dawook4420
Active Member
Not having any problems (knock on wood) so much as I'm just trying to expand my limited knowledge.
I'm a new grower. My plants are a little over two weeks into flower and looking great. I understand that 7-10 days before I harvest I need to flush my soil to help get the taste of the nutrients out of the buds. But I think my understanding of what it means to "flush" the soil is wrong. My understanding is that flushing the soil just means to run a bunch of water through the soil to flush out any lingering nutrients. I'm curious to know if my understanding is right and how this differs from the watering routine I'm doing now.
Just a little background ... I have no idea what the strain is. They were random seeds that came from a bag six months ago. I'm growing them in Fox Farms Happy Frog with nothing else mixed in. I use GO Box nutes, 1/2 the recommended dosages and the plants are in 3 gallon Air-pots. When I first transplanted them I was watering/feeding every 3 days. I would feed twice and then water once, 1/2 gallon per plant which gave me considerable runoff. I use tap water left out for a few days to evaporate the chlorine. The tap water starts at a 7.0 pH. When I add nutes it drops to 5.0 so I use pH Up to raise it to 6.5, but that's only when using nutes. When giving plain water I don't adjust the pH at all.
Shortly before switching to 12/12 I noticed the plants were looking thirsty after 2 days, so I switched to water/feed every other day, alternating feed and plain water every other time. I give them 1/3 gallon of water now and I get very little runoff. After maybe 3 or 4 weeks of this routine I've seen no signs of over/under watering, no signs of nute burn/deficiencies. As I said, all is good. Hopefully it stays that way.
So my plan is to keep on this routine until 1-2 weeks before harvesting and then I'll give nothing but plain water, thus "flushing" the soil. Again, I think my understanding of "flushing" is off. So if anyone can shed some light on this, I would much appreciate it. I am also open to any other suggestions based on the info I provided. Being a newbie I'll take all the suggestions I can get.
Thanks everyone! Sorry for the long post! Here's a pic of my girls from a few days ago. So far so good, right?
Oh, and by the way ... I'm growing under a 600 Watt LED with an actual draw of 240 Watts (I think).
I'm a new grower. My plants are a little over two weeks into flower and looking great. I understand that 7-10 days before I harvest I need to flush my soil to help get the taste of the nutrients out of the buds. But I think my understanding of what it means to "flush" the soil is wrong. My understanding is that flushing the soil just means to run a bunch of water through the soil to flush out any lingering nutrients. I'm curious to know if my understanding is right and how this differs from the watering routine I'm doing now.
Just a little background ... I have no idea what the strain is. They were random seeds that came from a bag six months ago. I'm growing them in Fox Farms Happy Frog with nothing else mixed in. I use GO Box nutes, 1/2 the recommended dosages and the plants are in 3 gallon Air-pots. When I first transplanted them I was watering/feeding every 3 days. I would feed twice and then water once, 1/2 gallon per plant which gave me considerable runoff. I use tap water left out for a few days to evaporate the chlorine. The tap water starts at a 7.0 pH. When I add nutes it drops to 5.0 so I use pH Up to raise it to 6.5, but that's only when using nutes. When giving plain water I don't adjust the pH at all.
Shortly before switching to 12/12 I noticed the plants were looking thirsty after 2 days, so I switched to water/feed every other day, alternating feed and plain water every other time. I give them 1/3 gallon of water now and I get very little runoff. After maybe 3 or 4 weeks of this routine I've seen no signs of over/under watering, no signs of nute burn/deficiencies. As I said, all is good. Hopefully it stays that way.
So my plan is to keep on this routine until 1-2 weeks before harvesting and then I'll give nothing but plain water, thus "flushing" the soil. Again, I think my understanding of "flushing" is off. So if anyone can shed some light on this, I would much appreciate it. I am also open to any other suggestions based on the info I provided. Being a newbie I'll take all the suggestions I can get.
Thanks everyone! Sorry for the long post! Here's a pic of my girls from a few days ago. So far so good, right?
Oh, and by the way ... I'm growing under a 600 Watt LED with an actual draw of 240 Watts (I think).
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