HairlessCaveApe
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Hey Howdy Yamaha! Im not basing my belief about plants excretin wastes out of their roots on my ppm's rizin. I know its why my ppm's rize but Im not basin my beliefs on this. I read this somewhere long ago and I believe it to be true. As a mater of fact if you read the link to "A critical look at pre harvest flushing" and the link contained in it youl see where it confirms my beliefs. It states in the link that plants do discharge into the water threw their roots. It also loosly confirmed what I have been sayin bout the plants needin proper ph durring flush to use up the nutes stored in its veg mater. In the link it stated that the plants need certain hydrogen ions or somthing to properly transport nutes from one part of the plant to another and from what I understand ph is all about hydrogen ratios or somthin in the solution. --I run a 45 day strain and I flush for the last week. I find that the plants have plenty of nutes stored inem to take them threw to the finish. I have had the occation to go without a flush and there wasnt much of an effect on the finished product but I prefer to flush anyhow. I think alot of this has to do with the nutes your usin. Also, --yes, part of my ppm rize is due to the plants somtimes usin more water than nutes but not all of it. The majority of the ppm rize is due to the root dischargin back into the rez.yamaha_1fan said:Hairless, you are using this rise in PPM's to validate your reasoning that the plants create waste. Maybe its more like your plants are using more water than nutes? Try running the plants at 1000PPM and see if the PPM's jump so high.
How long are the strains that you guys are running? My strains run 65 days and my buds just start getting solid at the end, so I hate to stop nutes.