I'll play this hand on your "flush",,,,,,,again!
I have been growing indoors for about 30 years and I say flush your plants . Smoother and taste better and joints stay lit .From my experience you want to flush the shit out of your plants at week 7 day 1 of an 8 week stain with good old plain PHd water .I have 5 gallon pots soilless #4 and run about 15 gallons of water through each pot then water only for 10 to 14 days checking with loop till 90% cloudy, or first site of amber . I mostly grow PK and average about 2 lbs a light 1000w and I always flush this way . also if you water till you get run off watch out for salt build up in your trays # 1 way of over feeding is trays with build up and max food watering with run off = nute lock every time .
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
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