A couple questions for people who like to flush

[Jimmy the vest uk]

I guess some people like it some dont. I have had good success both flushing and not flushing so im not here to talk about whether you should or shouldnt.
1. Im asking if anyone else has seen individual plants flush easier than others and produce cleaner feeling smoke and ash?
2. Also does anyone feel that if you hope for a more sedative effect from your weed and you leave her to ripen for longer she can slow down how much she drinks at the end?

Basically if i had whats considered an 8 week flowering strain i would feed for 8 weeks straight and then switch to straight water and to be honest after just one straight water feed i normally get yellowing and often its only 2 plain feeds then chop and it gives me the more sedative effect im looking for in my smoke

 

[gearshift]

" it gives me the more sedative effect im looking for in my smoke."

Do you scope your buds after the extra week and if so can you describe the tricomes?
If you kind (edit: kindly) answer the above question, I will tell what I was taught years ago and what I have experienced. (Experienced many times.)

 

[Kingrow1]

Bud smokes the best when well grown with nutrients start to end. If you cannot achieve this then its not flushing you should be focusing on.

There is a reason why sometimes your unflushed bud is primo likr e your flushed

 

[Dr. Who]

You can NOT "FLUSH" nutrients from a plant! SCIENCE!
"Flushing" = MYTH!

Someday I would love to give Danny Danko and his merry group of magazine "expert's" a flush!

Swirly time!

 

[.RootDown]

It's true that you can't flush nutrients from the plant- however you can prevent the plant from taking up additional nutrients by flushing the medium. If you add no further nutrients the plant uses whatever it has stored, ridding the "excess" nutrients.
In essence, isn't this flushing the plant? Perhaps the nomenclature is off, but the end result it acheived.

 

[Kingrow1]

It's true that you can't flush nutrients from the plant- however you can prevent the plant from taking up additional nutrients by flushing the medium. If you add no further nutrients the plant uses whatever it has stored, ridding the "excess" nutrients.
In essence, isn't this flushing the plant? Perhaps the nomenclature is off, but the end result it acheived.

Been here a long time - flushing was dreamt up to reduce chlorophyll not nasty chems and nutrients.

Something noobies find a little hard to understand thesedays

 

[.RootDown]

It's the excess chlorophyll that can cause harsh taste? My mistake, I thought it was the nitrogen.

 

[pulpoinspace]

1. no
2. no

the longer you let it go the more sedative it will be, period.
i give my plants water only for the last week because it saves nutrients and uses the last nutrients stored in the root zone and fan leaves.

 

[Renfro]

Just reduce nitrogen in your feed in the later part of flowering and you are good to go. It's too much nitrogen that makes harsh bud.

 

[Redeye 420]

1. no
2. no

the longer you let it go the more sedative it will be, period.
i give my plants water only for the last week because it saves nutrients and uses the last nutrients stored in the root zone and fan leaves.

I do the same, just plain water for the last week. I've heard people advising to run a ton of water through the soil the last couple weeks? That's a bad idea.

 

[Kingrow1]

It's the excess chlorophyll that can cause harsh taste? My mistake, I thought it was the nitrogen.

We smoke a green product its just with less chlorophyl other flavours can come through more.

 

[Gemtree]

Finally did the test myself. I couldnt flush my 1100 ppm coco so just harvested as dried as usual. Not harsh, no crackling and white ash.

 

[Jimmy the vest uk]

Yeah I like to see a reasonable amout of brown trichomes when i scope them

 

[Jimmy the vest uk]

So when i chop my plants i like to see some yellowing of the leaves, are some people happy to chop them down when they are still lush green colour?

 

[Jimmy the vest uk]

Yeah i like to see a reasonable amount of brown trichomes when i scope them

 

[Jimmy the vest uk]

Just reduce nitrogen in your feed in the later part of flowering and you are good to go. It's too much nitrogen that makes harsh bud.

Do you reduce it enough to see yellowing?

 

[Renfro]

Do you reduce it enough to see yellowing?

Yes, that tells you the plant is using the mobile nutrient nitrogen from it's older fan leaves to build bud. The last few weeks you wanna see the fans yellow from the bottom up, that lets you know there is no excess nitrogen.

 

[ttystikk]

I flush...



























After every dump.

 

[gearshift]

@Jimmy the vest uk
I am gad others have given you replies about flushing and their reasoning. Thanks growers! I don't flush, my reasoning is because I am lazy.
@pulpoinspace and you, yourself, answered the "letting them go longer" question.
You scope your trichomes, so I won't go into stigmas (hairs).

This is what I have been taught and experienced:
Clear trichomes = low levels of THC and CBN.
Half clear and half cloudy/milky trichomes = a more speedy/trippy high.
Mostly cloudy/milky trichomes = most intense high = euphoria and pain relieving effects.
Mostly amber/brown trichomes= relaxing, narcotic high= reduced anxiety.
Some of the THC in the trichomes, as the bud is dried and cured, becomes degraded into CBN.
This THC degrading into CBN also happens, to a greater degree, when the plant is flowering longer and the cloudy/ milky trichomes turn amber/ brown.

 

[Kingrow1]

Yes, that tells you the plant is using the mobile nutrient nitrogen from it's older fan leaves to build bud. The last few weeks you wanna see the fans yellow from the bottom up, that lets you know there is no excess nitrogen.

Ya dude i hate to inform you but we dont smoke fan leaves, we do smoke those green nitrogen filled bud leaves that come with the bud though... the ones that have a central magnesium atom in their ring.....!