flushing your plants

[ravenspyz7]

Hello all i am currently growing an autoflower strain and am close to harvest. I have Clearex which i would like to use but am unsure how to use it. Anyone have any ideas or have used Clearex. Anyone know some good ways on flushing your plants?
Thanks

 

[AlbinoDanko12GA]

lol one good way is water water water water. well with clearex its a salt leaching product! use 1 - 2 tablespoons per gallon phed at 6.5! you doing soil right???? 80 - 90% runoff when u use this! you want to stop using nutes atleast 7-10 days before harvest IMO! use clearex once or twice and then water until the end! good luck!

 

[Dr.Greenbud]

water,water,water,water,water,water and did i mention, WATER.

 

[leafminer]

I don't flush. Always ppl arguing here about that. Can you tell Stork from butter? Can you tell Pepsi Light from Coke Zero? Can you tell a plant that's been flushed from one that hasn't?
(Answers: Yes, Yes, No.)

 

[legalize_freedom]

leafminer, i'm not trying to start anything, but I can tell a huge difference in taste. Especially if using chemical ferts. It tastes and burns terrible imo. I flush between veg and bud, and don't feed anything the last 2 weeks except for water. To each their own.

 

[omnigr33n]

I only flush to get rid of excessive salts in soil or some nute deficiency.

 

[fleshstain]

i've used Clearex multiple times in the past for soil and hydro.... my method for both was the same.... about 2 weeks before harvest, 2 back-to-back waters with Clearex.... after that, plain water till finish....

as Albino said, it's a salt leaching solution.... it'll remove any built up ferts from you soil/media, but you still should flush with plain water so the plant will use up the nutes it has stored inside plant, not the soil....

hope that helps a bit!

 

[mistisrising]

leafminer, i'm not trying to start anything, but I can tell a huge difference in taste. Especially if using chemical ferts. It tastes and burns terrible imo. I flush between veg and bud, and don't feed anything the last 2 weeks except for water. To each their own.

I used to think this too. Then about three years ago, hunter caused me to pull a location almost a month early, no flush. After about four weeks of curing (and a seven day hang dry) the taste was gone. But it was the same taste I get from two weeks with a good flush. So while not necessary, it helps the process time wise. Most people don't have the patience to wait four to six weeks to smoke a harvest.

 

[dman1234]

i just stop feeding last 2 weeks,


but i have always wondered what about the lost bud size due to not feeding the last 2 weeks, maybe i will try a flush next time, do a side by side maybe.

 

[legalize_freedom]

Mistrising, I'd agree with you because you are talking about outdoor plants, when I was doing my guerilla growing, I didn't flush, because the earth takes care of leaching that stuff out. But with growing indoors I believe in a good flush, and a good cure. My best friend did neither on his grows, and his weed tasted like chemicals...now I don't know if that is because of the flush or the cure or probably a bit of both. I do know that the Afghani #1 I have had for years tastes way better grown outdoors than indoors. But when grown indoors the first time I used FFnutes, with no flush, and I could taste the fertz. the next 3 grows I flushed and can tell a world of differnce...it still not the same as outdoors, but alot closer. I cure all of mine for at least a month...and longer. I agree with you on the cure!

 

[mistisrising]

Mistrising, I'd agree with you because you are talking about outdoor plants, when I was doing my guerilla growing, I didn't flush, because the earth takes care of leaching that stuff out. But with growing indoors I believe in a good flush, and a good cure. My best friend did neither on his grows, and his weed tasted like chemicals...now I don't know if that is because of the flush or the cure or probably a bit of both. I do know that the Afghani #1 I have had for years tastes way better grown outdoors than indoors. But when grown indoors the first time I used FFnutes, with no flush, and I could taste the fertz. the next 3 grows I flushed and can tell a world of differnce...it still not the same as outdoors, but alot closer. I cure all of mine for at least a month...and longer. I agree with you on the cure!

Got me there, I have very little experience indoor, and when I did I watered with molasses a lot. So, I think that may have accomplished the same result as an actual flush.

ravenspyz7, sorry for taking this somewhere besides your original question.

 

[AlbinoDanko12GA]

well i just harvest some palnts outdoor that were in some pots and i flushed the first batch and it tasted good nice and sweet, just a couple weeks early! so then 2 weeks went by and i think i fed twice or so and i didnt flush and i picked all the plants that I DID NOT FLUSH and i got to say its nasty and a lil harsh, burns the throat and im assuming thats from the chemicals of the nutes and everything! i still have the preme stuff i flushed and picked and it tastes alot smoother!

so i would say flush flush flush!!!!! IMO and probally alot of other peoples opinion! ill make a poll, check it out in the indoor section and watch wat everyon on this forum says about flcuhing and watch the % rate