The Truth About Flushing Your Plants that Cannabis Nutrient Companies DON'T Want You to Know
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
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Is flushing your plants "bro-science"? Well, there's more to it than that.
Flushing your plants used to make sense, but times have changed. So, why do the big nutrient companies still recommend it? Watch this video to find out.
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RUclips is a wild ride for growing tips. "You must do this!" followed by "Stop doing that!"
I like to run grow tips through the best version of bullshit filter I can muster up at my experience level. By doing or not doing a lot of this stuff it might make a 2% difference in quality but was 2% worth the extra work and expense? Best I can do drying is 68 degrees and around 50% rh for example. If I listened to the videos about drying they'd convince me that my attempts to grow are futile because I can't maintain a perfect 60/60. As it turns out, the reality is much more forgiving and 68 degrees at 50% produces good results.
if you want to actually improve your grow game, read. read all the books you can and anything from studies that produce increased yields.
Goes to show you just because you made a video doesn't mean you made a good point lol.
Right . Just grow . You can learn a lot of advanced grow tips but until you have roots of your own nothing on video you tube matters. Try things. If you think it is a good idea and it makes sense in your situation do it. If someone says No or stop and yet you like the results than their advice only goes to far. You know your grow and what it needs most times and online info is not specific to your situation so do what you want. Try new things and have fun with it.
I usually go with all water last week . I wouldn't call it a full flush though .Thanks for all you do for the community Scotty . God bless , and peace to the DGC !
Thank You, DGC4Life
Flushing is fine. Purging would be good too, even if you did flush, water solubles are still in the leaves, until you flush them out
@@TedMishler They are supposed to be in the leaves . They would take up these things in natural soil outdoors. The plant stores these things for seed production. They burn up the nutrition pretty efficiently . The last thing anyone would want is a plant devoid of the proper nutrition . This is an idea by people who overthink grows so they can make videos about does and do nots. Its simply not important . If you want the plant to flush itself you would have to embalm it with water and yuck . its flushing the soil more than the plant .
I don’t care what they say, from experience, the smoke is better if flushed. The ash is whiter as well.
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How is the ash with the organic grows not flushing ?
@@mrgrofire5848 idk. I’m doing my first mostly organic grow now. I think I’m going to stay synthetic though because I’ve heard heavy metals can be a problem with growing organic
@@mrgrofire5848 RUclips deleted my comment. Just crazy. It said I’m not sure. I am doing my first grow using fox farm trio. I was using Humboldt cal mag and koolbloom so it’s not fully the o word. I am going to flush it through
@@mrgrofire5848 all my other grows I used gh 3 part and it works fine. Nice tasting, smelling, and white ash as long as I flushed.
Rx Green Technologies did a study on flushing. Participants of the study didn’t prefer plants that were flushed. If fact, they could really tell no difference and actually preferred the un-flushed plants when forced to pick the “smoothest” tasting plants.
I watched an interview about that, wonder if it was those guys, I do recall them saying that the flavors were preferred from the non-flush.
I saw that too
Hey Scotty, Good topic. 5 years growing here I'm 72 and started smoking 7 years ago. I flushed the first couple grows using Fox Farm trio. Using what they recommend. Now I use Advanced Nutrients at 1/4 the recommended amount. And don't flush. My girls look great grow great and smoke great. Happy growing.
late bloomer.
I'm wrapping up week 7 of my first grow. My friend has been growing for a long time and still sticks to the old Grow Bible way of doing things - not necessarily wrong, but definitely stuck in yesteryear. He's a flush-or-die person (among many other things). I plan on telling him I flushed my plants when I really didn't, just so that when he tries it (and hopefully likes it, lol), I'll actually have half a shot at changing his mind.
If it works what the difference when it came from? There are many was to get there it's about what works gor you
@@mnfisher129 because flushing is essentially overwatering.
@@Evil_Chronic to me flushing just means no added nutes.
Dont make your friend smoke nutes , he will know and your whole crop will be ruined ❤ the no flush thing is a myth about 2 years old now if that
@@ag3nto578it’s about removing the Nutrient Soil Bank build up so instead of 4000pmm or 1000ppms it’s only like 40 -80ppms and yes the ash even turns fluffy white and doesn’t stay on fire in the ash tray like the black ash charcoal unflushed flowers
"He ate half a meat ball, he's in senescence." You got me over here making a mess spitting out my coffee. 😂
Thanks for the content. 🤘😎👍
Glad you enjoyed
if you are using salt base nutrients you are flushing out the salts and that you must do. if you are doing organics you don't have to flush.
salt base nutrients is organic too, it's just the feeding over time builds up in the medium so you flushing the medium out not the plant. you won't the plant to eat all the food it have stored in its leaves, the nutrients in soil is the same as powder form or bottle nutes. the diffirents is that powder and bottle nutes is already broken down for the plant to uptake the nutes soon as you feed. the soil nutes are slow release nutes that take time to break down, the only natural ferts in soil is the meals all other ferts in soil is man made process stuff. the meals is in powder and bottle nutes also with the man made process stuff, so it dosen't matter if you use soil or powder or bottled nutes they start off organic but end with the man made process stuff.
Just dwindle down your nitrogen towards the end of the
I grow organic, at 4th week flower, i wont be flushing but i will be just giving plan water as feeds.... they still need the microbes help all the way to the end.
@@realnews5697they certainly AREN'T organic...(SALTS) they are INORGANIC!
I believe you are confusing your terminology, you mean salts are a result of "organic chemistry" ....and as a former student of organic chemistry, I can assure you that organic means "containing carbon" in this situation versus "feeding your plants organically" as that means nutrients made bio available by specific processes of breakdown of multiple and diverse bacteria herd as well as fungal and mycorrhizal innoculants to work in symbiosis to break down nutrients and make them as we said above bio available for nutrients uptake and assimilation by the rhizosphere....essentially your feeding the soil and that performs the natural process that is the opposite of inorganic compounds and chelating processes of production to make the inorganic compounds available by osmosis by diffusion and make the ferts in a concentrated and uptakable and immediately available for (think dead reservoir vs. live reservoir in hydro, or TLO vs inorganic ferts in soil/soiless medium)
Not being a dick, just been doing this about 30 years and I hate misinformation as it causes failure and misunderstandings, when I started there wasn't google, so when I got bad advice it was detrimental to my advancement or progress and took time/money/effort to fix, now we can prevent that with a little bit of researching on Google! Good day and good luck! Hope you learned something from my rant, it was pretty basic and MANY more pages in complexity but I will spare you the details as most don't read more than "lol" these days!
Also biologic need flush...
I have 2 grows under my belt. 1st one was with nutrients, 2nd one was organic.
1st tasted horrible smoking it, I underfed it, flushing just didn't work for me at all. Tasted rank if I'm honest, really strong weed though.
2nd tastes good and smooth, a lot smaller, slightly less yield, but I got some quality weed out of it.
I'm sticking with organic grows, everything is so much easier for beginners with organics. I try to eat organic when I can, so I should be smoking organic when I can too.
But one thing is apparent throughout my experience.
I LOVE GROWING CANNABIS! 💚
I use synthetic and organic and I flush for at least 30 days
@@nkn8820 I'm back to using nutes again, but I just bought Raw NPK packets to mix my own. It's a very precise measurement that I think I may have overdone a little lol.
30 days? You mean just water for the last month? I've been reading that flushing doesn't really do anything. We give the same nutes to a tomato plant, and it doesn't need flushing. Looks like it may be a bit "bro sciencey", not actually backed up by anything scientific.
I have an Amnesia auto getting very close, I'm giving it nutes right up until the chop, just to see if makes any difference. I have 3x more seedlings on the go, but the auto is only 12 inches with about 3/4 ounce on it approx.
I'll post back here with what the actual smoke is like when I dry it, if it's super harsh or not.
Organic is great easy weed, but I just don't get enough of it lol.
I grow photos outdoors in 28 gallon pots. I stop feeding N and double the watering schedule at least two weeks before harvest. The plants transfer what N they have stored in the fan leaves to the buds as they need to. The bottom leaves I haven't already defoliated for air flow turn yellow and fall off. By harvest time it looks like I lollipopped them. This method makes for easier harvest & processing to buds but most importantly it makes for smoother smoke.
I grow organically. One friend constantly points out “the taste“. That taste being back guano, I guess? I use Roots Organic dry amendments for feeding and liquids for watering. My last run, which is drying, I went seven days of straight water. Hopefully I can get rid of “the taste“ by flushing out, whatever is causing it. Microbes in my living soil and the worms, hopefully will do whatever they need to do so my stuff taste, amazing
Dry your buds slower. The longer it takes, the more the chlorophyll will dissipate.
That “green taste” has always been a “chlorophyll” taste to me.
Curing normally helps with that in my experience after drying drop the temp and whatever room you're storing it in and make sure you burp the jar every day
Yes, the “chlorophyll gum” flavour is only an issue with a bud picked off early in order to gauge where it’s at. Always gives me a headache and makes me sleepy lol. I’m currently babysitting 24 jars from this years crops 😳. I open the jars and force fan fresh air into them daily at the moment.
First off when you mention that you don't ever flush your vegetables before Harvesting you also don't smoke your vegetables . Eating nutrients and smoking nutrients is a completely different story.Now I could see not flushing if you're just going to make edibles with your product but if it's going to be vaporized or smoked or turned into a concentrate you don't want all of that extra stuff
Organic growers should never flush. In fact I do just the opposite...I water starve the plants the last week.
Good strategy, imo the plants are much faster dry and ready to smoke 👍🏻
I like dry stress before harvest too
A The stress gives your ladys a little boost at the end
B Your product will be "dry" quicker so you can start curing earlier
Agreed! Organic no flush gives autumn look and I love it but I give last water 2/3 days before harvest.. let them starve and stress last few days
I'm starting week 10 on my outdoor autos and they had nothing but dr earth worm castings seaweed and molasses in coco so I'm gonna just water to a little run off for the next 2 weeks til their ready to harvest. It's my first grow so hopefully I don't fuck em up😂
I would say no you don't want to "super flush" but feed ph'd water last 10 days or so
Flash just use clean water 1-2 weeks before harvest you will save nutrients and get good tasting bud.If plants has nice green leaves two weeks before fully mature it doesn’t need any more nutrients they got stored plenty in the plant.
Great title. I worry about brix levels. Degrees Brix (symbol °Bx) is a measure of the dissolved solids in a liquid, and is commonly used to measure dissolved sugar content of an aqueous solution. The °Bx is traditionally used in the wine, sugar, carbonated beverage, fruit juice, fresh produce, maple syrup and honey industries. Higher brix makes better smells and taste in cannabis. More water means lower brix levels. And I do make jams and jellies, wine, syrup, and process honey. It's just another tool to use. Lower brix levels take longer to cure. Higher brix levels cure faster.
Thanks for sharing, Brix is something new growers should look into.
Personally, I do what I call a "soft flush." I use 2 different calmag one with N and one without. With RO water you HAVE to add calmag back. In veg I use with N in bloom I transition to the no N and cut my base nutes back a little as I introduce a bloom booster. I use fabric pots and almost never get nute spots, unless I water heavy near the sides. I have been growing for three years and have only ever flushed once when I over fed them. Again, works for me and I have never had any hay bud. P.S. Invest in a separate grow tent/area, my bud dries more evenly.
I am the fourth generation gardener , fifth generation is about to grown(my kids), I can't wait to use my skills, for something else and usefull. I really hope that in Finland things will change before time runs out,,, 🇫🇮🙏🧙♂️
Best of luck!
Greeting from Germany , First run is on its way . We are legal since 01.04.2024 but we have 3 plants plant count and 50g max. Rules. We have no Shops just Clubs starting in 2 Months you have to Pay each months and get 50g from the club. But also the Clubs have weird rules.
Congratulations on first run, good growing
That just sounds like a dumb law. How are you only going to get 50g of 3 plants?
@@Supertrooper9191yeah makes no Sense … Maybe with Auto‘s and a good cycle.. the goverment says just trash all Whats over 50g ….
Ohio can have 12 plants and 6 oz on deck
@@scottganiere523 with 12 you can have a nice cylce but all at 12 at the same time you have the Same Problems like we have
Ignore the comments and grow to the best you can to the area you're in. Some of y'all be acting like gatekeepers over something that grows out in the wild and gets pissed on by animals.
also flushing we did back in the 90'S and it was to get rid of salt build up on the perlite and to flush out the return lines and water lines for the res water change and that was flushing.
I grow in soil, 5 gallon photos and a couple 2 gallon autos to add variety. Two runs of one or two autos while one or two photos are going. While researching how to grow most channels said flush. I have to RO my well water and store it in jugs so I can’t put a plant in the laundry tub and flush the east way.
I have settled into stopping feeding and alternate between a dash of bloom boost and molasses for the duration. I wouldn’t do much call it a flush as letting the soil starve. Whatever I’m doing is giving me sticky powerful buds.
I think it was good for me to go into this with no preconceived notions. My only goals were to grow, enjoy and hope I could do better than I have on my lawn for the past fifty years.
The nice thing about seeing this video is that I can just keep on doing what I do. When I opened the photoperiod tent thus AM and was hit by the smell of Fast Buds Orange Sherbet ff it was awesome.
Hell yeah, Thanks for sharing!
Have had her as a mom as well! I loved how uniform her clones grew. Nice and even Canopy 😎 Some friends were blown away by her. Some told me you literally had little hash crumbs on your fingers from just putting some into your grinder.
I love their Purple Lemonade FF! Still have her as a mom. You gotta give her a try!
Been very happy with FastBuds So far. Fast cycle, no hermies, great smoke!!
@@AtzeD109 I have had initial success going through North Atlantic using specific breeders. Barney’s Farm and Fast Buds. I’ve got a bunch of saved seeds I want to try as well. I tried a couple last fall, one was a runt I decided not to transplant and the other was a male so I have culled out a male plant already. Once I get the summer/fall grow done I have to shut down for a trip. After that there won’t be anymore vacations on the horizon that require finishing everything. After starting in August 2023 and navigating vacations like land mines I will finally have an open ended schedule to do clones and mother plants and look for hidden gems in bag seed.
The only change on the next run is trying a different amended soil and upping the pot size on the autos. I’ll be tweaking this process as long as I can keep growing. Hopefully that will continue into my 80’s.
I do bubbled water for the last 2 weeks. Makes a huge difference in the taste, size of the buds and itburns/ smokes better. Imo.
I am a new grower I don’t know if I should or shouldn’t after watching your video for my soil, I have cocoa core. And I have miracle grow potting soil mix. and for my compost, I have mixed in with that horse, cow, goat, and chicken poop and my perfect technology that I’m using grow micro and bloom. They manage the pH by themselves. Just mix the wand in and put it in, but I’m not giving them that much nutrients because of what I have in the soil. I don’t wanna over feet them and I don’t know if I should flush it out or not
Advanced Nutrients realized they could split everything into 25 differently labeled bottles, for profit...
And people use it!! And recommend it at stores!!
It's why Remo left them and made his own line
That which is claimed without evidence...can be dismissed without evidence. Lets see some graphs and charts.
So donate the money to give these guys the ability to make graphs and charts for you instead of give you their honest experience; they obviously have a ton. Or just just experiment yourself. But for real though, why are you bringing bad vibes here? We are talking about weed man. Peace and best wishes to you growmie.
It's all about combustion and how clean the flower is when tested at PPM level.
if its yellow let it mellow if its brown fush it down if its green somewhere between
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First time user of grow dots and recharge. Great stuff! Finishing week 7 with master kush and she's stacked! Will definitely be my go to nutrients source from now on! Keep on keeping it REAL, Scotty!
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I have experiment for you and all of your intelligent viewers. Take a small flower from the lower part of your plants. Put it on a paper towel in the microwave,wet and fresh, run it for 35 to 45 seconds depending on size. All the heavy metals and forever chemicals in the flowers will show themselves by arcing and smell when done. You decide for yourselves what's important. Your health or whatever , just watch what you use and always keep in mind some of what we do,can't be undone... Rock you all.
There is a reason state law mandates you flush as a dispensary, your not allowed to sell cannabis with that dosnt meet the ppm standards
Ppm standards, for what
What state?
I actually worked in a professional production facility.. and yes state law also regulates the ppm allowance. Parts Per Million
While this may be the case for organic dry amendments, it is not the case for hydroponic salt based nutes. Thos you have to flush out, at least a week before chopping to ensure clean tasting, good burning smoke. No flush = harsh, black burning ash that is not appealing.
Adding extra water for preharvest flush? That doesnt make sense i thought we just switch to normal water at regular amount, let the plant use up what it already has.
You always want to do at least a week flush or else your flower will never taste as good and might be a little harsher. I have 25+ years growing experience ive tried both ways. Flushing works better every time.
I'm a newbie grower and I've been so overwhelmed by all the "advise" online that I said the heck with it and just put my first four plants in 5 gal fiber pots and filled them with miracle grow. They're doing fantastic so far🙏 I have no idea if I should, if I even CAN, or even HOW to flush a plant. Reading these comments have got me bonkers again bc seems like everyone is mixing fert in their water as they go and just stop at the end and just give water. I'm already just giving water. Is that what flushing means, just plain water at the end? Cause I'm thinking it's like getting the garden hose and saturating the soil til it runs out of the pot for a while and flush the soil.
@@snakeinthegrass7443it does mean plain water :) the idea is to use up all the nutrients in the soil and let the plant die naturally. I’ve heard a lot that soil / organics do not need it.
First off... I've learnt so much in years, from others and mistakes and I'm learning now even more from you so for that thanks a bunch!.. can you please do a video on the pros, cons and everything else on sharing pots/holes to having them in their own space? I see you haven't done this one and I would love to know the ins and outs about this 😁 keep it going bro! 🇬🇧 WEED.. connecting people✌️
I flush until the water comes out clean and there's no nutrients in the substrate
If there's something stinky and water soluble in your soil then the plant will take up that stink along with the water so you only need to flush out/ dilute that stinky water soluble stuff or make sure u didnt apply any stinky fert for a week or two depending on your soil mix/ environment.
I don't smoke, I dry flower vape and make tincture oil and I gotta be honest.. it tastes SO much better than smoking. No flushing but I do put a lot into my dry and cure and that seems to have the largest impact on flavor IMO. Good video as always bruh
Thank you, the dry and cure is the important part.
The danger is osmotic pressure. Youve been running high ppm and you run water and everything swells so much it ruptures the cell walls and you dont want to do that. You want to eliminate nitrogen from your mix keep feeding P and K and a lot of Cal/mag has N in it so pull that too and go from whatever 1200 or 1000 ppm to 700 then down to 500 or 600 then down to 400 and at that point your looking good and maybe another round of 2 or 300 and then you can run water. Plants do not uptake your nutrient solution ok...not in the same way you would imagine if you drank it... one exception is Nitrogen and Si also but all the tertiary and the primary nutrients are taken up into the plant as atoms or in the case of iron it oxidizes in the soil it rusts and when it does ions of iron fly off and the plant uptakes those ions...what flushing accomplishes is the removal of nitrogen and then the reduction of chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is going to be more present with more nitrogen and calcium and magnesium. So yes it is better but perhaps think of it as a bio stimulant or a technique the help ripening rather than flushing like a toilet. Your nutrient mix doesn't go up into the plant and running water doesn't flush nutrients out of the plant either.
I look at flushing as a way of resetting the soil for reuse in the next go round. At the end for the last week I'm really only feeding the microbials and suchlike.
I use half the amount of nutrients in veg and give more in flowering l do flush the last2 weeks with just water to get the chemicals out and hope the weed tastes better
i give distilled water 3 times in the last 2 weeks just as a normal watering
I believe you should flush. One time i hurriedly harvested a plant and made edibles with it. I could feel the bottled nutrient ingredients in my body after eating. It felt dirty
How can you tell if the feeling in your body is from bottled nutrients? Are you sure that isn’t caused by the preservatives in food and pollutants in the atmosphere? I drank four IPA’s and had a few bowls with them last night. I couldn’t identify where all the feelings were coming from but I liked it.
@@StanMNdirt I made edibles with butter I made from a plant and had just fed it before harvest a day or 2. I think it got into the butter from the plant and into the food I made the edible with
@@StanMNdirt I do get kind of sick or at least can feel stuff sometimes like high fructose corn syrup in sodas. I don't think my feelings from the edibles were from any preservatives in the food or pollutants from the atmosphere. I did this in an old apartment I lived in a few years back.
@@listerinestrips1156 I worked on a truck farm in the mid 60's and wiped tomatoes on my blue jeans and ate them. We're not the same, I'm 0% fussy about my weed and it always exceeds my expectations.
I’ve been growing for 15 years. This is a complicated topic. My simple answer is this. With organics I personally don’t believe in flushing. My experience with Rockwool is that I 100% flush. I also know that the nutrient companies are absolutely full of shit. Still not very much regulation. Just a fun fact. Cannabis is the most over fertilized plant in America. I’ve looked at several grow over the years trying to figure out what issues they are having. 95% of the time they are overwatering or over fertilized. As far as overwatering goes. I simply explain to them. Does it rain everyday? Short answer is no. Properly prepared soil shouldn’t need much of anything but water. I also explain that if you follow nutrient feeding schedule you will most like burn the living daylights out of your plants. It’s all a learning curve. That’s my two cents for what it’s worth. Be awesome. Dro Bro out.
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for the content 👍
I really dig these video's , Job well done
Thank you very much!
organic medium and we feed with worm tea, no flush needed.
Over 45 years of growing different styles,never once have I flushed. And I also don’t do any overflow during any watering, try not to anyway.Great results. Like you said, why give someone a gallon if they only drink a quart?
Most people do it, because that how they were taught.
Thanks for the info
Great content as usual!
i flush like a toilet....well i did i dont do a thing anymore with the dots. the ash test tells you, you want your bowl ash white n fluffy not black n chunky...
I believe the majority of smokers know nothing about the white ash correlation. Smoke garbage forever and never know the difference.
Go buy grow dots and recharge 🤔 and get yosef some real buckets 😂 or your plants won't grow at all.... I'm playing 😂 but doooIt😏😂😂😂😂😂
Already on it 😂
I do not always flush. This time I did , used an Organic 3 part and recharge…had to flush at day 56 as they were not fading like I would have liked. Water only for the last 2 weeks.
PPMS were 1000, knocked it down to 100…
I do not keep track of my par levels or runoff , basically read the plant.
It’s summer where I am and was going to run autos, maybe run the DOTS this time.
Any discount codes would be awesome !
Cheers …
That's the beauty of mediumless grows. If i want to flush dwc I don't need to do it for a week. Couple of days at the end is all that's needed. Most times I don't bother with the flush and get comments "oh this is flushed really well". I think what they mean is it's cured properly 😂
As long as you have plenty of fan leafs you can just give water towards the end and let the plant feed on itself which is the perfect nutrient for that specific plant
I flush my plants everytime i harvest. But i use a finishing solution that still gives the plant essential nutrients while still flishing the plant.n
If you can believe it im on my 5th run with the same media promix water with recharge a little cal-mag . Terp and taste on point no flushing just plain water last 2wks.
I havnt flushed since 2007....never looking back.
I hope you not talking about your toilet 😂
your toilet must be bad... j/k :)
Seems like an ad to me? Am I wrong?
I flush with sugar water, 1 1/2 cup per 5 gallons of water the final week, helps with flavor I've found.
Sounds bout right im add molasses
@@BlockchainMoney87 I tried molasses once and noticed that it gums up my bong.
i use to flush a flood & drain religiously every fortnight and for the last 2 weeks. It was annoying to do so i experimented with no flush during the entire grow cycle. The difference? None whatsoever. If anything it smelt better with no flush and tasted the same.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
If you want good tasting bud you need to flush out the extra salts or it will taste like them organic can do better tastes too
ok, i think i know why my seedlings have been stalling out. i been putting one drop of malathion in each gallon of water, thinking it will help prevent fungus gnats. I've used the stuff forever in outdoor gardening and never dreamed it could cause a problem. Now, I find out... this stuff does *stunt the growth of plants*, by *stopping root tip growth*. So... yeah, the exact thing seedlings need to be able to do. My god. I wonder if a mild gentle flushing is in order?
And I guess just neem and M bits from now on.
Nice greetings from austria...still in Prohibition here...sucks
Im growing organic, week 6 of flower is tomorrow. Leaves are super dark green, last top dress was last Wednesday, will water only be enough to yellow the leaves in 2 weeks????.....
Water only will be fine.
Ive been growing since the late 70's My medium of choice is rockwool, and I've tried them all. I flush the final 10 days before harvest and the result is sweet delicious white ash perfection. Haven't grown in the last 4 or 5 years so not up to date on the latest nutes and such though so I may have something new to learn.
Synthetic nutrients can leave a bitter taste if not flushed at all . Organics don't need flushing . But if needed , the correct way to flush is to clean to the bare roots and soak the root ball in plain water for 1 or 2 days in a bucket of water . This does make the smoke much cleaner and smoother .
Interesting! I have never heard of this method.
@@ScottyReal420 That's because i never told anybody until now since i thought of it in 1989 . LOL... flushing out peters pro 20-20-20 back then was a bitch and i had to think of something .
@@carlderossi6497That stuff would build up the salts, but the plants loved it.
Doing something the same way that long usually means you are not doing it the best way.
The moment you stop improving is the moment you start getting worse.
@@TonicofSonic You tend to lose the passion for knowledge at my age when things can be done with your eye's closed and there's no more need for improvement . The only time thing's get worse actually is when trying something new . Call it being a stubborn old timer . but if it aint broke , don't try to fix it !
I flush my plants with molasses in water they love it,aloha
My Compo Organic Grow liquid fertilizer says: "2 weeks before harvest, stop using fertilizer".
I love listening to other growers. I use AN in promix with some extra perlite and I over water every time amd feed too. 😂
And flush
There is absolutely no reason why you shouldn't flush it doesn't hurt the plant in the last two weeks of flower.
That being said tapering your nutrients up towards flower from vegetation from start and then tapering it down towards late flower is the way to go as far as I'm concerned if you're using synthetic nutrients.
If you're using all organic or veganic nutrients it's kind of hard to do that because there's no real measurement going on your top dressing and what not with different amendments.
That being said there's a lot of organic growers saying they don't have to flush tapering your nutrients down towards the end of the life cycle for cannabis will make it taste better as far as I'm concerned I've done this I've run hydro and dirt and I always flush certainly doesn't cost me any money because I'm only using RO water I don't notice any significant difference in yield but I do notice a significant difference in terpene production and quality.
That's only one part of the puzzle though light cycles and light strength is super important especially when you're getting down to the final week or two of flowering One would think you would need more light that is incorrect You're going to do more harm than good and lose those good turps.
I like to add a little bit of blue or reintroduce it at the end of flower I feel this again helps terpene production and preserves it.
That being said anyone that's growing any type of plant can do what they want with it it's their plant and they're the ones growing it do what you want to All I know is my cannabis always burns bright white ash it is not harsh and the terpenes are always there especially when handled properly when drying and curing and then after that keeping it in jars at the right temperature with no light.
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I find a good flush helps with the end cure
If you grow with synthetic nutrients I say yeah flush, if you grow organically you don’t have to, but I still do. A good flush, even with organics, typically results in higher cannabinoids and better terps. It’s marginal but I still do. The last week or two of my grows I feed nothing but distilled or ro water.
Same here buddy. I agree it's easier to achieve better cannabis. But to each his/her own. I'm not big on mineral tasting flower. Plus I don't smoke cigarettes
Try grabbing rain water when it rains just for that. I swear it gives a certain taste in terps
@@dmo848 yeah I agree, I have my 5 gallon harbor freight buckets outside right now collecting rainwater. 😂 I give my plants rainwater when able to during seedling and flush stages.
I always flush at the end, old school habits but I said I would never use LEDs, I guess I was wrong just purchased my first LEDs and the plants luv it!!! Vipar XS4000s are nice!!! Trying out grow dots next been using organics for 20 years so this is going to be interesting;) i just grew some kinda old school Maui C4 seeds they were 15 years old. They are the closest thing I can find to the true skunk back in the 80s buds are beautiful!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Why not raise or lower medium ph so no uptake of nutes?
So if it's organic people so no need to flush, but synthetic nutes are the same exact thing as the plant doesn't know the difference. Just possibly the salt from synthetic might be the difference.
I tried the no flushing of my plants n when I do I get a tingling sensation in my mouth. When I flush I don't get the tingling sensation. Some people could be more sensitive than others.
So I'm not crazy. 😊 I thought the same
Oh wow I need to test this I HATE tingle mouth weed I refuse to touch the stuff.
Years ago when i used liquid fertillizer i never flushed i only took pure water the last 3 weeks,now i use something like Grow Dots!
Lmao. Yes just feed the day before you harvest too. Enjoy weed that tastes like fireworks. People are DERRRRRRRR. I swear.
Love ur show scotty!!
Thank You!
Your roots won't rot if your medium is well aired
Is grow dots good for Hydroponics?
Do grow dots put less nitrogen in the soil at the end of flower?
Actually chlorophyll not degrading (so that's too fast of a dry, say in 3 days) is what gives you that hay taste/smell
Nitrogen and phosporus build up is harsh on the throat
Hiya What do grow dots look like would have been awesome if you had some to show😊
Thank you for all the great info and help
Thank You for watching!
Duuude always knows the science about flushing sativa indica bx pheno fiiire strains 💚
Live in Canada. I go to the Mohawk resavation for my weed. I get to touch it,smell it,smoke a bowl to taste. 100 dollars on once. Hash,200 an oncd. Man6 choices. Oil,rexin,rosin,live rosin,all the good stuff. Shrooms too. Cone on fown.
Other Folks Flower Tastes Like Poop, Flush YOUR Plants Please. Dah.
Can you use recharge to help with root rot after cleaning the roots up.
I did but I changed the soil before I added recharge. 2 days later it looked great
Flushing is what gives it that clean white burn you want. Weed that hasn't been flushed is the worst you don't taist the weed it's a nasty chemical taist joint dosnt burn right.
Just watered the way you said, 6 gallons of water with recharge into 15 babies in 3 gallon pots of happy/ocean mix. no burn, nice green color. recharge good stuff I had to buy enough to know i wouldnt run out :D.
🙌Thanks for sharing
Sure don’t flush , but it won’t burn and it won’t sell.
Your products look great and with so many DGC cup top products using Grow Dots and Recharge can't wait for you to do a deal to export to us poor growers in Europe! Or how about a deal to get it produced here in Europe under licence? Please find a way.
Do you need more Grow Dots when growing outside vs indoor?
Nope. But you should probably go with the Extended Veg Grow Dots. They lost longer for an outdoor grow season.
Are there metals in the fertilizer you don't want to end up smoking?
Heavy metals are not good to smoke.
Not Metals, Some ferts have salts in them. The reason to flush is to remove as much salts as possible before harvesting. If you use growdots or other organic ferts then flush isnt needed if im thinking correctly.
I always purge my weed in 180 degree water, and pour off the dark orange water down the drain, before I soxhlet the oil out, and I notice my pee is dark n unpurged weed, but normal color on purged weed of all water solubles, and the oil is far less coughy when dabbed...:-)
Seems then that those with weak kidneys should stay away from unpurged weed
Lol with all water solubles removed, and vacuum purging works best, and I use a small quiet squirrel cage found in heaters...:-)
To keep the vacuum pump cool...
I usually purge that is soak dried pulverized weed under reduced atmosphere for around 20 minutes, and by the , the water changes from clear to dark orange, as the vacuum pulls out all the un-needed water solubles off the euphoric oil, leaving one to enjoy the dabbing experience, not be annoyed by it, and it was hardest to learn that a little dab really will do ya, as any on the screen larger than a half of a bb, is a risk of inducing a cough, and if you cough it out rather than hold it in, it won't absorb into the body as well...
It takes time to toke, you can't just waste it, well you can I have but I've regretted it later...
I've not been vacuum purging lately, and know I'm missing out... Hot water purging isn't nearly as effective as vacuum purging, and I know my experiences from the dabs would be improved, if I only remove all water solubles prior to Soxhlet oil extraction, for exciting dabbing enjoyment, and glee :-)
I flush autos because they seem to like it . I do not do it with the gush technique though. Simply tube feed the roots about 5ml of rain water or lake water every other day for the last week and a half and they seem to like it. I do not think they are taking up nutrients at that last point anyways but they do take up water . Photos no reason to as they have developed slower through and seem to use up a lot more of the fertilizer in the soils. The idea is almost silly . the reality it you are just destroying the soil so it is blank and useless for any other grow . Another good way to grow the Nitrogen out of your soil at the end it to plant Chi seeds about 2 weeks before you harvest .on the top of your planter soil. Works better than anything as most of the extra fertilizer will be absorbed by the Chia grass as it get propagated. Plus any invisible Borg hiding among the refer buds they will move off your plants and onto the fresh Chi grass as well if you have pests. I really like just Chi Chi Chia planting 2 weeks before harvest over any other flush. It redirects extra to that really well . Good growing.
mito, si le cortas el los nutrientes en la semana 6 o 7 la planta va usar todas sus reservas y no va haber diferencia en el sabor pero eso no es flush, es simplemente q la planta coma todo lo q tiene disponible
Im in UK we can buy seeds and all equipment to look at 😂
We're not allowed to pop seeds