Can anybody tell me how to properly flush my plants please

jimdandy said:

I don't think this statement is entirely true. Any grower with any experience will recomend flushing. By flushing, you remove alot of the chemicals from the root system thus improving taste and also the way the finished product burns. Im a soil grower and you pretty much just place your pots in the tub or I use a 5 gallon bucket and 2 wooden boards, set the plant on it and pour 1 gallon per pot size, of straight water thru it till drains all out. Repeat process when pot dries and that gets em flushed pretty well. Then just plain water from that point till harvest.

With Hydro, Im pretty sure if you have bubble buckets, you just drain the buckets and use straight water for the final 2 weeks. There are additives one can use to flush with. Just do some research.

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Wow....interesting concept,,,sadly false. This is still dealing with opinion. Even if that opinion is derived from ones own method. I would expect that that method has been sifted down from doing this, that, and the other thing, for sometime until one has found a method that works well for them. (NOT a bad thing)

I suspect that most idea's about "flushing" have come from many a year ago. Back when us dinosaurs were young we took seeds from bags and grew them.....Late 60's early 70's.....and it was good. Then a few folks got serious about making it better. They went to college and or read Horticultural textbooks on how to grow C3 plants and researched old papers on growing cannabis, looking for information on "high THC" cannabis growing. Things began to change very rapidly!!! Sinsi was the rage. Then came selective breeding to further the ideals of more THC and later to breed in other wanted traits (like mold tolerance, height limits, branching, etc.)

Anyway, during that time there were many interesting theories on how to make the pot taste better in the end. Things like pulling the whole plant up and plunging the the roots into boiling water for at least 2 min. (the version I recall from the early 70's) to the what seems logical "flush"......Sadly, to this day many myths continue down the road.....I still see the boiled root routine pop it's ugly head up from time to time and people have arguments for them that sound good but don't really carry weight.....

In any other plant used for human consumption. . . Is there any report or paper that say's it make's it taste better to flush, therefor it is practice? Is tobacco (another smoked plant of the C3 family) ever flushed for better taste? Anyone???? I truly enjoy a fine cigar everyday. I have toured tobacco curing facilities in Spain, The Dominican and Cuba.......guess what? All of the best tobacco's are made that way by the CURE!!!!! NO ONE FLUSH'S food or tobacco......so why weed? Because it gets fertilizer? So does your food,,,,,so does tobacco......

Bottom line is, just because someone like Danny Danko who writes for High Times and says "flushing is the only way to go"....Don't make it so! The Rev. don't flush, does that cancel Danko out and we go back to the arguments.....????

In my humble opinion, tested out for the last 40 years......I do not flush a grow. If for some reason I have the urge to do a synthetic run in soil,,,,,I DO simply water as normal - no feed, for the last week before harvest......There is enough usable nutrition left in that soil to carry me out.

Here, read this.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/flushing.865850/#post-11457268

If it is such a problem that you cannot manage to even try it that way (no flush) without having your Dr. up your meds.......Then don't!! By all means, do what works for YOU!

When the science is presented (and it has in bits here and in every other thread on the topic) ,,,,Stop beating us with your logic...

Doc

Here, I added this point from another thread on the topic.......I felt I should share it here too.