How Long Should I Water To Flush My Plants For Harvest?

[Hellno187]

I've stopped adding nutes for a week now and have just been watering to get ready for harvest. However, I'm not sure if watering only 3 times is enough to flush my plants? They've been in flower for 8 weeks now and I don't want to delay harvesting them for too long either. So what is a good rule of thumb for minimal and maximum flush times?

 

[Toaster79]

What's your grow style? Soil, coco, hydro? Organic or synthetic? .....

 

[Hellno187]

Soil, organic.

 

[Toaster79]

No need to flush. Just keep them on compost tea diet until they're done. At least that's what I do I don't get any sorts of weird tastes or anything.

Keep it green and happy harvesting!

 

[RG420]

Yup what @Toaster79 said your good to go when grown in organic:)

 

[Hellno187]

Awesome thanks, out of curiosity if I was soil, synthetic what would flush times be?

 

[RG420]

I'd say 14 days lower feed first week by half then plain water second week but then it'll variey depending on how heavy they've been fed...

 

[Toaster79]

Last 7-10 days with pH'd water to flush the salts out of the soil (not the plant)

 

[Hellno187]

OK so if I were watering every other day that would be 3-5 waterings to flush the soil, how long to flush the plant?

 

[Toaster79]

You can't flush the plant. She's just gonna use her reserves as she's not getting any more/not enough food from the soil.

When growing organic you don't actually feed the plant but the soil. As you don't provide any more food for the soil you kill the life in the root zone and with that you actually kill the plant instead of letting her finish her life cycle.

 

[Hellno187]

I see, from reading other posts on the subject I got the idea that flushing was done to remove nutes from the plant to prevent a chemical taste in the flower. But I see that in fact there's no such thing as removing nutes from a plant without death, good to know. So then if one were to have a plant and only water it, then it would die? Just hypothesizing as I've never had a plant I didn't feed.

 

[Toaster79]

Once the plant uses all the nutrients from the soil it's gonna die for sure. You can't live on plain water either, can you ;)

 

[RG420]

You can't flush the plant. She's just gonna use her reserves as she's not getting any more/not enough food from the soil.

When growing organic you don't actually feed the plant but the soil. As you don't provide any more food for the soil you kill the life in the root zone and with that you actually kill the plant instead of letting her finish her life cycle.

Couldn't av been said better bro!

 

[straincreation]

Ya gotta figure that the plant is growing in chemicals for 8 weeks+ no amount of flushing will remove any thing from your plant. Toasters got you covered here bro. BOL!
happy farmin;)

 

[Danky Mcnugs]

I would go find the thread about preharvest flushing in this section. Organic crops don't need a flush, and some would argue that chemical nutrients don't need to be flushed either. I have done both a d I can assure you that as long as you were never overfeeding in the first place then there is no need for a flush.