hmm, sitting at work reading RIU - all those people preharvest flushing and cutting the feeding on last 7-14 days. People who could bet their fortune that flushing makes it cleaner, tastier and healthier than without.
Well ok, everybody believe in something, there's no ONE truth in the world. But that made me compare my last two harvests.
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My first C99 grow:
10 days to harvest I cut the feeding and started flushing at some point. All the leaves went yellow, most of them dropped. I was so happy, cause I thought that's how it's supposed to be.
After I harvested, dried the buds and started smoking, me and my wife after every toke were making sour faces because of the... well how to describe it better - when you do not cut road weed before winter and then if gets covered with snow, then in the spring when the snow melts, there is a very specific smell, so that weed tasted just like that.
I was afraid that it had mold or I did something wrong, but there were no signs of it and after 2 weeks that taste started to go away and after a month mj tasted like mj. I googled that chlorophyll needs to evaporate.
Now my 2nd c99 grow:
I did not do any flushing, I did not cut the feeding. On a harvest day I cut all those leaves all green (what left from them lol) then dried for a week and dropped into a jar with boveda humidipak for another week.
The taste was very colorful and resin sweet from the beginning.
And I did not even bother to burp the jar, opened maybe two times just to double check whether there are no mold or moisture collecting somewhere.
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now I harvested only two plants and both were of the same strain so it's way too little to start making assumptions but I kind of have a feeling that it all depends on the way you cure them...
And also by making fan leaves yellow you are not necessarily making buds cleaner. Cause that energy and elements gets transported from fan leaves to where they are needed most - buds. So if that's the case, if all the Ns and Ps are moved from fan leaves to buds anyway so then I am wondering does the flushing do anything else but stress the plant?
I guess if that would be some pests spray I was applying to get rid of i.e. mites, maybe I would be afraid of and would want to wash it before smoking, but roots do not uptake hamburgers, they pick elements they need from whatever you throw at them..
it's just the way I see it now, I hope in few years of studying and learning I will know, not ass'u'me
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