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Rpratt

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What is more important during a flush? Number of clean gallons through, or achieving desired PPM levels, even if half the suggested amount of water was used.
 
FastFreddi

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As the saying goes these days op...flushing is best left to toilets.
In all seriousness, as stated above, the old myth has been debunked.
Good luck.
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canadiantoker420

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xtsho said:
Feed your plants properly from start to finish. No flushing required.
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I always run probly 1/6 liters of what the medium is for transition to bloom and again few weeks out but ur rite it’s no good to soak ur medium down for that long, no need for it
 
canadiantoker420

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xtsho said:
Feed your plants properly from start to finish. No flushing required.
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U think it’s better off to always do regular feeding all the way through no matter what, or go a lil lighter when u run nutes oppose to a straight watering? Just a question
 
xtsho

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canadiantoker420 said:
U think it’s better off to always do regular feeding all the way through no matter what, or go a lil lighter when u run nutes oppose to a straight watering? Just a question
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I always run nutes lighter than most. Some of the nute companies will have you frying your plants if you follow their feeding charts. That's one of the reasons so many people post pictures of plants with crispy fried leaves and so many comment on how good they look when in fact they look like crap. There is an entire generation of new growers that don't seem to know what a healthy plant looks like.

I grow mainly in coco so I never feed plain water. But I run low strength nutes and just taper them down at the end. I even use Blumats and have no runoff and still harvest healthy plants and they do not taste like nutrients which is just stoner science. In soil which I have recently been doing more of I run no more than half strength nutes and don't start until a couple weeks into flower. And then I only feed every couple of waterings. Plants stay healthy. Most people are overfeeding their plants and the only reason to run a bunch of water through the soil is to remove all the excess stuff they've been dumping into it making it a bad environment for the plant. It does nothing to flush anything out of the plant.
 
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Thanks guys. I had to proceed to find out where I’m at. I feed about 600-700 PPM, flushed and it was at about 530. I don’t think it’s too terribly salty in there, so I’ll let them dry out from here.
 
canadiantoker420

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xtsho said:
I always run nutes lighter than most. Some of the nute companies will have you frying your plants if you follow their feeding charts. That's one of the reasons so many people post pictures of plants with crispy fried leaves and so many comment on how good they look when in fact they look like crap. There is an entire generation of new growers that don't seem to know what a healthy plant looks like.

I grow mainly in coco so I never feed plain water. But I run low strength nutes and just taper them down at the end. I even use Blumats and have no runoff and still harvest healthy plants and they do not taste like nutrients which is just stoner science. In soil which I have recently been doing more of I run no more than half strength nutes and don't start until a couple weeks into flower. And then I only feed every couple of waterings. Plants stay healthy. Most people are overfeeding their plants and the only reason to run a bunch of water through the soil is to remove all the excess stuff they've been dumping into it making it a bad environment for the plant. It does nothing to flush anything out of the plant.
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I hear u man, I been growing for 13 years in the great outdoors n learned sum pile in the process u are right about nutrients it’s good to feed in regulation and to read your plants beforehand to know and not do a double feeding when ur plant is happy and beginning to look good off the first shot hahah sum go nuts with 10 diff nutes at once jus loving the outcome too eh lol..these r my babies 3 small ones r kera seed blue cheese, other two Barney’s farm strains-3 gorilla zkittlez 3 8ball kush. Day 36 veg big ones, 27 for the smaller ones (from sprout) hopefully they switch to flower tmrw n I see pistils cuz I flipped em 12/12 like 48-60 hrs ago probly.. how long is the timeframe for em to flip over indoors if there fairly healthy n everything going okay like mine r??
 

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xtsho said:
I always run nutes lighter than most. Some of the nute companies will have you frying your plants if you follow their feeding charts. That's one of the reasons so many people post pictures of plants with crispy fried leaves and so many comment on how good they look when in fact they look like crap. There is an entire generation of new growers that don't seem to know what a healthy plant looks like.

I grow mainly in coco so I never feed plain water. But I run low strength nutes and just taper them down at the end. I even use Blumats and have no runoff and still harvest healthy plants and they do not taste like nutrients which is just stoner science. In soil which I have recently been doing more of I run no more than half strength nutes and don't start until a couple weeks into flower. And then I only feed every couple of waterings. Plants stay healthy. Most people are overfeeding their plants and the only reason to run a bunch of water through the soil is to remove all the excess stuff they've been dumping into it making it a bad environment for the plant. It does nothing to flush anything out of the plant.
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Your bang on there buddy.. outdoors you wanna go with 30+ gal a hole/pot for any veg period longer than 2-2.5 mnths..shouldn’t hafto put anymore than 2 litres into a 7 gal pot that has nutrient feed in it
 
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