Best method for finishing em .....

keep it helathy.. keep it growing optimally.. the rest is magic. Same reasona fastball doesn't increase in velocity after it leaves a pitcher's hand. How can it grow, and ripening is growth too, if you deprive it of light or nutes? the other good thing is no matter what OCD behaviour you delve into, if it's for a short time it can't have much of an effect either way. LOL.

aw shit, looks like @LSchnabel beat me to it. refrenceing the same thing. did not read the other answers before answeing myself.

Nice looking plants. Dr.Brucebugbee did a clip on you tube debunking most finishing myths. If anything give them 24 hrs full light then chop and dry in complete darkness. Plants won't make much of anything in 24hrs and they can't do shit like building trichomes or terpenes in darkness as that all requires energy and light. Same with the cold wash flush or anything else. its not magic. The reason you smell the plants more in darkness is because the volatile terps evaporate more and temps are lower. but they can not rebuild with no light, so its just diluting the over all product. End stressors are just not that effective in the last 24-48hrs period. Good Luck!

There is a lot of research into this and it always comes back to just do nothing different. Dr. Bruce Bugbee did a huge work up on this and he found there to be no difference in the production of trichomes. So he says that you keep running your lights, keep feeding it and do nothing else. However, he did state that the last week you could defiantly not use nutrients to flush the plant but he still feels like you do not need to even do that. I do like to flush the last week, and by that I mean I only give straight water. I do not actively try to rinse my soil out. I hope this helps.

Personally I prefer shocking her into overdrive with 48 h of complete darkness.