Flushing....Whats your technique?

Another question for those who flush is do you cure properly? I know everyone is going to say they do even if they don't but that could play a major role in ("sparky bud" lol oh because the chemicals are in the bud) or maybe it was dried a little too fast and is harsher a dryer than you prefer. just thinkin out loud.

Try looking at the plant this way. The nutrients are like a steak for you and me. It's put onto your plate = the nutrients are put into the medium.
you cut it up with a knife and chew it = your roots and all living things in your soil breaking the nutrients down to be eaten
You swallow a broken down piece of the steak = your plants break down the nutrients in the soil so it can be eaten by the plant.

You can't certainly eat a 12oz in one bite it's gotta be broken down...

With the availability of those little aquarium hygrometers everyone should be curing properly... No longer the art it use to be. Now just another controlled stage in the grow.....

unless you go cheap on hygroms...

Which i too was guilty of at first. but Im sure theres many others. there just too wildly innacurate.

I don't cure properly.. if you mean by the book curing. I have yet to get me a sealed area with perfect temp & humidifier / dehumid. Though right now with it being winterish & cool here in so cal. like 99% humidity right now up in the hills outside 41 degrees, raining slightly and cold as hell. My girls are much happier & when drying it takes twice as long to hang dry than in peak summer with 0 humidity & hot as hell.

SirLancelot said:

Another question for those who flush is do you cure properly? I know everyone is going to say they do even if they don't but that could play a major role in ("sparky bud" lol oh because the chemicals are in the bud) or maybe it was dried a little too fast and is harsher a dryer than you prefer. just thinkin out loud.

Try looking at the plant this way. The nutrients are like a steak for you and me. It's put onto your plate = the nutrients are put into the medium.
you cut it up with a knife and chew it = your roots and all living things in your soil breaking the nutrients down to be eaten
You swallow a broken down piece of the steak = your plants break down the nutrients in the soil so it can be eaten by the plant.

You can't certainly eat a 12oz in one bite it's gotta be broken down...

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SirLancelot said:

unless you go cheap on hygroms...

Which i too was guilty of at first. but Im sure theres many others. there just too wildly innacurate.

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definitely worth spending 10 bucks or so on them. You are so correct, the 3 dollar budget models suck....
If you want superb accuracy then get a high end desk top cigar humidor and steal the hygro out of it......

watchhowIdoit said:

definitely worth spending 10 bucks or so on them. You are so correct, the 3 dollar budget models suck....
If you want superb accuracy then get a high end desk top cigar humidor and steal the hygro out of it......

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This was my first garden using the hygrometers in the jar for curing. Man, what insight you get into the drying process... you're right, it's takes all of the guessing out. A real gamechanger.

For me it all boils down to this. Every profesional grower that I have ever read about and have respect for flushes their crop wether it be a soil or hydro grow. People love to argue the flushing debate on here til they are blue in the face many of whom have never completed a grow but if you read High Times you will not find 1 single pro that will tell you that you should not flush. I flush.

bigv1976 said:

For me it all boils down to this. Every profesional grower that I have ever read about and have respect for flushes their crop wether it be a soil or hydro grow. People love to argue the flushing debate on here til they are blue in the face many of whom have never completed a grow but if you read High Times you will not find 1 single pro that will tell you that you should not flush. I flush.

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High Times also promote Advanced Nutrients and Grow Hermie Seed Company...they the authority on growing now?

Or are the real pro's the farmers who have been growing all sorts of plants for generations who laugh heartily at this flushing before harvest bullshit that the far less horticulture-knowledgable general cannabis grower swallows hook, line and wink-wink even tho it has no basis in horticulture whatsoever?

Its not an "I think it works/doesn't" debate, it's more of a "go read how plants actually work before believing old bullshit hippy myths" debate.

Mad respect to flushers. I used to be one of them.

But I've done both, man. My plants not only didn't benefit from the flush, but taste, smell, and potency have been reduced by this plant starvation. It's really a simple matter of the mechanics of plant biology. When you give the plant light and air, it will grow... or at least it will try to grow because that's what every cell of it is programmed to do in light and air. Now if you give it nothing to feed on it will 'implode' in a sense as it feeds on itself in a desperate last ditch effort to reproduce. That's artificially induced stress. Light and air + no nutrients = stress. Not good for the plant, not good for the animal. Stressed livestock make for poor eats.

Also, I have a hyper accelerated hydro system, so if I just run them with water even for a few days, the plants will eat themselves alive.

Lastly, consider the ganja plant (or any plant) growing in the wild. Is the earth ever flushed of its nutrients? Pow!

lordjin said:

Lastly, consider the ganja plant (or any plant) growing in the wild. Is the earth ever flushed of its nutrients? Pow!

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If everyone grew ganja in the wild, this statement would be conclusive. But they don't, and plants growing in containers have different needs.

Besides nutrient ratios, what does a container plant need that a plant in the ground does not need?

watchhowIdoit said:

Besides nutrient ratios, what does a container plant need that a plant in the ground does not need?

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OK, let's start with transplanting. Discuss.

What does transplanting have to do with flushing? And you dont have too transplant. Plant a bean in a 5 gallon bucket or 3 gallon pot and grow until harvest...

Don't forget to to a wear a loin cloth and do a chant around your plants when you flush I heard it can increase yield...

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What does transplanting have to do with flushing? And you dont have too transplant. Plant a bean in a 5 gallon bucket or 3 gallon pot and grow until harvest...

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You have an answer for everything.

I'd have to be a damn fool to go thru all this with you again. Dead horse.

If you cant stand the heat then get out of the kitchen....

watchhowIdoit said:

If you cant stand the heat then get out of the kitchen....

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It's not that I can't stand it, it's that it's redundant and boring. I don't see the point in having the same conversation more than once, do you? It's not like you'll be swayed, or are interested in reciprocal conversation. I say something, then you tell me how I'm wrong, rinse and repeat. I get it, it's OK.

Im always open to facts, but hesitant on theorys...

SirLancelot said:

Im always open to facts, but hesitant on theorys...

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...but nothing beats firsthand experience!

wbd said:

If everyone grew ganja in the wild, this statement would be conclusive. But they don't, and plants growing in containers have different needs.

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My statement is conclusive whether people grow indoors, in pots, or in their kitchen sinks. Plants have been around and growing long before man developed fertilizers and long, long, long before man developed hydroponics. How is my statement that plants growing naturally in the earth never get flushed a conditional assertion true only if everyone is growing in the earth?

Debating isn't your strong suit.