xtsho
Well-Known Member
Overfeeding. Cannabis is what's known as a super accumulator plant. If you over feed the plant throughout it's lifecycle those elements are stored in the plant's tissue like a fat person that eats McDonald's 3 times a day. Telling that fat person to drink a bunch of water to flush out their fat cells is just as stupid as telling someone to run a bunch of water through their plants to flush out the elements they've accumulated in their tissue throughout their life cycle. Plants don't work that way and neither do we. If you over feed the plant through veg, flower, and up to harvest I can assure you no amount of water you run through those plants will make your dried flower taste good. The same parallel can be observed by hunters deer hunting. You shoot a deer that grew up and ate in a dirty swampy area that deer meat is gonna taste about as good as what that deer foraged on. You shoot a deer that grew up and ate in a more diverse healthy environment that deer meat is going to taste better and less gamey. Same with fish. Have you ever had someone tell you, "buddy you can drop a lure in that water but whatever you do don't eat anything that comes out of that river?" I think you get the point. What a living organism consumes sticks with that organism.
If you over feed your plant from veg all the way through flower does it really matter if you give that plant plain water for 2 weeks? You're just further fucking the plant's nutrition up by now starving it for the "flush" cycle. It's just a through and through poor understanding of how plants work.
The most flavorful flowers grown are those grown with proper and balanced nutrition from start to finish. As the plant is ripening discontinue fertilizer input in the final 4-7 days to allow the plant to ripen naturally as it winds down it's life cycle. But please understand this is not a "flush" to wash out all the overfeeding you've done throughout the plant's life cycle. It's a discontinuation of fertilizer to allow the plant to ripen as it winds down it's life cycle. Whether you're growing in soil or hydro plants work the same way. They use nutrition the same way. And they will both respond to over feeding the same way. Your flowers will burn and taste like shit. When grandma had a tomato garden going and they were just about ready to pick do you ever remember grandma throwing a bucket of bat shit on the soil? Of course not. That would be stupid, right? As the plant is winding down it's reproductive / life cycle the fruit is ripening and the plant is dying off. What purpose does adding additional fertilizer serve? Like I said it's an understanding of the plan's life cycle. Flushing is for toilets. Leeching is just good garden practice to allow a plant to ripen as it winds down it's life cycle as the plant will have no use or need for those elements at this stage of it's life.
Don't over feed and you don't have to worry about this "flushing" nonsense.
Your choice of fertilizer also matters. Not all are created equal. My flowers are more aromatic, resinous, and flavorful running jack's 3-2-1 than when I grew using general hydroponic's maxi bloom. Same strains. Same lights. Same room. Remarkably better quality. Hey, one last thing: word to your mother homie
But if you don't push your plants to the limits and blast them with heavy doses of P/K in flower you won't get those super duper hugely massive buds. It takes at least a dozen bottles to get the maximum yields and quality. You have to use products that say Big or Blast in their names. If you ain't burning the leaves you ain't pushing your plants to their maximum potential.
