FLUSH OR DONT FLUSH ??

Why is this even asked anymore.... If you feel the need to flush, go for it. It is the people that flush at week 6 based on the "breeders timeline" with no regard for how done the plant is, that is a problem. A week or two at the end, if the plant is actually done, will have little effect on the final product

Boatguy said:

Why is this even asked anymore.... If you feel the need to flush, go for it. It is the people that flush at week 6 based on the "breeders timeline" with no regard for how done the plant is, that is a problem. A week or two at the end, if the plant is actually done, will have little effect on the final product

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I've learned most plants that are TRULY ripe and ready barely drink any water anyways so this is literally true since your not going to be able to flush a plant that is done drinking/feeding.

calvin.m16 said:

Yeah the real goal is to feed properly the entire cycle so the plant isn't full of nutrient stores. When you feed aggressively usually a longer flushing period is required so the plant actually uses up those nutrient stores and you're not smoking them.

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This is also why I do not use Silica because its not a food to the plant it just gets loaded up into the plant and you end up smoking it.

Didn't flush my g13s I grew in dwc. They taste great but if there's no significant difference in taste, potency, or yield might as well save a couple $ on nutes.

Doug Dawson said:

Welcome to RIU. Flushing is to remove salt buildup in medium, it does not flush anything out of a plant. You are not using a medium, you are using water so there is nothing to flush. Hope that makes sense for you. Do yourself a favor and click search on RIU and view the daily flush/dont flush threads. Now queue the angry mobs on both sides of the argument. View attachment 4681972

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Oh man this can of worms is getting opened again lol

calvin.m16 said:

This is also why I do not use Silica because its not a food to the plant it just gets loaded up into the plant and you end up smoking it.

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Thats why you use monosylicic not potassium silicate? Last time I checked Silica makes up almost everything on this planet.

If your going hard with nutes, pushing your crop and your crop has nute burn, I’d say fucking A right, flush..but if your feeding your crop on the lighter side then what nutrient company’s suggest on their labeling (if you experience a nute deficiency that is easier to treat then a toxicity) then there is no real need to flush. Get your ppms in line with the rest of your environment. One of the leading issues that crop up is switching from HPS to LED. You have to dial in your EC or ppm for the new lighting. Normally there’s a couple hundo less ppm needed with LED.