To Flush or Not To Flush.......... personal opinions please.....

hey guys, title says it all really ?

To flush or not to flush .


I flush for three weeks. Two weeks with plant magic flush , then one week with plain PHD water. I also like to cure for at least four weeks and the end product is top banana.
But
Couple friends of mine claim that it makes no diffrence, and I'm robbing my plants of three weeks feed.
What's your opinion? I had some ropey green a couple weeks ago and the guy said ' yeah man , the guy didn't didn't flush it man' ( yeah whatever)
I would like to know your end of harvest procedures , and see what most ppl go with.
Lets not turn this into an argument, just see who favours what.

Peace

You're kidding, right? You make a thread about flushing and tell everyone you don't want an argument?

You must be a troll.

VestaxToker said:

Lets not turn this into an argument, just see who favours what.

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churchhaze said:

You must be a troll.

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I'll put my money on that

I'm just going to say one thing.

Never does plain water EVER get fed to my plants. Not even when starting seeds.



J

To the op's credit, I think he means that you can have a different opinion, but lets start an argue about it (unlikely lol)

i grow hydro, I slowly drop my ppm,s over the last 10 - 14 days until they are as close to plain water as can be.
I have been experimenting with dark periods over my last few grows. But usually give a day or two dark period.

This area is new to me.
If you carry on feeding the usual nute solution up to the last day of flowering (like minutes before the harvest) potentially what can it do to the bud?

I never flush, but I do change my nutrient profile for the last week or so. I also reduce the ppm to around 500-600ppm.

I've read a lot of non-weed scientific documents showing that inorganic phosphate level is used in regulating carbon partitioning (how sugar is stored). It's been shown that phosphate deficiency causes plants to partition more of its carbon flux as starch rather than mobile sugars.

http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/98/1/316.full.pdf

look at figure 3 on page 4.

(edit: to be more clear, I don't allow phosphate deficiency because my goal is to reduce starch in the finished product, and high phosphate levels are a signal to convert starch to sugars for immediate growth.)

i dont feed anything but molasses the last week to week and a half. make the plant use what it has stored up.

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