Flushing question

[Captain Beefheart]

oh hurry up BTW before ewe kill it.

[Autogrower420]

in soil you dont need to adjust PH and you really wanna get in a cycle of water, feed, water.

id just stick to plain warm water for a few waterings now mate

Cheers will do from now!

[Autogrower420]

what size pot is it in ?

15 or 18 litre can’t remember off the top of my head

[Autogrower420]

oh hurry up BTW before ewe kill it.

Haha yeah it got fed plain phd water today!

[Josh]

I agree with gmo, that's what I would do

[Glynne420]

oh hurry up BTW before ewe kill it.

Haha yeah it got fed plain phd water today!

Dont change the PH of your water mate. ..you dont need to in soil, by PHing your water you will upset the microherd.
Just leave your water to stand for 24 hours before adding nutes and water...
Dont feed every watering cos those plants are really overfed.
I would flush them with at least 3x the pot size of plain non ph'ed water and and maybe even dont feed the next watering either.. you need to get the built up feed out of the soil and let them use up excess nutes they have stored.
Forget about using any feed guide on any nutes exept for a really rough guide, the plants will show you when you need to feed.
Are you using a light soil or pre feed soil? Did you feed from the start.
I find that less is more.


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[Neilw420]

What light is this under? Dark green and behind could mean it needs more light, I’d ramp the light up if that was mine so it uses up some of the nutes already in her whilst feeding phed water

[seymore_budz]

Interesting that everyone is saying flush with plain water. I always thought when flushing to correct, you flush with nutrient rich solution that matches the desired PPM. Then flush away until the runoff matches. I'm told this is the fastest route to recovery and eliminates osmotic stress on a plant that is probably already stressing. When using salt based fertilizers anyway. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts guys?

[seymore_budz]

Interesting that everyone is saying flush with plain water. I always thought when flushing to correct, you flush with nutrient rich solution that matches the desired PPM. Then flush away until the runoff matches. I'm told this is the fastest route to recovery and eliminates osmotic stress on a plant that is probably already stressing. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts guys?

I think flushing excess ferts out of the medium requires plain water, then a feed to finish off with.

Flushing to correct a deficiency, again I'd run the medium through till clear of any salts and ferts, and then start a fresh with a dose of feed and any ammendments.

What's in the plant is there to stay, no flushing will get rid of that (again another topic for discussion, to flush at end of flower or not to flush?) .

What the aim of the game is, is to set the medium to zero and then add what the plant needs, flushing with nute rich solution will make some reactions happen in the medium and someunwanted ferts/salts may hang around longer than you want.


But

So I read that the chelating agent in the nutrients actually pull salts out of the media quicker than plain water? Yea man I talking strictly corrective flushing and not flushing to finish plants off.

I had quite an interesting discussion with a few guys years ago. The argument for flushing at the end from this one commercial guy made sense. He said he flushes at the end to stress the plant. It's not removing salts but triggers hormonal changes in the plant and the plant ripens evenly thus improving the overall quality.