Flush or wait another week to start?

jimihendrix1

jimihendrix1

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Uncultivated said:
Err... nitrogen is not a protein.

And I'm not saying to empty the reservoir. Just stop adding nitrogen late flower. Just one opinion...
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Humans eat protien, and turn it into Nitrogen. Plants skip the process.

Nitrogen is quantitatively the most important nutrient that plants acquire from the soil. It is well established that plant roots take up nitrogen compounds of low molecular mass, including ammonium, nitrate, and amino acids. However, in the soil of natural ecosystems, nitrogen occurs predominantly as proteins.
Soil organic matter contains nitrogen predominantly as protein.
Complex Protien sources have to be broken down into nitrogen, and are not directly available to plants, until its broken down.

Fish ( Protien ) is one example of a Nitrogen Source after its broken down into the soil. Humans eat fish as a Protien Source, and out bodies break it down to Nitrogen.



How does nitrate affect plant protein production?
Unlike animals that can derive amino acids by consuming plants and other organisms, plants depend hugely on soil nutrients for their protein supply. Because nitrate is one of the main elements in protein, agricultural systems use nitrogen fertilizers to replenish nutrients in the soil and aid plants in generating needed proteins.

Because nitrate is one of the main elements in protein, agricultural systems use nitrogen fertilizers to replenish nutrients in the soil and aid plants in generating needed proteins. The nitrates are converted into amino acids, synthesized into protein and stored in different places in the plant. Only a small percentage of nitrates, however, get absorbed by plants, and the remaining nitrogen leaches into either the soil, the air or water.
 
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Wogwon

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So clone wait the four weeks till pre-flower what’s the best way to go about it sexing kits are expensive I have read flipping plants super early can help you cull the males before to much time and money is wasted on them. Will a 32oz cup be enough to keep a baby going till preflower?
 
Herb & Suds

Herb & Suds

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Wogwon said:
So clone wait the four weeks till pre-flower what’s the best way to go about it sexing kits are expensive I have read flipping plants super early can help you cull the males before to much time and money is wasted on them. Will a 32oz cup be enough to keep a baby going till preflower?
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I do every new plant the same
Take two cuts repot and flower the mother and run one of the cuts the second run because I never get a first run plant dialed in to determine if it is a keeper
It leaves me with a specimen to bin or make a mom
 
calvin.m16

calvin.m16

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twentyeight.threefive said:
Plants still need some nitrogen even late in flower. Starving your plants of any necessary nutritional elements isn't beneficial to the final product.
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If your using 10-20 gallon containers soilless (peat/coco/perlite etc..) will have copious amounts of NPK leftover after being fed 2-2.2 EC for the last 60 days.

You're probably still running magnetic ballasts.
 
calvin.m16

calvin.m16

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speedwell68 said:
It'll make no difference to the ash colour. As we speak I am smoking joint of Bruce Banner #3 in a Rizla Silver paper. Last night I was smoking the same BB#3 using a Highland Extra Long paper, the ash with the Rizla is a light grey. The ash with the Highland is pure white. Yet I used the same weed. The plant wasn't flushed, how can that be?

The concept of flushing is utter rubbish. Cannabis is the only commodity/consumable crop on the planet where the technique is employed. Cannabis is also the only crop that is almost exclusively produced by stoned idiots that will believe anything the internet tells them.

When you harvest a plant (any plant) you want it to be at the peak of it's life cycle, you aren't going to achieve that by starving it for a large percentage of it's life.
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Was the weed grown in soil or hydro/soilless? I can agree Soil if done properly doesn't need a flush but I'll never agree with people that believe you should feed nutrients until the end of the plants life. It's a waste you're priming a medium for no reason.
 
speedwell68

speedwell68

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calvin.m16 said:
Was the weed grown in soil or hydro/soilless? I can agree Soil if done properly doesn't need a flush but I'll never agree with people that believe you should feed nutrients until the end of the plants life. It's a waste you're priming a medium for no reason.
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Soil, but it makes no difference.
 
calvin.m16

calvin.m16

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speedwell68 said:
Soil, but it makes no difference.
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Soil tends to produce cleaner burning bud with lighter ashe and less heat from my experience in Super Soil.. The soil was intentionally sized for the time period of flowering though... If you add a bunch of NPK and other shit to the soil/soilless media its going to likely get pulled into the plant, why would you want that if the plant has already hit its prime then you just flush for a few days?

I've noticed a difference flushing my plants growing in coco. The ripening is expedited without a measurable loss in yield and the smoke is definitely less hot and the ashe is lighter colored not to mention the joint burns like that to my fingertips..

When I smoke some unflushed weed it usually tends to have more of a potential of going out, darker ashe and more gunk/resin in a bowl or bong.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ probably is the fact I'm adding 5-7 days to give pure water before I'm harvesting in 10 gallon containers of coco.
 
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