Hydro - How many days you FLUSH for ??

My toilet is clogged so I have no experience. Best wishes for seeking your answer.

ElfoodStampo said:

I do, it's called experience.
now come on a prove me wrong with some "studies"...

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So your basing everything on your own personal experience?

And you have indeed tried a side by side, as I have, testing the suggested method? And with no noticeable advantage?!?!

Doubt it, cause its been 100% consistent with the environment im working with... which is pretty spot on

Yodaweed said:

For me I flush 10 days in hydroponics with RO water, and 14 days in soil.

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Wierd statement about flushing in soil. If I was running organics in soil theres no reason to flush.

ElfoodStampo said:

With the same light and the same water, a plant with 3000 ppm of nutrient will not out perform a plant with 800 ppm.
if you change the amount of light or water to the lean the plant will suffer. Does that make more sense?

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There is certainly a point range where the near optimum growth can occur; but how can you make such a broad statement about a species with such unique characteristics!?!?!

All strains uptake water/nutes differently so not sure wtf your talking about.

I think you may know a lot about growing, but have a hard time verbalizing all of your self taught knowledge into communicable sentences.

hydroMD said:

There is certainly a point range where the near optimum growth can occur; but how can you make such a broad statement about a species with such unique characteristics!?!?!

All strains uptake water/nutes differently so not sure wtf your talking about.

I think you may know a lot about growing, but have a hard time verbalizing all of your self taught knowledge into communicable sentences.

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yea man I'm not sure either, my point is that adding more nutes to plants limited by sunlight and or water, will do you no good, because it can't use them.

GrowerGoneWild said:

Wierd statement about flushing in soil. If I was running organics in soil theres no reason to flush.

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You can use flowering boosters and additives in soil not all soil grows are organic (water only) grows some use bloom boosters when I grew in happy frog I waited until mid flower and added some GH liquid Kool bloom then dry KB at the end for more flower production but you want to flush those additives for sure.

ElfoodStampo said:

yea man I'm not sure either, my point is that adding more nutes to plants limited by sunlight and or water, will do you no good, because it can't use them.

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Sure, but thats when factoring other variables. When speaking on the plant-nutrient dependancy, providing all other variables are at optimal levels, it definately plays a part in plant developement.

There are absolutely instances that a given strain will out perform with higher ppms.

Is there an acceptable ppm range above or below optimum, that would show little to no signsof defeciencies/burn? Absolutely

But I have sativas that will burn above 800ppm and have grown hybrids that are not happy with less than 1200ppm. Also affects branching and node structure as the plant grows. With sub optimal nutrients, plants can have a tendency to be a bit more lanky.
point here is that just because there is no defeciency seen, a plant still grows according to whats availabke to it in a sense.

Yodaweed said:

You can use flowering boosters and additives in soil not all soil grows are organic (water only) grows some use bloom boosters when I grew in happy frog I waited until mid flower and added some GH liquid Kool bloom then dry KB at the end for more flower production but you want to flush those additives for sure.

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Yeah, I know you can add salt based ferts to soil. I dont see how you can get a good flush in soil.

I just dont get _why_ you would do a soil grow that way. That does not take advantage of the nature of the soil.

You sound like you're against the chemical tastes, why not go totally organic soil and not worry about it.?

I actually grow in coco-coir and hydroponics they are very easy to flush

Yodaweed said:

I actually grow in coco-coir and hydroponics they are very easy to flush

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??

You just said that you used to grow in happy frog soil....

Im just trying to figgure out how you came up with 14 day flush time and 10 day flush time.

ttystikk said:

I run my EC down from 1.7 at peak bloom down to 1.2 at the very end. This is in accordance with gradually reducing RH and lowering the water level in the system as well throughout those same last two weeks.

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Yeah I do something similar to this except I end up with just plain clean water, its not really about flushing stuff out, I just dont want keep adding nutrients for something thats gonna be chopped, I guess it ends up being a "Flush" but its not about that, my plants already look depleted when ripe or I try to time it that way.

I'm running around 100 gallons of solution, so I wanna be smart about not wasting nutrients.