Quote Originally Posted by Opie Yutts
My understanding is that you flush if you don't want to smoke chemicals, which may affect the taste. Flushing has dissadvantages as well as advantages.

Consider:
- If something alive has no food, it eats itself. I assume this must be detrimental to development.
- What you flush with may affect taste.
- If you don't flush you may taste chemicals.
- If you are worried about chemicals you could always just go organic the last week or two, but that probably affects taste too.

I assume any change in the plants' diet may affect taste. I also assume plants grown in 1 soil mix may taste different than a clone of that plant grown in a different soil mix.

Personally, I grow in hydro and I've never flushed. As far as I know, I've never had a nutrient related headache.

Opie Yutts -

You don't want to smoke chlorophyll or maybe you do but the rest of us don't. The purpose is not only to flush out the man made nutrients from the plant but also to also force the plant to burn up stored food and use up the stored chlorophyll.

Even if you grow 100% organic you still need to flush or you will taste the organic compound. Like Bat shit or bird shit or fish shit nobody wants to smoke that either. If you don't flush then you are smoking more chlorophyll and plant matter then trichomes.

Now if all you do is make hash the old school way then you can get by with out flushing. You are not smoking the plant you are only removing the trichomes.

Flushing improves the overall taste you either flush with a commercial flushing product designed for just that purpose or just use Ph adjusted water period. You don't piss on them you don't use orange juice or anything else to flush.

It takes 8-12 day's for a plant to change life cycle so in the time the plant is flushed then no effect on the health. It only takes 3-5 day's to do a proper flush in hydro anyway. What about the point you are cutting the plant with in a matter of a few days.

There are proper waysâ??s to grow and tread this plant and there are wrong ways.

Hang around here long enough and you can learn the right way to grow and finish our beloved plant.