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:smoking: Cheers mates, thank you! ..good point Oldcoot, I did forget to mention, the flush time should be accounted for when estimating harvest time,.... if you flush with a clearing agent, you can reduce the time that's just watering... around here at least, we make a distinction between flush, and cleanse.... flush refers to just that, a literal medium purge using water in large quantities, typically 3 times the pot volume, or more depending on how heavily you fed, and done fast, 20 min max, so as to not cause too much stress from being water logged/smothered-- this retards gas exchange... then a dry-out period after saturating the soil so heavily.... cleanse is just a period of several days when all you do is water, no nuthin' going in... the idea for both is to let the plant deplete it's final reserves of certain nutes, which in excess, will mess up flavor and smoothness of the smoke,... (plants can store lots of certain nutes, like N, P,..., sometimes more than they need)... flushing agent help knock loose bound up nute ions from medium particles, freeing them for the plant to take up, or get washed away,... I try to get my girls on the dry side by harvest too, to lower in-plant water content and speed drying a bit!....