Why are you flushing to begin with?I am flushing my plants with 6.5pH water, runoff water is around 8pH, what should I do? Keep flushing them with 6.5 over days/weeks until runoff is 6.5, or lower flushing water pH to 5.0 etc?
Well you can't keep flushing them indefinitely. Plants need to dry out. Constantly saturated soil is not good. Also, runoff is not an accurate way to test PH at the root zone which is what matters. Just feed them plain water for awhile. Dumping a bunch of 5.0 PH water through your pots could do more harm than good.I have overfed them and Ph has been way too high.
Picture would help to see whats the problem.. maybe there is no toxicity/defiency problem only a ph issue but who knows if we cant see it.. so far from my experience with soil dont expect big ph swing from your soil usually takes couple days.. what type of soil are you using? More info ans pictures and hopefully well be able to get you some help before your getawayAight, thanks for the info. My plants have just went 0-100 in 3 days, lower leaves dying and upper leaves being dry and thin as smoking papers. Trying to get something done for them before my weekend trip.
Just wanted to add that when you transplant or for your next grow you should look at mixing that soil with something else more acid so the soil ph is more within the good ramge. Also you mentionned you started adding nutrient.. what was it? How much did you put? You should start at 25% recommended dose and adjust from thereDont seem like nitrogen toxicity usually your leaf would be very dark green if too much nitrogen.. droopy leaves could be due to overwatering too.. whats your watering schedule , pot size, and quantity of water you give them? I think you just have a nutrient lockout I wouldnt water with ph5.0 but ph 6.0 still within a good range and will eventually lower your ph in your soil.. soil is usually acid so at 8.0 seems pretty high to me and they arent getting all they need..