Hey dudes, I’m almost at harvest time and I’ve got a few dilemmas. Was wondering if anyone’s has some tips and tricks that would help. I’m growing 1 plant in Coco indoors. It’s a auto Pineapple Express under a LED. I’m thinking about doing a progressive harvest but also want to do a flush before I harvest, I don’t really know how to schedule this because I want to flush for the main cola but also want to keep the little dudes all around him growing for a bit longer and not sure how they will hold up with just water! How long would be recommended to flush for? And how would I go around this issue, is it going to stunt the growth of the remaining plant if I switch to water now and harvest the main cola in a few days, I’ve attached a bunch of pics of main stem and side stems, and a comparison to the bottom to see where I’m at with the plant! Also any recommendations on how close I am to harvest with main stem would be appreciated.
Progressive harvest? flushing? help please.
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TheSadBadGrower
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2 kinds of flushes.....one is running 3x your pot size of water to rid the soil of build ups and salts. The other is starving your plants in the final 2 weeks where a good 25% of bud growth happens. One is good and the other is bad.
Gond00s
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both those are pretty bad for the plant welcome back babe missed u if your the one person im thinking about
TheSadBadGrower
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New growers usually have really bad watering habits. Most of the times anyways or at least something common. If people just watered until they see run-off then it can be avoided but many don't so a flush is more benefical for the roots really. Not the starve your plant prior to harvest for 2 weeks kind of thing anyways. I just became a member yesterday here. Well a couple hours ago really. Not sure why you are welcoming me back?
Gond00s
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I was looking at someone that had almost the exact same name and I just found it weird u had the same age as his banned acc to just kinda looked a little weird to me if u get my drift. back to main point u should never need to do a flush in general as long as you don't fuck your soil up badly but u shouldn't in the first place. flushing with mass amounts of water imo is a good way to invite root rot and some other nasty shit into your soil so that's why im super against it
TheSadBadGrower
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Got it. I dont flush either. But I see the " I am going to dump a half bottle of this in and grow the biggest plants ever " doing it all the time. I get what you are saying though. I literally just clicked any dates and went from there.
Renfro
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yeah but thats a whole different problem there that won't be at all diminished by pouring water over the roots. What the plant has already taken in won't be washed out.
Gond00s
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I think for my feedings ive been using 1 1/2 scoops of gln calmag and doing a scoop of pk with raws phosphorus all I could find at the time not buying them again im going to get mpk and drop gln pk and use that only. might be my next step but got things pretty damn simple I really need to balance out pk more ive been doing 1-2 in pk and my plants have been having a phos def so that's why im switching to mpk and if u say its not a def imma prove ya wrong all Ive been feeding is 800 ppm and its in full flower that's so on my fault but next run will be a little different but more nutes is never better imo. im still trying to learn how much my plants can take and I really didn't give them enough gas.
TheSadBadGrower
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I just started a DWC grow after growing in soil for a while. Such a huge jump going from never worrying about PH and PPM levels to needing to checking them daily. Though, I am not going back to soil because of how easy and better plants do in hydroponics.
Gond00s
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ive been having no problems its just I underfeed. their is only way u can get me into a dwc and its going to be a 12 site no airpumps all run on one powerful pump. but coco is more close to hydro than u think my guy if your ph is off or your food proportions are out of whack everything goes to shit I just don't wanna worry about water temps I don't run during the summer obvious reasons im hoping to get one more grow before I shut down my flower room
TheSadBadGrower
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They say coco is the best of both worlds....I dont use a chiller in my bucket but I am only running one just to get a feel for the grow. So weird going from being able to drown a plant to growing it directly in water. It almost erases everything I learned. One day I'll have to try a go with coco though.
Gond00s
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coco is still very prone to root rot imo perlite is so needed I would use 20-30 % to coco. yea that's the thing if I do that I need to run a pretty decent chiller. coco Is dumb simple just gotta put in base amounts in just cant nuke the coco because then shit locks out
Gond00s
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when water heats up your do levels in water drop so gotta keep it in mind