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@RM3 you said you flush every time you feed, could you elaborate a little please? Do you give the plants a full feeding with Nutes, and then drown the plants?

I've always just seen you be against flushing (at least the "conventional" last 2 weeks), just trying to narrow down exactly what it is you do?

Thanks.
 
2Hearts

2Hearts

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Few years ago scientist tried to extrapolate the exact biological processes that a plant uses to convert inorganic chemical mettalic salts into organic living cells. They failled and could not find a complete synthesis but one thing was clear and that was organic, ionic or chemical the leaf still makes the same compounds for which to grow.

I believe that if you need to flush your adding too many ferts in the first place hence where this myth originated.
 
VTMi'kmaq

VTMi'kmaq

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tobacco is a plant that strips all the nutes out of the soil and leaves NOTHING in return, if it werent for big tobacco and addictions to nicotine, it wouldnt be a viable crop imho. When i follow teachings from folks who literally ate dirt along with providing there families and communities with vegtables/fruits one thing that was a constant mantra was follow mother natures lead, by this i mean the symbiotic relationships between the plant the soil and the enviroment they are growing in all play a part in your final results. For example if this flushing theroy is so valid why is there nothing in nature that emulates it? Before humans started messing with plants, there was a method (by nature) that worked extremely well and will contiue to until weather changes make it impossible in some area's. just my opiniion.
 
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riddleme said:
I think that in my time here at RIU I have actually asked 3 questions (I could be wrong) but I think I have a question that could spark some good discussion, allow me to preface it a bit,,,,,,,,,,,

Some of you know that I'm in my 50's so been around awhile, I have noticed in my everyday life that common sense seems to be disappearing from our culture, though I am not sure why. I have learned to happily live my life based on common sense, logic and deductive reasoning. I make choices after doing research (and I do deep research, actually trying to prove myself, idea or belief wrong)

I was reading a thread earlier and this question popped into my head, it was a question that I could not answer, but common sense tells me that it does not make any sense what so ever and all of my research tells me that it is nonsense?

So let me ask and lets get the debate going cause I actually am very curious,,,,,,

It is a very common/popular belief/practice to stop feeding nutes and flush only during the last 2 weeks before harvest, this is based on the notion that we are removing nutes from the plant to improve taste and reduce harshness. The result of this practice is that the plant starts pulling stored nutes from the leaves and the leaves start yellowing.

But we don't smoke the leaves, we smoke the buds and the buds don't yellow they stay healthy alive and green till the end because the plant is pulling the nutes from the leaves, So how does this popular practice remove nutes from the buds that we smoke???

Can anyone please explain how this works???
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Maybe its like this

If you want to rip out your harvested plant and pot one out of veg right into whatever you just took the last plant out of

So re-use the dirt, or coco, or bucket, then yeah probably just water or some water and bennies or some h2o2 is the best thing to use for a week or 2

but if your going to amend or clean or do something to whatever your grew that plant in before re-using it, then obviously you don`t need to clean it while the other plant is growing in it


A side note to the curing, some people like to decarb their bud`s they say 60c for a few hours 90c for 30mins or so and 110 to 120c`ish takes 5 to 15mins

I have noticed that drying the buds out more when they are fresh letting them sit warm for some time does make them nicer to vape and easier to grind up

I just saw them compare raw vs decarb`d but I would like to see raw vs 3 month cure vs 6 month cure vs varisu decarb`d methods

then they could add water cure and freezer cure just for something to do

Also freeze drying buds is something I`ve wanted to try for ages
 
pookat

pookat

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Never realized this thread been going so long.
"Flushing", cant say that i do.
I get my water from a hole in the ground ( i cant spell artisan well), it's more Acidic than most folk would dare to put on their plant's, and Rain water that's all mine get unless its a life or death situation.
and I like to re-use the soil for several grows, untill i try a different grow expreiment,
some times it's nice to be a ex-spring chicken.
RM3, keep up the educating you've got a way.
 
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