READ THIS fine research by a well respected member.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/the-truth-about-flushing.409622/
Flushing is totally unneeded.
I cure for as much as 2 months! The MINIMUM would be 2 weeks and that's pushing it way hard for me in any way, shape or form!
Ok there's a lot of posts I still have yet to read cuz this was long, but this article seems to know exactly what's up. Thank you Dr who.
There's a couple important notes I gathered from here as to WHY flushing can be bad:
1. The theory with flushing is that it gets excess nutes out of the soil and fan leaves bc when you starve it of nutes it uses the nutes leftover in the soil/ fan leaves up to continue growing the buds, leaving less chemically nutrient taste in plant/ buds bc it is all gone. But there's one problem with this: most of us know there are mobile and immobilie nutes that the plant needs. The plant is 100% capable of using up the mobile nutes left over in it, but on the other hand, it can NOT use the immobile nutrients nearly as efficiently (cuz they're immobile). Some people might say "oh whatever they have most nutes at least" but that's not reliable for this one key reason: ****The chemical reactions happening inside the plant cells are NOT INDEPENDENT REACTIONS.**** I.E. This means for the reaction to actually happen, you will need more than just the mobile nutrients available, you need ALL neccesary nutes, including the immobile nutes. Without ALL nutrients being available to the plant in some amount, there would be issues similar to that in which the mobile nutrients are hardly present as well.
2. The article also mentioned that doing a flush is essentially similar to "curing" your buds while they are still on the plant. So you get better tasting buds sooner than without a flush but you are hurting your final yield bc that's two weeks of no growth or hardly any growth ability on the plant.
That being said I think I'll stick with the same plan I layed out for something halfway in between. This way the plant will still tend to leech out at least some of the excess nutes in the coco/ fan leaves, while still providing neccesarry immobile nutrients to keep the plants ability to do its sticky thang during the critical last couple weeks.
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