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Wattzzup

Wattzzup

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Would you do plain water for the last few days for soil? Or do you feed nutrients to chop?

I don’t run any extra water through other than a normal watering for the last few waters. About a week. Would you consider that flushing?
 
Renfro

Renfro

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Wattzzup said:
Would you consider that flushing?
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Denial of feed is what I consider flushing. Yes some residual nutrients are still in the soil but I keep feeding until chop. I use a late bloom feed thats low in nitrogen and a high in potassium. Everyone has their own take on how a plant should be finished and it's your plant but why deny it food when it's doing the most important part of the entire grow, ripening. If you have more than one plant I suggest trying a flush on one and not on the other and see which you like better.

Another downside to flushing is if you are running from seed and don't know ahead of time when to expect the plant to be ripe you could start starving the plant early and there is no going back from that.
 
Pandora6

Pandora6

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Renfro said:
Denial of feed is what I consider flushing. Yes some residual nutrients are still in the soil but I keep feeding until chop. I use a late bloom feed thats low in nitrogen and a high in potassium. Everyone has their own take on how a plant should be finished and it's your plant but why deny it food when it's doing the most important part of the entire grow, ripening. If you have more than one plant I suggest trying a flush on one and not on the other and see which you like better.

Another downside to flushing is if you are running from seed and don't know ahead of time when to expect the plant to be ripe you could start starving the plant early and there is no going back from that.
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The debate continues. To flush or not to flush. I might start a new thread just on this
 
Wattzzup

Wattzzup

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Pandora6 said:
So you dont consider that flushing?
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I personally call it flushing. However some have called it leeching. I’m not sure of the exact term. That’s why I described what I did to avoid the f word.

Some on here consider flushing - a lot of water through at once.
 
Wattzzup

Wattzzup

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Renfro said:
Another downside to flushing is if you are running from seed and don't know ahead of time when to expect the plant to be ripe you could start starving the plant early and there is no going back from that.
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Made this miscalculation once before. Do you think it’s high nitrogen that’s causing the bad taste? Or just too many nutrients through the life of the plant and never stopping at the end? Or do you think it’s just in their head about the taste?
 
Pandora6

Pandora6

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Wattzzup said:
There’s no debate. Do your research and/or try both make your mind up.
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I have not found any hard science either way.
Its almost all speculation. I'm a child of science if the facts say flush I will flush if they say it has affect then I wont. I'm seemingly asking opinions.
 
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spek9

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Pandora6

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spek9 said:
Only admins can delete threads I believe.

Just search this site for flushing opinions. There's no need to re-re-re-re-re-hash that debate.
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I see your point I'm fairly new here mostly lurked for awhile before posting
I wont start another thread on this topic as your probably right it has been debated to death
 
Renfro

Renfro

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Wattzzup said:
Made this miscalculation once before. Do you think it’s high nitrogen that’s causing the bad taste? Or just too many nutrients through the life of the plant and never stopping at the end? Or do you think it’s just in their head about the taste?
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Too much Phosphorous and/or Nitrogen will ruin flavor.
 
Pandora6

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spek9 said:
Here's a pretty detailed, side-by-side test someone posted the other day that contains several details across differing flushing regiments (including no flushing): https://www.rxgreentechnologies.com/rxgt_trials/flushing-trial/
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10 000 praise onto you my friend. That was a great study comprehensive aswell. I'm looking for peer reviews on the study but it's new so non will be out for a little if ever.
Interesting so flushing seems to have no effect on really anything other then a slight drop of 6% in nitrogen levels with a 14 day flush but on the same hand far higher levels of iron with a 14 day flush
 
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spek9

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Pandora6 said:
10 000 praise onto you my friend. That was a great study comprehensive aswell. I'm looking for peer reviews on the study but it's new so non will be out for a little if ever.
Interesting so flushing seems to have no effect on really anything other then a slight drop of 6% in nitrogen levels with a 14 day flush but on the same hand far higher levels of iron with a 14 day flush
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...and it's a lot easier to simply reduce the N in your feed in the latter stages of flower (many growers do, even beyond what the guidelines listed on the nutrients say), than it is to remove iron and other elements after the fact (ie. you can't).
 
Pandora6

Pandora6

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spek9 said:
...and it's a lot easier to simply reduce the N in your feed in the latter stages of flower (many growers do, even beyond what the guidelines listed on the nutrients say), than it is to remove iron and other elements after the fact (ie. you can't).
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Seems there's really no scientific evidence to flushing. That being said I bet there are study's to say otherwise. It could very well be a placebo effect you think there for you will.
Idk till I can find a solid peer reviewed study praising flushing I may never do it before harvest.
 
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