An easy question, that will give you REP if you answer!

I have a plant that is 5 1/2 weeks into flowering.

- Two weeks before harvest I plan on Flushing the plant.
-My plant is in FoxFarm Soil.
-My plant has been fed General Organics Nutes.


QUESTION TIME!!!!!
1. SHOULD I flush two weeks before flowering. (I AM, AFTER ALL, using organic nutes?)

2. SUPPOSING I DO FLUSH, how much water should I use? (I have a 5 gallon pot?)


ANSWER AWAY.....FOR REP!!!! Thanks guys!

Yes flush 2 weeks prior to harvest and the general rule of thumb is 2-3 times the amount of soil you are using (a 3 gallon pot=6 to 9 gallons of water). Let them get good and dry afterwards to get oxygen back into the root system.

BTW, flushing organics is still very useful. Personally I like to taste my buds not fish guts and worm shit! LOL!

I've known growers to flush at one week or even 10 days... it don't have to be two weeks imo. Why don't you start with your clearex flush on week one and use R/O water week 2?

flushing is not needed unless you run into a problem( ph way out) or have a salt buid-up ( overfeeding / high ppms), then you would flush medium until you have a clear run off.

lime73 said:

flushing is not needed unless you run into a problem( ph way out) or have a salt buid-up ( overfeeding / high ppms), then you would flush medium until you have a clear run off.

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So, what your saying is that I should just change over to ONLY water for the last two weeks. BUT NOT FLUSH? ^ guy above you has a great point....THE FISH GUTS THING.

chiefchuckles said:

So, what your saying is that I should just change over to ONLY water for the last two weeks. BUT NOT FLUSH? ^ guy above you has a great point....THE FISH GUTS THING.

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No ... you only have to flush medium/just water, when you have a problem....or at final watering before you are going to harvest. 2 weeks is too long without nutes...good to cut back nutrients during final phase, but i wouldn't say ....None for two weeks?

lime73 said:

No ... you only have to flush medium/just water, when you have a problem....or at final watering before you are going to harvest. 2 weeks is too long without nutes...good to cut back nutrients during final phase, but i wouldn't say ....None for two weeks?

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Hmmmmmm......EVERY SINGLE thing I have read thus far, (which is a shit ton) says that you always, always, always stop nutes two weeks before harvest.

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chiefchuckles said:

Hmmmmmm......EVERY SINGLE thing I have read thus far, (which is a shit ton) says that you always, always, always stop nutes two weeks before harvest.

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why would you stop feeding your plant when she is in final few weeks...maybe the Last week but not two? That's when the buds are filling out and Should be fed something, like I said cut back nutrients ( final feed) .... then just water( flush)...before harvest.

chiefchuckles said:

So, what your saying is that I should just change over to ONLY water for the last two weeks. BUT NOT FLUSH? ^ guy above you has a great point....THE FISH GUTS THING.

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The Fish Guts thing is psychology imo. Fortunately, plants are entirely devoid of that. The root system rejects the fishy gutty parts until the microherd has reduced them to pure, sweet ions. Jmo. cn

Make the decision yourself instead of listening to what others have to say about it. Try not flushing one plant. Give it the same exact dry and cure. Then have a friend pack you a snap bowl of one, then the other. Do this a few times. Have him keep track, not telling you which is which until you are done with all your snaps. You might be surprised at what you thought was the flushed and was the unflushed. That should give you a pretty clear answer as to if flushing is really necessary to get your bud tasting good and smoking smooth.

http://www.marijuanagrowing.eu/emergency-flushing-for-harvest-t21899.html
http://www.marijuanagrowing.eu/how-too-emergency-flush-using-bubbler-t29346.html?hilit=emergency flush

lime73 said:

why would you stop feeding your plant when she is in final few weeks...maybe the Last week but not two? That's when the buds are filling out and Should be fed something, like I said cut back nutrients ( final feed) .... then just water( flush)...before harvest.

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Because it takes the nutes from the fan leaves (yellowing)

BUT NO JOKE, everything I have read says water for the last two weeks. I am doing that regardless of what you say, I mean, that wasn't even my question. THE QUESTION WAS: If I still need to flush BECAUSE im using organics. NOT about nutes in the last two weeks.

SERIOUSLY: look it up. You will get no other info than to stop nutes two weeks before. Trust me on THAT one.

chiefchuckles said:

Because it takes the nutes from the fan leaves (yellowing)

BUT NO JOKE, everything I have read says water for the last two weeks. I am doing that regardless of what you say, I mean, that wasn't even my question. THE QUESTION WAS: If I still need to flush BECAUSE im using organics. NOT about nutes in the last two weeks.

SERIOUSLY: look it up. You will get no other info than to stop nutes two weeks before. Trust me on THAT one.

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I would say yes because the one problem nutrient that can cause finished bud to be harsh andor crackly is ammoniac nitrogen. That tends to be the form of N released by organics. I don't see flushing as necessary, but just watering without nutes or nute precursors (which most organics are until the mcroherd converts them) strikes me as good practice.
btw I am not here for rep. cn

https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/68854-wens-right-time-stop-givin.html

THAT is the answer to the Stopping feeding nutes question.

cannabineer said:

I would say yes because the one problem nutrient that can cause finished bud to be harsh andor crackly is ammoniac nitrogen. That tends to be the form of N released by organics. I don't see flushing as necessary, but just watering without nutes or nute precursors (which most organics are until the mcroherd converts them) strikes me as good practice.
btw I am not here for rep. cn

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REJOICE!!!!! (so your saying dont flush.)

And your also saying ( water for the last two weeks.)

Thanks REP even though your not here for it.

I am guessing that you haven't been reading up much if the only things you have been reading have told you that you HAVE to flush 2 weeks prior to harvest for clean, good tasting bud. No other farmer flushes their plants before they harvest them, but you still buy them and don't say "OMG! don't these farmers know you have to flush the oranges 2 weeks before you harvest them?! I can defiantly taste the bat guano in this orange."

Why would flushing with organic nutrients be any different from flushing chemical nutrients?

bamfrivet said:

I am guessing that you haven't been reading up much if the only things you have been reading have told you that you HAVE to flush 2 weeks prior to harvest for clean, good tasting bud. No other farmer flushes their plants before they harvest them, but you still buy them and don't say "OMG! don't these farmers know you have to flush the oranges 2 weeks before you harvest them?! I can defiantly taste the bat guano in this orange."

Why would flushing with organic nutrients be any different from flushing chemical nutrients?

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ROFL Because chemicals need to be flushed from the buds.....two weeks before harvest.....so I dont taste that shit.......WOW, your a troll huh

I have read shit tons.............MAYBE YOU SHOULD READ THIS

https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/68854-wens-right-time-stop-givin.html

OH and read Cannabears comment above.

ALSO: It has been answered. You shouldnt need to flush because it is organic nutes. I WOULD HAVE NEEDED TO FLUSH IT IT WAS CHEMS.

chiefchuckles said:

ROFL Because chemicals need to be flushed from the buds.....two weeks before harvest.....so I dont taste that shit.......WOW, your a troll huh

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no, I just understand how plants work. organic or chemical. The nutrients aren't stuck up in your bud waiting for you to taste them. If you were smoking your fan leaves I would agree, flushing will help with the flavor. Since we are talking about smoking the buds, flushing won't help out. Flushing the nutrients out of your soil isn't going to pull anything out of your plant. Your plant isn't going to be using up all the nutrients it has stored up in it, to produce more bu.... you know what, never mind. Believe what you want, enjoy. Peace.