Making It Rain
I am using a 1 gallon container as my example here. So you will have to adjust to the size of container your using!
When I start a seed I wait till about week two before I start Making It Rain (MIR). In the beginning I just flush 1 gallon of 5.8-6.0pH water NO NUTES!!! Since most soils have nutes in them to carry them through the early stages of growing.
When its time to intro Nutes to my seedling I will take 2 gallons of tap water and pH it to 5.8-6.0. Then I will pour 2 gallon of pH water through the plant and wait 15 minutes and then I will take 1 gallon of my nute mix and after mixing my nutes I pH the nute mix to 6.5pH and pour that all through the plant. Now your plant will get all droopy and thats nothing to worry about. After a day or two your plant will have new growth and will be perking up. See when you flood your medium like this it puts the plant to sleep preserving energy so when it wakes up it starts wickering everything out of the medium, like in survival mode.
Now after I do this for the 1st time with a plant, the next time that the plant needs to be watered I just make 1 gallon of my nute mix and pH it to 6.5 and pour it all in the plant.
After that feeding and its time for another watering I MIR and this time I take 1 gallon of 5.8pH water and pour it through the plants medium and wait 15 minutes and then I take my nute mix and pH it to 6.5 and pour that through the plant's medium.
Prior to going into Flowering I will take 2 gallons of 5.8-6.0 pH water and then 1 gallon of nute mix pH at 6.5.
So yes I feed nutes every single time my plant needs water. So I do mini flushes every other feeding.
Now this is different from the way RM3 does it. It seems to be working out just fine for me and my plants. Just keep in mind that its a pain in the ass to do and is a lot of work but you will be rewarded at the end. I never grew anything that was in a container larger than 3 gallons. That was a bitch MIR in a 3 gallon bucket cause I was flushing 6 to 9 gallons of water and then 3 gallons of nutes! But all my soil plants LOVED IT!!!!
A lot of people panic when doing this cause the plants will droop but after a day or two later you will see how much they like it!!!
Now for CoCo I do the same thing but I pH my nute mix to 5.9-6.2. I still use 5.8 pH water to flush!!!!
Hope you understand my version of MIR.
If you want to read RM3's version you can find it here:
https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/316301-calling-all-noob-growers.html
Its a must read IMO!!! That dude is a master at what he does!!!
Peace
BKB