how to flush nute burn in hydro

ILoveYouSweetLeaf

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need an explanation on how to flush after I nute burned my plants in hydro. I am a beginner, only experience, grew 2x 1-2ft tall plants in soil as experiments in past before I threw them out.

I have been flushing with RO water for about a week+ after burning both plants in waterfarms. In the first few days I would empty bucket, wipe residue off sides of bucket and rinse. Fill with ONLY RO water. After maybe 12 hours the ppm would rise 50 points. I would let it rise to around 100ppm. And repeat the process of flushing again. Now its been about 10 days. Now when I refill with RO the parts per million only raise maybe 10 points every 12 hours. Based on what the trend has been I expect to see 0ppm - 10ppm rise when I check it at midnight tonight.

How do I know when its time to start trying nutes again? should I wait for no ppm rise for couple days? week?
they are only 4" tall and I nuked them so bad I am thinking of naming my 2 waterfarms. Fatman and Littleboy.
I fear they cannot take another shock again.
 
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Well starving them for 10 days is not the best thing to do at all. A simple 24hr flush is fine but remember that the leafs that are affected will never recover or change back to normal. Start with 1\4 nutes and work from there.
 
I upped the nutes to 130ppm using lucas. they are 4" but really burnt. not sure if this is to much or too little.
 
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started 4 diff strains direct from clone (2 weeks in kloner) on ebb flow 2 weeks ago w/RO water @1.7EC under 1K and now 2 weeks later they have 0 nute burn, 0 deficiency.
 
You don't need to flush in hydro. Just correct the mistake and lower the concentration (if you really had nute burn)
 
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