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Flush or feed?

deezlee20
deezlee20started grow question 2 days ago
Do you think she is ready to flush or shall I continue with nutes ?
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NoVC01
NoVC01answered grow question 2 days ago
Stop feeding. Plain water until 1 or 2 days of dry before harvest. If it's ready now, flush once, dry a day, harvest.
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00110001001001111O
00110001001001111Oanswered grow question 2 days ago
Canopy is already cannibalizing itself.. i don't see a reason to starve it further
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 2 days ago
She is close to harvest, so yes, stop all nutrients and supplements now. There is no need to drown your plants with gallons of water.........just stop all fertilizers and give only plain water in normal amounts and at normal intervals and the plant will flush itself naturally. Giving massive doses of water repeatedly will not make this process any more effective or make it occur faster......a plants' metabolism can only work at a certain pace. It seems you still have about 10-14 days to go, so now is the right time to stop fertilizing.
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sanibelisl
sanibelislanswered grow question 2 days ago
Not knowing what medium you’re using I couldn’t say. If you’re growing in coco she will need at least a reduced amount till very close to harvest. If she is in some sort of soil that could really depend upon how you watered during the grow. How much salts, ph ect. By the looks of things your plant looks nice so you probably did things correctly and would only require the last several waterings to be ph balanced h20.
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m0use
m0useanswered grow question 2 days ago
flush your shit, not your plants. Its a tool to correct a catastrophic issue in the medium not a ripening process.
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MindFlowers68
MindFlowers68answered grow question 2 days ago
Looks like its finishing up fine. I wouldn't do either. just water as needed until harvest
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Ninjabuds
Ninjabudsanswered grow question 2 days ago
Honestly you could hit it one last time with some nutrients
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Ultraviolet
Ultravioletanswered grow question 2 days ago
Flushing the soil to remove nutrients that may encourage the plant to cannibalize its less vital green parts. Makes sense. Flushing soil to reset ph or ec, makes sense. Flushing the soil to make it more potent or I anyway change "flavor" thats a different story. Flushing results in large decreases in dried bud weight and total yield of CBD. Almost 20% if it's 2 weeks or more. https://www.cannabisrc.org/post/new-experiment-in-flushing https://www.rxgreentechnologies.com/rxgt_trials/flushing-trial/ Sugar-induced senescence, particularly in plants, refers to the process where sugar accumulation, especially under conditions like low nitrogen or high light, triggers leaf yellowing and other senescence-related changes through hexose-dependent signaling. While sugar-induced senescence (or aging) is often associated with negative consequences, it's important to consider that it can also be beneficial in certain contexts, particularly in plant biology, where it facilitates nutrient recycling and plays a role in plant development. All the benefits none of the starvation.
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ATLien415
ATLien415answered grow question 2 days ago
I really don't know why flushing is controversial. Logically, if you don't want deficiencies then you provide inputs in abundance. There is no 'feeding the plant perfectly the exact amount it will uptake' without sheer coincidence, and it would be as repeatable as winning the PowerBall. There was this big push a few years ago by some bro-podcasters and grow-bro-youtubers...with the argument that 'we dont flush other crops so why would we flush cannabis'. I find that argument about as sound as silence. We don't smoke tomatoes. Further, if you use living soil and then don't flush at all - I can taste the worm juice and bat feces in your crop. Straight up, I can. Also, your ash is not white and floating away. Nobody who tells you flushing is a myth has a quantitative reason for this. There are some growers and breeders that have my full respect in every way, but I wouldn't touch their flower crop with a 10 foot pole, just because of the lack of a flush. I guess if you are used to street flower (likely cartel derived with insane pesticides and more and no flushing) then you probably think your unflushed flower tastes great. The ceiling goes higher though. My flushing has the purpose of cutting off any further nutrient uptake, forcing her to dig inter her foliage to burn down. All in an effort to have less sugars, less salts, less chlorophyll going into my dry/cure. Regardless of which influencer you hop behind in that argument, why provide nutrients to this plant when she is clearly approaching harvest? Wasteful/inefficient at best.
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All_our_small_plants
All_our_small_plantsanswered grow question 2 days ago
Sieht relativ fertig aus, ich würde keine Nährstoffe mehr dazu geben und sie nur noch mit Wasser Gießen, und so in 7 bis 2 Wochen ernten, sieht sehr toll aus.
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Green_claws
Green_clawsanswered grow question 2 days ago
Your going to get an argument with this question I bet.. I would personally just water but my soil feeds the plant so every grow is totally did different in means of medium to build up to soil creating plant available food.... Some feed to the very end some don't. Very controversial... She looks well tho.. Good luck
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