New Grower Flushing Formula - Discussion.

[dota2]

I have bouth Flawless Finish and Flora Kleen. My taught is, the only difference between water and water + formula is that the final flush don't need to be that long. Say you flush for 3 weeks before harvest with just water. With for example you flush for 1 week. So you win 2 weeks in witch you can still feed and get extra yield.

 

[Bunny]

I have bouth Flawless Finish and Flora Kleen. My taught is, the only difference between water and water + formula is that the final flush don't need to be that long. Say you flush for 3 weeks before harvest with just water. With for example you flush for 1 week. So you win 2 weeks in witch you can still feed and get extra yield.

You maybe able to gain a little weight like this.
3 weeks is a very long cleanse (21days ) you can cleanse for 10 days with plain water and the plant uses up its stored minerals in this time. You can observe the autumnal colours and withering .as nutrients are used from the leaves. So no need to feed during this time. Also minerals particular nitrogen is used up giving a better cure and tastier smoke.

 

[dota2]

Ok man. Potions are useless... But maybe not. I bought Flora Kleen cause it was cheep and I needed it in the past and Flawless was gifted by AN CEO among other stuff. To speak the trouth I wouldn't have payed for it. It is the most OP product I saw and it can be replaced by water. )

 

[Dr Who]

The chemistry behind the flushing formula is quite simple, they contain agents which can make complexes with divalent cations (like calcium and magnesium) and hold them in solution under conditions where they would otherwise not be soluble. EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) is probably the most common of these chemicals, although anybody wanting a similar effect organically could use fulvic acids to achieve a similar kind of effect.

Natural soil solutions will contain chemicals with very similar metal complexing properties (e.g. fulvic and humic acids), so adding these kinds of chemicals isn't introducing any kind of conditions that the plants aren't used to. The same substances are used to provide available forms of various metals such as calcium, magnesium, and iron to plants in a variety of fertilisers, e.g. in sequestered iron.

Personally I don't use a flushing agent, but at least I now understand how they work. They can only really improve the removal of divalent and trivalent cations, so presumably won't really help with removing excesses of nitrate, phosphate, or potassium. On the other hand the addition of heavy metals to soils through repeated applications of inorganic fertilisers is well documented, so there is arguably a better case for using these products if you don't grow organically. I tend to find that un-flushed weed tends to have a slightly metallic taste to it, which isn't present in properly finished weed, so perhaps the focus on removing the calcium and magnesium works. If you plan on reusing your soil you could potentially be stripping all kinds of goodies out of it though.