If you have a 9 week strain that really finishes in 9.5 - 10 and you are doing a soilless grow w/pro mix hp and nuting w/pure blend's line, would you start flush at beginning of week 8, 8.5 or 9??
I've got 6 diff. strains under 2KW -all at just after week 8 into bloom. white urkle (og rascal), orange diesel (lady sat.), tangilope (dna), alien fire fruit (holy smoke), thunderbud haze, and kosher kush. The white urkle's are within a week, while the orange diesel, tangilope and thunderbud haze, and kosher are aroung 2 week til.
1) My main question is about flushing, do you cut off nutes cold turkey or taper down for a week or so until going only pure water?
2) Doing soilless, I don't want to flood/saturate the pots as it could cause root root, so would you just water as usual, but with plain water during last HOW MANY DAYS before harvest.
I have started giving them all plain water with some innoculant (orca's great white -liq. mycorize w/bacteria), but many still have 2 weeks to go, so would I continue feeding them for another week or just continue flushing (slow flush with pure water in order not to saturate the medium and keep it a comfortable moist)?
If roots in a pot are like your feet in shoes, would you like to walk around in wet shoes? Of course not, but moist shoes from healthy exercise is akin to moist pots nourishing vibrant roots.
I usually only water 3 - 4 cups (per 4 gal pot) ever 2 to 3 days depending on strain, temp. and humidity. I have found many good grow tips from kyle kushman's forums, esp regarding hydro-organic, veganics, and building a vibrant fauna of life for your roots to flourish, thus maximizing the strains' phenotype's yield and quality in terms of smell, flavor, potency, and appearance, not to mention size (esp. w/CO2).
