Zarnon
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Ok I checked out that site and here's my thoughts;
I think it has some really cool videos and I like the music.
As far as step by step, what they basically do is sell their own products with very complicated nuting schedules.
I have seen Scorpion and Tarantula before and read some good reviews but that 20 part nute schedule is NUTS.
Your schedule is much easier and economical.
Now... lets have a dialogue about leaching/flushing.
I do some flushing but it is different. I am actually not a big proponent of the 'flush a week with water theory'. It just doesn't seem to be nature's way. It just seems whack to starve the plant right at the peak of harvest.
My belief is the plant stops taking up nutes as she dies, I watch her and take the cue to give less when she's ready.
I just wait it out and the sure 'nuff the leaves turn yellow and drop off (or I gently take 'em off) one by one.
I run my nutes about 1/2 to 1/3 of what I would give normally. I generally nute low already so we are talking about 250 EC.
There is just some stuff on the 'net that seems ridiculous about flushing. I mean how many times have I heard "My flushed herb burns to a nice white ash!". Dude, any dried carbon based plant will burn to a white ash if you burn it completely. I can burn a presto log to a white ash but I'm not smokin' it!
If you stress the plant it will still try to preserve the flowers and give those nutes to them, so you are not really flushing the finished product are you? And if you did it long enuf so you were, could flushing also take away beneficial parts, even affect finished taste for the worse?
I am going to try a prolonged flush on one of my females and see how much diff that makes. One will just get water (and maybe clearex) for the last week while the other will get my 'lo flo' nute schedule.
Maybe I'll become a believer, heh heh....
I think it has some really cool videos and I like the music.
As far as step by step, what they basically do is sell their own products with very complicated nuting schedules.
I have seen Scorpion and Tarantula before and read some good reviews but that 20 part nute schedule is NUTS.
Your schedule is much easier and economical.
Now... lets have a dialogue about leaching/flushing.
I do some flushing but it is different. I am actually not a big proponent of the 'flush a week with water theory'. It just doesn't seem to be nature's way. It just seems whack to starve the plant right at the peak of harvest.
My belief is the plant stops taking up nutes as she dies, I watch her and take the cue to give less when she's ready.
I just wait it out and the sure 'nuff the leaves turn yellow and drop off (or I gently take 'em off) one by one.
I run my nutes about 1/2 to 1/3 of what I would give normally. I generally nute low already so we are talking about 250 EC.
There is just some stuff on the 'net that seems ridiculous about flushing. I mean how many times have I heard "My flushed herb burns to a nice white ash!". Dude, any dried carbon based plant will burn to a white ash if you burn it completely. I can burn a presto log to a white ash but I'm not smokin' it!
If you stress the plant it will still try to preserve the flowers and give those nutes to them, so you are not really flushing the finished product are you? And if you did it long enuf so you were, could flushing also take away beneficial parts, even affect finished taste for the worse?
I am going to try a prolonged flush on one of my females and see how much diff that makes. One will just get water (and maybe clearex) for the last week while the other will get my 'lo flo' nute schedule.
Maybe I'll become a believer, heh heh....
