Hey all need some hive mind help! This is my second grow and im sure shes nearly there, the tricoms are still clear, it just gone week 6 of flower. My question is do i need to flush? Tomorrow is nutes day and i dont wanna waste/needlessly feed her if a flush at this stage would be better!
If you don’t have a growlog please answer these questions.
What strain are you growing? Is it Auto, Fem or Reg?
Are you growing Indoor or outdoor?
Are you using nutrients? Which ones? How much?
Like lynx suggested if at week 6 id feed maybe 1 more time if on a weekly feed and if your running organic nutes no need to flush you can just stop feeding around weeks 7/8 depending on strain but if feeding bottled nutes then would probably flush around week 7/8 as well just to clean out any salts. But shes looking good so far and great work
I’ve always flushed but had heard differing opinions on it. This grow my two plants are like 2 weeks apart for some reason but next grow that they line up for harvest, I’m going to flush one and not the other to see what works for me. That way I have two of the same strain, same environment, same harvest, conditions, etc and I can see if there’s any difference
Remember, you can flush your media but you can’t actually flush anything from the plants themselves.
Feed until you’re ready for them to stop growing . . . all cutting off nutrients in late flower does is starve your plants of the nutrients they need to finish building those big dense buds. Reducing/removing nutrients negatively impacts the photosynthesis process as well . . . remove nutrients remove the plant’s ability to effectively process light energy.
Starvation is the reason you see so many late flower plants with the heavy yellowing and dying of fan leaves (chlorosis) . . . that occurs when the plant is pulling nutrients from those leaves because it can’t get what it needs from the media it is growing in. Yes, some yellowing and dying off of older leaves is normal, but nowhere near the extent you see with plants that are in a flushed medium and being forced to cannabilize themselves.
