I've been following your lead with the occasional straight water flush. I had been feeding 2 gal of nutrient mix every 2 days... for the last 6 weeks. That shit was getting old, and I was getting lazy & broke from buying little "refills" of nutes. I'm just limping by with what i got until this group is done.Monday update! It was a busy weekend and I only got a nap on Saturday. On the plus side, we did go see Yesterday on Saturday night, which was better than I thought it was going to be. If you're interested, go see it. If not, it's not a must-see.
I spent a lot of time clearing the ProMix of any old nutes and ions, which takes a lot of time and a lot of water, especially given how many plants I have. I started with the flowering three, and I discovered how heavy those pots really are when they are completely soaked. I obviously don't water enough, because I could barely lift the BC in the 10 gallon when I was done! ProMix HP is really high porosity, as the water runs right though it, but it does retain enough to make a 10 gallon pot basically un-carryable. This was Saturday morning:
I soon got smart and put a bucket underneath, so I could reuse the runoff to water the rest of the planting bed.
I'm not going to bore you with before-and-after pics of the TDS meter, but I cleared them down to within 200 PPM of tap and then fed them 5.5g/gallon, probably 3-4 gallons per plant when I was finished with tap water.
By this morning I could easily carry the 7g's and managed the 10g as well. Interestingly enough, there was new pistil growth on all three, particularly on the Berry Bomb. Here are some pics.
Berry Bomb:
AK-47:
Bedroom Cookies:
Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it's still quite an interesting coincidence that I'm happy with.
The rest of the plants got cleared with a bit less water and therefore without nutes at the end. Between this weekend and this morning I think I got them all except Sour G, and I'll do that one tomorrow.
Speaking of Sour G, I thinned it and the summer AK-47 this weekend.
Sour G:
I kept cuttings of this in case I never get roots on the caterpillar-eaten cuttings from last time. Everything else from that batch has roots.
And here is the summer AK-47 (in need of water...this was before I cleared the substrate):
I have cuttings of this as well, as the ones I was rooting in the cup weren't coming along as intended. I blame warmer water temp.
You may notice I left a lot of lower fans even though I took a lot of branches. It was because of what Graytail said last week:
A pear on the counter had a 4-leaf clover:
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And I got this email this Sunday...am I being tracked?
That was my weekend. I'll spend the next two days catching on with how yours went. I hope that's okay. It's not easy for me to get online on the weekends any more.
Anywhoo... started flushing with straight water, until I had good runoff, every other watering. Basically alternating feed or water til runoff every 2 days.
I haven't seen any negative reaction yet. I can only image what kind of crap has been built up in this coco. LoL
Plants look STUNNING as usual!
Sour G & AK seem to be very happy with the new haircuts. Sexy ladies!
That sounds like one hell of a cross, and she sure looks like a keeper!
), but they will at least be able to give up their carbs to the rest of the plant on their way out.
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