Please HELP me with these problems with LOTS of PICS

4 quick questions

After how many days should I see improvement?

Right after flushing should I feed a mild dose immediately or no?

Can I flush with tap water then feed it half RO/half tap PH'd to 6.0?

Should I add CALMAG?

Please help I plan on flushing today and I am kinda hesitate at which path I wanna go that's right

IMO do the flush with your half RO/ half tap. the goal is to create a nutral enviornment in your soil so you can start over again with your feeding and let the plant stablilize. after the flush I would leave it be untill your soil has dried out again then start over with your feeding. your looking at probably about 3 - 4 days after the flush untill feeding time. I have never used RO water so i dont know about the calmag.

NugNinja said:

IMO do the flush with your half RO/ half tap. the goal is to create a nutral enviornment in your soil so you can start over again with your feeding and let the plant stablilize. after the flush I would leave it be untill your soil has dried out again then start over with your feeding. your looking at probably about 3 - 4 days after the flush untill feeding time. I have never used RO water so i dont know about the calmag.

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Thank you!

Would it be a problem if I flush with just tapwater(7.0), then immediately flush with RO(5.0) which should balance the ph to 6 correct?

I wanted to know if this would cause anything because I have a removable shower head that I could use.

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just wanted one last post to confirm this is okay

Will do this tomorrow

brandonroy said:

4 quick questions

After how many days should I see improvement?

-I'd say within a week.

Right after flushing should I feed a mild dose immediately or no?

-I'd wait until the dried out.

Can I flush with tap water then feed it half RO/half tap PH'd to 6.0?

-The last few gallons of water should be pH'ed...so yes.

Should I add CALMAG?

-Sure.

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My answers are below yours.

Thank you!!


Now I have no idea why I haven't asked this.

I have florakleen(flushing product) Should I use this right now or just keep it for the last 3 days of flowering

I will tell you something and you may not like it. GET A PH METER! I'm using General Hydroponics lucas formula (micro and bloom) and reverse RO/DI water, pretty much the same exact setup as you and for some reason the Ph in my rez drops dramatically. It'll be 6.6 one day and 4.5 two days later. It's something about RO water and GH nutes that just makes the Ph drop so much. Usually when you add nutes the Ph should go up but in my case it has been the complete opposite. Get a Ph meter and some Ph up/down.

I have the GH test kit ph up/down

I heard it was good tester but only shows ph in whole numbers

bad?

Flushed today, final runoff is 6.5

is this ok?
feed 3-4 days after with how much nute?

* promix soilless

I'd feed with 1/4 or 1/2 of whatever your nutrients say. pH is ok, but when you water with with nutrients I'd put it down to around 6.0

Only water them once they dry out completely.

machnak said:

I'd feed with 1/4 or 1/2 of whatever your nutrients say. pH is ok, but when you water with with nutrients I'd put it down to around 6.0

Only water them once they dry out completely.

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Thank you! I am using the Lucas formula so in this case I should feed 1/4 dose of 0-8-16? per gallon

Ok, where to start.....

You're using soilless mix so your pH will drop as the medium dries out. pH to between 5.6-5.8 before feeding. It's best to have a slightly different pH range each time so your plant gets to take advantage of the full pH absorption range.

If you've added perlite to your mix, you can probably water till you get 10-15% runoff and have better results. Make sure your pots dry almost completely out before watering... you want the plants dry but not wilting. This setup will allow you to run a slightly higher nute concentration than straight pro-mix (without issues, that is.)

If you haven't added perlite you may want to give the plant only enough nutrient solution to last 24hrs before drying out. You don't want any runoff. In this situation you're going to need to use a weaker solution as the nutrients will build up in the medium over time.

No matter which solution you use you're not going to use full strength Lucas Formula since you'll burn the plants.


What you're seeing right now is a deficiency from your nutes not being strong enough. 2 week old plants under intense CFL or HID lighting can handle the Lucas Formula at full strength in hydro so don't be afraid to bump the nutes up a bit.

Don't need to pH the Lucas Formula when using R/O? Uhh.... that's some bogus info... please don't listen to that. If' you're LUCKY.... you may not have to adjust pH. I have always had to... for 10 years now and I've always used R/O water. *shrug*

You have 2 choices here:

1. Mix a gallon of full strength lucas and water your plants every 3rd watering with it. When your plants look a bit too well fed, add an extra day of watering. Make sure you don't use pH'd water on your plain watering days.... leave it straight R/O or you won't get the pH swing your plants require.

OR

2. Mix a gallon of 1/3rd strength lucas and water your plants every day with it.

Either way you're going to want your promix to dry out every 24hrs.

Stay Safe!