New Research Shows Flushing may not be needed (unflushed may even be better)

GanjaGreg.

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Flushing is a scam to make you look like a idiot imo
Your opinion makes you sound like an idiot. bongsmilie
IMO :roll:
I dont have a side nor do I know the answer... but if there was a scam it would be the other way around... nobody is gaining anything from people flushing... the nute companies would increase supply & demand by telling you to use nutes when you didn’t need em
 

Gond00s

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if you monitor what your plant wants and you are on top of it you don't have to worry about anything at harvest just water and chop I have never needed to flush in a very long time last time I had to was using ff liquid nutes nuked my plants learned way more from back then that was 2 years ago and now I know that if giving them the bare minimum then you don't have to worry about nutes and if they want more you bump it up 25% for your feeds and you really shouldn't nuke that tiny plant with 540 ppm I would do a max of like 300 until it shows deficiencys would feed it once then just give phed water but who knows i dont run blurples
 

GanjaGreg.

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if you monitor what your plant wants and you are on top of it you don't have to worry about anything at harvest just water and chop I have never needed to flush in a very long time last time I had to was using ff liquid nutes nuked my plants learned way more from back then that was 2 years ago and now I know that if giving them the bare minimum then you don't have to worry about nutes and if they want more you bump it up 25% for your feeds and you really shouldn't nuke that tiny plant with 540 ppm I would do a max of like 300 until it shows deficiencys would feed it once then just give phed water but who knows i dont run blurples
Thanks for tuning in to my thread I’ll pm you :bigjoint:
 

PadawanWarrior

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Electrolytes. ;) Brawndo, it's got what plants crave!
Haha. Didn't I tell you that I was gonna start recommending Brawndo, cause it's got what plants crave when we were talking about Idiocracy lol. I remember that funny ass thread, well kinda, haha, but haven't used the line yet. Love it man. And I just found a shirt I'm tempted to order.

Update. I found a cheaper place to get it. Just ordered it.
 
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xtsho

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I don't need an article from High Times to tell me that. In fact I don't even read High Times. It's nothing but advertisements. Even the articles are advertisements.

The fact that their senior cultivation editor makes ridiculous statements proves High Times is a terrible place to get information regarding the cultivation of cannabis.

"senior cultivation editor Danny Danko. “So it helps with the burnability of the flower by leeching out excess salts and nutrients.”

That pretty much sums up High Times. Advertisements or bad information from those that don't know what they're talking about.
 

DaFreak

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Your opinion makes you sound like an idiot. bongsmilie
IMO :roll:
I dont have a side nor do I know the answer... but if there was a scam it would be the other way around... nobody is gaining anything from people flushing... the nute companies would increase supply & demand by telling you to use nutes when you didn’t need em
lol, have you never seen those same companies selling flushing products? It wasn't a scam to begin with but they are not ones to not capitalize on a stupid idea.
 

madvillian420

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https://extension.psu.edu/programs/nutrient-management/educational/soil-fertility/comparing-fertilizer-materials


plants consume cations and anions of nutrients, and turn them into sugars and carbohydrates, among many other interesting chemicals, and use them to feed, repair, produce and reproduce themselves. you cannot remove cations and anions once the plant absorbs them. they are no longer the original material you introduced into the medium, they've been broken down into their constituent parts, absorbed, and metabolized...
what is left behind in the soil are depleted salts, that are mostly inactive. they'll build up and start to burn your roots fairly quickly. you should be watering to run off in soil at least every third watering, every time in soilless medium...if you've been doing that, there should never be anything approaching a toxic level of depleted salts, so no reason to "flush".
interesting. So my runoff tray is probably due for a cleaning? my roots sit in the runoff for a bit before it dries/gets absorbed, its probably recirculating the salts
 

xtsho

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Except every specialty "cannabis nutrient" producer with their magic flushing juice.
You mean magnesium sulfate or sugars dissolved in water isn't worth $20 a quart? What! Come on now. Those products are a bargain. They'll flush all those leftover nutes right out of the flowers. In fact you can actually see the nutrients dripping out of the flowers. When they stop then you know the plant has been flushed and is ready to harvest. :mrgreen:
 

Gond00s

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And the feeding charts recommending an insane amount of nutes per gallon. Yeah if you're following the charts and running 2000 ppm like a dummy you will have to flush all that shit out of the soil when it starts burning your plants.
I don't go past 1000
 

KryptoBud

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And the feeding charts recommending an insane amount of nutes per gallon. Yeah if you're following the charts and running 2000 ppm like a dummy you will have to flush all that shit out of the soil when it starts burning your plants.
Then they bottle epaom salt and water in a bottle with a fancy label to flush the medium.
 

dubekoms

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The people that follow those don’t know how to read their plant and shouldn’t be growing imo
I started out growing veggies before weed which helped significantly. Now outdoor veggie growing is definitely a bit different from indoor growing but at least you learn the basics like nute strength, over/under watering etc. A lot of newbies getting into growing weed haven't grown anything in their life so it's all brand new to them which makes them susceptible to marketing gimmicks and other BS.
 
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