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It will also bring out all those complex,
deep flavours that you want. Thinking of it
as two separate stages can help you to keep
your mind on what it is you are trying to do,
which is to get the biggest, heaviest, tastiest
fruit in the shortest amount of time.
In a natural environment, under natural
conditions, water alone will and does
perform the flush process over a much longer
timeframe, which is more than effective as
plants grown outside in the wild have less of
a concentration of stored nutrients in them as
their lifecycle is much longer.
Water alone is not enough for plants grown
under indoor conditions as doing so uses
constructed systems to get the most out of
the plant in the shortest amount of time
possible, and to the best of its potential.
Under these conditions, a flushing agent
is much more efficient. It will speed the
flushing stage up more than water alone by
at least a week. How is that you may ask?
Flushing Agents Attract
More Chemical Molecules
While the whole process is very
complicated, the principle is simple. Think
of the water molecule as an “L” shape
travelling around the vascular system,
diluting the active elements by picking off
the chemical molecules. The shape of the
water molecule is effective, however, it is
not the best or the most effective shape it
could be, and this is where the flushing
agent comes in as superior.
In contrast, imagine the molecule of the
flushing agent shape is a “+” shape. If you
look at it, it’s four “Ls” back-to-back, and
therefore four times as effective as the
“L” shaped water molecule alone. As the
flushing agent moves around the plant’s
vascular system, it will attract quadruple
the amount of chemical molecules to it than
the water molecule would, and so dilute
and flush the active chemical elements
out of the plant faster. This is great as
it quickly pushes the plant into the next
phase of the flush. As soon as the vascular
system is not providing the plant with the
nutrients it needs, it will start to release
and use up the reserves it had stored
previously, which will induce flowering
and fruiting to its full potential, maturing
your plants, produce faster.
Two of the most common reasons people
grow indoors is for speed of growth and a
higher yield. That’s why using a chemical
flush is as important as using nutrient
feed. If you used neither and only watered
your plants, of course they would grow and
yield eventually, but would it be as high or
quick? Of course not. It defeats the point
of all the hard work and effort you have
put in if, at the end of your grow, you don’t
maximise your efforts by flushing your
plants effectively. You could be missing out
on some amazing results.
“
A FLUSHING
AGENT IS MUCH
MORE EFFICIENT.
It will speed the
flushing stage up
more than water alone
by at least a week.”
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