Using Budswell for flavor at flush time?

Has anyone any experince using Budswell in the flush water to add taste and aroma.

I posted this over on the Newbie Forum which being a newbie I though was good. Should maybe have posted it here first. We learn.

Sounds bass ackawards to me, but my kid/grow buddy/brain trust has a friend that does this and wants to try it.

Thoughts please?

the whole point of flushing is to REMOVE excess salts, not to add more.
if anything, adding nutes during the final flush will leave you with with harsh, sharp weed that burns to a dark ash.

ClamDigger said:

the whole point of flushing is to REMOVE excess salts, not to add more.
if anything, adding nutes during the final flush will leave you with with harsh, sharp weed that burns to a dark ash.

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False. Yes your removing salts but you shouldn't need to if your not over feeding your girl. Flush in the last 3-4 days imo. or no flush . Try it, Ive gotten no crackle and great tasting harsh free bud no flush at all with the correct dry/cure. WTF does sharp weed even mean. If your bud is burning to "dark ash" Its not fucking dry yet.

I'm half way between these two posts, because I think that the flush is to remove ferts from the final product to IMPROVE flavor by getting the miracle grow (just an example) out of the plant. I'm not really sure how adding nutes right at the end would benefit flavor, as they hardly ever do (reason hydro weed is generally not as strong tasting), but theoretically they shouldn't harm either providing you use a low concentration.

I never flush and mine taste just as good as someones who flushes.. bah hum bug!

If you use molasses in flower i flush is a good idea, blackstrap molasses needs a good week long flush to clear out IMO

yeah,, I have tryed a flush on one and no flush on another back in my first grow,,and honestly the only difference I found was the flushing one's pistels(excuse any bad spelling) turned amber faster(the flush was 10 days,) so you could see the plants ratio of amber to white and growing to receeded pistels was different,making the flushed one look more 'finished' before chop,,but they both got roughly the same weigth,,the no-flushed weight more wet but dried to roughly the same,,
the finshed dry product was one(the flushed one) took alittle less time to dry,ha maybe a day or so less,,was all dried in the same box on dry lines but found no distinctive taste or effect difference. It was all the same strain and grown in same medium,both chopped after 12-14hrs darkness to help remove startches from the buds. sorry take from that what you will..
,,with this batch I will be trying an extended dark period and a final flush(more a leach of the soil) in the final 2-3 days and then no water to try to decrease water/moisture content when harvested,,,

but yeah,, Budswell is just a flashy name for bat poo,seaweed and bird poo,,, Any of the grow or bloom bat guanos would work the same so i dnt know if I would use it when the idea of a flush is to remove any nutes and not add any,,,

rasvial said:

I'm half way between these two posts, because I think that the flush is to remove ferts from the final product to IMPROVE flavor by getting the miracle grow (just an example) out of the plant. I'm not really sure how adding nutes right at the end would benefit flavor, as they hardly ever do (reason hydro weed is generally not as strong tasting), but theoretically they shouldn't harm either providing you use a low concentration.

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I believe that when you flush, you’re just flushing the nutrients out the soil, not the plant. With no nutes in the soil, the plant transfers mobile macros from the fan leaves and other parts of the plant to feed it’s self (Cannibalization), Causing leaves to turn yellow from lack of nutes.

The human body does the same thing when it goes into starvation mode and feeds off of fat, and then muscle. I’m sure in nature, this happens to most living things. Nature’s way of self preservation.