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[Breezee77]

I am 62 days since I changed to the 12/12... They are in soil. The trichomes are 5% amber....

I quit nutes almost weeks ago and just have been giving them PH balanced water... I didn't realize to properly flush, you need to give them multiple gallons (this is only the second time I've done this) per gallon of soil. We have 7.5 gallon pots with maybe 5 gallons of soil... I have been watering them their normal dose (2.25 gallons per watter).

What would you do if you were me? We are close to taking them down. I'd actually like to, but now I'm worried about nutes still being in the buds..

Also, I have 2 rooms... 1 has CO2 and most plants are yellow... Other room has limited CO2 and they are mostly green with limited yellow!

Please help if you can! Greatly appreciated.. Thank you

 

[racerboy71]

dumping water through a medium like soil does absolutely nothing to remove anything from buds, this is a horrible myth with no basis in fact or science or botany..
you stopped feeding them weeks ago, i'd just chop when ready, dry, cure, smoke and enjoy.. repeat ad infinity.

 

[perdidobandito]

There isn't much you can do. The best option would be an extra long cure.

 

[ThatLEDGrowKid]

if you've been giving them 2.25gal of water only each feeding for the past two weeks i'd say the plants are pretty well flushed out...i would just continue giving them straight water until you harvest. as for the yellowing issues, idk, you'd have to give us some more information about the room conditions

 

[racerboy71]

if you've been giving them 2.25gal of water only each feeding for the past two weeks i'd say the plants are pretty well flushed out...i would just continue giving them straight water until you harvest. as for the yellowing issues, idk, you'd have to give us some more information about the room conditions

they're yellowing because they've not had nitrogen in, according to the op, weeks, really not hard to figure out imo.

 

[perdidobandito]

if you've been giving them 2.25gal of water only each feeding for the past two weeks i'd say the plants are pretty well flushed out...i would just continue giving them straight water until you harvest. as for the yellowing issues, idk, you'd have to give us some more information about the room conditions

During the end of a pot plant's like, they may naturally turn yellow. They need/get less Nitrogen. The plant also starts to care less about the leaves, more on the bud.

 

[BCOGYODA]

dumping water through a medium like soil does absolutely nothing to remove anything from buds, this is a horrible myth with no basis in fact or science or botany..
you stopped feeding them weeks ago, i'd just chop when ready, dry, cure, smoke and enjoy.. repeat ad infinity.

This is true, but the idea of a flush through soil is to get those nutes/salts out of the soil so the plant can't keep taking those salts in during it's finishing stage. If you want to get the chems and bad tastes out of the actual plants/flowers themselves before you chop then feed a proper flushing agent/clearing solution. There is no myth in that. It is tried, tested, and proven tek.

 

[Breezee77]

Thanks for all your help! 5 replies in 12 hours is great... Thank you!

The reason I meant ironed the yellowing is because it is only in the room with higher levels of CO2... I was thinking this May be because they are going through the nutrients more because of the higher level of co2... Also thinking that if there is yellowing they may not need to be flushed...

Does anyone else agree that if I watered them 3 waterings of 2.25 watering thoughout about 2 weeks is enough to rid them? The ones in the other room are green... I'm seeing amber on the majority... So I was going to hopefully take down soon...


Any thoughts? Thanks again!

 

[Breezee77]

This is true, but the idea of a flush through soil is to get those nutes/salts out of the soil so the plant can't keep taking those salts in during it's finishing stage. If you want to get the chems and bad tastes out of the actual plants/flowers themselves before you chop then feed a proper flushing agent/clearing solution. There is no myth in that. It is tried, tested, and proven tek.

Clearing agent? What clearing agent? How do they work?

 

[BCOGYODA]

Final Phase, Clearex. There's a few different ones on the market. I'm partial to the Final Phase. If you want very smooth, clean, white ash, easy to inhale flowers give a good two straight feeds with it without any other ingredients in it.

When you do a side by side comparison to flowers flushed with it compared to any other way of finishing off your crop you will very easily see the drastic difference.

 

[racerboy71]

Final Phase, Clearex. There's a few different ones on the market. I'm partial to the Final Phase. If you want very smooth, clean, white ash, easy to inhale flowers give a good two straight feeds with it without any other ingredients in it.

When you do a side by side comparison to flowers flushed with it compared to any other way of finishing off your crop you will very easily see the drastic difference.

i must really have a bad pallet if i can't tell the difference as i've tried them like you said and noticed not one bit of difference between flushed and unflushed..

not that i really feel like getting into again, but wth, why is cannabis so special and needs flushed when every other crop on god's green earth doesn't get flushed?? not tomatoes, not cucumbers, not apples, not oranges, only cannaibs is some magical plant that benefits from flushing.. and not toabacco either before someone says they don't smoke tomatoes..

as for final flush, they include epson salts...
Final phase is a stabilized formulation consisting of a blend of chelating agents and
Epsom salts.
so idk how adding salts help remove salts..

and exactly what chem taste are we talking about here?? maybe things like nitrogen and potasium, you know, the chemicals that actually make up the very buds we're smoking??
and i'll leave it with this..

https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/409622-truth-about-flushing.html

 

[Red1966]

So I should put you down in the "undecided" column on flushing?

 

[BCOGYODA]

i must really have a bad pallet if i can't tell the difference as i've tried them like you said and noticed not one bit of difference between flushed and unflushed..

Well I guess yes I would have to suggest that yes I believe that you must have a bad pallet if you can't tell the difference. We have done so many controlled tests there is absolutely no wondering or confusions about it. I have done them for a nute company rep also. Not just with our own crops but I have introduced multiple growers with flushing with clearing solutions who could not believe the difference.

I am a large commercial med grower with close to 100,000 plants grown under my belt from my own crops and from other growers crops I have mentored over the years. I'm not saying this to be a braggart at all. I'm just stating it so you know that any decisions and actions I take in growing are very carefully experimented with, tested, re tested and side by side tested with clones from same mother plants.

Rather than believe what I or anyone else writes on a forum; all a grower has to do to see this for themselves is just do a controlled side by side test with two plants. One plant flushed with clearing solution, and the other not. And they will 100% see the answers for themselves.

Of course a slow, cold, proper dry/cure is also a very important part of having smooth, flavor filled flowers but it all starts with the clearing.