Apparently some people have issues with their ego's, and feel the need to continue to reference other people, when those other people are obviously not interacting with them.
I got news for you, asshole, when I said that plants "practically stop taking in water and nutes", apparently you took the term to be literal and absolute.... Which is typical of most of the people in this forum who have the need to be "better than someone else" and feel they have to prove that they aren't the noobs they really are.
This does not mean that they STOP altogether. Otherwise there would be no sense in adding molasses like I told him. However, they DO dramatically slow down taking in nutes and water, towards the end of their lives.
Now, the claims that your weed burned your throat?? This is what happens when you're a noob, you probably harvested far to early and were smoking green shit, and/or, your curing process was borked.
Your claims of "one plant was harsh the other one you flushed was "almost" smokable right off the plant", is the evidence of your BULLSHIT! Yes, green buds right off the plant, will tend to be harsh and burn your throat. (He wants ME to be literal in my postings, but hey, it's perfectly OK for him not to be).... I guess I should have said that the plants "ALMOST stop taking in water and nutes"...... he might have understood then... right???
With near 25-30 years of experience here(which is longer than larrybobbkins has been alive), along side others who are on this site with their own decades and decades worth of experience, people like Uncle Ben, will tell you the same thing I am telling jwilt2008..
Flushing is unnecessary. PERIOD. Plants in the wild do not "get flushed". Plants grown in the ground by professional guerrilla farmers who then sell their crops, all over the United States, DO NOT FLUSH. The only people that I know that flush, are noobs that have bought into "organic" hype, and that's all that it is, HYPE. DO you think professional growers who have massive quantities of plants, flush???? LOL! Yes, let's go around to our 100 buckets of plants and run straight water through them for 3 weeks, this is so unrealistic it's not even funny.
Not even the fruits and veggies you eat that you buy at the store are "flushed"..
Now, larrybobbkins, you'll notice that I don't sit here and talk shit about other people, ever, I expect the same from others in regards to me, now, have a nice day imagining that you're somehow better than someone else, because you have a keyboard and an opposite opinion than someone else on a grow that most people in the world don't give a fuck about.