Flushing for 10days but no yellow leaves...

Hi all.

As the title says i've been flushing a BB cheese plant for 10 days now but the leaves are just as green as when i started flushing. Should i just keep flushing?

I'm growing in coco coir using canna coco a+b, calmag, golden tree and bloombastic. I used a flushing agent for the first 4 days (flawless finish) and i have been using plain ph'd water for the last 6 days. The run off is still very dirty, does this mean the plant is still leeching nutrients?

Thanks

Why do you want your leaves to be anything other than green? What are you trying to achieve with this flushing?

You're leaching, not flushing. Big difference.

Sorry i'm relatively inexperienced, i thought that when flushing the fan leaves begin to turn yellow as they use up any excess nutrients stored in the leaves etc? I thought that if the leaves are still green, this was the reason you get the chemical taste when you smoke? Because there is still nutrients left in the plant?

calzone said:

Sorry i'm relatively inexperienced, i thought that when flushing the fan leaves begin to turn yellow as they use up any excess nutrients stored in the leaves etc? I thought that if the leaves are still green, this was the reason you get the chemical taste when you smoke? Because there is still nutrients left in the plant?

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Nutes don't have a taste, you're getting the taste of chlorophyll because it wasn't slow dried and cured properly, which really isn't hard. Lots of threads on this. Good luck!

Ok cool so whats the big deal with people waiting until their fan leaves start yellowing? I've seen alot of people talking about it on various forums

calzone said:

Ok cool so whats the big deal with people waiting until their fan leaves start yellowing? I've seen alot of people talking about it on various forums

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Personal preference, some people like theirs green at the end and some people prefer them all yellow n stuff etc

So its really unimportant whether they're yellow or green?

calzone said:

So its really unimportant whether they're yellow or green?

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Yup, each side has there arguments for what they believe and why but providing you are producing decent smokable bud at the end it doesnt matter in the slightest etc, ive done both ways and noticed fuck all difference in taste/potency etc

Cool man thanks for clearing that up for me

you want them to stay green as long as possible, because then they're still able to feed your plant, in the last two weeks or so of the plants life it will start turning yellow from lack of N, which it will try to leach from leaves to feed the buds. you have a budget of ppm you can feed a plant without burning it, at the end you don't want to be using part of that budget for N, so thats why leaves turn yellow towards the end for most plants

and the whole flushing thing is a myth, any salts and metals your plant has absorbed can not be flushed out of a plant with water. once they're absorbed, they're in that plant. there may be a psychosomatic difference, but in reality, you can flush for a week and the same levels of salts and metals will still be present, so the best thing to do is use as much nutes as your plants need, and no more. if you don't over feed, there won't be anything to flush, anyway

calzone said:

Ok cool so whats the big deal with people waiting until their fan leaves start yellowing? I've seen alot of people talking about it on various forums

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Keeping them green until harvest without overfeeding is the optimum, imo. It is better to error with early yellowing than overfeeding. Simple as that.