SensiBlaze
Member
OK I've been searching and searching for this one and keep coming up dry.. I know that when you hit the soil with a watering you have to go slow enough for the medium to fully absorb the water instead of running straight out the bottom.
Now my question is this.. Say I need to flush my plants to raise the pH or get rid of excess nutes.. After I've let the pot absorb as much water as it can, am I able to just start dumping gallons at a time into the soil to speed things up? Is there a point to where this becomes stressful to the roots? I'm not worried about over watering or drainage issues since I use cloth pots with lots of perlite.
I just want to know if pouring a gallon jug into the soil is detrimental, because flushing 4 plants with almost 40 gallons of water takes entirely too long and I've been having issues with pH slowly falling because I haven't amended my soil with lime.
Now my question is this.. Say I need to flush my plants to raise the pH or get rid of excess nutes.. After I've let the pot absorb as much water as it can, am I able to just start dumping gallons at a time into the soil to speed things up? Is there a point to where this becomes stressful to the roots? I'm not worried about over watering or drainage issues since I use cloth pots with lots of perlite.
I just want to know if pouring a gallon jug into the soil is detrimental, because flushing 4 plants with almost 40 gallons of water takes entirely too long and I've been having issues with pH slowly falling because I haven't amended my soil with lime.