is flushing a noob tactic?

[Wolverine97]

it will always hold it perlite holds nutrients an releases it soon as water hits it perlite is a sponge and there fore once you feed your plants the sponge type perlite will absorb the nutes then it drys up but once water touches perlite it will release the nutrients it had and so on

The only places that perlite holds anything are the open pores on its surface, it does not hold nutrients well.

 

[Wetdog]

The only places that perlite holds anything are the open pores on its surface, it does not hold nutrients well.

Amazing what we can learn here, eh? LOL

Wet

 

[DrFever]

pores like drilling for oil oil comes from poreious rock formation so if you think perlite doesnt it will still hold nutes

actually my next feeding 1400 ppm i will gather all my perlite i can find in my soil next day and place it in a glass but prior to doin this i will recalibrate my meter, then test water 250ml see what it reads add my perlite i gathered then like stirring coffee i will check ppm of perlite and water solution you think i will see any gains

 

[tomahawk2406]

drowning roots starts chemical breakdowns in the plant. i heard you should flush for the fact that it starts your curing process before you even cut the bud off the plant.

 

[riddleme]

As the grower that introduced the drowning technique to this forum, I would say some of you have some readin to do

https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/409622-truth-about-flushing.html

 

[Kevdank]

some places have alot of chlorine in the water which when applied to soil creats salt and alot of it so if u dont have the drops to get all the chlorine out of the water, chances are u are gonna have salt built up and need to flush it all out on a regular biweekly period

if your using tap water for weed your a noob, clean water is 25 cents a gallon, cmon now dont be cheap

 

[408RAIDER]

Lugging water around might be a good option if you only have a plant or two. What if you have 30 or 40 plants?

if your using tap water for weed your a noob, clean water is 25 cents a gallon, cmon now dont be cheap

 

[DrFever]

or 50 - 60

 

[408RAIDER]

nice dude.. Do you haul water around? Im thinking about getting a R.O. filter for my next run..

 

[stumps]

if your using tap water for weed your a noob, clean water is 25 cents a gallon, cmon now dont be cheap

Sorry but this is just plain stupid. MJ has been grown without filtered water for a long long. Wait, long long long time.

 

[DrFever]

i am one of them that haul water around ) but yet again i like gettin up an personal with my girls )

 

[Kevdank]

Sorry but this is just plain stupid. MJ has been grown without filtered water for a long long. Wait, long long long time.

actually a long long long time ago people didnt chlorinate the water sooooooooooooooo......... i dont know where your going with that

 

[408RAIDER]

i am one of them that haul water around ) but yet again i like gettin up an personal with my girls )

Nice.. Just curious how much water do you use weekly? Also whats your opinion on RO filters?

 

[Kevdank]

Lugging water around might be a good option if you only have a plant or two. What if you have 30 or 40 plants?

your very right, if you have a warehouse full of plants it might make it a little more difficult

 

[DrFever]

i use 200 litres in 8 days 50 gallon imperial gallons i guess 4 to 6 hr job start to finish that includes a few beer breaks an smoke , also food mixing

i mean 50 gallons per watering every 7 - 8 days

 

[408RAIDER]

Dr.
All by hand that's awesome dude. I use a drip system but I still have to get back there and Hand feed sometimes.. I'm going ebb and flow next time.

 

[DrFever]

drip system scares me as getting plugged etc thinking my self as makin some sort of resiviour that can hold water have it level and have a massive surge of water in all corners and bottom feed my girls with a metering system

 

[408RAIDER]

 

[stumps]

actually a long long long time ago people didnt chlorinate the water sooooooooooooooo......... i dont know where your going with that

guess the point was there is nothing wrong with tap water. Chlorine is not a problem if you let it sit for a little while. I don't even have chlorine in my tap water. You should see the water out of the river I use in the summer. chlorine is the least of the worries. Even with that crap water my plants grow big and strong. mater of fact, I don't even have to use nutes when I use river water.

 

[Kevdank]

guess the point was there is nothing wrong with tap water. Chlorine is not a problem if you let it sit for a little while. I don't even have chlorine in my tap water. You should see the water out of the river I use in the summer. chlorine is the least of the worries. Even with that crap water my plants grow big and strong. mater of fact, I don't even have to use nutes when I use river water.

thats cus river water contains minerals and nutrients absorbed from the ground and rocks. My point I guess is that now in our technologically advanced age, we have the ability to use pure water that contains nothing but H2O, so you can precisely tune the amount of nutes you put in down to the parts per million, so tap water is inferior, yes it can work, but there are much better alternatives nowadays. this isnt the stone age anymore so why grow such an important crop like it is.