The Truth About Flushing

Tangerine_

Tangerine_

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whitebb2727 said:
You are making me blush now.

I'm not saying I know it all or I am the best around. I grow for myself and a few others that need it.

I mainly grow because its illegal here and I don't want to support cartels or other criminal outfits.

It is also hard to find good pot here. If you do its outrageous. 10-20 bucks a gram. Screw that.

I make mistakes. I've shown them. I try to be modest. At times I'm sure I come off a little cocky but I genuinely care and try to help others.

I grow illegally because I will not stand idle and watch people that need it suffer.

I spend time in the grow sections helping when I can. I wouldn't give advice to the detriment of anyone's plants.

I also try to be a sponge. You never know when someone may teach you something.

I enjoy the banter and have learned quit a bit she here on this site.

I hunted a pig farm that was a couple miles from where I grew up. We could smell it when the wind was right. I also spent some time inside those pig buildings.

No thank you. I prefer not to. We raise one or two pigs a year and those stink bad enough.

Maybe. That may be true.


I understand natural fade and genetic colors.

What I don't understand is the claim of letting it fade because of nutrient defeincy. Cannabruh says that he waits until the swell is done then lets them fade. How does that makes sense? Right after the swell is prime time to harvest. Waiting until a deficient fade would put the plant past a good harvest time.

If you fade before the swell it hurts yield and potency.

To each their own I guess.

I hunt just about every game available. I love me some dove breast wrapped in a piece of bacon.

My son is now getting into it now.
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A nice bird we got this spring.

Yes. I'm a little pudgy. Winter weight. By this fall I will be lean.
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Good post white. And that bird looks like it would feed a small village!

You're right. Even the most seasoned grower can learn something new.

The best piece of advice my father ever gave me about growing - "know when to shut up and listen"
 
Budley Doright

Budley Doright

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Tangerine_ said:
Good post white. And that bird looks like it would feed a small village!

You're right. Even the most seasoned grower can learn something new.

The best piece of advice my father ever gave me about growing - "know when to shut up and listen"
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That was my fathers advice too and when I didn't shut up and listen I got a swift painful reminder as to the need to heed his advice lol. Nice turkey white, I still get out for them every year, love turkey. And yup both my girls have their licence but only one kept at it, their older now but I still get out with the younger of the two, she's 28 :). Just did some carp shooting last week with her :). I've been growing pot for most of my life and still learning how to improve, but I was always doing it for money, only the last few years have I made an effort to grow a better product for me personally.
 
chemphlegm

chemphlegm

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MichiganMedGrower said:
That would mean you were lacking in those elements in the first place.

I only comment on this because of the add more stuff attitude this industry has.

Everything needs to be in balance and complete for the plants needs is the key to quality.

More is not something plants ask for. (Well maybe light). Just enough describes better there nutrient needs.
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I've approached this the same way in my garden. Knowing a plant will grow to its weakest resource and will not always show a deficiency while doing it, when I see fuller expressions after adding an item....I know that that item is likely one of those weakest resources I've been providing. Sometimes limiting issues are accepted as normal indoor circumstance, and all indoor grows are deficient in my opinion, as we we cannot reproduce the sun, its penetration, its uv, air movement/exchange, soil web diversity, insect frass, foliar fixing, etc.
 
jonsnow399

jonsnow399

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greg nr said:
First, I never said I was a farmer. I worked on a farm. It was a dairy farm in the early 70's. Nobody planted cover crops, let alone winter wheat. Cornell didn't even have an advisory on it. To say money was tight would be an understatement. I doubt he could have afforded it or would have known to do it.

And yes, the corn came up fine for the years I was there. Ferts? yeah, he fertilized. Herbicides, yeah. Insecticides, hell yeah.

I was just distant family labor dealt out to keep me out of trouble during the summers. And putting up hay was the absolute worst job I have ever had (I had hay fever). And I've had some doosies.

Oh, and you haven't lived until some cow swings the tail she has been soaking in a trough of piss and manure right into your mouth first thing in the morning as you go to put the milkers on.

So stop arguing about something you didn't see. It worked on the scale he farmed it, which wasn't huge.
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Another good thing is when the cow takes a shit right in front of you and it splashes all over you.
 
CoalaCat

CoalaCat

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Ok, I run my girls in coco coir. In my experience it´s best to flush for a few days before harvesting the plant. Maybe 5-7 days depending on the size of the pot and how much runoff I´m allowing it to wash off. I´ve read that not flushing will make the curing process take longer before the buds get tasty. I´ve never tried cutting it down with no flush at all so I can´t testify to the taste difference. I have tried flushing for only 2-3 days, it turned out fine. I thought everyone flushed so this is a great topic to read. I´d like to take a poll on how many of you guys flush or take it seriously and think it has no effect on taste.
 
Budley Doright

Budley Doright

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CoalaCat said:
Ok, I run my girls in coco coir. In my experience it´s best to flush for a few days before harvesting the plant. Maybe 5-7 days depending on the size of the pot and how much runoff I´m allowing it to wash off. I´ve read that not flushing will make the curing process take longer before the buds get tasty. I´ve never tried cutting it down with no flush at all so I can´t testify to the taste difference. I have tried flushing for only 2-3 days, it turned out fine. I thought everyone flushed so this is a great topic to read. I´d like to take a poll on how many of you guys flush or take it seriously and think it has no effect on taste.
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Try it yourself and see what you think. I don't flush as a rule but it may/or may not have saved an otherwise shitty tasting run (used an additive recommended by my at the time trusted hydro store guy) by flushing. One half unflushed but taken a week early, the other flushed with plain water. First half tasted like love canal, second half tasted fine lol. Never notice a difference normally though.
 
Javadog

Javadog

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I find that I skip flushing as the number of breeds/plants that I am running increases.

I have never had bud sparkle when burning....though I've heard that it can happen...extra Mg IIRC
 
Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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chemphlegm said:
A) yes they do, and 810 ppm in hydro at week 7 of an 8 week strain
D) flushing is running pure water through a plant pot for one week according to dynaGrow
and flushing in dirt is using pure water for two weeks..... how much water? how often? and the soil builders? they flush every day right?
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I just trying to find were they say this? Any chance of a link please @chemphlegm ?
 
Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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CannaBruh said:
Which N goes up? Are you following and referring to the article excerpts?

From the excerpt I understood as the experiment was to feed the N at various levels and correlate the growth differences or try to understand some relationships.

I didn't understand it to conclude to water and N goes up? Where do you get that from?
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Are here we are:

10/6/14 is one plant 12/29/14 is post flush results. 1/30/15 is pre flush and 2/16/15 is post flush on second plant bud tissue samples.
https://manicbotanix.com/hydroponic-nutrient-science/
 
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