Flushing

[joshua311]

Does flushing really matter when using bottle nutrients. I am one week from harvest and just wanted to double check. Thanks and enjoy your day.

 

[JP1]

Feed until the end. No need or benefit in flushing

 

[joshua311]

Feed until the end. No need or benefit in flushing

Gotcha. Appreciate it

 

[Trichome farmer]

Does flushing really matter when using bottle nutrients. I am one week from harvest and just wanted to double check. Thanks and enjoy your day.

flushing isnt necessary unless you have lockout during the grow or ph issues
but leaching the nutrients from your plant is what to do
you want to drop the nutrients for the last week or 10 days just water and sweeteners are needed if you leach the nutrients from the plant material it will burn cleaner

 

[Lil Dab]

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[joshua311]

Thread 'Flushing: The Myth that won't Die'

Nov 15, 2016

Of all the garden myths that exist, I hate this one the most! I'll do my best to drive nails in its coffin, once and for all!

So first, I'm going to give you a little information, then, DO your homework! This can't be answered in a paragraph, you need to get some in depth information.

I'm providing a link to a piece Read Spear posted on his website: Sativa Magazine. I This page includes links for reposting so this material is shareable. also emailed him today about posting excerpts from his book: Marijuana Cultivation Reconsidered. This page includes links for reposting

Science is...

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I appreciate your help and the information you share. Thank you for following my grow and helping out.

 

[Lil Dab]

I appreciate your help and the information you share. Thank you for following my grow and helping out.

No problem anytime I’ve been there

 

[BII]

but leaching the nutrients from your plant is what to do
you want to drop the nutrients for the last week or 10 days just water and sweeteners are needed if you leach the nutrients from the plant material it will burn cleaner

Soluble nutrients can be leached from soil/media, not from plants.

How does "leach[ing] the nutrients from the plant material" work inside a plant? Leaching is the removal of substances/materials by dissolving in a flowing fluid (here water). Do you presume the plant somehow moves nutrient rich water in its tissues to somewhere outside the plant - to where and how does that happen? Roots don't exude/secrete nutrients from upper plant tissues into the soil/medium, so where do the dissolved nutrients and water its dissolved in go?

If starving the plant of nutes pre-harvest, there might(?) be reduction in concentration of dissolved nutrients in plant tissues, including consumption/metabolism of some nutrients not replaced by feeding, but that is not leaching.

 

[Trichome farmer]

Soluble nutrients can be leached from soil/media, not from plants.

How does "leach[ing] the nutrients from the plant material" work inside a plant? Leaching is the removal of substances/materials by dissolving in a flowing fluid (here water). Do you presume the plant somehow moves nutrient rich water in its tissues to somewhere outside the plant - to where and how does that happen? Roots don't exude/secrete nutrients from upper plant tissues into the soil/medium, so where do the dissolved nutrients and water its dissolved in go?

If starving the plant of nutes pre-harvest, there might(?) be reduction in concentration of dissolved nutrients in plant tissues, including consumption/metabolism of some nutrients not replaced by feeding, but that is not leaching.

i used the word leaching because when it was explained to me it was the word used but looking it up your correct its not right to describe the process so what im saying is cut out the nutrients for the last 7-10 days just add water and sweeteners so the plant can consume its stores of whatever it consumes which i presume is NPK etc ???? what word would you use to describe this process

 

[BII]

i used the word leaching because when it was explained to me it was the word used but looking it up your correct its not right to describe the process so what im saying is cut out the nutrients for the last 7-10 days just add water and sweeteners so the plant can consume its stores of whatever it consumes which i presume is NPK etc ???? what word would you use to describe this process

"Starvation" - no food and consumption of soluble/available nutrients.