question using organic nutes
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No need to flush an organic grow medium. Plants will take only what they require.
That's a mindset carried over from chemical hydro growing. Think about it: with an organic grow medium you've created a living soil full of microbes that deliver chemical-free nutrients as the plant requires them. There are no chemicals in the grow medium to flush out.
sandmonkey
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yes but there are salts/minerals that need to be flushed. Plus letting your plants starve for the last 1 week to 10 days allows stored nitrates to be used up; resulting in a sweeter smoother smoke.
This is my 3rd organic grow and I'll still flush 10 days before.
This is my 3rd organic grow and I'll still flush 10 days before.
sandmonkey
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which is exactly why you still need to flush. get rid of em salts and nitrates.
and whatever you do don't flush with molasses as some would have you do.
and whatever you do don't flush with molasses as some would have you do.
sandmonkey
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IMO if your nutes came out of a bottle (organic or synthetic) you still need to flush.
tybudz
Active Member
i undrstabd this. this grow is living soil. 100% organics.
canefan
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If your grow is in good living organic soil, there is no reason to flush your plants. Having said this, I guess I might flush if I were to use all these so called organic nutes you buy in the bottle. I have been growing now for about 43 years, almost totally organic during this time except for my very young and stupid days when I thought buying it from the store was the way to go. Now, just good living soil, a little manure tea and some molasses and I have everything I am looking for in my grow. I don't flush, which is kindof hard to do in good soil anyway, the plant only takes up the things which is needs to grow into a healthy plant. I fail to see the advantage of trying to stress my plant by denying it the nutes it needs to fully mature, just MHO.
Spanishfly
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Did an experiment one year, several harvests ago. ´Flushed´ some plants, kept ferting others right up to harvest. Could taste NO DIFFERENCE WHATEVER. But I didn´t think I would. Just the ferted ones were bigger.
IMHO ´flushing´ is yet another Old Wives´Tale - makes no difference whatever. But it will continue to be promulgated by dopey kids who have never grown anything else, have no general gardening experience, and who believe all the total BS they read in these forums.
IMHO ´flushing´ is yet another Old Wives´Tale - makes no difference whatever. But it will continue to be promulgated by dopey kids who have never grown anything else, have no general gardening experience, and who believe all the total BS they read in these forums.
That's those same fanboys who proudly post images of their supplement 'lineups' with the goofy names, outrageous marketing claims and high prices.
If it is an organic grow there won't be any salts to flush from a living soil that meets plant requirements throughout its life cycle without nutrient supplements. Flushing is nothing but a hydro mindset.
Teawithlee
Member
I have made my own organic tea for my hydro system and was never sure my self...so I flushed a few harvests and then stopped flushing to compare. I thought that if I am giving my tomatoes the same tea and I just pick them and eat...with salt..yum! Anyways, if my tomato did not need flushed to taste so damn good maybe my herb didn't either. Me personally I notice if any very little difference and the little I do would be the difference between a gala apple and a red delicious it just depends on what you like!
allnaturalgrow.com
Member
I always put my plants on a flush cycle, I grow organic for the taste, in my book a good flush always makes a sweeter bud
Spanishfly
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What is a FANBOY ????
US slang - person who has a compulsive dedication to any product without definable logic.
Spanishfly
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Thanks madodah.