growgetter
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Hi people..im currently coming up to 2 weeks to go and was wondering if anyone can tell me wen u stop using nutes ? any feedback would be great 
When to Stop using nutes
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hotrodharley
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Read the plant, not info from questionable experts here. Feed until the day you chop if the plant needs it. Flushing from soil is an idiotic chore anyway.
growgetter
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never know who to listen to. lol. its my first grow and its gone so well.. 5 blue cheese, 2 L.A Confidentials..buds are a nice size..so u reckon just water everyday from now on >??
iiKode
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Yeah just ph'd water, let the plant use it's leaves as energy for the last two weeks.
akula
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You are not going to exactly kill your plant by flushing for a few weeks with plain H20. Like iiKode said, it will live on stored energy and could do it much longer then a few weeks. And like HotRodHarley said, its idiotic to flush soil. You dont want to kill all those microbes you have have worked so hard to nurture (and honestly you wont anyways). The truth is that if you have not over fertilized your plants, you really do not need to flush. Its probably best practice to step down your nutrient use as your plants come to the finish line, but believe me, they are not going to suck up tons of extra nuts, so your just saving yourself some money. The downside of a big long flush is that you may just stunt a little bit of growth. Its probably not going to be real noticeable, and two weeks right before snip is probably not going to be a lot, but its still a possibility. The real upside is that it starts the drying/curing process a bit early. Of course I prefer a slower dry...as slow as I can get within reason really.
It really comes down to personal preference. Some growers have got into this habbit of "pre-harvest flush" and its been passed down as necessary and its not. Do what you feel better about.
hotrodharley
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I would never give a feeding over 1/4 strength in the last 30 days of the grow anyway. But those who think nitrogen use is over when flowering starts are way off. Nitrogen is the most quickly used element we work with. It's the easiest to OD the plant with as it is the last to be locked out in most cases. But premature yellowing of even lower fan leaves before the buds are fully developed is a sign the plant needs a feed. Just not a heavy one.
Alexander Supertramp
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A good way to reduce your final yield..........
intenseneal
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Yep stoppping at about 2 weeks and let the plant use up what nutes are left in the soil and stored in the roots and leaves is fine. I did however have 2 Head Band plants that got pulled with only 1 watering with no nutes and it turned out just fine. "Flushing" in soil is not needed in any way IME. What I normally do is decrease the amount of nutes at about 2 weeks until I am at my starting dose again, by then the plants are normally ready to be pulled and if not I just keep giving them the low amount of nutes. There is all this BS about nutes staying in the plant and harsh smoke bla bla bla. If you dry and cure the buds correctly you will have a nice good smooth smoke. Dry the whole plant slowly, then trim, then jar for 3-6 weeks the longer the better, burping the jars for 20-30 mins each day. You can smoke it at about 3 weeks with good results but the longer it cures the better it will smell and taste.
growgetter
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thanks for all your feed back guys im even more confused now hahaha . 2weeks to go now..think im guna just lay off the nutes now and go with water feeds only. the smell those L.A's are givin is mmmmmmm hehe.. just wish i took some cuttings in veg stage cos these are a nice strain.
im even more confused now hahaha . 2weeks to go now..think im guna just lay off the nutes now and go with water feeds only. the smell those L.A's are givin is mmmmmmm hehe.. just wish i took some cuttings in veg stage cos these are a nice strain.
iiKode
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You do know how many leaves are on a plant? it has a lot of stored energy for the plant more than enough for a few weeks. You don't see out door natural plants having deficiencies do you? no they live off their leaves until they get some nutes via the ground.
akula
Active Member
The nutes the plants need outside are there in plenty abundance all the time. There are tones of microbe communities, decay, runoff etc to keep most plants healthy if the environment is an open system and not full of detrimentals (clay, sand, poison etc) . The only times these sources dry up is during times of severe drought. And yes, that is when plants will go into survival mode. You can supplement your soil outside to make sure that there is a perfect available balance of these in your environment, but that is another story.