diff --git a/solr/test-framework/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/AbstractFullDistribZkTestBase.java b/solr/test-framework/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/AbstractFullDistribZkTestBase.java
index 813d9e481c9..99c9aec79c2 100644
--- a/solr/test-framework/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/AbstractFullDistribZkTestBase.java
+++ b/solr/test-framework/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/AbstractFullDistribZkTestBase.java
@@ -614,6 +614,11 @@ public abstract class AbstractFullDistribZkTestBase extends AbstractDistribZkTes
   @Override
   protected void indexDoc(SolrInputDocument doc) throws IOException,
       SolrServerException {
+    
+    UpdateRequest req = new UpdateRequest();
+    req.add(doc);
+    req.setParam("CONTROL", "TRUE");
+    req.process(controlClient);
     controlClient.add(doc);
     
     // if we wanted to randomly pick a client - but sometimes they may be