Thank you for a clear and consice answer! I think I'll run a little trial of my own and flush a couple of the plants but just decrease quantities on the rest. Because myplants are outdoors, and struggling for sunlight this time of year, the buds haven't reached the ideal size/density so flushing would mean even more limited growth in the final 1/ 2 weeks which I can't really afford to risk so your reply has put my worries at ease. Cheers again.
Doing your own trials is a great way to decide for yourself what you want to do.
HOwever, make sure you know how to properly grow a healthy plant and how to properly dry and cure plants before you are trying to make big decisions on how plants get effected by tests. Getting a healthy plant to FULL ripeness and then drying it SLOWLY will have a much greater impact on bud quality then flushing ever could hope to.
Don't make a decision based on one trial do a few and make sure you are running comparisons with identical plants. Also don’t try to test multiple theories or products at the same.
If you test any grow theory on different plants it won’t prove anything. Because plants grow differently. So it’s important to use clones in reasonably controlled conditions to get the most accurate results.