. tho i probably keep it too in mind , i got that capitalist burnout...idk according to that study my plant shouldnt have tasted like the bigbloom but it did . i wasnt primed for it , didnt expect it all .i harvested it only half thinking about it cause it was so sorry looking. show me a study that includes after harvest or half cured taste tests and ill believe im making it up .
also when you say flush you mean the big water dump?
cause when they say flush they mean a water only period
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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#1inthahoodG said:
oh gottchya . i guess its a bit silly to think they would expand their test to include shitty cures , or to add a taste test to the fresh harvest tests.or to ommit something so minor inorder to deceive. i do believe that business and industry is biased toward anything that creates profit . that bias imposes itself on its own ,its good to keep in mind. tho i probably keep it too in mind , i got that capitalist burnout...idk according to that study my plant shouldnt have tasted like the bigbloom but it did . i wasnt primed for it , didnt expect it all .i harvested it only half thinking about it cause it was so sorry looking. show me a study that includes after harvest or half cured taste tests and ill believe im making it up .
also when you say flush you mean the big water dump?
cause when they say flush they mean a water only period
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I mean either, I’ve ran the tests too. It makes no difference. I don’t know what your plant tasted like but it wasn’t flavored by the nutrients. Different plants all taste differently though and if they are unhealthy and chopped early it can make them taste worse for sure, but’s it’s not the actual nutrients you are tasting. That’s not how plants uptake.
 
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