Flushing and Quality of Soil Vs Hydro

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xxMoon

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I been pondering this idea for around a week. People consuming hydro grade material always say they can taste the chemicals in the plant and that hydro is always subpar to soil grown organics. Furthermore even "ogranic hydro" seems to show this same trait.

With that in mind, maybe it is the flushing in hydro that tribulates to the fertilizer* taste. In hydro, when you flush, you are scrapping all the fertilizer for water. So maybe when you do that "give it just water" it no longer has the ability to metablolize the rest of the nutrients stored in the plant tissue. One would think that by flushing their soil they are doing the same thing but wouldn't there always be non water soluble minerals, lipids, and aminos left in there soil?

Does anyone have a detailed list of post flush compounds that remain in the soil?
 
Bugeye

Bugeye

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Your premise is anecdotal at best, and probably wrong. Plenty of threads on flushing so go read some. Prepare for your mind to be blown - you don't have to flush, it's all about drying and curing properly.
 
Mr Hyde

Mr Hyde

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Just another flushing thread, the only thing I flush is my toilet. Sometimes twice if it is a double dumper.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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xxMoon said:
I been pondering this idea for around a week. People consuming hydro grade material always say they can taste the chemicals in the plant and that hydro is always subpar to soil grown organics. Furthermore even "ogranic hydro" seems to show this same trait.

With that in mind, maybe it is the flushing in hydro that tribulates to the fertilizer* taste. In hydro, when you flush, you are scrapping all the fertilizer for water. So maybe when you do that "give it just water" it no longer has the ability to metablolize the rest of the nutrients stored in the plant tissue. One would think that by flushing their soil they are doing the same thing but wouldn't there always be non water soluble minerals, lipids, and aminos left in there soil?

Does anyone have a detailed list of post flush compounds that remain in the soil?
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Lipids, aminos, organics in general will be lost to soil microbe fermentation. That is why we bury trash and dead things. Soil breaks them all the way down to air and inorganic ions.

I have deliberately grown a totally nonorganic hydro grow. I formulated the nutes from reagent-grade feedstocks and knew precisely what ionic nutrients the plants were getting. From seed to flower, they grew gloriously.
I gave some of the smoke to a dispensary manager and his "evaluation crew" and they gave it top marks.They backed their evaluation with cash. That grow amortized itself.

Plants generally do not absorb organic molecules unless they are presented foliar mode. They are not required for healthy plants producing excellent quantity and quality of cannabinoids.

So it is my conclusion that the premise does not survive test.
 
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