Wastei
Well-Known Member
If you need to flush your plant when harvest comes you've overfed, it's that simple. You can't flush minerals out of the plants tissues and if you do like many growers do and flush with plain water your plant will try to hold on to its minerals to keep osmotic pressure in the plants tissue. Complete opposite of what you're trying to achieve!Depends on why you want to flush. You did not mention what you are growing in; natural soil, coco mix, hydro as examples. The others have mentioned flushing will have little effect on removing removing or adding to the taste.
Flushing is often recommended for plants being fed with processed fertilizers that produce a salt buildup over several weeks. These salts in the medium can cause a slowdown of both the growth and the plant being able to absorb what it needs.
It sounds like you are on course to what you want. Several more weeks and when the vast majority of the trichomes on the buds are milky colored it will be time to harvest. The more amber colored trichomes on the buds then the more likely that you will end up with a 'couch-lock' harvest.
The plant need to keep water and uses minerals and amino acids to hold on to it. There's no water in plain form in either humans or plants, it needs minerals and amino acids to bind where it's supposed to go.