You can't see as I moved it out of the way, but there is actually another 400 watt MH between the two HPS'.
Thanks, I continue working out the bugs!
All this fancy reading..
Actually I think your just crap talking about some old school soil grows and imaginary tests. I assume you are just a dirt farmer. I can't see any other way you can go 10 days without watering. Curing is and always has been the way. Flushing is just an insane short cut for people who just quick dry and smoke without curiing, or who do over dries and half *ss cures.All this fancy reading..
I compared two plants. One that i didnt flush and one that i did. The one i gave plain water did not only smoke better, but also tasted better and the ash was light grey. The one i didnt flush burnt dark grey. ANd futher more I now use a clearing solution and with never go back.
I can see you getting away by using organics in something like peat or coco.
Im thinking of using problend pro bloom for the last week before flushing.
I also now flush after veg and mid/end flowering.
RO sounds good tho.
I dont water before a chop. I let it dry up good to build carbs up and easyer removal of the PRO-MIX. SO basicly ten days. 1 with floraclear and one with plain water. The plants use most of the minerals out of the water in the last 4 days before cut down.
But if you have hard water you will have hard smoke. Calcium=immobile. High sodium content in the medium=no good.
Your bud will burn black if to much nitrogen was left in the plant. Or maybe an excess of P?
The trick is letting the plant use all available nutrients before chopchop.
I dont care what the facts are. I know whats best for my plants.
All this fancy reading..
I compared two plants. One that i didnt flush and one that i did. The one i gave plain water did not only smoke better, but also tasted better and the ash was light grey. The one i didnt flush burnt dark grey. ANd futher more I now use a clearing solution and with never go back.
I can see you getting away by using organics in something like peat or coco.
Im thinking of using problend pro bloom for the last week before flushing.
I also now flush after veg and mid/end flowering.
RO sounds good tho.
I dont water before a chop. I let it dry up good to build carbs up and easyer removal of the PRO-MIX. SO basicly ten days. 1 with floraclear and one with plain water. The plants use most of the minerals out of the water in the last 4 days before cut down.
But if you have hard water you will have hard smoke. Calcium=immobile. High sodium content in the medium=no good.
Your bud will burn black if to much nitrogen was left in the plant. Or maybe an excess of P?
The trick is letting the plant use all available nutrients before chopchop.
I dont care what the facts are. I know whats best for my plants.
Sry not trying to jack your thread MB (your plants are looking amazing though excellent job so far my friend, mine dont even look that good be proudAll this fancy reading..
I compared two plants. One that i didnt flush and one that i did. The one i gave plain water did not only smoke better, but also tasted better and the ash was light grey. The one i didnt flush burnt dark grey. ANd futher more I now use a clearing solution and with never go back.
I can see you getting away by using organics in something like peat or coco.
Im thinking of using problend pro bloom for the last week before flushing.
I also now flush after veg and mid/end flowering.
RO sounds good tho.
I dont water before a chop. I let it dry up good to build carbs up and easyer removal of the PRO-MIX. SO basicly ten days. 1 with floraclear and one with plain water. The plants use most of the minerals out of the water in the last 4 days before cut down.
But if you have hard water you will have hard smoke. Calcium=immobile. High sodium content in the medium=no good.
Your bud will burn black if to much nitrogen was left in the plant. Or maybe an excess of P?
The trick is letting the plant use all available nutrients before chopchop.
I dont care what the facts are. I know whats best for my plants.
) Anyway the reason bud gets that harsh throat burn is due to the P in the nutes. The owners of Advanced Nutrients did exhaustive tests on what marijuana plants need/use at certain times of growth and they come to find out you do not need much P at all in your nutes please watch this and try to pass it around as much as you can its very informative 
As am I, but mr.smileyface decided to drag a soil grow into the argument so I replied to his silly reply, even though it constituted scope creep.
Your posting should be editted out. It is simply advertising AN absurdities.Sry not trying to jack your thread MB (your plants are looking amazing though excellent job so far my friend, mine dont even look that good be proud
The Great Phosphorus Myth Exposed!
Once again Money Bags keep it rockin brotha i'm gonna have a few Q's comming your way
Is that why your on a marijuana growing forum and he has millions from the great products he sells? Should change the name to trollman instead of fartman.
There is a lot about Mikie that is off the charts. His prices, his Ego, his absurb logic, his deceoption and flat out lies and his continuance of the practice of taking advantage of unkowing mj growers and in steering them wrong with bad advice and skewed information meant to benefit noone but hism and his shareholders (if they even truly exist)..
All I'm saying is that his cholesterol is probably off the charts. I don't want to get in the middle of this argument, I just thought it needed saying.
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Many people do not consider sex gland swelling when they decide to flush their plants. Quite a mistake..
Do you guys think Mike's cholesterol is high? We should really get him on a diet: loud, fat aggressive Italian looking guys are a high risk group.
I have no sound on this computer, what's he talking about? Should I throw any supplements out? Big Bud? Fuck it, I'm chucking them all to be safe.
Has anyone else found that the cure is much more important than flushing for smooth vapor/smoke? I feed right up until the end and by the 4th or 5th week of cure the vapor is so smooth. I've read, and noticed, that a lot of swell comes in the last two weeks of the plants life. Perhaps there's enough nutes in the soilless, or in the plant, to carry it through to harvest and still have the buds swell. Thoughts?
If there was enough nutrients wothout nutrients being supplied then leaves would not be turning yellow and bt rown or even light green, nor would other signs of nutrient deficiencies be appearing. Minimal nutrients mean less swelling of the sex glands so less potency and less yield.
And do you folks consider flushing to be watering without nutes or flushing the root ball with 2x-3x the volume of water?
Most hydro growers who say they flush generally mean they just use pH balanced RO water instead of nutrient water during their flush period. So not only does it deprive the plant of nutrients during this most imp0rtant part of growth (sex gland swelling and resin production), it also removes nutrients that the plant could use if it were not flushed.
A person who wished just to deprive a plant of additional nutrients should raise the water to the EC they were previously maintaining with something like calcium, magnesium and potassium and then pH balance as needed. This will essentially mean nothing will be taken up but water and magnesium if needed and nothing will be removed through osmossis.
With the EC being the same as previously nothing will be stripped from the plant yet transpiration will continue to be high and photosynthesis will continue as long as there are unused nutrients in the plant that have not been metabolized. You will find though that the plant does not have that many unmetaboloized nutrients stored and as a resort your sex galand while they will get larger still will not reach the size they would have if fertilized. You will still find a lot of yellowing of older leaves. The magnesium will prevent the signs of magnesium shortage you see in almost all flushed mj.
Fllushing soil or other absorbent mediums usually means drenching them with water equal to about three times the container size three of four times in the last 1o to 14 days before harvest.
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WHats dirt? I was talking about soilLESS. You know.. Passive HYDROPONICS. Your not so smart.
Haha nice. I've been growing vegs for a while, so for some time I've known about legumes and their relationship with the bacteria that lives in the nodules and converts N from the air...But this is the first time I've seen this mentioned on an MJ site. I'd give you more rep+ if I could, for having (and preaching) a more holistic education on plant health. We should all try to understand the science behind growing in general, as well as experience, before we fix rules for MJ in our minds based off of internet talk.
Ok where is your book?? Your are going against facts here fatty. "Passive System rely on capillary action to transfer the nutrient solution from the reservoir to the growing MEDIUM.
of growing plants with-out soil, most often in a soilless mix. IN FACT, many growers are already cultivating hydroponicaly. Cultivating clones in rockwool,PEATmoss, and coco fiber is growing hydroponicaly.