Flushing before harvest is Bro Science!

jondamon

jondamon

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Hollatchaboy said:
They just end up looking like Canucks plants.
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The only reason i mentioned it is because the “pro” flushers generally use soil or other medium that holds onto nutrients as part of the CEC of that particular medium.

as @calvin.m16 has stated he uses plain water for 10 days due to there being enough already in his medium.

Hydro is a whole other animal when it comes to not giving any nutrition for that length of time.
 
LeastExpectedGrower

LeastExpectedGrower

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calvin.m16 said:
I think of it as the plant is at the end of its life, its already frosty, it already reeks, it's about to be chopped so feed just water until the final moment when I can chop and harvest it. I think "FLUSHING" has many different levels, methods and extremes.

Some people think a flush is just giving plain water for the last week or two until runoff, some people think its putting 10 times the container volume of water daily to where your draining out tons of the runoff..

This thread will never be constructive and the last 4 pages proves it, there are a couple people willing to discuss it and everyone else is either following the leader or going off their personal opinion or preference.
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Cool, and there's no problem with having a general 'this is what I think' ...but that has nothing to do with the actual science involved.

While growing it isn't unusual to flush if you've got lockout (flushing the soil of nutrients to solve uptake issues that are stopping the osmotic process from working correctly in the root zone. And that indeed is a scientific thing.

Watering instead of feeding for a week because you don't want to pay for more nutrient mix or because you know the plant can cannibalize the nutrients out of its own foliage is a thing.

Pouring lots of water through a pot, or assuming that replacing feeding with water so that the plant somehow removes excess nutrients in the flower structures...that would be the mythological plant flush. I'm waiting for anyone to actually drop real scientific proof that this is a thing that happens or can happen. If it does, there's an actual biological mechanism that does this. So...let's see it. Surely someone can pony up some actual proof.
 
Gregshed

Gregshed

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The thread shows just how this re****ed shit got started in the first place.

Plants don't taste of fertilizer, never did never will, you over fertilize and it taste of shit so you invented something to explain that instead of learning how to grow.

The reason everyone laughs at mj growers.
 
twentyeight.threefive

twentyeight.threefive

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jondamon said:
The only reason i mentioned it is because the “pro” flushers generally use soil or other medium that holds onto nutrients as part of the CEC of that particular medium.

as @calvin.m16 has stated he uses plain water for 10 days due to there being enough already in his medium.

Hydro is a whole other animal when it comes to not giving any nutrition for that length of time.
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He uses coco.
 
Hollatchaboy

Hollatchaboy

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jondamon said:
The only reason i mentioned it is because the “pro” flushers generally use soil or other medium that holds onto nutrients as part of the CEC of that particular medium.

as @calvin.m16 has stated he uses plain water for 10 days due to there being enough already in his medium.

Hydro is a whole other animal when it comes to not giving any nutrition for that length of time.
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Good point. I would imagine, they would fade and die, at a accelerated pace. Everything happens faster in hydro.
 
Kassiopeija

Kassiopeija

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Creature1969 said:
Is that suppose to be definitive proof of every pot plant grown in the Earth? I could copy/paste pics of 100 plants grown outdoors that are green at harvest.
For someone who complained about a study not being done properly, this is kind of a sad attempt.
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no it is in response of what you said, that plants do not fade outside

that's a bold generalisation & totally untrue

and I never claimed it the opposite wouldnt happen either

and I also made no attempt to put this into relation of the study's result

at this point u are putting words in my mouth in an attempt to defend ur naive claims
 
Wattzzup

Wattzzup

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Kassiopeija said:
no it is in response of what you said, that plants do not fade outside

that's a bold generalisation & totally untrue

and I never claimed it the opposite wouldnt happen either

and I also made no attempt to put this into relation of the study's result

at this point u are putting words in my mouth in an attempt to defend ur naive claims
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So it might happen it might not happen. You’re not sure and you’re not going to say. Pretty much sum up your “opinion?”
 
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