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Originally Posted by fdd2blk
you don't know what a hermie is? 
so if there is no difference between flushed and unflushed i will continue to flush. 
in nature, where plants naturally grow, it rains in the fall. the soil gets flushed naturally at the end of the flowering cycle. the nutes run out and the plants colors change. this is often the cause of some of your purple colors. i prefer to keep it real.  
how could it be good to smoke a plant that is LOADED FULL OF NUTES?  |
I'm glad you have been helping people for 3 years and you have probably given valuable information over those years, but when someone is wrong I feel the need to correct.
Pretty much everything said about "flushing" happening in nature is wrong. First of all the rain does not "flush" the soil. It was a very valid point to ask what about dry climates? It is the light cycles that cause the plants to change colors. Not the rain.
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In fall, however, cooler and shorter days trigger an end to auxin production, allowing the abscission layer to grow and cut off the circulation of water, nutrients and sugar to the leaves. When this happens, chlorophyll disintegrates rapidly, letting carotene shine through as the yellow in maple, aspen and birch leaves. Anthocyanin, meanwhile, provides the oranges and reds of maples, sumacs and oaks. When there’s less sun, anthocyanin isn’t as chemically active and leaves are more orange or yellow than red.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1012104737.htm
Alright so the leaves don't change color from the rain, but do the plants flush themselves? Nope. The leaves take back in the sugars and other important parts of leaves to STORE them for the winter. To have energy to stay alive and have energy to start making leaves again next year. This is taught in elementary school to children and I am surprised no one mentions this. Plants do the exact opposite of flushing, they store as many nutrients as they to keep them alive and allow them to produce again next year. So any examples of trees or other plants being "flushed" naturally is simply not true. In fact it is suggested to give plants many more nutes before their final steps in hibernation in order to help them throughout the winter.
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Trees produce their own food from nutrients, water and carbon dioxide during the growing season, and then store that food for use over winter and for the following spring. But trees whose leaves have suffered all year from leaf spot fungi and anthracnose fungi would definitely benefit from fertilizing as these diseases reduce the leaves ability to produce food for the tree.
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http://www.northscaping.com/InfoZone.../IS-0006.shtml
Now does flushing help? I have no idea and no comment on that. Just wanted to dispel the supposed facts to back up flushing. Sorry fdd, no disrespect. But if you were to come across posted information you knew to be false and could easily prove you would. In fact Ive seen you do it all the time and for good reason. So hope theres no hard feelings. if there are you just need to
11-02-2009, 01:18 AM
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