Should You Flush Your Plants When Growing Organic?

In this Garden Talk clip, Jeremy Silva talks about whether or not you should flush your plants when growing with organic inputs. What are your thoughts on this? Comment below!

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[Chris-cqdy]

Great talk gyes always a great show 🔥✌️💨💨

[matthunt]

Nothing better than listening to the ladies with your eyes, and having a good mental bank of possible issues and solutions.

[CustomJ]

I have only ever grown here in the Caribbean. Rich natural living soil, cut with a good quality potting soil with worm casting. We have the richest natural soil in the world here Exclusively watered with rain water. We put them to sleep in black out boxes. No additional external nutes. Just consistent hot and bright sunlight. Massive frosty stinky and sticky colas. Huge yields. No need to flush at all. The process is uncomplicated and natural. An endless summer helps massively with that being said, because the season never ends. Year round planting.

[G_ProTv]

Great info I don’t want to use my good water flushing my organic plants #TeamNoFlush

[hambiscuit]

I hang my tomato plants upside down in an old stick tobacco barn in late fall before the first hard frost. The green tomatoes ripen slowly, and some will rot but usually have tomatoes until Thanksgiving with this method. I agree with the statement that you can't wash something out of the bud by pouring water over the roots.

[versatile]

You guys Rock always great info! I would love to come check Build A Soil sometime!

[brianbarszcz]

Great info guys. Buildasoil w great comments!

[nh]

Good to see everyone else catching up lol

[jaredritter]

I'm in organic with aerated tea's and I ain't flushing but I do stop top dressing at the end

[OGC_GSG_]

I dont have to starve it or flush them they change color automatically on their own if its going through its cycle. I agree sith this cause this is what ALL the plants ive ever grown have done on their own indoors even

[gibsonexp]

It all sounds reasonable. So to stop watering a week or weeks before harvest would it be ok to cover the ground beneath the plant as far out as its extended branches to keep rain water out?

[johnthurstans]

I'm in dwc, I wait until I seed the first sign of fade and then switch to my flush nutrient, even though it may take more than a week to amber up.

[devonsensi]

So you dont flush the weed plants when using organic fertiliser?

[davidpaylor]

I grow organic in soil under the sun (albeit in a greenhouse, I am in the UK and it rains) and wouldn't dream of leaching or flushing. I stop all water supplements about week four of flowering and don't water at all in the last week to ten days, depending on the sun. Even when I used to grow hydro indoors I didn't flush as such, I just swapped to straight water to top up the main tank for the last week or so. Flushing is just an extra chore, makes no real difference to your buds. Simplify whenever you can.

[richardlongmore]

I always wondered about this. Do they die and stop eating on there own or dose the medium run out of nutrients after 3 or 4 months?
I’m using last years good quality soil with some eco thrive life cycle and eco thrive biosis and fresh organic chicken poo and blood bone and fish. I top up with biobizz fish mix and grow and algamatic and grow and bloom together for flower

[robertthrem]

This is why I only hydro just change your water reservoir . And at least use a Brita water filter

[powrd]

After you flush.. do you leave anything so the ladies dont get starving..?

[DiegoSenge]

Today I think I finally understand why flushing might be a thing. My tap water is 300-600 ppm of TDS and a p.h. of 7.5 or higher. I would NEED to use rainwater or something to reduce that mineral concentration because otherwise the same limescale we see in our water cookers we would see in our soil. And I can't just add citrus extract and flush out that cocktail into the sink like with my cooker.

[JasonJGruzin]

If you're not flushing or leeching you better let the plant use up all the nutes in the soil. I know what black ash, headaches and harsh smoke is from a bad product still being fed till harvest.

[Allknowingkeith]

Flushing to me means stop watering so the ph can rise which helps p to get absorbed while it dries out and less acidic.