Flushing hurts the flavor?!?! WTF read on and comment

I tend to agree with you, plants take up what you feed em within a few minutes. They take what they need unless they are locked out. I will admit my indoor experience is pretty limited in my home, though many of my friends finish indoors. If flushing was really that important, outdoor would suck because the food is in the soil and nobody flushes soil. Infact, quite the opposite! In the late stages the humidity outdoors is usually pretty high and water can be a problem.
To add to that, hydro plants are always in water, so flushing would mearly be changing out the reservoir with clean water. Is that flushing? Seems more like withholding or starving your buds? I dont know, maybe that why I prefer to finish in real soil outdoors, I font have to worry about that.

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Your table sir :slight_smile: (if this was posted before, I apologize)

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i personally believe it depends on how you grow and what you put i to the soil or whatever you are growing in. organic grows really dont need to be flushed however i think its a good idea if you are using bottled nutes or alot of additives. all those salts and sugars do build up over time…

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I use the time flushing to clean my RDWC system out, by the time i’m done with it pull roots out a small small small cap of bleach run/drain and its ready for a new plants.
Everything I give them comes as salt/chemicals from a bottle, I’m going to flush till I get the PPM down.

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Wish I understood it better.

Totally agree. IMHO Organic may make folks feel better, but the reality is, how you derive your Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium etc. doesn’t make any difference. Unless there are by-product chemicals in your nutrient, Nitrogen is nitrogen. Once broken down for a plant to use it is utterly the same.
As for the vaulted rinse, I couldn’t find any difference other than you are shorting your plant of needed nutrients when it really needs them. This string from Dumme sold me.

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That’s how organics and nonorganic nutes differ: how they’re broken down and the time it takes. That makes quite a difference up until they are broken down to the elements your plant can actually use.


Flush or not, no harm either way.

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