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what is everyone's flushing technique when growing in coco?
Man you're starting to get in that realm of heavy opinion. I recommend trying different methods till you find the one that works For you. I usually taper and and flush a few days. But long as the plant is fading you shouldn't have excess nutrients in plant.
Flushing for taste is a myth
Yo Bigfoot, opinions man. You must be a weed head. Same here. My plants thrive for 30+ days with no nutes,bomb soil, BUT they love them extras. Nutrients wouldn't be there if they weren't trustworthy to some extent. I know a lot of people that want our west coast and east coast buds. Dudes want our strains and I want there foreign strains. Lateski.You obviously work for a nutrient company.
You can taste unflushed nutes in bud with low terps, the brands of bloom additives are freaking identifiable by taste and smell...
Give me a dozen different poorly cured buds, ones that smell like nothing, or hay, and Ill tell you which were grown in dirt, which are hydro/coco, and which nutrients were used if the latter was not flushed for weeks.
TIP: Pull a branch before chop and suck it. If it taste like anything other than pure water (ie bitter), your crop will fail my contaminant test.
Late flower nutrients are a scam. Only if you grow from seed and need to cover up inconsistencies with bag appeal enhancers and an artificial smell, do most of these products have any positive effect.
If your plant cant survive on 2 weeks, you need to change your methods, or have a bad understanding of how bud is traditionally cured by scoring the stalks and starving before chop.. The plant is not dying, it is becoming "gold". Damned kids with their addiction to upc labels and gullibility to gimmick marketing ploys ensuring grass root compliance by conglomerate corporations.
Cannabis speaks to me, and says its gene pool is dying in North America, thanks to bottled slave breeding. Ask a grower over 30 whos not affraid to hurt special snowflakes feelings: weed doesnt like flower nutes. Never needed em until the genetics were ruined. Now the weed doesnt know what its suppossed to be so the growers dont have a clue either, obviously, with shit like "flushing for flavor is a myth". Well i must be freakin bigfoot then!
Rant over, back to my spaceship i go.
Nutrients within the plant don't magically evaporate; they're stuck there.
I'd be happy to go over the processes within the plant, step by step, if you like.
What that dude said. Anything else is just noise....I lower my nutes till fade because it starts the curing process.....by the plant cannibalizing (moving stored +/- mobile ions from one part of the plant to the other.....chlorophyl begins to degrade...speeding up the curing process by which i never get a hay smell.......because there is no chlorophyl to off gas......leaving only the beautiful fragrance of the essential oils secreted through the trichomes........
for my outdoor...nature takes care of me......she controls the environment ....I am god when it comes to my indoor garden
for some maybeYes, starving the plant breaks the chain within the chloroplasts. Chlorophyll breaks down and essentially, speeds up cure, but at a cost.
Chlorophyll breaks down naturally over time anyway. You're just trading potential grow time for cure speed.
game of semanticsFlushing is not starving, fading, or anything else, to cause nutrients to disappear from the plant.
I think you guys are completely missing how the terms are being used.
Flushing is to cleans soils/medium, and has no other meaning.
since nobody has peer reviewed scientific paper studied on such subjects of cannabis growing....it is all opinion at this point