I looked at your photos and you get a very nice fade! I love them. Do you lower your nutrients at all in the end? What nutrients do you use? Or is it just a natural fade from having nutrients dialed in and letting mature? Thanks for the inputI may run straight ph'd water the last watering. I never got a bad taste from plants.
How do you normally judge when to start the flush? Do you go off the trichomes or weeks in flower? Thanks for your inputConcensus.. lol, no. Not about flushing. But personally I do about 5-7 days of plain water at the end when using coco.
I'll watch for the water uptake to start declining. Usually around week 8 I'll notice they use a lot less water and that's when I switch to plain water.How do you normally judge when to start the flush? Do you go off the trichomes or weeks in flower? Thanks for your input
I have just started noticing it’s taking less water to get runoff, and tomorrow marks start of week 8. Sounds like I’m close! Thank you for your input this is what I was looking for.I'll watch for the water uptake to start declining. Usually around week 8 I'll notice they use a lot less water and that's when I switch to plain water.
Again, there seems to be no consensus with flushing.If you don't over fertilize you don't need a flush. If you overfertilize it really helps. If your monitoring run off and it stays close to input your fine without it. I cut back to half EC the last 7 days or so but when I haven't I couldn't tell the difference. I think noticing a difference in flushed is a sign of a different problem. Over feeding. When you flush and you see fall colors, it's just the plant using stored nutrients that you already put in. Plants use nutrients until the day of chop.
I think it's Frankie (@Frankster) that posted the lab results that show no difference when flushed.Again, there seems to be no consensus with flushing.
What you're saying sounds logical, but I've done plenty of experiments, I never feed higher than 1.3, usually closer to 1.0 - 1.2ec under HID lights, and always keep runoff within 0.2ec or so. I consistently got a cleaner burning product with a water only finish in several types of media. Tried tapering back and not flushing for numerous crops with disappointing results.
I think it's important to say that I'm exclusively a joint smoker and use thin slowburning papers. For me flushed weed burns white/grey ash and the joint doesn't burn out, it has good heat retention in the cherry, and the flavour is maintained down to the roach. All the crops I did without flushing, the pot would burn out frequently and not leave nearly as clean of an ash, and lose its flavour halfway through a joint
But this subject seems to be subjective. Growers gotta experiment with it themselves and do what makes them happy.
Gonna have to agree to disagree on this one I guess.I think it's Frankie (@Frankster) that posted the lab results that show no difference when flushed.
Personally, I agree that if you need to flush then you were overfeeding.
That's Ok. I don't mind if you're wrong. LOLGonna have to agree to disagree on this one I guess.
I was on the fence about it until I tried no flushing.That's Ok. I don't mind if you're wrong. LOL
I was on the fence about it until I saw the lab results. That convinced me.
I'm happy to be wrong, as long as my weed burns clean I don't really care much how others grow.That's Ok. I don't mind if you're wrong. LOL
I was on the fence about it until I saw the lab results. That convinced me.
Same. I'll never feed to the end again.I was on the fence about it until I tried no flushing.
Yeah, there is no need to flush if you're not adding nutrients.I think we have to remember that we grow organic and never add nutes. Flushing to us would be tantamount to soil murder.
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