Flushing.. yes no ?

[JSB99]

Not sure why folks believe starving a plant in its final and most important profile building stage of flower is in any way beneficial to flavor or the way it burns or the color of the ash. Proper drying & cure has more to do with that than anything regarding nutrients.

But you're not starving it. The leaves have stored up all those nutrients.

 

[JSB99]

I dont flush. I read my,plants. If they want a lower feed(which they usually do) i lower it.

Im usually at about 400-500ppm by end of flower.

As hydrored says a proper dry and cure does wonders. The slower the dry the less hay taste.

I go about half strength, (around 400ppm) 2-weeks out, for a week. On the last week, I fill and drain a few times when flushing, to wash away salts and slime, then just balanced water until harvest.

 

[JSB99]

I dont flush. I read my,plants. If they want a lower feed(which they usually do) i lower it.

Im usually at about 400-500ppm by end of flower.

As hydrored says a proper dry and cure does wonders. The slower the dry the less hay taste.

And yes, proper curing is Paramount!!!

 

[Fractured but whole]

But you're not starving it. The leaves have stored up all those nutrients.

and when the plant doesn't get it's feeding, it takes those stored nutes and sends them,WHERE?

 

[KryptoBud]

But you're not starving it. The leaves have stored up all those nutrients.

About half of the nutrients taken in by plants are immobile. Those nutrients can't be translocated to deficient parts of the plant.

http://www.fbsadvantage.com/blog/mobile-versus-non-mobile-nutrients/

 

[Niblixdark]

and when the plant doesn't get it's feeding, it takes those stored nutes and sends them,WHERE?

It depletes the extra nutrients away from the leafs and feeds the bud one last bit of nutrients on the last weeks then pulls the remainder out of bottom branches and shaded areas. All with fresh water instead of mild salt. = minerals = oxidized metal = black ashes or dark grey = free radicals in bloodstream = blood vessels constriction = head aches.

 

[JSB99]

and when the plant doesn't get it's feeding, it takes those stored nutes and sends them,WHERE?

To the buds, I'm guessing.

 

[Fractured but whole]

To the buds, I'm guessing.

ding ding ding, prolly why the buds don't yellow.

 

[JSB99]

Potassium, which is in great demand at the end of the grow, is a mobile nutrient, along with nitrogen, and phosphorus.

mobile nutrients, Cornell Univ

 

[JSB99]

ding ding ding, prolly why the buds don't yellow.

Not sure what you mean by this.

 

[Fractured but whole]

Not sure what you mean by this.

that's prolly why you're still here debating something as stupid as flushing. Just sayin

 

[TacoMac]

Flushing is an old wives tale created by idiots. That people still do it is testimony to the stupidity of the public at large.

 

[JSB99]

that's prolly why you're still here debating something as stupid as flushing. Just sayin

If you think discussing this part of the grow is stupid, then chances are you don't give a shit about other things while growing, and your weed is sub-par.

Why are you even here, if this is stupid?

 

[JSB99]

Flushing is an old wives tale created by idiots. That people still do it is testimony to the stupidity of the public at large.

Well, that's one opinion.

 

[TacoMac]

Well, that's one opinion.

No. That is a fact. That you don't even know the history of flushing and where it comes from is quite telling indeed.

 

[JSB99]

Why waste nutrients if the plant has plenty stored up to use for the last week or two? I mean, it's not much, but for people who don't like to waste...

 

[Fractured but whole]

If you think discussing this part of the grow is stupid, then chances are you don't give a shit about other things while growing, and your weed is sub-par.

Why are you even here, if this is stupid?

because stupid people like you keep stupid threads like this going. You're right, i don't give a shit about stupid stoner myths and BTW, the buds in your pic,look like shit.

 

[JSB99]

No. That is a fact. That you don't even know the history of flushing and where it comes from is quite telling indeed.

How can opinions about the taste of weed using, or not using a technique, be "fact"?

 

[JSB99]

because stupid people like you keep stupid threads like this going. You're right, i don't give a shit about stupid stoner myths and BTW, the buds in your pic,look like shit.

I'm not going to argue about whether a thread is stupid or not, so go be a dick somewhere else!

 

[Fractured but whole]

I'm not going to argue about whether a thread is stupid or not, so go be a dick somewhere else!

But,i'm trolling you right now!