What is the Best way to flush

I am curious a I've heard 1/4 stregnth nutes and molases worked better for flush last 7-10 days of flowering. I have flushed and not flushed and there is not much diff. I feed much lighter now an seldom go over 1200ppm my plants are in 18 gal pro mix beds and I never have runoff. Any feedback on your experience would be greatly appreciated...
I have some hi brix molases I have been using ,and have been adding calmag (1tsp per gal molases,3mls per gal calmag)

I've been growing for quite a while. I run perpetual with 24 in flower at any given time. That's what pays the bills. I also have a personal tent with my " just for me strains". I also do about 10 autos every summer just for fun. My wife has her own grow. I'd say I almost know what I'm doing.

This is my EXACT method for flushing....

I shake it two or three times. Put it back in my pants. Zip up. Then I reach over to the left side of the tank and I press down on that silver lever. Flush complete. IOW flushing is for toilets.

I don't flush my plants. I feed them till the end. I've done side by side testing with sister clones and found no improvement in taste. I did notice less bud mass due to starvation at the most important time in the plants life to me,the swell.


Hope this helps.

Polo

Thanks for the feedback polo! Do you cut back on nutes last two weeks?
Also What ppm do you feed at for your final 2 weeks?

headbandrocker said:

Thanks for the feedback polo! Do you cut back on nutes last two weeks?
Also What ppm do you feed at for your final 2 weeks?

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I do cut back some and sometimes, depending on the strain and what they need at the time. I use veg nutes mostly throughout my grow with bloom nutes around week 5-6 flower and a 3:1 veg and bloom till finish. One of my strains (Tijuana original haze)HAS TO have only veg start to finish or it will trip out and foxtail like crazy. Each strain and plant is different. This comes with experience. And with experience you will learn to read your plants to know what they need and when.

I grow soilless so I don't do PPM's.

Do whatever you need to do to keep em healthy and green. If you do or change something that makes them look like the are not at there best, go back to what does. They will reward you. Trust me.

Polo.

I'd tend to agree with polo, drowning my plants is not anything that has ever made sense to me. If you don't overfeed with chems and give the plant what it needs when it needs it, there's no need for flushing. My most current soil is 50% PRO-Mix/50% Triple Mix, my feeding rarely goes above 600 ppm in that medium, not necessary imo, more like supplemental feeding. Sometimes I'll refers to "flushing" which in my case is the practice of feed, water, feed, water. (The "water" part is my version of flush), in either case, let them go somewhat dry, then water or feed until I see run-off, repeat the cycle until the end. Now, as simple as I explained it, it's not what I really do each time, depending on the strain, what the plant is showing me it needs, I may feed it more or just water more, and adjust nutes as needed. So it may may go feed-water-water-feed-feed-water-feed-feed-water. Point is, I don't drown my plants, no need for it imo.

ahhhhh, the flushing problem. from everything i've ever read, you flush with 3x the amount of your medium. so, 5 gal. of medium needs 15 gal. of water to flush. seems like an awful lot, but that's supposed to be the magic number. i usually flush, but not with that amount. i'm in coco, so i get run-off with every feed. what i do is stop feeding a week before i harvest. i use plain water the last week, but only give them the amount of water when feeding...

I'm seeing a lot of you guys mention runoff with your coco grow. Do you leave the runoff in the bottom of the tray and let it reabsorb back in the pot or do you remove the runoff water?

I ask because doesn't letting the runoff absorb back into the pot defeat the thought that every time you water you are mini flushing? As what is being flushed out.. or at least some.. it just being reabsorbed back into the pot.

no, no wicking back up. that's why it's run-off, and not ____ up...