crimsonecho
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Call it what you want. But in gardening the term for what pot growers call flushing is leaching. And many things will cause the plant to fade.
It’s pretty much the same effect to the plant. Underfeed to harvest a deficient plant. (Faded) or run a lot of water through the pot which washes nutrients out of the medium and messes up the cation exchange which can lock up the roots. (Flushed and faded)
And I agree proper feeding is the only answer.
Faded plant is not a deficient plant, deficiency is different than senescense and what does exactly running a lot of water do? How does it effect cation exchange capacity of peat?
Well anyway i think the main confusion stems from the one term being used interchangeably to describe 2 different concepts.
One is flushing, which is, again, running copious amounts of water thru the medium in the hopes of getting the remaining nutrients from the soil/mix.
Other one is fading, which is basically senescence. This is just letting the plant finish without giving any nutrients thus forcing it to use whats left inside.
Two are completely different from one another but flushing is just a common name used for both. Its incorrect. You’re not flushing anything out, not out of the plant and not very much from the soil itself.
And these two phenomena arent necessarilly correlated.