I mixed up my own concoction of Topsoil, Cow manure, perlite, and Compost made up the main medium. Then I spiked it with blood and bone meal along with burpee natural and organic starter and transplanting granules. veg i watered with Alaska organic fish fert and hydrogaurd with tap water @2ooppm (tap water alone is 200ppm) and sat open to air off the chlorine. for flower I tapered off the fish to 0 and put an all organic alaska brand of fishy smelling granules formulated for fruiting into the top layer and used water and hydro-gaurd only all through 10 weeks and everything is still green. So my question is... If i carefully clean off the roots under a green light and put them in a deep water culture setup running only pH-ed water will the plant die or would this work for flushing? Also if a plant happens to get nutrient lock just before harvest wouldnt that work as well as a flush?
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NanoGadget
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The amount of trauma you'd likely cause the root system would probably cause all sorts of problems. I have to ask... why would you want to do this?
Thundercat
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I'd love to see pictures to be able to gauge the plants health.
I agree with nano that it would cause crazy shock to the plant for basically no reason.
Are you wanting to flush "the plant" because you have over fed it?
Or because you read that our supposed to?
I encourage everyone to do their own experiments. However in my experiments over the years I have found no benefit to flushing a healthy plant and starving it when it's trying to finish flowering.
I agree with nano that it would cause crazy shock to the plant for basically no reason.
Are you wanting to flush "the plant" because you have over fed it?
Or because you read that our supposed to?
I encourage everyone to do their own experiments. However in my experiments over the years I have found no benefit to flushing a healthy plant and starving it when it's trying to finish flowering.
Chip Green
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Flushing nutrients from living plant tissue is complete NONSENSE. Impossible notion.
Leaching excess nutrient build up from grow media can be achieved, if necessary, but that's as far as it goes....
Leaching excess nutrient build up from grow media can be achieved, if necessary, but that's as far as it goes....
robert 14617
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IbrightD why don't you want to finish in what sounds like super soil what changed
Yeah they do seem like they still have a good amount of food they are living off of. They are BC Bud Depot Fire OG and have a 9 to 10 week flowering time. I have been feeding pHed water only for 8 weeks of the 10 weeks in flower.(tapered off liquid fish juice to 0 in 2 weeks) and still has nice dark leaf color. I also did some testing on a top nug (smoked it) the ash was like dirt and was harsh on the throat. Reminded me of my early days of smoking when a bag of weed was dried fan leaves in a bag we called home grown and brown seeded mexican swag was primo s**t. Also was the seed source of our fan leaves (homegrown). Back then plants never made it to flower smoked up way before. This was sophmore year 1983 haha. I know the buds have not cured but still seem to harsh. I guess I will leave them go another week but maybe try it with one ive been testing on already. been growing in coco and the week or 2 of flushing i did gave prior grows a smooth toke.
Dr. Who
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It would be harsh! LMFAO!!!!
The bud should be mature to harvest.
It should be dried properly!
Then cured properly!
Flushing is a myth! It will not improve any taste or scent.... PROPER CURE!
Thundercat
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Flushing is nonsense and frankly pretty impossible in a good quality amended soil. If you have already been feeding with plain water just keep doing that if the plant is healthy. Without seeing pictures of the plant it's hard to gauge much.
Just because a breeder says something takes a certain number of weeks does not make it true!!! I'd love to see what the plant looks like to try to get an idea how mature it is.
Sampling a bud by cutting it early will almost never give a good result. You need to be patient and let the plant finish growing and maturing.