How to really know when to flush

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napa15rt

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Hi. I think I’m about ready to start flushing. Girl Scout cookies about 3 months along. It looks to me almost ready to flush about two weeks left to harvest. Not the best pic. How do you really know when to flush ?
 

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I am using the fox farm ocean forest and happy frog soil. And been using the tiger bloom fertilizer.
so many different opinions on flushing. Thank you.
 
With FF soil and nutrients, the chart does advise a plain watering every third watering. But, as stated, skip the final flush. You're just starving your plant at its most critical stage of development
 
napa15rt said:
Wow thanks for the tips. Will not be flushing. Just going to taper down the feeding. So many sites out there saying flushing is necessary to avoid bad tastes and something about the way it ashes too.
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Bad tastes are avoided by properly caring for the plant; not over or underfeeding, not over or underwatering, and not over or underpowered lighting. That, and genetics. Flushing DOES NOT improve anything other than color fade, which has no correlation to overall flower quality.
 
Flush is a stupid way to drown plants. If organic just water normal last couple weeks. Flush term should only be used if way over nutrients used by dumb or accident in an attempt to save them with 3 or 4 times normal water. Flush term is not normal water its what a toilet does. Get the term right. IF not organic thrug shoulders....
 
Relaxed said:
Flush is a stupid way to drown plants. If organic just water normal last couple weeks. Flush term should only be used if way over nutrients used by dumb or accident in an attempt to save them with 3 or 4 times normal water. Flush term is not normal water its what a toilet does. Get the term right. IF not organic thrug shoulders....
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Just a beginner here. Trying to get info from the web and advice where they use the word flush. Lots of differing opinions.
 
I give plain water for a week. I don't FLUSH them or get tons of runoff, I just keep the rootzone wet and in doing so the remaining nutrients/salts are absorbed into the rootzone and used up by the plant. By the time I harvest my plants aren't really drinking a lot anymore anyways so why would I add a bunch of fertilizer to coco root balls that I'm going to chuck into holes on my property?
 
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