should I flush or not?

2x2grower1/26

2x2grower1/26

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Need some advice again in using fox farm ocean forest. I’m almost at week 4 of my grow nutrients and starting at week 5 (not sure if all nutrient schedules are like this?) But it calls for a flush in between week 4-5 with sledgehammer My one big one is been growing from seed for 2 months an few days started on 12/24/19 with its first dose of nutrients given on 02/19/20 and I started at week 2 of the doses on 02/25/20 I gave week 3 of nutrients I had a bad case of deficiency/s since I skipped a week started alittle lite and did full dose on week 3 should I do the flush? I’m kinda worried about the deficiency/s coming back and I’m also not to sure how to flush and how many gallons to flush with at all I’m in a 3 gallon pot which I’m gonna finish everything in I’ve been giving my clones which I have no idea how old they are I transplanted them from a buddy on 01/15/20 and been doing the same with them as the other which they seem to be doing pretty well any and all advice and opinions are welcome
 

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homebrewer

homebrewer

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Well if you recently had 'deficiencies' then a 'flush' is the last thing you'd want to do.

I'd recommend watering more often and giving lite doses of food at every watering. Your medium looks dry and it should never look dry.
 
BluntMoniker

BluntMoniker

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Foxfarm suggests flushing mid flower, because their nutrient schedule, if followed to a T, is basically overkill...

You dump so much excess nutrient into your plant's rootzone when you follow the schedule, that you run the risk of salt buildups in the soil that can cause pH imbalances, lockouts, etc.

MY suggestion, would be.. instead of doing an out and out flush.. to simply not add nutrients every other watering, or cut back on the nutrients per watering.. or both. I would either go a bit lighter on the nutrients than what they call for (maybe 1/2-3/4 doses) when watering, OR do the full doses, but only feed every other watering.

This would just be an all around better way of doing things, because not only are you preventing salt buildup or nutrient burn, while still providing the plant with what it needs, but your saving $ on excess nutrients that your plant isnt even utilizing to begin with. The nutrient line schedules are a good baseline, of the proportions you should be feeding during different stages of the life cycle, but your plant will tell you what it needs.. whether that means more nutrients, or less.

You just need to be prudent in looking at the leaves, keeping track of what you've been doing, and make informed decisions about food/environment, based on what the plant is telling you, rather than what foxfarm nutrients is telling you your plant needs
 
xtsho

xtsho

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BluntMoniker said:
Foxfarm suggests flushing mid flower, because their nutrient schedule, if followed to a T, is basically overkill...

You dump so much excess nutrient into your plant's rootzone when you follow the schedule, that you run the risk of salt buildups in the soil that can cause pH imbalances, lockouts, etc.

MY suggestion, would be.. instead of doing an out and out flush.. to simply not add nutrients every other watering, or cut back on the nutrients per watering.. or both. I would either go a bit lighter on the nutrients than what they call for (maybe 1/2-3/4 doses) when watering, OR do the full doses, but only feed every other watering.

This would just be an all around better way of doing things, because not only are you preventing salt buildup or nutrient burn, while still providing the plant with what it needs, but your saving $ on excess nutrients that your plant isnt even utilizing to begin with. The nutrient line schedules are a good baseline, of the proportions you should be feeding during different stages of the life cycle, but your plant will tell you what it needs.. whether that means more nutrients, or less.

You just need to be prudent in looking at the leaves, keeping track of what you've been doing, and make informed decisions about food/environment, based on what the plant is telling you, rather than what foxfarm nutrients is telling you your plant needs
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Or just use a nutrient that doesn't have 14 bottles of stuff you need to use if you follow their feeding chart. I think Fox Farms is a joke. Why anyone would follow that feeding chart just to fertilize a plant defies logic. It's ridiculous and completely unnecessary to go through all that just to grow a plant. Three parts maximum is all you need. 14 different products to grow a very easy plant. The only growing community that these companies can pull this crap with is the cannabis community. I've been gardening for over 40 years and have never seen so many unnecessary products as I have with the cannabis growing industry. Cool name, shiny bottles, and naive pot smokers that have never grown anything but cannabis and have no idea that they are being swindled. I just shake my head in amazement at how well these shysters have marketed their products.
 
2x2grower1/26

2x2grower1/26

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budman111 said:
Plants under LED should be receiving enough PAR which makes them bushy with short spaces between the nodes, those plants cant get enough and thats why they are stretching, putting the LED closer should help though.
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Yeah I’ve been growing it for 2 months and have had some problems with deficiencies and had to remove 20 say affected leaves it was busy at one point
 
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