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PlastekShark
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Yeah, these NL really fill out!!! 
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PlastekShark
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Welllll, pretty sure the bump up has cause a full on lockout. Gonna flush with reg water pH of 5.8
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I think I gave myself a salt buildup and locked out my nutes. So hopefully running this distilled water at 5.8 will help clear things up. I'll start back on 1/4 strength nutes and go up from there! She has a little time left so hopefully it's not too late!! Feeling a little defeated, I'll admit.
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@InTheShed @Emilya would running a gallon of distilled water through the medium be enough? 3gal.pots 70/30 coco/perlite
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I am not sure what the rule is for coco, sorry.
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No worries! I ran the gallon through earlier. Had quite a large amount drain through. I might run one more just to help. Then start up nutes at 1/4 strength. Live and learn
Sorry I'm late! For the future, I would go with a PPM meter for coco (I have used it during flushing ProMIx as well to see when I was close to neutral).
Keep checking runoff PPM until it's close to you water in PPM. Also, since you're feeding immediately after flushing, I don't think you need to pH the flush water. I also would go with full strength nutes after rather than ¼ strength.
Keep checking runoff PPM until it's close to you water in PPM. Also, since you're feeding immediately after flushing, I don't think you need to pH the flush water. I also would go with full strength nutes after rather than ¼ strength.
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Yeah, I have the PPM meter and couldn't find the little bugger. Once I did, I checked flush water....1800 PPM Yikes! Exactly how much liquid should runoff when watering? Maybe I'm not getting enough, and that's what gave me the buildup?
I think it's always good to water coco to runoff, like real runoff. Not dribbles. How much in percentages I don't know, but probably 8 ounces would be the low end.
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Yeah, I definitely wasn't letting enough get through then.
