420growgrow
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Must of been way to high last night.
Great information and will see if it helps. How do I know if I have salt build up inside pot though?
Can someone please help me!!
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Great information and will see if it helps. How do I know if I have salt build up inside pot though?
Dynamo626
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Experience lol.or you can test your run off with a tds meter. If the run off is more than 300 ppm higher than the solution being put in than you have salt build up. I flush with solution when i flip and 4 weeks in just to be safe. I also flush with solution if they stop praying. Turger pressure is the preassure created by plant osmosis. Water wants to travel from areas of low salt to areas of high salt and a drop in pressure can mean salts are building up.
420growgrow
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How cool, could you tell me the best way to flush it step by step and what to use please. Noti
Dynamo626
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Flushing is easy once you decide you need to. Mix your nutrient solution
Water untill there is tun off.
Remove run off
Let sit for a bit to give built up salts time to disolve ( i cant spell i know lol)
Water again to 20 to 50% run off
Example my 5 gal pot of medium holds almost 2 full gal before there is run off. 20% is just under half gal of run off and 50% is a full gal of run off.
Depending on the severity of the problem multiple flushes may be needed.
Side note* dont flush unless its time to feed. If you watered the day before and your soil is still saterated or say you flush several days in a row. Then you have over watered plants which can be much more sever a problem than salt build up.
Over watering dosnt refer to the amount you give them per serving it means to water plants to frequiently so the soil never has a chance to dry out.
Water untill there is tun off.
Remove run off
Let sit for a bit to give built up salts time to disolve ( i cant spell i know lol)
Water again to 20 to 50% run off
Example my 5 gal pot of medium holds almost 2 full gal before there is run off. 20% is just under half gal of run off and 50% is a full gal of run off.
Depending on the severity of the problem multiple flushes may be needed.
Side note* dont flush unless its time to feed. If you watered the day before and your soil is still saterated or say you flush several days in a row. Then you have over watered plants which can be much more sever a problem than salt build up.
Over watering dosnt refer to the amount you give them per serving it means to water plants to frequiently so the soil never has a chance to dry out.
420growgrow
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Deffo no mice in my house haha although I have seen a couple little flies flying around
raggyb
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Well yeah could be the flies and their larvae. I never see the mice usually just evidence of them but this one was so high he couldn't walk so I did see him, poor guy. I didn't have the heart to kill him he was so fucked up.
420growgrow
Member
I don’t actually know if your taking the puss here or not lol... seem to only find the odd one flying around
raggyb
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taking the puss? sorry you lost me with that expression.
I just don't know what the bite looking spots are at the first pics. I guess the other points of plant health are more important. But care problems can make plants more susceptible to disease, fungus and even bugs. For example over watering invites fungus gnats. Their chew marks don't look like that but I don't know what other insects over watering attracts. I've seen missing leaf parts before too. I don't think it was simply the nutrient problem causing it but who knows. I suppose when disease happens sometimes bugs come in and finish off the dead bits. But speaking of puss it could be your cat.