pH issues in coco.

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Ez_deezy

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I'll make this as short as I can. I run drain to waste drip irrigation.

I picked up some extremely off pH coco that I never tested before transplant.

Plants have been in for about a week, but showing signs of pH imbalance.(twisting leaves, lockout etc).

I'd like to know if it's possible to flush this coco that already has the rockwool clones I bought, and it not do further damage. The pH needs to be fixed(I tested some of the bags and no lie, one was in the mid 4 pH range, and one was over 9

Will the flush saturate the water too much to where the clones will end up over watered and rot at the root zone?

I'm sorry I had the longer version of this post that tells the story of what happened, but I didn't feel it was necessary lol.
 
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Treesomewanted77

Well-Known Member
Ez_deezy said:
I'll make this as short as I can. I run drain to waste drip irrigation.

I picked up some extremely off pH coco that I never tested before transplant.

Plants have been in for about a week, but showing signs of pH imbalance.(twisting leaves, lockout etc).

I'd like to know if it's possible to flush this coco that already has the rockwool clones I bought, and it not do further damage. The pH needs to be fixed(I tested some of the bags and no lie, one was in the mid 4 pH range, and one was over 9

Will the flush saturate the water too much to where the clones will end up over watered and rot at the root zone?

I'm sorry I had the longer version of this post that tells the story of what happened, but I didn't feel it was necessary lol.
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If you just planted them a week ago pull them out of the coco and rinse off the roots with some PH’d water and set them in a bucket or something that will hide the light from the roots while you Rinse out the coco it won’t hurt them to sit out of a medium for little while I’ve left them out of medium for well over 15-20 minutes. If you want keep a small cup or bucket of PH’d water handy and just dip the roots into it once in while so they don’t go dry while your working on the coco they will be fine. They haven’t grown that much root structure in a week I wouldn’t think but I may be wrong. These plants are pretty resilient remember it’s just a weed
 
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Ez_deezy

Member
Treesomewanted77 said:
If you just planted them a week ago pull them out of the coco and rinse off the roots with some PH’d water and set them in a bucket or something that will hide the light from the roots while you Rinse out the coco it won’t hurt them to sit out of a medium for little while I’ve left them out of medium for well over 15-20 minutes. If you want keep a small cup or bucket of PH’d water handy and just dip the roots into it once in while so they don’t go dry while your working on the coco they will be fine. They haven’t grown that much root structure in a week I wouldn’t think but I may be wrong. These plants are pretty resilient remember it’s just a weed
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That's actually what I ended up doing. I just did a major flush and took the plants out so they didn't get drenched with it. Yeah it was actually 5 days so almost no roots were developed in the pot besides about 20 bigger clones I bought. Was a pita because it was 416 of em, but that's what I get for not using floraflex like usual.

Thanks for reaffirming what I wanted to do feel better about the flush now
 
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