I have to agree with most here, flushing is pointless. I also agree that a plant absorbs P, K N, etc in the same way whether it is chemical or organic. The source of the nutes is a mute point as the roots convert it into the same chemicals. I have also learned that flushing stresses out the plant in it's final phase and is more detrimental than beneficial. Removing the source of nutes(flushing) does indeed cause the plant to use up it's "stored" nutes, pulling from leaves and roots, but unless the plant accually dies 100% the buds will not have any less nutes in them.
It is all about the dry and cure. Most importantly this point: If you DO NOT fully trim the buds when you first cut the plant down, the buds will then absorb all the chemicals in the stalk and leaves. So just cutting the plant down and hanging it to dry makes it taste worse. If you cut it down and immediately trim all the buds they will not have any food to extract from the leaves hence the cleaner tasting buds.
I believe that flushing is not needed and accually bad for the final product.
But...
I do flush. But knowing how the plant eats/drinks/processes nutes is important.
I flush with a clearing solution. (I have tested 2 plants side by side and found that the runoff of the one with flushing solution was much yellower than one with plain water.)
]My flush in 5 days. I water with a flush solution and then trim off 25% of my fan leaves at the same time. 3 days later (next watering) I use plain water and again trim off 25% of fan leaves. Then when I chop down 2 days later I fully trim all buds.
My weed always tastes great and smells fabulous. The dry is normally 4-5 days and then jar cured for 2 weeks minimum.
A freind hangs whole plant and always has a green flavor.??
I might not even do the 5 day flush anymore as I seem to be finding less and less scientific research supporting it?
This is just my 2 cents...
Jonny
