Everybody has his/her own way of doing things. I'm still learning, but one could say I'm learning from the best... All my Growbuddies here on AFN. ie,
@pop22
And although there are two schools of thought about 'flushing' a plant. My common sense tells me that depriving your plants of nutrition and letting it use up what's left behind in the leaves (which is not the same stuff as in your medium*) will be not as beneficial as providing it with more of the right building blocks it needs for making Cannabinoids, Paraffins and Terpenes.
Let me explain the *: When senescence begins in the leaves the plant will uptake nitrogen and in return put waste into the them. This kills of some or all Chlorophyll which gives other substances (ie, carotenoïde = red color) the chance to reflect sunlight and so the color of the leave changes.
All this happens because of hormonal changes in the plant (ie, Ethylene = promotes senescence in leaves ánd the formation of female flowers ) and sadly enough not the fact that one is depriving the plant of all nutrients by giving it plain water or even worse RO or demineralized water. Both are defunct of minerals and will in fact compete with the roots for the remaining minerals (ie, Calcium and Magnesium) in the medium.
Take a look at
this thread. Pop explains it so much better then I ever can
Sorry for my rambling, but there is so much disinformation out there. I see that you are on your way for a great harvest. And just wanted to provide you my perspective one it.
I'm still subbed on your thread and am in the front row watching
Regards,
B
I actually thought about this since I posted as well. Usually by this point of flowering in soil the fan leaves would be starting that process, I'm thinking of grabbing a p/k booster to run for 5 days or a week and cut the Maxibloom dosage down and in turn the nitrogen level. Hopefully this will start the senescence process and I can flush into the harvest window. I will still have a period of water only, its not as much about depriving the plant of nutrients as allowing it to use up the mobile nutrients stored in the tissue. I may still add a touch of calmag since I am using RO water and calcium isn't a mobile nutrient.
