Are mt plants ready for flush

Star Dog

Star Dog

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DoubleAtotheRON said:
I look at it like this... if you know you're going to die on 1/1/2022, would you not still eat?.... IF you were healthy? I see no reason to stand in the way of synthesis. If someone was going to harvest your organs after you die, you'd want them to have a healthy system right?.. It's like you're gonna die, but someone starves you our for a week or 2 before you do.... ok, maybe im a little high.
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I agree with that I feed up to the end, my starvation thing comes after they are ripe.

Jfc it's only through deduction its logical to me.
 
DoubleAtotheRON

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Star Dog said:
I agree with that I feed up to the end, my starvation thing comes after they are ripe.

Jfc it's only through deduction its logical to me.
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All preference I suppose... If it makes you feel better, flush away. @Obepawn “There is no normal life, there’s just life” - Doc Holliday ... Is that what he said in TombStone on his deathbed? I've watched that movie about 100 times, and I can never understand what he said.
 
Obepawn

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DoubleAtotheRON said:
All preference I suppose... If it makes you feel better, flush away. @Obepawn “There is no normal life, there’s just life” - Doc Holliday ... Is that what he said in TombStone on his deathbed? I've watched that movie about 100 times, and I can never understand what he said.
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Yep. Wyate said he just wants a normal life, and Doc said, there is no normal life, there’s just life, get on with living it. Paraphrasing of course.
 
Obepawn

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DoubleAtotheRON said:
All preference I suppose... If it makes you feel better, flush away. @Obepawn “There is no normal life, there’s just life” - Doc Holliday ... Is that what he said in TombStone on his deathbed? I've watched that movie about 100 times, and I can never understand what he said.
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It like listening to that song that you’ve heard for 30-40 years and then one day while listening to it, you say, oh, that’s what he was Saying. Lol
 
curious2garden

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Star Dog said:
......snip...............I can't metabolise it because everything ceases once cut therefore the nutrient that just run up the stem is trapped inside it.
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Exactly, you're right. Just walk one step further down that analogy. We don't use the stems or most other parts of the major vasculature of the plant. We aren't interested in the fan leaves where most of those minerals are processed and to a far lesser extent the sugar leaves which are often trimmed as well. To a large degree we mechanically remove the parts of the plant the majority of plant nutrient is stored in.

It makes sense as a plant progresses into senescence to feed it less as it ends it's life. As we age we require fewer nutrients but we still have nutritional requirements. But all nutrients are not stored equally in all tissue. Both humans and plants have differentiated, specialized structures. That's all I'm trying to say and doing a poor job of it LOL.
 
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GanjaJack

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Odd.....

Does anyone "flush" their tomato plants before eating the tomatoes off of them? How about any other vegetables? Flush them?

Can ANYONE think of ANY plants that we eat, that we "flush" the root system before we eat them or ingest them?

Do they flush tobacco before they harvest it?

Flushing is irrelevant to everything except the person doing it to make themselves feel better about something that's not happening.

If you're having problems with chlorophyll when smoking, it's about how you cured it, not how you flushed it.
 
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Don’t healthy plants start to fade and drop leaves towards the end anyway?

So wouldn’t that mean that they naturally start consuming less from the soil and begin to use up what they have stored in the leaves?

The way I understand it is basically they start to sort of self flush at the end of the life cycle by using the energy stored in the fans first and then uptaking anything else still needed through the roots. Idk though I could be way off.
 
GanjaJack

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A.k.a said:
Don’t healthy plants start to fade and drop leaves towards the end anyway?

So wouldn’t that mean that they naturally start consuming less from the soil and begin to use up what they have stored in the leaves?

The way I understand it is basically they start to sort of self flush at the end of the life cycle by using the energy stored in the fans first and then uptaking anything else still needed through the roots. Idk though I could be way off.
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During flowering my plants take in a 5gal bucket of water every other day, until the end of the life cycle, then they slow WAY WAY down, it will get to the point where they will only take about a gallon or 2 in 4 days, so flushing in my opinion is just a waste of time, unless you're harvesting early, and expect the plants to be still green and filled with chlorophyll.
 
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Lowkeygardener

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ShvenonNundy said:
Newer grower here. Im in week 6 of flower. All my strains are 8 week flower according to seed manufacturers. I was planning on flushing when 10-14 days out. Took some pics of trichomes but im new to this and not sure if these are milky or clear. To mee the majority seem clear. Ill post pics with it. Anyone with a little more expertise want to let me know what you think. Thanks all!
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It’s not really a flush. After 8 weeks of flower just stop feeding nutes but keep watering with ph’d water. That plants will eat up the rest of the nutes in the medium.
 
xtsho

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When you starve your plant by flushing it does nothing to remove anything from the flowers. The fade people talk about when the leaves turn yellow is the plant moving nutrients from the leaves to the flowers. So in reality when you starve the plant by flushing it just cannibalizes itself. Nothing is removed from the flowers they still accumulate nutrients they just come from other parts of the plant. That is why the leaves turn yellow. Everything is sent to the flowers nothing is removed.

Flushing can actually be detrimental to the final yield and quality when you deprive the flowers of the nutrients they need to grow to their maximum potential.

 
Herb & Suds

Herb & Suds

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xtsho said:
When you starve your plant by flushing it does nothing to remove anything from the flowers. The fade people talk about when the leaves turn yellow is the plant moving nutrients from the leaves to the flowers. So in reality when you starve the plant by flushing it just cannibalizes itself. Nothing is removed from the flowers they still accumulate nutrients they just come from other parts of the plant. That is why the leaves turn yellow. Everything is sent to the flowers nothing is removed.

Flushing can actually be detrimental to the final yield and quality when you deprive the flowers of the nutrients they need to grow to their maximum potential.

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Save this for tomorrows torrent of flush threads
 
whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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ShvenonNundy said:
Newer grower here. Im in week 6 of flower. All my strains are 8 week flower according to seed manufacturers. I was planning on flushing when 10-14 days out. Took some pics of trichomes but im new to this and not sure if these are milky or clear. To mee the majority seem clear. Ill post pics with it. Anyone with a little more expertise want to let me know what you think. Thanks all!
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Flushing is for toilets.

You can't flush a plant. You can only leech nutrients fromnsoil.
 
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