re: Flushing & Leaching & Final Bud Swell
I don't know about most knowledgeable but I certainly am always studying and reading up on my down time. Spring time is almost here.. well after the blizzard we are about to have. Thanks for the kind words.
Like I mentioned earlier, we can all have our cake and eat it too but a lot of growers use chems as a short cut to get the end product. WC you are one that uses them to the advantage and can meld good methods with sustainable and more importantly reproducible results.
Consistency is a way to understand how you are doing. Repeatable results means your process is dialed in. I have absolutely no issue with that. You are not being wasteful.
Organics is tough... one mistake and it's compost building time. That's the down side.
Bobrown is actually one of the most knowledgeable organic growers on 420. Yeah go check his plants.
I've got no interest in wading into this thread discussion again other than pointing that out - and - I haven't pre-harvest flushed in about a year. I just feed at a sane level and taper off the nutes at the end and then keep them on a very low level high P/no N bloom supplement through to the end, at about 150 ppm. They finish better than ever, and yes I spent many years flushing.
I don't know about most knowledgeable but I certainly am always studying and reading up on my down time. Spring time is almost here.. well after the blizzard we are about to have. Thanks for the kind words.
Like I mentioned earlier, we can all have our cake and eat it too but a lot of growers use chems as a short cut to get the end product. WC you are one that uses them to the advantage and can meld good methods with sustainable and more importantly reproducible results.
Consistency is a way to understand how you are doing. Repeatable results means your process is dialed in. I have absolutely no issue with that. You are not being wasteful.
Organics is tough... one mistake and it's compost building time. That's the down side.