New Grower Flushing???

[Northern Grower]

I will water with plain water the last few weeks, by no means a flush. I also stopped using molassis in the last few weeks.

Since i use rain water and melted snow. I don't want to waste it on flushing.

If you get a black ash from an organic grow, that's a good indication some thing isn't pure organic in your mix. Time to go find it. My organic buds burn for ever, and they produce a pure white ash, and a GLOWING red cherry that never needs to be relit.


WildRunner, the things you have to worry about are the synthetic EDTA's used to chelate the nutes. You should google it.. Some pretty nasty shit.. Sure it taste the same, but what is left in the buds is totally different from a purely organic bud. Not sure how you flush out formaldehyde.

Agriculture – to stabilize formulations and to provide micronutrients to fertilizers

Chelating agents bind or capture trace amounts of iron, copper, manganese, calcium and other metals that occur naturally in many materials. Such naturally occurring metals can cause foods to degrade, chemical degradation, discoloration, scaling, instability, rancidity, ineffective cleaning performance and other problems.

http://www.dow.com/productsafety/finder/edta.htm


Maybe i'm just paranoid.. But I like clean smoke.

 

[SmashedbyHashish]

Me 2 smashed. 2-3 weeks prior to harvest I feed my plants straight 0 ppm bubbled water. Flush the soil of all materials used in the grow. It makes the smoke taste and burn much better then if they were fed to the end. It's also cleaner. You really don't want to be smoking nutrients that are still pumping through the flowers till the end.

2-3 weeks before harvest can be a hard thing to determine when dealing w/ a new strain...i have had trichs change a significant amount in a little bit of time and to judge that can be impossible.

rite now im smoking exodus cheese that i cut down 4days after feeding it maximum dose of GO nutes and molasses, it has not crackled or popped once, the ash is a off white. my point to all this is that we dont flush veggies and fruits, and even if we did its already in the fruit...outdoor growers dont flush their grows, some could say that is the difference between o/d and indoor but im not buying it...

now i cant talk about chem nutes but i do know my org nutes and have flushed strains i knew 2 weeks ahead a time and i have feed them up until the week i chopped them. i have tried it both ways and know there is no difference, except for the fact i fed them 2 weeks longer and they grew bigger and ripened w/out the stress of starving all of a sudden. i have been growing exodus cheese now for a year and have tried all sorts of things w/ her, the one thing i can say about her is she is not a big feeder and will get burned rather easy.

i appreciate every ones input....

 

[Northern Grower]

Smash, i usually go by when the calyxes begin to swell. It's not usualy more than 3 weeks for that stage. Even on the sativas...

Could just be me though.

 

[SmashedbyHashish]

I will water with plain water the last few weeks, by no means a flush. I also stopped using molassis in the last few weeks.

Since i use rain water and melted snow. I don't want to waste it on flushing.

If you get a black ash from an organic grow, that's a good indication some thing isn't pure organic in your mix. Time to go find it. My organic buds burn for ever, and they produce a pure white ash, and a GLOWING red cherry that never needs to be relit.

EXCELLENT! thats what im saying...

 

[Muddy]

I think the term "flush" in the last couple weeks is a little misleading and confusing. I judge mine by the fan leaves. I've found that if I wait about a week from when they start to yellow, I usually have about 2 weeks left before harvest. I don't run a lot of water, maybe just a little more than I usually would. I use 3 gallon pots and a normal feed is usually about 2/3 of a gallon. During the last 2 weeks I give them about 3/4 of a gallon. Just enough to get a little more run off.

And I have flushed outdoor plants. I use chemical nutes outdoors and if there is no rain forecast, I do give them more plain water. I've noticed a big difference in the taste if I don't. But I grow in pots. If I was growing in the ground it would be a totally different situation and I doubt a flush would do much good.