Best way to flush in Coco? (Hand-fed)

[Plant n Prosper]

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[resinryder]

Ph'ed

 

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[resinryder]

Don't think you'd have a problem with tap water. I like to use ph'd water to flush with. Figure if too high a ph will lock out nutrients in the plant, how will it pull everything out correctly. I get it to flush with no problem why would I stress it by flushing with too high a ph at the end? Just my opinion tho. You know how those go.

 

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[michmedclones]

I flush with tap and it's totally fine, but I got lucky my tap water ph is 6.5ish so it's a hair high, ppms are like 110ish so it's good tap water but I never have any issues with fluoride or chlorine or anything like that in the city water around here hurting my girls. You'll never know if your plants don't mind with your water until you try unfortunately

 

[GeorgeWBush]

if you get lockout it means your plant will no longer be able to take in nutes..not that it locks them in the plant itself.if that happens your plant will use the stored nutes it allready has,you want this for cleaner smoother finished product.tap water will be dandy.go to town and leave the ph meter at home.

 

[izzywozzywizzy]

Hi,been doing coco for years ,tried plain.tap ph7.5 near end and got deformed growth ,yuk.tried phd 5.8/6.0 and everything cool only last day or two i use pure tap water,peace.two or three big flushes everything goes,out of it,

 

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[generalgrievous]

Twice the volume of your pots.. 1gl ..twice.. bout an hour apart ..two step flush.

Don't bother with ph.. Absolutely unnecessary in you're flush ..flush 3 times a week for 2 weeks.. Your plants will look like a plant should look at the end of fall .. Dying

Should be full of all sorts of colors .. With only a bit of green left

 

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[LEDNewbie]

Ph your water. Only takes a minute considering your still in veg. If your flushing in veg yo should be adding light nutes to your water.

 

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[Granger2]

Just add enough pH down to take the pH where you want it. Forget the distilled. -granger

 

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[astartes]

From your other thread, to reiterate...

Unless you're flushing at the end of flowering, never run plain water through coco, as you'll skew the CEC of the media. Rather flush with a pH-adjusted 1/4 strength nutrient solution to fix problems in veg and early/mid flower.

Also, pH at 5.8, but ideally you should be noting your runoff EC and pH to see what's happening in your rootzone.

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[Plant n Prosper]

From your other thread, to reiterate...
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[GeorgeWBush]

I remember when I had some lockout issues in veg Chimera told me to check the ph of the run off.so do that. you will see it's very low like 4 or around there.makes the medium very acidic so to counter this he had me ph my water to 8 or higher to neutralize the acidity no 1/2 nutes they are allready burned. just flus it and let it sit for a few days then start feedihng again with 1/2 nutes.no offence to anyone but I'd follow Chimera's advice.It worked great for me.

 

[GDK]

From your other thread, to reiterate...

Unless you're flushing at the end of flowering, never run plain water through coco, as you'll skew the CEC of the media. Rather flush with a pH-adjusted 1/4 strength nutrient solution to fix problems in veg and early/mid flower.

Also, pH at 5.8, but ideally you should be noting your runoff EC and pH to see what's happening in your rootzone.

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