When to start flushing

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2com

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curious2garden said:
Lovely plant, and if you are curious about flushing here's a good article:
www.rxgreentechnologies.com

Cannabis Flushing Research Study

In our research study, RX Green Technologies evaluated the effects of different flushing times on chemical profile, flavor, and smoke of cannabis flower.
www.rxgreentechnologies.com www.rxgreentechnologies.com

I grow in Coco/perlite every 2 weeks I flush with a low PPM solution to set up an osmotic gradient to leach my grow medium of excess salt build up. I feed to the end.
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Thanks. I've found that one actually, in the thread @twalte posted about the article they did. When I looked through the article for a link to the actual "scientific" study, the link was broken. But I did find it after. (Of course, I found another article saying the opposite as well, claiming to have "scientists" and teams of "Ph.Ds" that showed flushing had merit, blah blah. And the links just brought you to the flushing products they were trying to sell - brought to you by advanced nutrients, hah. So it sounded similar to the RXgreentech company's angle, only the opposite, until I found their actual study.)

And then the one study by Stemeroff from the university of guelph(?) which touched on it as well (and I haven't read either in their entirety yet; haven't had the time).

I also looked into and found some good information on senescence.

This is what I was looking/asking for; actual scientific research or studies, etc. that might have been done, that would support one result or the other, or some other "unpredicted" result. Not slogan level, over simplified "advice" like "Don't put stuff in the plant you don't want in there" - which isn't "wrong", it's just so vague and useless it gives nothing in the way of an answer or approach to take. And not misrepresentations of the actual concept (or misconceptions) or thought process of those who have been flushing for however long.

But like Thundercat said, probably shouldn't clutter this guys thread up with it, fair enough. So I won't post about it here anymore.
Thanks for posting the link.
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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2com said:
Thanks. I've found that one actually, in the thread @twalte posted about the article they did. When I looked through the article for a link to the actual "scientific" study, the link was broken. But I did find it after. (Of course, I found another article saying the opposite as well, claiming to have "scientists" and teams of "Ph.Ds" that showed flushing had merit, blah blah. And the links just brought you to the flushing products they were trying to sell - brought to you by advanced nutrients, hah. So it sounded similar to the RXgreentech company's angle, only the opposite, until I found their actual study.)

And then the one study by Stemeroff from the university of guelph(?) which touched on it as well (and I haven't read either in their entirety yet; haven't had the time).

I also looked into and found some good information on senescence.

This is what I was looking/asking for; actual scientific research or studies, etc. that might have been done, that would support one result or the other, or some other "unpredicted" result. Not slogan level, over simplified "advice" like "Don't put stuff in the plant you don't want in there" - which isn't "wrong", it's just so vague and useless it gives nothing in the way of an answer or approach to take. And not misrepresentations of the actual concept (or misconceptions) or thought process of those who have been flushing for however long.

But like Thundercat said, probably shouldn't clutter this guys thread up with it, fair enough. So I won't post about it here anymore.
Thanks for posting the link.
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Most of us are all for discussion and deeper digging into topics. Throw up a thread about it all and try to spark some discussion with the studies you’ve found. Maybe coming at the topic from that angle will help prevent the usual fights when someone just asks “when should I flush”.

One thing is that many of us have been doing this for many years and I don’t know about everyone but I am not that person that saves all the links to info I read. I read and gather info and formulate my views based on what I find, in conjunction with my own personal experiences and experiments.
 
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2com

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Thundercat said:
Most of us are all for discussion and deeper digging into topics. Throw up a thread about it all and try to spark some discussion with the studies you’ve found. Maybe coming at the topic from that angle will help prevent the usual fights when someone just asks “when should I flush”.

One thing is that many of us have been doing this for many years and I don’t know about everyone but I am not that person that saves all the links to info I read. I read and gather info and formulate my views based on what I find, in conjunction with my own personal experiences and experiments.
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Respect :)
Honestly, I agree with basically everything you said here. Totally reasonable. And I could have handled my response better. Maybe I misunderstood the way you were responding. Anyway, much respect for this.
Thank you.
 
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Riverboat2020

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Wow! Yes you can flush your plants of nutrients. Some do like 1x per month I don't the guy that said ten days is right on I start 7-10 days out flushing my nutrients remind me never ever Eva Eva Eva to smoke your weed if you don't flush it! Lol
 
Buddy73

Buddy73

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Look at all this under the canopy right down to the pot! How the hell am I going to ripen that lot? It’s too bloody dense.
 
JoeBlow5823

JoeBlow5823

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Buddy73 said:
Ty you very much for your advice buddy, is it normal for autoflowers to shed their larger fan leaves late bloom . Supposed to be a 8wk strain but is already about 10wks now and you think it has another 2-3 ???
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No auto finishes as fast as breeders and seed banks say. A lot of them will say "8 week flower" which would mean they are ready 8 weeks from the time you notice them flowering. But some still have the bold face lie claims of "8 weeks seed to harvest." Every auto I have grown shed its larger fan leaves long before it was ready for harvest. Typically 90-100 days seed to harvest.
 
Buddy73

Buddy73

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And I only have the 1 tent and it’s up in the cold loft with heating, otherwise I would stagger the chop. It’s just that there’s so much bud on the plant that the top will be done and the bottom is still a lot of clear Trichomes
 
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