Whats up fellow canna-lovers.
I am from the greater-flint area (although not directly connected to their water source). In the past year of my life I have had just about every major life change you can imagine, (kid, marriage, bought house, bought new car)... etc
My grow room setup went from one small 12 by 10 bedroom to two 34 by 14 rooms.
In the midst of all this chaos I forgot one of the most CRUCIAL components to having healthy, happy ladies... my water source.
A year after being in my new setup, and experiencing generally lack-luster results, I decided to get back to the basics.
Changed all my bulbs and cleaned all the glass on my air-cooled 1000 watt lights, calculated and created perfect amount of air circulation, have my temps dialed in, as well as humidity levels. blah blah blah.. so last but not least I check my (tap) water source..
800 PPM OUT OF THE TAP
AGAIN, I am from the greater-flint area so i'm sure my initial water source isn't the best, not to mention the plumbing in my home is likely from a long, long time ago and I assume the interior or all the plumbing is corroding.
Needless to say I about cried when I read 800 ppm on my TDS meter (surprisingly I have been able to maintain the health of my plants throughout their entire life as well as creating a potent, tasty, sought-after finished product.. the only thing lacking was my yield. I range from (sadly) .224 to .336 grams/watt.
About 2 minutes after I check my tap water ppm, I was on amazon purchasing a REVERSE OSMOSIS SYSTEM...
Two days later and I have my R/o installed and slowly, but surely producing a much much much cleaner water source (40-45ppm).
Now, Reverse Osmosis is something I have never used before in my life although I am not new to gaining knowledge about reverse osmosis (as well as every other anything you could research about growing cannabis).
After 1 single watering of a balanced feeding schedule with the RO WATER my plants look ultimately way happier. (week 5 of flower). Within the first three days post-RO-Watering, I noticed tremendous perkiness in all the leaves as well noticeable bud growth.
However, I am weeks away from beginning the flush period, and I have really NO idea how to flush with Reverse Osmosis Water.
I have two opinions that contradict each other.
1) It seems logical that during the flush you would want to make sure your water is p.h. balanced therefore allowing the plants to continue absorbing and digesting any residual salts/nutrients within their soil and within their stems/leaves etc, along with flushing enough of that same fresh water thru the medium to achieve runoff. How does one create a stable p.h. with (almost) perfectly clean R O water? I don't want to add ANY nutrients to the flush water at all.
2)Some have the opinion that the more important aspect of a final flush (rather than having correct PH) is running ALOT of fresh, clean water thru your medium. So if I flush plain R O water thru my medium (at 44 ppm) until I receive that same PPM in the runoff thru the bottom of the pot.. would that be considered an appropriate flush? Will not balancing the PH have any ill-effects on my plants last week or two?
be gentle
