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Sorry if I confused you at all @Jamie1234
I am just eager to help thanks for being patient with us
We just wanna see your grow succeed
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Flushing is just a way to rid salt build up from the soil. It’s not needed. If you are watering to 20-30% runoff every time you should be fine. I usually water till right before I get runoff, wait a couple minutes to let the salts dissolve, and then I add more water till i get a good amount of runoff, this should flush the salts out.
Fox farms adds the flushing schedule in their lineup just as another product for you to buy and use, totally not needed.
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I think you gave some good advice 
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No dumb questions I think @Aolelon maybe the person to give you more direction than me as I have not really used off the shelf nutes
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Also if you need more in depth information it would be good to start your own thread so you get personalized information
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Outta likes thanks
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Now if you are seeing problems, then is a good time to flush, nutrient lockout, or nutrient excess. Those are really the only times I would flush, and maybe to get my soil ph back on track if it is really far off. Your roots have the ability to buffer the PH of the water around it to intake what it needs, so if it’s off by a .5 or so I’ll leave it and just ph my water higher or lower depending.
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@Aolelon okay cool i get it now light bulb just went on in my head
Hey @Growit if you are growing natural home made try using pig shit it changes the terpins and really brings them out
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I will check that out we have a pig farm just outta town
I use sea bird guano in my super soil but if they start lacking anything in flower I will certainly check out the pig farm
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When you feed once a week is it with the water your watering with? It gets really hot in the day, but so far so good with the environment, I think! I am a gardner, but there is a lot of difference in the grow. Im kinda challenging myself too a bit. The watering and that is really good…just getting that ph right on point. It is a big pot…just can’t remember the size of my pot, it’s a good one so the plant roots get plenty of air. Here’s a photo of it
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I did that on this feed last night
Yes I use de chlorinated tap water thats is pHed at 6.5
I pH 50 gallon drums at a time and use it for watering and feeding
I pH the water again after adding nutes
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I feed my nutes by hand in 2 gallon watering cans so I put my tea in first then fill it up with water from the drum I then get out my pH probe and bring the pH up or down as needed
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Yeah I noticed how high your tems are in the support ticket try to get em to stay no hogher than the mid 80’s if you can
I have had crazy high temps up to 130 in my green house
They pulled through fine but they will benefit from lower temps
Ideal temps would be mid 70’s but my last grow I got those temps only at night had a steady day temp of 86 and sometimes 90 but they did just fine with those temps
I think once you get your watering and feeding schedule down your are gonna have a great grow and harvest
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Just checked my faucet water its registering 6.8 can I use that to water with for now. I think I’ll try to flush some out before lights out and see if that works a bit. I’ll check in at midnight ty
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Yes you can 6.8 is at the high end but it would be fine to flush with if you want
But for regular watering and feeding I like using 6.5 but 6.2-6.8 is ok I just like 6.5 it has worked well for me
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I wish my waters pH was that low I get 8.5 from my faucet
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Do you have vinegar
You can add a bit to your water to bring the pH down
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I’m going to say you have the beginnings of a lockout if your soil ph is that low. What exactly did you use for potting soil? If it is a “Miracle Gro” product that will cause you trouble. If the soil said anything like “moisture control” you are going to have problems. In most cases these types of soil are low in PH.
1-bring the soil ph up
2-better control of temps; this affects the whole cycle of the plant
3-only water when the plant is dried out. This does a couple of things; not least of which is to avoid root rot and it forces the plants to hunt for water and spread their roots. I have taken plants to the point of wilting to determine that nominal point.
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