No you talk to some people they will tell you 2x the amount t of water compared to soil so 7 gallon pot 14 gallons to flush out everything with just ph water. Just feed em ph water it's easier and no different in my opinion
This is simply ri-fucking-diculous ! And you do this at the "huge commercial" grow you work at? Oh, wait, your an extractor for a big concentrate company? One of those I forget which, right??
Now my point is your first line - "No you talk to some people they will tell you 2x the amount t of water compared to soil so 7 gallon pot 14 gallons to flush out everything with just ph water." This is stupid and causes more problems then it's intended benefit !
"Your" solution to simply water it out from some point is doing what?
Causing the plant to use nutrients "stored" in it's self to feed it's self ?
You mean that it's reducing the nutrient level in the plant to make it taste better?
Like how does that actually work? The buds are what the plant is focusing all growth on right now correct? So then, the plant would be removing those nutrients your trying to reduce, from the leaves from all available area's and moving them TO the buds where the plant is now attempting to focus all it's energy and growth because all nutrients from the media are not available to the plant, in it's now
stressing act of final push to build seeds to actually reproduce!
Now does that mean that your smoking the leaves? Because THAT'S were the nutrient levels "WITHIN" the plant have actually been reduced! The transfer of nutrient has been going to the buds! So then, what HAVE you reduced?
Guess what that
extra "stress" to the plant is actually increasing the chance of?
Herming! Stress at the end of plant life makes plant think. "I'm not going to make it. Gotta pop nanners!"
I feel that not flushing gives me a higher quality product, and NO, Putting the plant in the dark for days before harvest does nothing as far as increasing/improving anything - another hippie myth!
There's my 2 cents along with Riddles science!