Quote Originally Posted by Chromophore
This makes sense to me, and I've never been comfortable with this notion of starving the plant during flower. I understand that many believe the nutes adversely affect flavor, but I've come across others who say this is rubbish. I've gone ahead with this protocol because many experienced growers have advised me to do it. next time around I'm going to do a sided by side comparison of feed vs no feed on two identical plants and see what the real difference is or isn't in the final product.

I can tell you hands down with a certainty chemical nutes vs organic living soil fed compost tea MAJORLY changes the taste and flavor and smell. If you look at the top growers hitting 25+ % thc and the legit growers making medicine (read: Not a commerical grow with profit being the bottom line) the majority of them are using super soil and feeding compost tea. Most the clubs wont ever put hydro grown bud as the true "top shelf" bud. Don't get me wrong, you can and people do grow great knockout fire bud hydro and with synthetics and when flushed right it tastes good.