Flush or wait another week to start?

Billy the Mountain

Billy the Mountain

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calvin.m16 said:
Soil tends to produce cleaner burning bud with lighter ashe and less heat from my experience in Super Soil.. The soil was intentionally sized for the time period of flowering though... If you add a bunch of NPK and other shit to the soil/soilless media its going to likely get pulled into the plant, why would you want that if the plant has already hit its prime then you just flush for a few days?
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speedwell68

speedwell68

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calvin.m16 said:
Soil tends to produce cleaner burning bud with lighter ashe and less heat from my experience in Super Soil.. The soil was intentionally sized for the time period of flowering though... If you add a bunch of NPK and other shit to the soil/soilless media its going to likely get pulled into the plant, why would you want that if the plant has already hit its prime then you just flush for a few days?

I've noticed a difference flushing my plants growing in coco. The ripening is expedited without a measurable loss in yield and the smoke is definitely less hot and the ashe is lighter colored not to mention the joint burns like that to my fingertips..

When I smoke some unflushed weed it usually tends to have more of a potential of going out, darker ashe and more gunk/resin in a bowl or bong.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ probably is the fact I'm adding 5-7 days to give pure water before I'm harvesting in 10 gallon containers of coco.
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That is 3 paragraphs of total bro science.
 
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Uncultivated

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twentyeight.threefive said:
No exactly. If you have yellow leaves the plant is deficient.
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I reckon. But its drawn what it needed from the fan leaves, which is part of their function. I also reckon that there are worse things than a mild N deficiency when you're almost at harvest.

The reason I do this is because in the past where I kept using the bloom its happened that I've gotten purpling of my leaves in late flower, indicating a PK deficiency, the last thing you want when those buds should be bulking up. I knew there was PK in the reservoir, I knew the Ph was right, and I didn't want to raise the PPM any higher. So rather than adding a lot of PK, I stopped adding N. Seemed to work as I wanted. So maybe not technically a flush; just altering the NPK ratio.

Whatever just my experience not looking to argue...
 
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twentyeight.threefive

twentyeight.threefive

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Uncultivated said:
I reckon. But its drawn what it needed from the fan leaves, which is part of their function. I also reckon that there are worse things than a mild N deficiency when you're almost at harvest.

The reason I do this is because in the past where I kept using the bloom its happened that I've gotten purpling of my leaves in late flower, indicating a PK deficiency, the last thing you want in late flower. I knew there was PK in the reservoir, I knew the Ph was right, and I didn't want to raise the PPM any higher. So rather than adding a lot of PK, I stopped adding N. Seemed to work as I wanted. So maybe not technically a flush; just altering the NPK ratio.

Whatever just my experience not looking to argue...
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You're not looking to argue but you are. Yellow leaves are deficient leaves. The plant is drawing from one spot to provide for another. It's not efficient or productive for the plant. I reckon.
 
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Yukimi Fakumata

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jimihendrix1 said:
Theres no scientific evedence for flushing. Show me the studies on flushing. Not just word of mouth. What you like to do, and what is optimal may be 2 different things.
I can show you a recent study saying flushing does nothing. Also Nitrogen is not stored in the buds/Stigmas, and resin heads.

As per the Why do plants need Protein/Nitrogen.

Only a small percentage of nitrates, however, get absorbed by plants, and the remaining nitrogen leaches into either the soil, the air or water.
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Link study plz
 
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