Sorry, I have to AGREE with a load of naive kids who spout what they have READ and what my experience has told me is not correct? No way, José.
Do tobacco growers flush then?? Course they don´t.
Really? Your argument is that smoking and eating are virtually the same. Please start doing some research before you continue this conversation.
imma jump in now. tobacco isnt grown in hydroponics and is a rotating crop, wtf would you flush it? i flush mine but i use super concentrated dynagrow and monster bloom at a huge 7-62-36. the smell of nutes makes me gag and i can taste that shit if i dont flush. if you use little nutes, might not notice, i use a f ton and adjust ph based on the nutes i want it to take in at that time. oddly if i add too much i can raise the ph so i doesnt absorb as quickly. so mine are sitting in a very rich solution. but ya know what, spanishfly, if you like the way your smoke taste, then great! i just wont be smokin with you lol.
Sorry, I make sure I don´t have seeds - in fact only ever grow feminised nowadays. I take great care in drying and curing my bud, it is beautifully smooth and my clients love it. I find, however, that flushing is a total waste of time.
i think they WANT the addictive and poisonous chems to be in the smoke. thats why they dont flush
well put....correct me if i'm wrong please...doesnt the plant produce all the way up till it peaks with an ideal window of only a few days? but the most common recommendation is flush for 2 weeks...if all of that is true then it seems only logical to me that flushing that long would take away something it needs during the final swell...im just a hobbyist as well lookin for answers like everyone elseI don't think it's silly at all, my friend. I've heard of flushes being done with a regulated lower dose of nutes being used with success. But success really is in the eye of the beholder when flushing is concerned, as evident here in this thread. I've never used organic nutes, but I would love to hear your flushing results if you give it a try. It seems like an extremely plausible hypothesis to me.
In response to your statement of depriving the plant of food during flush when it needs it needs it most... In my experience when I am about to flush the plant is near completion of its life cycle and is in essence, dying. During my flush/non-flush experiments, the difference in yield was negligible. But as with all grow ops, they are all unique with drastically different outcomes. But hey, I'm no trained botanist, just a hobbyist
I'm sure you are correct that there is a perfect sweet spot, and I do my darndest to calculate the best time to flush before harvest as not to let the ladies go too far before flush or let them go to long without any nutes at all. It's all a gamble, I guess. To combat a total loss of nutrients I add molasses during my flush which gives them a bit of carbs for the micros, Ca, Mg and K that staves off total starvation. It supposedly helps with the 'final swell' but with my experiments the difference with flush w/ mol. and flush w/o mol., again, the differences were negligible.
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Hehe, isn't that the truth. But that's what makes these forums so invaluable!Actually, on RIU there are about 20.....
ive had two harvests on using botanicare cns17 nutes...not an experiment or anything in fact nowhere near even the same strains. the harvest without flush the smoke kind felt like minor chemical burning on my tongue an tore my throat up...the one using flush was a very big difference. much smoother an no burning sensation. maybe the flush is most needed for synthetic nutes and not so much organic since organic is a natural source. my flush is florakleen and it says to only use it for a day or two...mine normally get 4 or 5 days tho just to be sure.molasses? u mean like the kind u get in the grocery store? I've heard molasses many times but didn't know what anyone was referring to but i also heard that u have to have beneficial bacteria to make that work. is that true?I'm sure you are correct that there is a perfect sweet spot, and I do my darndest to calculate the best time to flush before harvest as not to let the ladies go too far before flush or let them go to long without any nutes at all. It's all a gamble, I guess. To combat a total loss of nutrients I add molasses during my flush which gives them a bit of carbs for the micros, Ca, Mg and K that staves off total starvation. It supposedly helps with the 'final swell' but with my experiments the difference with flush w/ mol. and flush w/o mol., again, the differences were negligible.
All I can say with total conviction that flushing certainly improves flavour and smoothness in my situation. All the variables in everyone's unique grow affects everyone's outcome differently. But it works for me.
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