How to find a poll on flushing?

[whitlow]

we should do one on here. I think most people dont flush anymore.

So start one it would help a lot of people like me!

 

[MIAutomatic]

This comes from a place of love, but I really don’t see how it would be helpful beyond an anecdotal data point. This is the second post you have made about flushing in less than a week and you have gotten the same answers both times. If you make a poll on this site at least, you will just get the same answers a third time.

There are a handful of gardening myths that just won’t go away; water won’t burn your plants under lights or sunshine, rocks on the bottom of pots don’t help with drainage and healthy plants that don’t get over fertilized don’t need any kind of flush.

Keep reading and ask questions, but also learn from these answers.

 

[Zer0]

I have tried flushing and not flushing and it does not matter really from what i see just like48 hours in dark, i can't tell a difference.

I think the only reason for flushing is when you add to much fertilizer or pushing salts out the bottoms.

 

[urs77s]

Sometimes I get a seedling that is really sensitive to the soil (even in bio light mix with no nutes) and looks burned/overfed.
I do flush these and find it puts them right.
Did it this morning to a runtz that was looking really dark green and waxy that was lagging behind it's siblings.

 

[Slater]

 

[CannabisMingus]

not to flush is the way to go.

I believe you will find the majority of growers on AFN (at least the active ones) do not flush for the reasons discussed in the thread Dank cited. It makes no sense biologically, unless you are trying to "flush" the substrate for a particular reason unrelated to the late-stage "flush" popular with the bro-science crowd.

 

[Shugrows]

The only flushing I do is the toilet

 

[whitlow]

It looks like at one time a few years back everyone was flushing or taking about it. But now more don't than do. I've seen some studies that show and prove it makes no difference and can be a negative.

 

[JAB]

My personal opinion flushing does not flush all nutrients stored in the plant itself therefore once you take the nutrients out of the soil, or think you did at least if your using living soil, the plant literally cannibalizes itself by feeding off of stored nutrients. Which stresses the plant out and does not benefit it in the end process where you will see a lot of the swelling come in considering its energy is now switched from feeding off soil and growing to eating itself to try to survive. Regardless you will have nutrients at the end of your grow. There are certain "stress" techniques people believe to add resin production, up the thc count etc. My opinion is i worked so hard all these months to keep the plant green so why intentionally kill her in the end and have a crispy yellow ugly plant to harvest? I feel a healthy happy plant will give you the most out of it. Now certain stress techniques do work like lst and topping even etc but they are also done at a certain time, giving the plant time to heal and keep on growing. If your stressing her at the end of her life all it does is harm her IMO. You will not taste the nutrients, the smoke will not be harsher. Most people once again IMO that state this either dried the flower way to fast or didnt cure it correctly or long enough to get that flavor pull. Also allowing the plant to rot away increases your chances of mold and rot which is no good at all. Product is trash at that point and you will have a lot of wasted time invested. Keep it green my friends!

 

[CannabisMingus]

My personal opinion flushing does not flush all nutrients stored in the plant itself

Your opinion is consistent with the science.