Problem: There is absolutely no difference between the nutrients taken up by the plant in an organic grow and a synthetic grow, they are all mineralized nutrients. The difference is the carrier in synthetic nutes. With synthetic nutes the nutrients are immediately available to the plant, as they are already mineralized. The carrier of synthetic nutes (usually EDTA) remains in the soil and is not taken in by the plant. "Salts" are what's left after synthetic nutes are given, which sometimes build up to the point of lockout and must be flushed from the SOIL, in synthetic grows. In organic grows the microbial action mineralizes the nutrients, but synth or organic, they are the same nutrients in the same form.
Systemic organophosphate insecticides cannot be leached out of the plant. They must degrade on their own time schedule from within the plant, usually from exposure to light. Things like pyrethrin (a topical) degrade in a few days, while systemics which are typically added to the soil, can remain for days, weeks, months, depending on the chemical, and unless leached from the SOIL, they will continue to be assimilated by the plant as long as the systemic remains in the soil.
There is a fundamental miss understanding on how elements and chemical bonds interact with living plants.
Healthy living earth or active soil entirely stands alone in its abilities to host life mostly without harm to the organisms present while simultaneously buffering change of electrical chemical bonds in a given pH environment while constantly supplying energy and buffering toxic compounds into easily readily assimilable nutrients. Healthy earth or active soil is a electrical chemical buffer similar to a battery's energy supply ability whichever terms you prefer oxidase reduction, galvanic ion cation exchange or electrical potential or acid base reduction which takes a mineralized form of an element and converts it with the aid of living organisms into a chelated form assimilable by both living organisms and plants. Another term for this Chelation is catalyst or catalytic reaction which is usually either a metal or mineral is the active surface which the change of chemical bonds present is easily able to change or break complex chemical bond present both in the earth and the plants themselves. This is what the role calcium, magnesium, copper and other micro nutrients are actively doing when present either added to a nutrient solution, grow medium or present in the plants tissues themselves.
The mineralized or crystallized salt form of elements most plants and animals either are not directly able to easily assimilate or not able to assimilate without an intermediary agents process which makes the element directly absorb able and able to be used as energy or for a component of tissue generation.
Humans lack a digestive system which allows them to directly absorb energy or rocks, minerals from earth and most forms of crystallized minerals themselves, earthworms and many other organism are able to directly able to use these elements in healthy earth. The mineralized rock or crystallized salt precipitate is the form of an elemental bond no longer directly easily absorbable by plants or most animals.
When we write concerning nutrient lockout it is either a chemical bond which is much more difficult for the plant to access at a given pH or the interaction with another solute element in suspension or abnormal pH which causes a preferred dissolved elements chemical bond form to reach saturation and form suspended solids and or drop out of solution as crystallized salts which we term nutrient buildup in the grow medium.
Where in healthy earth the minerals present and elements chemical bonds already present buffer either pH or resistance to change of both which forms of elements are predominately present and resistance to pH change over the surface area of the cubic area spreading the effective reaction over the surrounding area measured in yards. This is how active soil is able to neutralize and buffer toxic ammonia or ammonium over a large surface area to reduce the active amount of the harmful form of a chemical bond into less harmful intermediary which can also be accessed directly by plants.
This complex system is called the nitrogen cycle and is present in every ecosystem in nature. Please see Nitrogen cycle. The system is based on concentrations of nitrogen become toxic in the environment and are either converted to or from more complex combinations to reduce the toxicity of individual concentration nitrogen or ammonium itself.
Depending in which environment system the nitrate nitrogen ammonium will have 5 - 7 intermediary steps in changing simple quick energy forms into longer stable forms.
Nitrogen fixation (N2 to NH3/ NH4+ or NO3-)
Nitrification (NH3 to NO3-)
Assimilation (Incorporation of NH3 and NO3- into biological tissues)
Ammonification (organic nitrogen compounds to NH3)
Denitrification(NO3- to N2)
Nitrate, nitrites, nitrogen and ammonium.
Nitrification, nitrate reduction to ammonium and Ammonification
These reactions are bi directional and occur when either abundance or deficiency of an element is present at a certain pH point.
Yes certain plants are able to directly access ammonium but not until the soil pH is above pH 8.6 - 9.4 and then above pH 11 or bellow pH 4. These pH ranges are outside of the optimal growing pH band for cannabis and while cannabis is potentially able to directly adsorb ammonium from a grow medium the ammonium crystals will cause visible leaf damage as well display other deficiency due to high pH imbalance.
Synthetic chemical fertilizers must be rendered into chelated chemical bond forms readily accessible to the plants nutrient requirements. EDTA is toxic and when added to gasoline as a valve train lubricant is considered 10x times more toxic that the lead in leaded gasoline for its harm potential. EDTA is the chemical which ceases cellular activity and coagulation in blood samples submitted for laboratory analysis. EDTA is known to accumulate in ecosystems, living tissue also not know to readily break down or become inert.
Synthetic chemical fertilizers when added to a nutrient solution the active predominant chemical bond present changes based on the presence of any excessive single element or pH change which then causes the active chemical bonds to alter based on recombining and reducing the excessive element. Peat moss coco coir and most water supplies either do not effectively resist change to buffer the reaction or when containing any excessively high element commonly such as calcium, copper, iron or sulphur cause the added nutrients to reform to reduce these excessively high concentrations of free dissolved elements many times creating chemical bonds of these chemical storage bonds of elements which cause harm to plant tissues. By the active form of the chemical forms in single or multi part grow product lines the reactive nature of the bonds are unstable and easily changed, any excessively high single element or complex chemical bond cause the majority of elements and chemical bonds present to reform into more complex bonds less easily available to the plants use. These less desirable chemical bonds also alter pH and usually result in cascading pH rise and pH instability.
There are also laevo and dextro forms of each chemical bond and interaction with living tissues to contend with.
That's a sugar solution. It will feed the microbes in the soil, but I can see no way, chemically, that would act to flush nutrients or anything else. The plant does not uptake sugar from the soil, and sugar is a chelating agent, which makes certain micronutrients MORE available to the plant.
The home made clearex solution functions by several methods. The home made solution is a wetting agent which allow the alteration of surface tension or osmotic preessure tension and the mobility of any unused built up nutrients present in the grow medium to more easily interact with water or become directly usable to the cannabis plants roots. This simple sugar blend also allows an energy source for the cannabis plant to easily metabolize stored nutrients within the fan leaves and bud tissues reducing high storage nutrient levels accumulated over the grow to finally be used up for completion of the plants life cycle and allowing harvest.
Most of the chlorophyll breaks down in the curing process. That "fresh mowed grass" smell you often get at the beginning of the curing process is chlorophyll. It will break down biologically until the RH hits about 55-60%, then the bio action stops. Which is why the low and slow drying process produces the best taste/smell.
I do not believe that harvest flushing greatly changes the rate at which chlorophyll degrades, only that the presence of synthetic chemicals in the cannabis buds greatly extends and slows the chemical breakdown of chlorophyll. I have had conversation with a local patient collective and the opinion that calcium, iron, copper and other micro nutrients were at either cause for or were greatly extending and slowing the breakdown of chlorophyll present which resulted in harsher taste of fresh cannabis when smoked rather than aged and cured cannabis where these contributed to altered flavor until which time they denatured at the length of required cure times. Several individuals claimed they could distinguish between different sources of well water by the the flavor of cured cannabis buds.
It is the extended slow curing process which denatures and breaks down chlorophyll and other less desirable flavours which is how we are able to produce mellow balanced terpene flavors we enjoy as cannabis connoisseurs.
I would greatly prefer not to expend the time required to trim fan leaves and pin leaves from within the cannabis bud structure, I do this to remove as much excess green vegetation with low amounts of trichomes from the bud and reduce total green vegetative mass to additionally reduce what green vegetation contributions to the less palatable chlorophyll presence after fully curing the cannabis buds. Reducing vegetative mater with low trichome density from the bud structure refines cannabis buds to potent medical grade cannabis medicine.
