When to start flushing and when to harvest

Do I start flushing before tricomes
Start turning milky white cloudy or after and before they turn Amber


Harvesting and cureing

Dry trim VS wet trim how long do i cure in jars and burp times

First I'm not trying to be a jerk, but all the questions you asked have been asked 1000 times on this forum. If you use the search bar in the upper right corner you can get way more answers then waiting for someone to post here.

Flushing is ultra debated. I always tell people to do their own tests with flushing and not flushing. However I personally did those tests 10 years ago, and realized that flushing is nonsense. You can not biologically "remove nutrients" from your buds. Thats not how it works. The only thing "flushing" will do is leach the nutrients from your medium, and then starve your plants.

Many people will start flushing once new calyxs have stopped growing and the pistils have receeded, then the plants are in the last 2ish weeks of flower where they are maturing. I've watched the weight that plants put on during that time frame, so I don't like to starve my plants while they are trying to do work.

Drying and curing is another thing that almost everyone does different and you can get awesome results from various methods. Personally I remove all the fan leaves while its wet, and break down the plant to individual buds with just the frostiest sugar leaves yet. I dry them this way on a screen for about 7ish days and once they are slightly crispy on the outside but still soft inside I toss them into a paper bag to balance the humidity in the buds. They stay in there for another few days till they are just right, and then I either jar/bag them for storage as is or trim the sugar leaves and then jar them(all depends how much trim there is per strain) I never liked the jaring damp buds and burping the jars and all that. It seemed like a lot of pointless work when I get tasty good smelling buds otherwise.

Thundercat said:

First I'm not trying to be a jerk, but all the questions you asked have been asked 1000 times on this forum. If you use the search bar in the upper right corner you can get way more answers then waiting for someone to post here.

Flushing is ultra debated. I always tell people to do their own tests with flushing and not flushing. However I personally did those tests 10 years ago, and realized that flushing is nonsense. You can not biologically "remove nutrients" from your buds. Thats not how it works. The only thing "flushing" will do is leach the nutrients from your medium, and then starve your plants.

Many people will start flushing once new calyxs have stopped growing and the pistils have receeded, then the plants are in the last 2ish weeks of flower where they are maturing. I've watched the weight that plants put on during that time frame, so I don't like to starve my plants while they are trying to do work.

Drying and curing is another thing that almost everyone does different and you can get awesome results from various methods. Personally I remove all the fan leaves while its wet, and break down the plant to individual buds with just the frostiest sugar leaves yet. I dry them this way on a screen for about 7ish days and once they are slightly crispy on the outside but still soft inside I toss them into a paper bag to balance the humidity in the buds. They stay in there for another few days till they are just right, and then I either jar/bag them for storage as is or trim the sugar leaves and then jar them(all depends how much trim there is per strain) I never liked the jaring damp buds and burping the jars and all that. It seemed like a lot of pointless work when I get tasty good smelling buds otherwise.

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Sorry still getting to know my way around this Forum will look next time i have a ? Thanks for the reply and info.

No need to apologize, I wasn't upset . Thats why I still gave you the info!

Thundercat said:

The only thing "flushing" will do is leach the nutrients from your medium, and then starve your plants.

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That's called flushing derrrrrrr.
Just because you can't smell taste lab salts, or confuse them for sweet or fuel tones doesn't mean you have tasty bud. You probably don't even vape, like most crappy growers don't, which is proof crappy growers do not appreciate the flavor of their crops, and are not lying when they admit they cannot tell them difference.

Hell trim the shit wet then cure it with a blow torch.. Or freeze it with liquid nitrogen and trim it with a cheese grater. Those are the two best methods. Probably will be in 5 years the way grow stupidity is spreading.

LinguaPeel said:

That's called flushing derrrrrrr.
Just because you can't smell taste lab salts, or confuse them for sweet or fuel tones doesn't mean you have tasty bud. You probably don't even vape, like most crappy growers don't, which is proof crappy growers do not appreciate the flavor of their crops, and are not lying when they admit they cannot tell them difference.

Hell trim the shit wet then cure it with a blow torch.. Or freeze it with liquid nitrogen and trim it with a cheese grater. Those are the two best methods. Probably will be in 5 years the way grow stupidity is spreading.

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Lab salts!

LinguaPeel said:

That's called flushing derrrrrrr.
Just because you can't smell taste lab salts, or confuse them for sweet or fuel tones doesn't mean you have tasty bud. You probably don't even vape, like most crappy growers don't, which is proof crappy growers do not appreciate the flavor of their crops, and are not lying when they admit they cannot tell them difference.

Hell trim the shit wet then cure it with a blow torch.. Or freeze it with liquid nitrogen and trim it with a cheese grater. Those are the two best methods. Probably will be in 5 years the way grow stupidity is spreading.

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Wow your angry. Many noobs think that "flushing" will remove nutrients from their buds so they will smoke smoother. This is false.

I was explaining that leaching the nutrients from your medium at harvest will starve the plants that are using those nutrients to grow.

Your welcome to your opinions on the subject. But there is no need to get angry because you starve your plants and I feed mine. There are lots of different ways to grow really great bud. Being stuck up about how you do or don't do it and yelling at people won't make your weed any better or mine any worse.

I don't trim wet, but I've tried it because I've done lots of experiments over the course of many grows to see what worked best for me. I'm glad you found something that works for you.

My buds don't taste like nutrients because I don't over feed my plants.

My weed speaks for itself, and it speaks very loudly . Thanks for adding something beneficial to this thread though. You didn't respond to the OP that I saw. I offered a well balanced response to try to help him out.

How do you grow tell him what he wants to know man. Tell him about your lbs. otherwise your just being a troll.

LinguaPeel said:

That's called flushing derrrrrrr.
Just because you can't smell taste lab salts, or confuse them for sweet or fuel tones doesn't mean you have tasty bud. You probably don't even vape, like most crappy growers don't, which is proof crappy growers do not appreciate the flavor of their crops, and are not lying when they admit they cannot tell them difference.

Hell trim the shit wet then cure it with a blow torch.. Or freeze it with liquid nitrogen and trim it with a cheese grater. Those are the two best methods. Probably will be in 5 years the way grow stupidity is spreading.

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So you're saying its unflushed fertilizer that make buds taste salty? Fuck me, I thought it was all the sodium in my lights doing it. I was going to swap a metal halide bulb to flush out that hps taste, but heard halogen flushed bud can be bitter.


OP like its already been stated you cant remove whats been absorbed by the plant. At best you're causing plants to move the mobile nutrients into new growth where they're needed. The plant itself can't move immobile nutrients deficiency or not.
https://nrcca.cals.cornell.edu/soilFertilityCA/CA1/CA1_print.html
Cannabis is also capable of absorbing large amounts of metals without showing toxicity. Be mindful of what you're pouring into the soil you could be consuming it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4235884/