Flush, or not to Flush?

Might be harsher that's for sure. Dry and cure is what counts. Not something you should be concerned about. Sometimes they can come in early, and you can't follow accepted practices for finishing. Unless you want to get really anal and digest all the scientific data and obsess. Done the same a few times, IMO missing or even getting in one flush won't hurt the outcome.

I don't flush and I am happy with my product. 👌 Flushing from my perspective.. if you don't push the phosphorus into the plant with a hammer and high concentration ... and until the last days. There is no issue 👌 At least for my stuff 😇

now we know who is growing flower we shouldn't spark up 😓 If you have been feeding your plant exactly with zero excess the entirety of the grow, then a flush would be pointless. Considering the plant is a dynamic biologic system with a vast array of triggers and impetus for various uptakes...I doubt you're feeding that properly. "This was a hypothesis that was never tested by the "bros" out there. It sounds good to the uneducated, right? Sounds science-y?" is basically word vomit. The only reason these folks don't flush is because of a few podcasters and youtubers a couple years back about tomatoes. Sorry, I don't smoke my tomatoes. My flower gets treated with much more care than my tomatoes. Considering that you can taste when a flush is bad, especially you living soil folks, you would then logically have to recognize that a good flush is...good. If you even type on a flushing question, you should be mandated to show pictures of your crop's ashes...because mine are white and float in the wind. A flush is only as good as the salts you are taking out. If your water going in has a lower EC than the water coming out, then you have removed free nutrients from the system. Saying that the plant has no perspiration system is only pedantically correct. Regardless, explain why EC values oscillate during daytime versus nighttime. And, that is game. GG

flushing is dumb. its tool used to correct a catastrophic issue in the medium not a process as part of the harvest to increase anything. Giving just water last week or so with no runoff is fine, but thats not flushing, its just you being smart and not wasting nutrients.

flushing is bro science. There's reputable source information out there that empirically shows it's nonsense. This was a hypothesis that was never tested by the "bros" out there. It sounds good to the uneducated, right? Sounds science-y? IF you run water through it, it shoudl dilute it, right? But that isn't what is happening. First, the plant has no excretion system. So what plant organs are carrying out this dilution? LOL. They don't fucking exist. changing the concentration in the substrate will eventually have an effect simply because you start providing less of a nutrient or multiple nutrients relative to rate of use... depending on the context of toxicity, if there is one, it'll take a long time to draw it back down to safer levels... as it uses up what is stored, since it has no system for excretion. Also, flower is a sex organ. Do you have a lot of fat in your balls? No, because sex organs aren't for storing that sort of thing, they are for reproducing. they have a specific function just as leaves and stems do. It's called cell differentiation. Different organs do differeent things even if there is insignificant overlap - e.g. just about anything green has chlorplasts in them.. But only the top layers of leaves are by far and away the most effective material for absorbing light and using that energ to build sugars, which power growth and maintenance of the plant. Had someoen soundn science-y contradict me in a recent question and all it did was make it obvious that person never took a chem or bio class beyond HS-level and went into a load of bro-science reasoning and evidence totally devoid of source knowledge to back it up.

I don't flush using bucket DWC. Generally after the buds bulk up the plants feeding slows down and they're just consuming more water....so I'll notice my EC will start climbing. At that point I just top off with plain water to bring my EC back down to my target range.

Ich habe früher 2 Wochen gespült dann nur 1 Woche und jetzt ein paar Tage. Mann merkt aber keinen sehr großen Unterschied. Viele sagen das das spülen überbewertet ist und nicht viel bringt. Mach es so wie du denkst

I grow in coco and gradually go lighter on feeding the last 10 days or so of flower. I've flushed before and the plants looked pretty done. It has more to do with how/what you were feeding during flower - plus how well you dry and cure over flushing. I'd rather they get fed and finish strong.

Flush? It right down the toilet. If you have been feeding correctly and reducing your nutes there should not be an issue with excess crap in the flowers themselves. Plus water doesn’t work fast enough and would require a stripping agent to really work. I have more recently used very cold water in the last days before harvest. Did it help???

Depends on your medium really. IME a good flush only makes for a easy dry/quick cure. I've had soil flushes I wasn't happy with, usually comes around near the 3 month cure or so mark whereas a good flush for me has my flower tasting tip-top ~1-2 weeks into cure