Hey UB, I aint no botanical geniuss, not by a long shot but I thought the value of "flushing" was to help eliminate salt build up around the roots... And at the end of the grow a flush would help get ferts out of the bud..Is this not the case?
i second that. better off to use google and just throw rollitup in the search line with ur search.
Yep and that's about it.
if you a patient man i would leave the leaves on and just do a mulitple harrvest. cut off the top colas when they are ripe and trim the branches down to expose the less mature bud. let it stay in flowering and a week later harvest more. IMO this workes better than just trimming leaves and harvesting at the same time. this way you dont loose any growth from the top buds. it seems to me when you trim the top shade leaves to let light hit the bottom it does balance the size out but the top colas dont really get much bigger. so from what i understand your just transfering the growing to the lower branches vs a multiple harvest where you let all of the bud mature to its max potential.
That's called "leaching", a different practice and for a different outcome than "flushing". There are no fertilizers in bud, only elemental ions.
BTW, such threads are a dime a dozen. For instance - https://www.rollitup.org/advanced-marijuana-cultivation/367996-pruning-when-do-you-take-11.html