When I finish a plant off I always like to flush. Some people will say, no reason to flush with organics or veganic. Well, mabey so but the flush has a more purpose than to rid the plant of stored nutrient. If you grow your plants right, they should have already consumed a good deal of the stored nitrogen by the time finishing approaches.
When I flush veganic/organic I use lots of ice, not water. As the ice melts it slowly flushes out the soil. But that's not what I'm really after, what I really mean to do is to shock the roots, but not in the traditional sense, like 15 gallons of ice water all at once would do.
I keep the plant in the grow cab so it remains in the ambient temps it was grown in. The ice melts and gradually cools the soil and this will drastically reduce microbe activity, almost completely stop it actually. Without the microbes to assist in facilitation of nutrients, the plant futher canabalizes it's stored carbohydrates. All parts of the plant even roots have storages for nutrients. All functions and reallocation of fluids start from the root system.
Also an increase in resin is a result of the root system shutting down. The female in a last ditch effort, senses her life quickly comming to an end, and makes more resin to hopefully become pollinated. Plants have 1 main purpose and that's to make more generations. Feed and breed, period.
I'll keep adding/replacing ice for 2 days, and keep her in the grow cab under 20/4.
On the third day, I'll remove her entirely the grow cab, and from the soil, roots are washed off and I put her in a DWC with room temp water. All the while now, she is in complete darkness for 2 days.
On the 5th day, I'll towel dry the roots, and hang her upside down with the roots system still intact.
Fluid reallocation and carbohydrate canabalization still continues until the roots have completely dried and shrivel.
I also pluck all fan leaves off after they've been canabalized and are drained off any usefulness. By this time as Im sure alot of you all know, the spent fans are extremely easy to remove. They almost even just fall off with a flick of the finger.
Then it's just matter of the buds and stalks evenly drying out to make curing possible.
I like to leave a little sugar leaf shag on the buds when i manucure them. I feel that this is an added protection to the massive resin content inside.
Super clean, fragrant, frosty, potent and a finished product that contains way more total cannabinoid than the traditional harvesting method. I grow medicine, not dope.
Here's the first step with the ice.