Anyone have any idea where the 'ash burns white' deal came from? A few stoners on Youtube who review product from local dispensaries always comment on the color of the ash and always try to link it to 'the plant was or wasn't finished properly'. Personally, I think it's total nonsense.
that would be nice its pretty hard to find all the good threads on here surly would alot of people if you did that. Now nightgazer back to this technique so you flush before lights out next day, water with your nutes again but basically drown with nute/ph water, isn't that defeating the whole purpose of flushing since your feeding them still, and your doing this for how long 10-12 days in a row. please correct me if I'm wrong thanks bud.Here is the link to Riddleme's thread where he goes into his technique and reasons for it.
https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/316301-calling-all-noob-growers.html
Lots of good info, though the thread rambles quite a bit, and then there are trolls that jump in here and there... Some day, when I have some time at my disposal, I would like to produce digests of some of the classic threads, so the info could be more easily consumed.
In a nutshell, the advice is to water to the point of flushing just before lights-out, and then water with ferts the following light's on cycle. The concept is the mimic the process that occurs in nature when it rains, releasing nutrients.
Yeah what's good bro!! damn my bad I didn't see this til now... lolI assume you're talking about RiddleMe's drowning to start the cure. It does work. I do it sometimes. If you meant donating $4.20 to Ron Paul, it'll work.
How u been Boyz?
If one was to flush their pipes, would they just fill them with water? You toilet drowns in water till you flush it, where water is rushed through it. We don't grow toilets, why flush...How is flushing a waste of time? My plants finish in x amount of days regardless of if I flush or not... In fact, flushing saves me time (and money) because I don't have to mix nutes at the end...
Has anyone done a side by side to compare yield with flushed or not flushed and found it to make a diff?
Personally, I have flushed and not flushed... It makes a pretty big difference if you are using nutes like GH or something similar, but not so much of a difference if you are using organic nutes...
And one last question, isn't putting your plants underwater to drown them the same thing as flushing? It is essentially a 5 day flush if they are in plain water for 5 days... I don't think that there is a need to leach the soil or hydro medium out to flush, all you need to do is just water for a week or so and let the plants consume what is left over in the medium but that is a flush as long as you don't have tons of extra salt buildup in your root zone (and if you do have the salt buildup then you have more problems than needing to flush)...
Sorry, I know this thread is old and it took me a while to read it so forgive me if this has been answered...
The answer is in my above post. You may have to re-read for clarification. Have a nice day bud!I know what you are talking about but doesn't putting your plants in (or just feeding them water) do the same thing as not feeding them (aka flushing)? So in a sense by drowning your plants you are flushing them.... The water will help the excess salts be leached from the soil and the plant will use what nutrient reserves it has left?