Tough love is tough! Sometimes people need a kick in the butt to get their head screwed back on straight.
Which is what I had said before ie. "why does this pot taste so bad"/"taste like that?"
"Because that's how it tastes, which is harsh and not good, and burning on your throat. Don't expect that to ever change no matter how much you rob your plant of nutrients at the end of it's life cycle."
They aren't shit but they also aren't smooth UNLESS they actually are... Which is unless you selected clones from seed that are, or was given one that is
I been growing the same shit since before I started posting on these forums, and it hasn't been any different in any real regard.
All the factors that people say are the most important (flush like this for XYZ days in this manner, cure like this for XYZ days in this manner, etc., etc), I've found are bullshit. And it makes sense too, because everyone you ask always has a different method or different opinion, and theirs is always of course best.
All the stuff they aren't telling you, they don't know, and don't focus on, that's the real shit to worry about and focus on. Feeding, lights, environment, and your genetics. We know these parameters, and they haven't changed for years now. But we want to ignore them in favor of something else.
If you have to flush to get smell to come out in your strains, you're probably not doing something properly (like burning the shit out of your plants with TOO much ferts, and thus you have to flush to remove some... Well course you aren't getting any taste, your plants are in a constant state of nutrient lockout from over fertilizing)... At least that'd be my opinion in regards as to what's going on and why you are incurring the results that you are.
Cause, that's another first one on me that I've ever heard rofl "you gotta flush your plants to get the smell/taste to come out/come back".. I mean.. Jesus... I gotta be honest with you, nobody has to or should have to do that... If you are getting burnt plant taste, you are doing something wrong, have harsh tasting plants, aren't trimming properly, etc., etc.
Ok I get what your saying. If your genetics don't taste good they never will. Agreed.
Well maybe I wasn't clear about the taste difference with flush. There is less chlorophyll in a flushed bud. The longer you flush the more pale it will get. I don't think chlorophyll tastes all that great.
So let me clarify. I could get the exact same taste with no flush and a longer cure.
Or I can flush two weeks and it is smooth and better than most at 8 days post harvest! Why would I want to cure for 30-40 days when I don't have to?
Why do we cure bud? To break down chlorophyll so it is not so harsh right?
Well I choose to reduce the chlorophyll by flushing and hardly need a cure for really smooth smoking flowers. Chlorophyll is the only thing I care about. I don't care what color the damn ash is if it tastes great and smokes smooth.
Weed in a jar don't pay the electric bill lol.