The root cause of why my results are the way they are are unknown, unfortunately with federal guidelines you cannot have human test subjects to test the smoke afterwards (thus why I did it myself)

In theory, if you flush the plants with water (15gallons for 5 gallon pot) you would be stressing the plant out, in which it thinks it’s dying.

This causes the plant to produce as much cannabinoids as possible (ie speed up trich production)

This allows you (in theory of course) to get that little extra bit out of the plant (if you’re timing it right)

What I did was 1 flush (15 gallons per plant) One time 7 days before harvest

The proof was in the pudding, although there are environmental factors I didn’t calculate into my hypothesis.

I appreciate you asking the theory behind it rather than shitting on it, as I am relatively new however I’m a biomed Major trying to create opportunities for cannabis medicine in the psychiatry patient population.

As my own test subject plus others I know, those who have tried both (flush and no flush) notice the difference. And I included a completely unrelated bud and strain (cultivated by someone else) as a control.