Roseman
Elite Rolling Society
i used to be a die hard flusher, like 3 wks every time. one day an old timer argues with me for so long that i started to listen to him. he said, 'to corn farmers flush thier fields? do outdoor crops get flushed? to you flush your garden crops at home? no, no, and no. its not necessary.
people say you need to make your plant 'use up stored nutes so there gone when you smoke the bud'. its quite evident when your plant is using up stored nutes because the leaf yellows, browns, and falls off once its depleted. but the bud remains unchanged when we smoke it.
the last several weeks of flowering is when your plant will be bulking up the most and requiring the most nutrients so why starve it. i compare it to training for a marathon for months and not eating breakfast the morning of the race.
I have to agree with you on NOT Flushing.. Grow Books and a lot of growers argue with us tho.
What really changed my mind was 2 things, 1 was studying CURING and what it does. And 2, Experience, I tried it. I had two tanks, 3 females in each, and I flushed one tank for a week, had it on plain water for a week, and did not flush the other. I thought I'd get a special or sweeter taste from the flushed one. The one I did not flush, the plant and buds were larger, because they ate and grew all the way up until they day I harvested them. The other tank, they starved and quit growing.
And there was no TASTE difference.
I do have to say tho that on that grow, I had NO Supplements, NO Catalyst, No Aditives, nothing but straight nutes. And I properly CURED for 30 days too, converting the stored nutes into sugars that were tastey.
Maybe, if you use a lot of nute addititives, nute soup I call it, then you need to flush to get a better taste, MAYBE.
AND, I'll tell you, I started adding a little Nitrogen, or VEG nutes the last two weeks too, and I still don't taste it.