Thanks rich! Thanks derby!! Normally id try for two weeks of flush but im no so sure flushing is a good thing anymore... maybe cut the n and and stuff out but in the nectar for the gods bible they use herculean harvest to 'flush' their plants. It is steamed bone meal, calcium phosphate. They dont get runoff either. Heres a few excerpts from the bible:
Many production problems originate with having too much
nitrogen and potassium, and not enough available calcium and phosphate. Herculean Harvest
increases the availability of calcium and phosphorus to your plants and soil. This produces a wide
range of benefits to plant health, structure, and flavor, contributes to a vigorous soil food web, and
improves accessibility of nutrients. The active ingredient in bone meal, calcium phosphate, helps to
carry all nutrients to the plant, except for nitrogen and potassium. Calcium is the “queen-king” of
all nutrients, aiding enzymatic action, feeding soil microbes, improving nutrient availability and cell
wall integrity, and encouraging solid, strong stem growth (vs. hollow in a calcium-deficient
situation) which, in turn, prevents stem breakage. Calcium promotes smooth, sweet, aromatic
produce, and generally leads to healthier, more vigorous growth and increased pest and disease
resistance. Calcium also increases the cation exchange capacity of soils, making nutrients more
available to microbial activity and ultimately to the plant. The addition of Herculean Harvest to any
nutrient line will increase size, yield weight, and aroma and intensify flavor of the plants’ fruit. It
also helps to improve accessibility of the available nutrients and washes salt from a potting soil or
soilless medium. It can be used as part of a soil flush and/or as a pH fixing salt flush solution.
This innovative approach to feeding distinguishes NFTG from any other nutrient line.
Soil and coco gardeners alike, using Herculean Harvest to flush for ten to fourteen days at the end
of the plants life cycle, will notice a dramatic increase in terpene development and complexity.
We break down this product into its finest protein and calcium phosphate, a powder form, and then we fill the
tank system with Fulvic Acid and wait for the digestion to occur. Calcium phosphate from the bones will actually create a bond with the sodium inside the medium. The bond will lock up the salt creating a new compound that gets tied up in the medium, waiting for a microbe to come through.
The microbe ends up consuming the calcium, releasing that sodium as a protein, an enzyme, or an
organic acid. Flushing with bone meal at the end will force the rocks up into the flower and fill all
the voids in the fruit. It helps mitigate the high EC, high salt content. If you’re using a 3-part
synthetic line, do a bone meal flush with the pH up every 2 weeks at a minimum. During this flush,
you’re giving your plant the calcium phosphate and calcium proteins it needs. You’re desalinating
your medium, offering your plants more nutrition, and creating more aggressive growth... and most
importantly, your CEC (Cation Exchange Capacity) will increase, promoting protein pumps in your
roots to take in more natural nutrients from the medium. **YOU WILL USE LOTS OF THIS!!**