It doesn't matter how long you've been growing, lol. You can do something wrong forever and not know it's wrong unless you educate yourself. No one can do that for you.
So to OP look up some of my grows here
https://www.rollitup.org/t/buddhas-dream-sin-city.861753/
https://www.rollitup.org/t/critical-dream-star.862828/
https://www.rollitup.org/t/esos-pheno-hunt.932906/
If a plant wasn't up to par or I didn't do well I say 100% what went wrong, that is how I journal things.
The whole flushing thing is hog wash. Where in nature or even in agriculture do plants get "flushed" of nitrogen? No where. No where else do farmers "flush" their consumable crops.
Dude is super knowledgeable on false 100% proven wrong old tactics but that ain't good weed.
Sorry, not seeing any difference in fact I'll keep mine....My buds are almost as big as soda can....can't see from pics....I also have huge hands...in pic with hand. I see one bud that must have tasted like crap and bet all your dried bud is dark and/or brown...lol. So you post your grows and out of three grows one group of buds (and like 1 pic...is it even yours?)..lol
Mine are bigger and more healthy and I bet you have much more money to throw at it them then me....I'm on disability and grow as a medical patient.
edit: no one is flushing Nitrogen! Tap water..especially here (high akaline) and walmart spring water has much stuff in it good for pot growing....but over time will build up deposits (crystals) at the root tips restricting upflow...the flushing washes these away increasing plants ability to uptake nutrients.
Now, in late 90's Maui would take up to 14 months for amber trichs....after three months of tap mixed with spring water (can't even use staright tap water here for pot) plant needs a flush. Seen the difference many times in growth after flush. Many use distilled water to avoid this but many micros in tap water.
However, This Maui I have now looks like a 7-8 week variety...Fem seeds...that's almost half the time it once took. You guys talked me into not flushing because gonna have such an extensive root ball (already nearly do in one) that in a few weeks gonna all be run trough anyway.
There is all this hype (getting same thing from a friend that swears by Foxfarm and he can't even grow indoors with good lights...he grows outdoors...big...with Foxfarm nutes and his pot sucks. Ya, it will get you high but yuck!). He says the same about flushing....see it's part of the scam to get a bunch of idiots hooked on a schedule of additives....costing a small fortune....and screwing up genetics....and taste like crap...not to mention the yet unlearned aspect of all else you people smoke with your additives!
A fool and his money are soon parted! If you want to believe all this hype about additives (and no flushing..how else they gonna schedule you up to last week...lol). Ya, my Foxfarm friend claims the same about flushing and claims..."oh ya, they make stuff to add that will increase trichs and resin"...LMAO.
You are the one missing out as is proven that extending feeding into late flower can cause trichs to not ever turn amber on some strains (and that's natural?!?!)...and bud size is increased when plant is allowed to extract what it needs from the leaves to make the buds...you however are feeding yours so no (or little) storehouse is taken from leaves making for smaller buds (I also know this from my own experience using nutes).
This is first time in my life I have ever cropped marijuana....I grew exclusively whole one cola plants (5+ feet) in 5 gal buckets for many years. I have to keep em low now and cropping is the way to do it but am still trying to find that best size (with regard to veg) so I will get better as some I only veg 3 weeks and crop twice in that time at 24 hr light and stick em in 12/12. These Maui are first i veg full 30 days so earlier are smaller than I would like but small plants make smaller buds. My closet shelf (where I hang my lights from) limits my vertical growth so have to be careful for bleaching. I do construction so may just take it out but packed to ceiling with stuff for now so...
Mine still looks better and didn't see much pics in first two grows of mature plants so not sure why you posted em. Hydro should grow bigger than my soil (and quicker) so hard to compare hydro to soil but still I see I'm the better grower until I see more bud pics!
This brainwashing conspiracy to get all the newbie growers hooked on additives is a scam for your money. It isn't helping your plants. Ya, they will grow....and look and taste like crap dried.
I have bought from many dispensaries in Colorado (mostly in Denver) and never bought any dark, crappy tasting pot. Most is lime green (ya, light green)..not dark like yours dried. Why do you suppose the dispensary doesn't sell dark pot....because the growers know what they are doing! You don't! Get a clue and get off the additive schedule train!