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Hello people im 6.5 weeks In to flowering with my ak47 one of the plant is struggling to hold up the buds!!te big main branches r starting to point down! An some of the big leafs r starting to die off do you thing i should start to flush them now before damage is caused??? Im feeding the bio bloom top max an grow using bio bizz soil! Any help would be great!!
 

Finshaggy

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Ok. You can do like a spider suit thing and tie them all together, then tie them to the roof. Or turn your plant into a marionette. Or get sticks and prop them up, I have heard even just strains themselves without extra nute, that will bend and break its own branches without support. Just get tall, but small slingshot sticks or maybe something from a store and put them in the dirt propping up the arms. If there is no dirt use gum or gummy stuff or glue to hold it. Or just go ahead and harvest if you think it's all good.

I've never heard of flushing though, what is that? Is it a hydroponic term?

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ylem

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dude have you seriously never heard of flushing??!?

worth looking into, but your not knowing pretty much proves that it doesn't make a huge difference in quality.

flushing is a process in which 2 or more times the volume of the pot in which the plant is in is poured in water through the soil and allowed to drain. in theory this replaces all nutrients in the soil with clean water, forcing the plant to take up only fresh water and purge itself of nutrients by using up its natural accumulation. there is much debate on the effectiveness and i personally don't think it makes a difference.
 
I got told to flush the plamts with water for about a week before harvest! To flush all the nutes out!or something and then to leave them in darkness for 72hours with no light then harvest have you heard of that before i may try tieing them up the branches bt there are loadz of them! Dunno what to do wprroed the plant is giving up??
 

Finshaggy

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Yeah I've never heard of flushing. I've only done outdoor before I came to a green state though. So I had no way to flush, or reason for someone to bring it up to me I guess. But it doesn't sound like it would do much. Unless your talking about draining it out twice then reapplying some kind of nutrient, that might be effective. But from thinking about it right now having extra nutrients left in the dirt from the past building up would be helpful as long as it's not killing the plant. And if you let your plant drink all the water in its pot before watering again, isn't that already giving the plant "new water", and if your reapplying your nutrients every time through watering, isn't it already getting new nutes. And water alone wouldn't give it nutes. Water has no nutes. Bottled water is sterile except for trace minerals in some. And tap water is usually chlorinated. So if anything your "flushing" the nutrients out of the dirt. Not putting new nutes in.

And I've never heard of any 72hr darkness methods either. But again, outdoor and no flushing.
 

Finshaggy

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Well, I don't know about all the flushing stuff. But even though there are a lot of branches you should try something to hold it up. Even if you just support it with some kinda gum or tape at the base of the branches. If they break you'll have to do that anyways, or just scrap. Because stress like that might cause seeds.
 
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