Flush?

I can't seem to find a real answer to flush or not to flush. From what I've found in my research most people don't believe it is worth it so I'm most likely not going to flush.

I'm just curious I've been using botanicare nutrients base 9ml
Bloom 16ml
Hydroplex 3ml (bud hardner)

My plants are in 5 gallon pots with FFOF soil and I'm about 2 weeks maybe more from harvest

Should I stop all my nutrients all together until harvest and only give plain water?

Should I get the clearex still even if I'm not doing a flush?

Any advise would be very helpful it's my first grow and I want my buds to be perfect. Thanks in advance!!!

i don't know, but if she can make it to harvest without NEEDING any more nutrients, then i say might as well flush a little and only give water. but don't starve her into a deficiency.

1 I always run at least 1 week longer then breeder reports list for bloom times - better quality.
2 For me, I flush like this. When I decide the plant has 10-14 days left till I harvest. I flush with straight water, 1.5 - 2 times the pot size to water and let the plant return to dry enough to water and continue watering with straight water till harvest day. The days and amounts depend on the plant size. Bigger = more.

Many don't. If you have more then one plant, I suggest you flush one and not the other. Dry and cure each the same and see for yourself which one you prefer when done and smoked.

SjSharks said:

I can't seem to find a real answer to flush or not to flush.

From what I've found in my research most people don't believe it is worth it so I'm most likely not going to flush.

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You answered your own question right there in your post...
I think you were coming on here to get your point of view validated....
Consider it validated...

Flushing is for toilets

Just don't overfeed and the buds won't taste 'chemically'. Toward harvest, stay on the threshold where leaves will turn yellow if you use any less nutrients.

Clearex is a pretty misunderstood product. It is just sugar in water. In hydroponics, if plain water is used to flush, it could cause certain types of fruits (tomatoes) to burst with high osmotic pressure. The sugar water is used to maintain an isotonic osmotic pressure in the reservoir without using nutrients.

This is sort of useless info though, as flushing is kind of pointless anyway whether in soil or hydro.. (unless your medium has a build up of nutrients and you're trying to clean it)

SjSharks said:

I can't seem to find a real answer to flush or not to flush. From what I've found in my research most people don't believe it is worth it so I'm most likely not going to flush.

I'm just curious I've been using botanicare nutrients base 9ml
Bloom 16ml
Hydroplex 3ml (bud hardner)

My plants are in 5 gallon pots with FFOF soil and I'm about 2 weeks maybe more from harvest

Should I stop all my nutrients all together until harvest and only give plain water?

Should I get the clearex still even if I'm not doing a flush?

Any advise would be very helpful it's my first grow and I want my buds to be perfect. Thanks in advance!!!

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the way i like to look at it is as follows.. if flushing did all the things the people who flush says it does, everyone would simply flush, as who wants nasty, chem tasting bud that sparkles and burns bad and leaves a nasty black ash, my fave claim btw, no one in their right mind would want those things.. so everyone would simply flush if flushing did what flushers claim it does, which it doesn't, which is why the debate continues..

i use organic so i dont flush. if thats right. never had a bad smoke from it yet

Do a bird mcbride flush. It doesn't interfere with production and it does remove the chem and improves the taste, everytime

Whatever you put into your buds your gonna get out, the ferts are already in your bud, flushing just gets them out of the soil, so no flushing is pretty much pointless and if u want to grow bud and be able to feed it a whole bunch of different nutes up till harvest without worrying about a chemical taste, go organic.

I've grown great organic and great miracle grow bud.. customers could always tell the difference till I lied to em lol

Haha i used mg once, theyre organic potting mix, honestly wasnt that bad, it is a little "hot" for young ladys but once ur plant is mature i think it could handle it, atleast in my case, my avatar is actually a bud from that grow.

Jussblaz3420 said:

Whatever you put into your buds your gonna get out, the ferts are already in your bud, flushing just gets them out of the soil, so no flushing is pretty much pointless and if u want to grow bud and be able to feed it a whole bunch of different nutes up till harvest without worrying about a chemical taste, go organic.

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This here is why the flushing debate will never end. People will always think there is fertilizer in the plant material. They don't understand that a plant takes nutrients and converts them. Take the relationship between nitrogen and chlorophyll for example. A plant takes in nitrogen, puts out chlorophyll. A leaf falls on the ground, the dirt breaks it down and turns that leaf back into nitrogen. Plants store some excess nutrients, but the amount is so small that there's no way it would ever affect the way it burns or smokes. Which is why no one can tell the difference between a bud that was flushed and one that wasn't. It's all in the dry/cure and the environment it was dried/cured in. You dry weed in a house that stinks like dog, it will come through in the smell and taste of the bud. I know a dude that thinks his bud is top notch, but he doesn't realize that it tastes like his dirty house. He doesn't notice because he lives there and smells it all day.

nute ratios and types in bud do affect the burn quality...

Because there is fertilizer in the plant material, grow organic and then grown synthetic and tell me if u taste a difference. What you put into your plant is what you get out, plain and simple.

Flush for 10-14 days. I water a couple of times with molasses during that span. If someone tells you they can't taste ferts in the non flushed plants they probably say coke and Pepsi taste the same.

Not only does the flavor change For the better, but it's a smoother more favorable smoke for the throat. Not harsh.

Racer Boy said it best.

As suggested though, do a comparisson for yourself. Take two or four clones of the same plant, and then flush two and not the others. Get a friend to roll you a few joints of each and do a blind "taste" test.

SjSharks said:

I can't seem to find a real answer to flush or not to flush. From what I've found in my research most people don't believe it is worth it so I'm most likely not going to flush.

I'm just curious I've been using botanicare nutrients base 9ml
Bloom 16ml
Hydroplex 3ml (bud hardner)

My plants are in 5 gallon pots with FFOF soil and I'm about 2 weeks maybe more from harvest

Should I stop all my nutrients all together until harvest and only give plain water?

Should I get the clearex still even if I'm not doing a flush?

Any advise would be very helpful it's my first grow and I want my buds to be perfect. Thanks in advance!!!

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In soil it will take at least a month to get rid of the nute concentration, if ever. In hydro, if you had followed the basics which means lowering nute concentration during the last 3 weeks anyway, there is really no need to flush, except if you want to donate money to the manufacturers. In soil I stop feeding approximately 2 weeks before harvest, and the same in hydro. That is flush enough in my opinion

I know a dude that thinks his bud is top notch, but he doesn't realize that it tastes like his dirty house. He doesn't notice because he lives there and smells it all day.<-------lol, that's funny!

Maybe you should let him know about his dirty little secret then.

Smootherpete said:

I know a dude that thinks his bud is top notch, but he doesn't realize that it tastes like his dirty house. He doesn't notice because he lives there and smells it all day.<-------lol, that's funny!

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