Can You Flush With Regular Tap Water????

Can you flush your pots (soil) with lukewarm shower?

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Daithy

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I was told on here very recently to use just regular tap water, sat for 24 hours, to water my plants with (my tap water is arpund 7.7pH). I was told that if my soil is mixed in the right range I don't need to adjust the pH of water with apple cider vinegar or lemon juice (excluding amending after adding fert af course).


But what if I need to flush? I have seven 3 gallon pots at the moment. What if I need to flush 'em all, that's like 80 gallons of water. What can I leave THAT to sit in for 24 hours lol. Can I use a shower with lukewarm temperature?
 
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Daithy

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AimAim said:
Why are you even flushing?
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Thanks for the reply. I am not flushing yet actually, but considering it. I have transplanted my plants in the past 36 hours, so I better leave 'em alone. It's just the soil I have bought. I thought I was buying unfortified soil (Moss Peat), but the guy in the store sold me Multi-Purpose Compost — I have it mixed 1:1 with Perlite, however, small bit of Vermiculite in actually as well. But the soil seems to hot for my plants. I think it burns them, other people on here told me so....
 
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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It would be best to flush with the correct pH
Dr. Jekyll

Only an idiot would flush, what the hell do you think you will actually accomplish by flushing?
Mr. Hyde
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

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Got pix of your plants?
And flushing soil with time released nutes in it won't really fix anything as you can't wash out time releases nutes..
 
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Daithy

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AimAim said:
If you transplant correctly they don't miss a beat, and do not wilt.

Just sayin'
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My first transplant.

So why does everyone talk about 'transplant shock'—very common thing, even when done properly. Sure there are times it can go flawlessly, but sometimes it depends on the strain as well, no? It's not all entirely down to the grower. Just saying.
 
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MedicatedGrow

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Seems like you know enough to answer your own question.

Regardless it is a never ending debate whether you should flush at all or not.

If you want to flush, just use 3x the pot size in water and flush all at once, or you can flush till the drain comes out clear not brownish.
 
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Daithy

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Silky Shagsalot said:
is it just me, or are your leaves canoeing???
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It's not you at all — they are! That's what worries me. I am trying to figure it out nearly 3 weeks. Used to thing it was heat stress, but it ain't; had thought it was light stress, but no, I had the lights far. It's not humidity issue either. Someone suggested it might be hot soil, and I think he might be right, cos all the plant's have it!
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

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AimAim said:
I don't know. If you got a solid root ball to plop into an appropriate sized hole and moisten it in it will just keep on a-growing.
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Yeah, so long as you don't damage the roots during the transplant you should be fine.. a lot of.people get rough with the roots, say that ten times fast, and hence, experience transplant shock..
Sometimes I simply cit the bottom off a pot and place the entire thing on top.of another pot, aka, double potting, something b.o.g., bushy old grower, raves about..
 
Silky Shagsalot

Silky Shagsalot

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racerboy71 said:
Sometimes I simply cut the bottom off a pot and place the entire thing on top.of another pot, aka, double potting, something b.o.g., bushy old grower, raves about..
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lol, too funny!! i used BOG'S methods my first time out. didn't double pot, but did the soil mix and everything else. even went out and bought a hand held co2 cartridge bike tire inflator, to add co2, lol... did damn good!
 
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althor

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^Looking at the meter next to the plant it is neither too hot nor low rh.

I am not certain, but I think it is the soil too hot. Notice it is really the oldest leaf sets that have the most damage. The newer leaves are in decent shape. Probably when it first broke surface it was burned and is now strong enough to handle the nutrients.

I would not try to flush the soil with time-release nutrients. That will most likely speed up the release process and you will end up with big doses of nutrients blasting your plants. Just water them as needed. It will be fine, but next time around you will know before hand that you want to find the proper soil.

I hope you have plenty of holes drilled into the bottom of those planters you are using. If not you are going to run into more issues really soon.
 
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