I've never grown any vegetables and my green bell pepper plant is getting ready to bloom. Do you have to flush these like you flush cannabis plants prior to harvesting peppers?
did you use chem ferts? if you did, please report back with a 'taste report' does it taste like sweet chlorophyl, or decomposed cardboard?
Started with organics (just like I did for my bud), but was having a lot of issues with Roots Organic, so I've switched to chemical. Since switching, the plant has been blooming like crazy.
I really never say anything about flushing, but it's pointless. There's mobile and immobile nutrients and they don't flush out of the plant. Plants have salts or solutes in their cells. These solutes regulate water potential within the cell. The roots build up pressure and transpiration at the leaf levels creates a constant flow from highest to lowest pressure. Salts do not usually move out of the plant unless there's a disposal of plant material such as leaves or fruit. They will stay in the plant as solutes until there is another need for them else where. Keep your bell pepper alive and provide it with nutrients and proper pruning (trimming yellowing leaves or leaves that touch water etc.). Make sure you provide it with a constant supply of balanced nutrients and you will not be dissapointed. And it doesn't matter what source your nutes come from, unless it makes you feel happy to use organic orangutan poop tea, you'll get the same results if you have the same ratios of micro and macro nutrients.
all i know is that my vegetables taste like donkey shit when i use chem ferts. (general hydroponics, no flush). i used to pour out my 'rez change soup' on my vegies 2 years ago. never again.
I've never noticed any poor taste when using Hydro nutes for my peppers. You really can't flush them effectively. Since they you can't predict when they are done. I was picking peppers every day for over a month. When would I have flushed? If I would have started flushing in the beginning, I would only have harvested twelve or so peppers per plant. By not flushing I think I ended up harvesting closer to fifty per plant.
The thing with vegetables is, if you use organic nutrients, you kind have to have a healthy microbial activity in your soil for organic fertilizers to show 'somewhat' immediate results compared to chemical. It pays to start conditioning your soil as soon as the ground thaws enough to get a shovel in it. With the slower growing bell peppers, especially if you are aiming for red, there really is no reason not to go all organic nutes, especially if using dry organic nutrients. It doesn't typically take so long for bell peppers to veg and flower, but it does take a fair bit of time for the peppers themselves to fully develop.