Need some advice on flushing?

Im about a week away from harvest..3 days ago i poured a whole gallon of fresh water with a ph of 6.5 through my 3 gallon pot..and drained it out in the bath tub. I did the same thing today.

I've heard different ratios for flushing..and quite honestly am not sure what they mean. I've heard running 3 gallons of water through each gallon of soil...but am still confused.

So every 2-3 days whenever my plant needs water...i run 9 gallons of water through my 3 gallon pot? And do this for the whole week? Which will probably be 2 waterings in a week...for a total of 18 gallons through the week?

These numbers just sound crazy...please help me make some sense of this all!

and some people say to not flush that last week because all you are doing is stripping the nutrients out of the soil and it makes the plant starve for a few days...Just leave your plant in the dark for 24-48 hrs of total darkness before harvesting...that's suppose to increase resin production right at the end

I thought the point of flushing WAS to get the nutrients out of the plant? Maybe the way i worded it isnt correct...but i know your trying to get your PPM around 100-200 before you harvest. Or in other words..you want to get stuff out of your plants that you dont wanna taste in your weed. This is just what i've heard..correct me if im wrong.

So since i watered today..should i water once more in the next 5 days..then the last 2 days leave in darkness?

Im tired of typing the same old same old, so in summary:

-You cant flush nutrients out of a plant, its not a toilet.
-You're just starving the plant.
-Nutrients arnt stored in buds.
-Nutrients dont cause bad burning/tasting weed.
-Pre-harvest flushing is bullshit and a myth.

Hope this helps.

Harrekin said:

Im tired of typing the same old same old, so in summary:

-You cant flush nutrients out of a plant, its not a toilet.
-You're just starving the plant.
-Nutrients arnt stored in buds.
-Nutrients dont cause bad burning/tasting weed.
-Pre-harvest flushing is bullshit and a myth.

Hope this helps.

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I disagree but you already knew that lol

So thousands of growers who have used this method and considering it one of the most important steps of harvest are just doing it for no reason ehh?

Can i get a response from someone who actually knows what they're talking about please?

From my experience, flushing with plain water 10 days before harvest improves the taste and burn of the cannabis. I like to flush the soil with 3 liters of water for every liter of soil, then not water the plant until it gets cut down. In theory, it would produce extra resin to keep itself from drying out. I also like to put the plant in darkness for 2-3 days before cutting to stress it into producing extra resin. Lastly, I try to expose the plant to as little light as possible when cutting it, so that the carbohydrates stored in the roots don't get the chance to make their way back up into the leaves.

So again...i have to use 9 gallons of water for my 3 gallon pot? You can see how that sounds crazy right?

No it's genuinely bullshit, ask any of the Harvest and Curing section mods.

Or better yet, just leave one plant "without flushing" and try it out.

Honestly, flushing is a bullshit myth made by people listening to people listening to people.

Refer to my points I posted above again, learn some basic plant biology and you'll see I'm correct.

Sorry to be the "paradigm breaker".

EDIT: Extra resin to stop itself drying out?! And you'd believe that bullshit over the facts I posted above? Welcome to noob land my friend, if you wanna believe the bullshit go ahead, but you're just wasting water and starving your plant.

DOUBLE EDIT: Carbs stored in the roots...I genuinely cannot stop laughing at this shit!

Harrekin said:

No it's genuinely bullshit, ask any of the Harvest and Curing section mods.

Or better yet, just leave one plant "without flushing" and try it out.

Honestly, flushing is a bullshit myth made by people listening to people listening to people.

Refer to my points I posted above again, learn some basic plant biology and you'll see I'm correct.

Sorry to be the "paradigm breaker".

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LOL ask the mods.

I missed the memo where the forum mods are the end-all authorities on the topics they moderate.

You can repeat yourself as much as you like, get frustrated, whatever.. you'll still just one forum poster in a sea of thousands of others.

wbd said:

LOL ask the mods.

I missed the memo where the forum mods are the end-all authorities on the topics they moderate.

You can repeat yourself as much as you like, get frustrated, whatever.. you'll still just one forum poster in a sea of thousands of others.

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Ok flush away, keep growin toilets...I'll just keep growing plants myself.

Ok so just for entertainment purposes...what exactly does flushing achieve? And why don't tomato, lettuce, strawberry, carrot, (all veggies/fruits/etc) and most importantly (cos they grow smokable stuff) tobacco growers flush their plants?

Harrekin said:

Ok flush away, keep growin toilets...I'll just keep growing plants myself.

Ok so just for entertainment purposes...what exactly does flushing achieve? And why don't tomato, lettuce, strawberry, carrot, (all veggies/fruits/etc) and most importantly (cos they grow smokable stuff) tobacco growers flush their plants?

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I don't flush for harvest.

I just think it's funny to hear that the moderators are suddenly subject matter experts, the "deciders" in a debate that isn't over by a long shot. Seriously, was there a test or something?

wbd said:

I don't flush for harvest.

I just think it's funny to hear that the moderators are suddenly subject matter experts, the "deciders" in a debate that isn't over by a long shot. Seriously, was there a test or something?

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So you try to discredit what I said based on one sentence? Go troll somewhere else noob, I'm trying to help a guy here and you're in talking shite.

What I said regarding flushing is true, so why the need to be a useless bell-end?

Harrekin said:

So you try to discredit what I said based on one sentence? Go troll somewhere else noob, I'm trying to help a guy here and you're in talking shite.

What I said regarding flushing is true, so why the need to be a useless bell-end?

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I know you're frustrated because you can't make everyone think exactly like you, but there is no reason to resort to namecalling.

All I am saying is there is no point in your being so disruptive in every thread, getting so bent out of shape when someone comes along and disagrees with you. If you want to be helpful, state your case one time (as you did) and be done with it. Just count on someone coming along after you and saying that flushing works, you already know it is going to happen. Fight that urge to turn the thread into a debate that is not going away no matter how many times you insist you are right, speaking the truth, etc.

And to be clear, the moderators are here to police the forums and keep discussions civil, to clean up spam, etc. They are not designated subject matter experts and are not authorized to decide what is "right" for everyone else.

But the fact of the matter is pre-harvest flushing doesn't work, is pointless and starves a plant in its ripening stage... So why sit by whilst people spread bullshit myths? I thought this forum was about teaching people to grow the best cannabis you can?

Well Herrekin you tried and like you I am laughing at these folks especially in soil trying to flush a plant. Yes you can flush and flush and flush but to what point? You have starved the plant of its, nutes and sugars, stripped the soil of its health and for what? Smooth taste? Sorry, the taste and smoothness is achieved by a proper dry and cure.
Noobies will believe what they want to believe, most have never grown anything else in their life but know about flushing. Been growing this fine herb since 1968 and have grown fruits, veggies and ornamentals for a living ----Flushing is bullshit, for naysayers just google it, read and then ask farmers how they flush their fields for there crops.

Harrekin said:

But the fact of the matter is pre-harvest flushing doesn't work, is pointless and starves a plant in its ripening stage... So why sit by whilst people spread bullshit myths? I thought this forum was about teaching people to grow the best cannabis you can?

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If there was a single, definitive way to grow the best cannabis then there would be one grow guide and no forums. Because there would be nothing left to discuss.

Spreading myths is obviously counter-productive, but when folks are claiming their own real-world experience as reason for choosing to flush, or even say that it doesn't matter one way or the other, that is not myth-spreading...

The only real fact of the matter is that everyone here is merely repeating what they read somewhere else, nobody here has done any truly scientific studies for themselves. We all (hopefully) read as much as we can, try new things, and come to our own conclusions. Nobody here that has A) done their research and B) experimented with both flushing and non-flushing is any wiser than anyone else. So let's just not pretend that they are...

wbd said:

If there was a single, definitive way to grow the best cannabis then there would be one grow guide and no forums. Because there would be nothing left to discuss.

Spreading myths is obviously counter-productive, but when folks are claiming their own real-world experience as reason for choosing to flush, or even say that it doesn't matter one way or the other, that is not myth-spreading...

The only real fact of the matter is that everyone here is merely repeating what they read somewhere else, nobody here has done any truly scientific studies for themselves. We all (hopefully) read as much as we can, try new things, and come to our own conclusions. Nobody here that has A) done their research and B) experimented with both flushing and non-flushing is any wiser than anyone else. So let's just not pretend that they are...

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Real world experience and placebo go hand in hand with the flushing myth.

If you wanna keep denying people the truth then keep posting counter productively...but I ain't gonna stop trying to stem the bullshit epidemic until I'm dead...

So how about instead of telling me I'm argumentative trying to weed out the bullshit in people's heads you just stfu unless you wanna add to the topic?

the issue here is some stoner back in the day thought to himself...hey man if i stop feeding my plant right before the harvest and flush out the soil it will give me better smoke! And in turn he told all his fellow growers...and it went from there...alot of the "methods" for doing weird and strange things comes from someone trying it...and instead of doing an actual scientific experiment with it, just said it works without valid data to back up his claims, and people in turn just believe their word on the subject...flush if you want...but...

Instead of battling the age old question of "to flush or not to flush"...do your own experiment to find out what works for you...flush specific ones...dont flush others...seperate for drying and curing...have someone else hand you a nug to smoke that you dont know which it is...smoke it...let it wear off...have the same person give you the other without knowing which is which...smoke it...let it wear off...write down the feelings during smoking and during the high...then find out which was which

Harrekin said:

Real world experience and placebo go hand in hand with the flushing myth.

If you wanna keep denying people the truth then keep posting counter productively...but I ain't gonna stop trying to stem the bullshit epidemic until I'm dead...

So how about instead of telling me I'm argumentative trying to weed out the bullshit in people's heads you just stfu unless you wanna add to the topic?

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Because your responses close the door on the topic. People will be reading this thread for years to come, trying to figure out for themselves in this sea of bullshit whether to flush their plants or not. The part where you claim that the moderators agree with you, therefore you're right and you win -- that was just more of the bullshit in my opinion. So I challenged that notion... same as you challenge the notion that flushing is useful. I guess when you disagree it's stopping an epidemic (our hero), when I disagree it's trolling?

Go ahead and keep fighting the good fight man, obviously it's really important to you that nobody ever flush their plants again. Best of luck.