Question about flushing fir salt buildup

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  • What strain, Seed bank, or bag seed
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i dont know what youre talking about

i will not fill out a support ticket for a question about water man sorry lol

That’s cool but someone was going to post eventually

What is the total dissolved salts tds/Ec/ppm of the nutrients going into your planter?

Then gather what comes out and measure that

the runoff ppm has been higher than going in and ph has been lower so guessing lockout

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lol yea man sry its 5am here and i just got up

Awesome, just checking there’s data to support claim

Now dump a bunch of distilled and feed.

I’m sorry to say if you ask for help with an issue and someone is willing to help you you should appreciate it not take offense to suggestions. JMHO
Happy Growing Everyone :blush::v:

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you must not be reading bc i never took offense to anything thanks

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but if youre referring to me not doing the support ticket, it was a simple question that a support ticket will not help to answer…i mean seriously…
example…“hey does anyone know how to tie my shoes”
“idk man send pics and fill out a support ticket, what kind of shoes, shoe size, etc, etc…”
sounds ridiculous like tht huh

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I’ll offer up my opinion… I don’t think water only is sufficient to flush salt buildups during the grow. It would take multiple water-only flushes over a period of time to accomplish the desired flush. For a final flush, I don’t pH, because the idea is to get the nutrients out of the plant anyway.

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ok so maybe use something like ff sledehammer?

Perfect choice.

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They don’t look as bad as you alluded to. I see some old fans that are being cannibalized and some “fall” colors. A flush will not hurt, I think, but your plants look pretty good for late in life. Check out this Skelletor looking beast. Hardly any green leaves at all left.

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really? idk i just thought they should be a beautiful green

Alright man you on right track, flushing to fix ph issue, happened to me a lot, so I had best results 3x the water of size of pots. Mine 5 gallon pots. 15 gallons. Trick is to go slow, wash everything out, don’t just dump on. Also last 2 gallons mix a full strength nute solution, to help them bounce back good luck

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Usually at the end of the Autoflower cycle they stop feeding from the soil. Hence the ppm out will naturally be higher. A flush with ph’d water ( i suggest 6.5 - 6.8) will clean out the salts and clean all fertilizer out of the plant so you don’t have to smoke that crap. Ph down is relatively inexpensive. $12.00 for a quart and would last quite a long time. I have a quart that has last me over 2years now. It takes about 3 drops to stabilize a liter of water. I suggest you make the investment for your future grows if you want a prime product.

took a pic of a cola this morning, finally starting to fatten up

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In order to PH distilled water you need to get thePPM up to around 100. Can’t get a reliable reading otherwize.

There’s generally no need t pH distilled water, as it doesn’t have enough TDS to affect the grow medium, as I understand it.

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