Salt build up flush

Trulife69

Trulife69

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During flowering,does anyone do any sort of heavier watering to flush salts out of soil? Just curious if that's good practice or a need to do a few times through out flowering phase. During waterings I get about 20% run off. Is salt build up something to worry about with heavy nutes?
 
Malevolence

Malevolence

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build-up generally isn't an issue unless you are overfeeding. You could pick up a ppm pen and measure the runoff; compare it to the ppm when you mixed the nutes and watered them. If the run-off ppm is a lot higher, you are feeding too hot.
 
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Imaulle

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I seem to keep having similar issues using Dyna-Gro Foliage Pro that I can't for the life of me figure out
 
TonightYou

TonightYou

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What medium are you using?

I rarely have to flush. I have an OGK that had some sort of lockout it happy frog/perlite, she isn't a cooperative plant nor a keeper. Ran about 5 gallons of tap water through the three gallons with a half dose of fertilizer. Problem solved.

EDIT this isn't the first time I had a problem with her, third run and she is done. all other plants, No problems
 
TonightYou

TonightYou

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Also, only flush to solve deficiency or lockout. not a regular thing for me to do, and I do not flush prior to harvest
 
Trulife69

Trulife69

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I feed pretty heavy and never had any problems but just curious if it was something people do..just read a article about salt build up and thought maybe this might be something beneficial. I agree with flushing should be for solving deficiency or the dreaded lock out. I have also flushed at the end of harvest and not flushed. Cant tell the difference. I used advanced phinal phase before with flushing and can't tell anything different. Ive even flushed to the max like 45 gallons through 15 gallon containers and could not tell a difference from flushing the nutes out of soil or not.
Nice tip about the ppm meter run off compared to ppm of feeding.
 
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Jbone77

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Trulife69 said:
I feed pretty heavy and never had any problems but just curious if it was something people do..just read a article about salt build up and thought maybe this might be something beneficial. I agree with flushing should be for solving deficiency or the dreaded lock out. I have also flushed at the end of harvest and not flushed. Cant tell the difference. I used advanced phinal phase before with flushing and can't tell anything different. Ive even flushed to the max like 45 gallons through 15 gallon containers and could not tell a difference from flushing the nutes out of soil or not.
Nice tip about the ppm meter run off compared to ppm of feeding.
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So you couldnt tell the difference between feeding, flushing n not feeding? Sounds like feeding til chop is overrated n a waste of money if thats the case. If the result of feeding n flushing was the same then feeding til chop is a waste of money right?
 
Trulife69

Trulife69

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I'm talking about not tasting nutes from not flushing before harvesting your girls.I think your a fool to not feed till the end. But in my experience of flushing vs. not flushing you cannot taste a difference or get headaches. My above post was just saying I have tried a handful of different flushing ideas before harvest and taste&smoke wise couldn't tell between flushed weed or not flushed weed. I feel like I get more out of the girls feeding to the end than spending a week flushing
 
Malevolence

Malevolence

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I cut back on nutes drastically before harvest because I think the plant doesn't need it while it's just sitting there turning ripe and it's a waste of money. Like you I can't tell any difference.
 
AimAim

AimAim

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What's with the "waste of money"? Ever put a pencil to what it costs to feed and water a plant? Pennies, literally nothing in the overall picture. But pennies add up I guess.
 
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Imaulle

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so, I'm doing 2.5 ml of Foliage Pro every watering in promix. should I cut that down to every other watering? I'm not sure if I'm getting deficiency or lockout
 
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