What if, instead of flushing with distilled water, you flushed with mineral water (to retain the magnesium, etc.) during the last two weeks?
I understand your reasoning, but something just seems wrong about keeping some of these nutrients in the water all the way up to harvest. The synthetic fertilizers have crazy chemicals in them, my dog.
Have you ever had your buds crackle while smoking them? And I don't mean seeds popping—I mean a light crackling sound.
Bud wasn't properly flushed.
I don't think you've understood my point! I'm absolutely against feeding schedules, using synthetics and high concentration of nutrients in general! But even if you give only water, which I do all the time, cause my methods are exactly opposite: water all the time and only occasionally nutes, you won't get rid of salts in the soil this way!
Does it taste better, cause you've stopped pouring ridiculous amounts of fertilisers for these last weeks? Maybe, but it's impossible to say for sure without a double blind test! What will taste great for someone, will taste foul for someone else.
For me personally a synthetically grown bud will always taste of fertilisers, flushed or not. And no, my joints never crackle and my smoke is never harsh, cause everything I grow is pure and organic. No pain in the ass or worrying about the black ash, man!
Okay well, you can at least admit that if someone has already done the grow with synthetic fertilizers and scheduled feeding, it would then be desirable to give it a "flush"?
I'm sure that organic is the only way to go with the soil substrate, though—I'll agree with you there.
And I've never had the issue of crackling with bud I have grown in the past. But I don't grow now and sometimes I'll get some iffy stuff and that shit will happen. Makes me switch who I get it from.
As I said watering cannot hurt, so why not?