Question about flushing

Jimski · Apr 15, 2025

420AD said:
Yes I can, from what I'm hearing people usually eat tomatos, not feed them.
In soil you can surely go without adding nutes, no?

Throwing a tomato plant in the ground and walking away gives you the same results as doing it with a pot plant. I grow Organic in a flood plane ground sip with 12 inches of soil and a hydroton base of 6 inches. I feed and train my tomatoes and have had great success with not just yield but flavor.
This is my first year back with a garden due to back issues in 3 years. Tomatoes and peppers in one area and starting some strawberries but do not expect much on them 1st year.
The results from growing tomatoes and gardening tomatoes is like the difference between new cannabis grower and an experienced grower. Hell I grew for 5 years before I could properly identify a sucker or train a vine up a stick or wire or post or fence. Now with the internet anyone can grow pot and can really grow food without having to make all the mistakes.

420AD · Apr 15, 2025

Jimski said:
Throwing a tomato plant in the ground and walking away gives you the same results as doing it with a pot plant. I grow Organic in a flood plane ground sip with 12 inches of soil and a hydroton base of 6 inches. I feed and train my tomatoes and have had great success with not just yield but flavor.
This is my first year back with a garden due to back issues in 3 years. Tomatoes and peppers in one area and starting some strawberries but do not expect much on them 1st year.
The results from growing tomatoes and gardening tomatoes is like the difference between new cannabis grower and an experienced grower. Hell I grew for 5 years before I could properly identify a sucker or train a vine up a stick or wire or post or fence. Now with the internet anyone can grow pot and can really grow food without having to make all the mistakes.

Great story about what a good tomato grower you have become and all, but that's not the point here.
We were talking about flushing cannabis plants.

Not sure what color change OP is looking for the yellowing from the lack of N, or the getting orange, pink, and violet or blue or even greyish black.
That depends on the strain and most likely the intensity/spectrum of your lights and/or other factors like night temperatures.

BongerChonger · Saturday at 2:51 PM

I want to put it out there, that the reason store bought tomatoes aren't nearly as good, is because they're picked too early and then gas ripened.

Hydroponic or organic should have much the same resulting tomato, if allowed to ripen on the vine.

Part of me used to believe flushing had some merit. But after a few years and grows flushing plants just seems bizarre.

And, where do they get this arbitrary "must flush 2 weeks from harvest" anyway?
Why 2 weeks, why so specific?

Wastei · Saturday at 3:38 PM

The only time flushing makes a positive difference is when someone has been overfeeding. Flushing work the other way around than what people think.

Flushing with plain water is very contra productive in any situation growing in hydro or soilless. That will only let the plant hold on to the minerals you intent to "flush out".

The best I think is to go by how the plant looks and what it tells you to do and that is most often to lower the nutrient strength in late flower as the plants metabolic rate goes down.

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