Flushing super soils?

Green wiggler

Green wiggler

Active Member
So i usually cut my soil 50/50 Happy Frog and Coco Loco. My supply store has been out of happy frog and can't seem to get anymore in anytime soon so I've been looking at super soils that are more pricey but say you don't need to feed because they are full of nutes for life from seed to harvest. I was under the impression and have read that if you don't flush before harvest you are actually smoking fertilizer left in the plants.
My question, how do you get around not flushing super soils and keep from smoking nutes that are obviously not going to leave the plant at harvest?
 
Green wiggler

Green wiggler

Active Member
I'm just trying to figure out if flushing is even worth the time? Some people say your smoking nutes if you don't flush and others say flushing won't get the nutes out of the plant. So why bother??
 
Green wiggler

Green wiggler

Active Member
No, I didn't grow in super soil. It was a different deal. I dried and cured some weed i that i grew and it had a chemical odor to it for a while. Someone told me i didn't flush enough. But if flushing don't remove nutes then why flush?
 
Green wiggler

Green wiggler

Active Member
I started out with this thread wondering how to flush super soil or if you need to bc if the nutes are in the soil then how do you flush them out before curing.
 
PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

Well-Known Member
Green wiggler said:
I started out with this thread wondering how to flush super soil or if you need to bc if the nutes are in the soil then how do you flush them out before curing.
Click to expand...
You don't ever need to flush unless you're trying to flush out excess shit, even doing hydro. Super bad idea to flush super soil. Don't you plan to reuse it?

The whole flushing thing is bro science for the most part.
 
Green wiggler

Green wiggler

Active Member
I'm just wondering, coz i know all the growers that stock the dispensaries and most of the people selling are usually in a hurry to flip their harvest and i would bet that 9 out of 10 don't take a whole lot of time flushing and if it really matters.
The other reason is i can't figure out where my chemical odor came from or if it could have just been the strain. It was bag seed but some of the best i ever smoked after it cued for 2 months.
 

Attachments

Scuzzman

Scuzzman

Well-Known Member
@Green wiggler did you consider the strain or the way it was grown, or the way you have dried/cured the bud.... always easy to blame something else - we all do it , roll a fatty sit back enjoy :eyesmoke:
if flushing works do they flush veggie crops , berries and alot of others, I also know indoor tobacco growers they dont flush crops - :wall:
 
GanjaJack

GanjaJack

Well-Known Member
Listen carefully....

At end of life Cannabis slows down taking nutrients from it's root zone as it takes too much energy not to mention it's the wrong kind of nutrients that the plant wants. The nutrients the plants want are what has been converted in the leaf to potassium. Which is why the leaves will start to yellow and die at the end of flowering as the plants leach all the nitrogen, that was transported from the roots to the leaf, converting it to potassium and transporting it to the bud.

So if you flush all that potassium out of the leaf, the buds have nothing left to feed on and will reflect such by producing smaller yields.

Plant nutrient formulas reflect this by using high nitrogen at vegetative growth and then high potassium and lower nitrogen at flowering. Just because leaves are yellow doesn't mean they aren't doing their jobs of using light energy to convert nutrients into the stuff they need to grow. It just means that the yellow leaves are doing their jobs at a much reduced rate. (Think I read that it's like only reduced by 35%, somewhere not sure where I read that, so don't quote me.)
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top