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That’s complete bullshit lol.
You wash it remove bugs and debris, you can’t wash chemicals or nutrients out of the plant with a bath. If you’ve got literal fertilizer on your plant, be more careful while watering it.
You're not washing the outside.. You're putting the plant in distilled/reverse-osmosis/otherwise clean water and forcing it to consume all of the already absorbed minerals for a week or so
https://www.leafly.com/learn/growing/marijuana-plant-maintenance/watering-flushing-cannabis-plants
Scroll down to flushing
While that is one method some growers use, it's far from a settled debate and honestly seems more like "bro science" - which the cannabis community as a whole suffers from a lot (dont get me started on the indica vs sativa nonsense). In my personal experience I've grown using both methods and seen negligible differences between the two.
Notice how there’s no scientific research to back that up?
Jeeze dude.
Flushing and Rinsing are also two vastly different things. If you mention one, but mean the other, how is anyone to know?
Either way, it’s all bullshit and has no science to back it up.
Also, think about this for half a second, if you could remove nutrients, wouldn’t that also remove the THC and Cannabanoids/terpenes? That’s the exact opposite of what you want.
No, starving the plant of ionic minerals for a day or two would not remove terpenes and cannabinoids.. What are ya smoking?
So why would it remove nutrients or fertilizer?
Lmfao.
It’s bullshit dude