//Harvest timing// Flushing to close to harvest time? Your opinion on my buds matureness.

In all honest, I’m going to offend some people when I say this but I no longer believe that flushing has anything to do with the content of the buds. If you really look at the biology side of things, the plant won’t pull any nutrients out of the buds during a flush because the buds are the plants priority, it takes the nutrients out of the leaves and uses those nutrients for the buds. That’s why flushing affects the leaves. Just from a visual perspective, you can see what’s going on. Additionally those “chemicals”/plant food your trying to flush out of the buds never got inside the buds in the first place. Flushing is important to prevent those salts from locking out your plant! Ultimate jeopardizing your bud quality dramatically! But seeing as though you haven’t locked out yet, just don’t feed! And start flush right away, then harvest the whole plant or sections of the plant when ready, regardless of how much flushing. I would never want to spend all my time growing to have “harsh” buds at the end because I didn’t flush! But I’ve learned otherwise. The least I can do is try to clear up a little misinformation. I have also personally smoked a variety of samples during what was basically a blind test. The harshest stuff was apparently flushed heavy for two weeks. But it was also dried really fast and wasn’t cured. Basically I was smoking stuff harvest 10 days ago. On the other end. The absolute best tasting, smoothest smokin stuff was apparently fed up until harvest?!?! Must have not been much food but either way, it was cured for 3 months. From a scientific perspective, it appears to me to be mostly the chlorophyll and other constituents that break down during the cure process that also contribute to that nasty harsh almost chemical taste! Flushing is very important for the health of the plant, ESPECIALLY in late flower! Plus in late flower it doesn’t really need any more food anyways. I have had a few plants that unfortunately didn’t receive hardly any flushing and almost locked out. But I got a good harvest and after only one month of cure both me and my friends thought it was smooth and tasty. Hope these anecdotes help! Happy tokes!