[CoolBreeze87]

Im coming up on the final 3 weeks of my first grow and everything is looking nice, but im not sure how long to flush at first i was thinking 2 weeks, but then i thought with organics i might be able to get away with only flushing for one week. I stuck to stricly organic fertilizer for this grow using nitrogen bat guano, peruvian seabird guano, and budswel as my main sources of nutrients. I have been feeding through flowering a dose of 1 tablespoon budswel per gallon water twice a week. If i only flushed for one week will it add extra weight to the buds if im still fertilizing, and can i get away with a one week flush or will i be smoking nutrients?

[frater_indo]

I'm a beginner grower myself, doing my first organic run this time around. From what I understand, you should give nutes through the whole flowering cycle (for example, if its an 8 week strain, give it nutes up to week 8). After the plant has finished flowering, then flush for 1-2 weeks and yank. This is what I'll be doing for my current grow. Still a novice though so hopefully someone with more experience can chime in.

Usually you flush 3 weeks prior to harvest date. If it is a 60 day strain then u should be looking to chop around then. If you want the plant to have really mature trichs- then u can give it a few more dayz if needed. It is a big debate whether to flush or not- i guess its in the growers preference from experience. Personally i like a plant that has only been fed water and has been put in a organic mix. The plant will flush itself in this case.

Originally Posted by frater_indo

I'm a beginner grower myself, doing my first organic run this time around. From what I understand, you should give nutes through the whole flowering cycle (for example, if its an 8 week strain, give it nutes up to week 8). After the plant has finished flowering, then flush for 1-2 weeks and yank. This is what I'll be doing for my current grow. Still a novice though so hopefully someone with more experience can chime in.

If a strain is done in 8 weeks i stop giving it food for the last 2 weeks. I start flushing as well. Flushing gets the left over nutes out of the soil. Use 5x's the amount of water to soil. So if you have a 5 gallon container use 25 gallons. The last 7 days is where it gets fun. & dyas before chop i give them the last watering. After 3-4 days soil starts to dry out. After that i let soil stay dry and put them in a dark room for the last 3 days. the dry soil makes the plant eat whatever it has left.

One thing to do to check if you need to flush is the leaf check. After you water rip , like a day after, rip off a fan leaf. In the stem of fan leaf is water, taste it. If the water is bitter than you need to flush. if the water tastes liek clean water then you are good.






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[supermanlives]

i flush my toilet not my plants. i have fed right up to harvest and also gave water just the last weeks or so and i cant tell the diff. but i think the plants fed to the end actually weigh in more.if you mixed the nutes in the soil then flushing wont do much. the nutes are there or not depending on the rate of break down and how water soluable they are. generally i watch the leaves if the big fan leaves aint yellowing good i feed em just water but i dont flush

[SEEDYNONO]

if the nutes were completely organic then there are no salts and chems built up in the fertilizer to flush out, right?

[CsfRaziel]

being that all the growing that i've ever done has been for personal, i use the minimal amount of nutes to begin with. i will flush for as long as possible before harvest but always at least 2 weeks, sometimes even 4 weeks

[thunderpob]

hi all.

sorry to barge in but i thought i had the same dilema.... as CoolBreeze. but now i am not sure as i thought flushing was the same as feeding just water....

a little help here...

[minds_I]

Hello all,

Yeah, usually flushing involves using plain pH'ed water for the last few weeks.

But I like to just reduce the feeding towards the end and use a plain water a week before I chop. I like to let them dry out as this I believe consumes more of the nutrients as well as it speeds in drying after harvest.

IMHO

minds_I

[TheBudWhisperer]

CoolBreeze- As Supermanlives and some others have said there's not much difference between smoking flushed plants and smoking plants that weren't flushed; especially for the lower buds. From my experience I believe that the only benefit of flushing is to try to halt or at least slow the formation of fresh new tips on the buds (which the top buds are more prone to do). Bud material that starts growing in the last two weeks or so won't have time to mature before harvest, so growers want to avoid fresh growth at the end of flowering. This can decrease the yield by a very small amount but produce better smoke. The strain type can play a large part in the decision to flush as some have buds with continuously growing tips while others are naturally more dense and compact. If there is a problem with salts building up in someone's soil I'd reccomend they start by looking for ways to avoid the problem in the first place rather than rinsing the soil out once there's too much salt.

"If i only flushed for one week will it add extra weight to the buds if im still fertilizing?" --Don't fertilize during the flushing period. If you don't have a problem with the build-up of salt or other crap in your soil then flushing will accomplish nothing when you are fertilizing at the same time.

Seedynono- Salt can easily be created with organic materials. Anytime you water with a liquid that has a ph other than 7, such as acidic organic fertilizers, you risk creating some small amount of salt.

Thunderpob- I would describe flushing as the same as feeding plain water but instead of a normal watering you use two or three times as much to rinse out the unwanted crap. It works better with somewhat warm (~body temp) water as this will absorb and remove even more of the aforementioned crap.