Flushing in organic

[sourshoes]

Definitely think youre onto something there. An overfed organic grow would taste off in my opinion.



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[Valentina]

How do you flush a twenty acre field in which we are growing organic potatoes.
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Do you flush a apple tree or just eat the fruit when it's ripe

Watering with just plain water AND withholding feed on the run up to harvest would classify as a "flush", right?

[British green]

Watering with just plain water AND withholding feed on the run up to harvest would classify as a "flush", right?

Well I flush my plants from start to finish then and god is constantly flushing my Apple tree


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[sourshoes]

Watering with just plain water AND withholding feed on the run up to harvest would classify as a "flush", right?

The distinction between organic growing and growing with living soil needs to be made.


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[Trex]

The distinction between organic growing and growing with living soil needs to be made.


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No need to flush in organics man . Do farmers flush their tomoatos and lettuce ? Nope



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[redisiel]

I love these threads, still make me smile!!!
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[cannabisman420]

Depends on your plant stages (veg or flowering); nutrient lockout - overfeeding plants or improper pH levels - this results in a build-up of nutes in the soild where plants cannot access them, a flush is required here; finally you should do a flush before harvest.

[prime]

Well today I've done a little testing
I've been growing in organic batmix, using organic biobizz bottles, no mineral salts at all.
As I've come from previous Coco, hydro and regular soil grows in the past, the concept of not flushing in organics, although it makes perfect scientific sense, still frightened me. Last thing I wanted is to spend months growing my plants, to have unsmokable bud at the end of it all.
As 2 plants are due to come down, I thought I would do a plain water only regimen for the past week. On the watering, I snipped a lower popcorn branch and dried. This bud was not fed plain water prior to snipping, so if anything should be a good example of what the weed will be like with no flushing.
I've dried and rolled it up today.
Nice grey ash, no sizzling, no harshness, much like my Coco grows after a weeks flushing has occured.
From this I think flushing in an organic soil grow is now unnecessary, so the remaining plants will be fed their nutes in the final week to try get every bit of size onto them I can

[prime]

Also this bud has been dried over 3 days, no curing obv. It still smelled pretty much like it does on the plant, fruity. Tasted nice too, so a proper dry and cure will no doubt improve the quality further

[IceCalibur]

Well today I've done a little testing
I've been growing in organic batmix, using organic biobizz bottles, no mineral salts at all.
As I've come from previous Coco, hydro and regular soil grows in the past, the concept of not flushing in organics, although it makes perfect scientific sense, still frightened me. Last thing I wanted is to spend months growing my plants, to have unsmokable bud at the end of it all.
As 2 plants are due to come down, I thought I would do a plain water only regimen for the past week. On the watering, I snipped a lower popcorn branch and dried. This bud was not fed plain water prior to snipping, so if anything should be a good example of what the weed will be like with no flushing.
I've dried and rolled it up today.
Nice grey ash, no sizzling, no harshness, much like my Coco grows after a weeks flushing has occured.
From this I think flushing in an organic soil grow is now unnecessary, so the remaining plants will be fed their nutes in the final week to try get every bit of size onto them I can

Not sure if you saw this post Prime - Clicky

But according to this study ;

It seems that flushing does not (significantly) remove any of the fundamental nutrients initially perceived to be flushing ( Nitrogen, Sulphur, Phosphorus, Potassium, Magnesium, Calcium )

However, it is also found that using water only for the last 2 weeks has no impact on yield, thus saving money on 'fertilizer'.