Flushing Issue

CannaBrained

CannaBrained

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For the past many flushes ive done ive been having issues with water uptake. The majority of plants (not all...but most) stop taking up water ENTIRELY after the first flush.

Ive done nothing different:
Ph is on mark
Water is good temp
Its tap water that has been out for 36 hours
And it gets oxygenated for approx 8 hours prior.

They literally take nothing in. After a week i flush again for sakes say then again three four days later. In the past id have them dried right out four days later at max.

Any ideas?
 
Buba Blend

Buba Blend

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Flushing is wrong in soil unless a grower somehow way over did it with the fertilizers. Is that correct? Are there situations like that when it is correct to flush? I've seen some threads where that is the direction given in that situation and I was wondering if it can be a correct thing to do sometimes in soil.
 
Bugeye

Bugeye

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Buba Blend said:
Flushing is wrong in soil unless a grower somehow way over did it with the fertilizers. Is that correct? Are there situations like that when it is correct to flush? I've seen some threads where that is the direction given in that situation and I was wondering if it can be a correct thing to do sometimes in soil.
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Depends on how you define flushing vs leaching. I do both, but only flush soil between grows if it needs it (soil report). Leaching is a little more gentle on a plant.
 
Buba Blend

Buba Blend

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Bugeye said:
Depends on how you define flushing vs leaching. I do both, but only flush soil between grows if it needs it (soil report). Leaching is a little more gentle on a plant.
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Thanks! flushing vs leaching is interesting. I see a lot of threads that I read from the sideline or I only get involved if it is an area I'm familiar with. I always back off when people say it needs to be flushed because of salt build up.
 
Buba Blend

Buba Blend

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CannaBrained said:
For the past many flushes ive done ive been having issues with water uptake. The majority of plants (not all...but most) stop taking up water ENTIRELY after the first flush.

Ive done nothing different:
Ph is on mark
Water is good temp
Its tap water that has been out for 36 hours
And it gets oxygenated for approx 8 hours prior.

They literally take nothing in. After a week i flush again for sakes say then again three four days later. In the past id have them dried right out four days later at max.

Any ideas?
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Hi CannaBrained! what is your medium, Soil? What brand? Do you have any plant pictures?

I see you haven't been back since Monday, I'm gonna ask a related question to the others about flushing and will get back to any questions or comments you have when you get back.
 
Buba Blend

Buba Blend

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I was on a post were a guy had a salty build up around the drain holes in ffof. I just went back and he was told to leach his pots. I bet 99% of newbies would not know the difference between flushing and leaching. I strongly felt the plant was overwatered and while we had a good time chatting it took forever to get him to see it was being over watered. 265 posts later the plant finally had a breath of fresh air. I was so happy the plant could breath. I wanted him to hold off watering and wait for it to dry out and droop. He thought the plant started to droop, I didn't. Next thing I know he is flushing (using the word flush) and being assisted in the flush, less than 1 week before chopping. I couldn't argue that choice, I did not know if it was right or wrong. 268 posts 3001 views and no one said flushing or leaching was wrong at the end. I still don't know if it was the right choice. I would have let it dry out till harvest.
Any and all opinions? Flush/leach or let it dry out?
 
Chunky Stool

Chunky Stool

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Buba Blend said:
I was on a post were a guy had a salty build up around the drain holes in ffof. I just went back and he was told to leach his pots. I bet 99% of newbies would not know the difference between flushing and leaching. I strongly felt the plant was overwatered and while we had a good time chatting it took forever to get him to see it was being over watered. 265 posts later the plant finally had a breath of fresh air. I was so happy the plant could breath. I wanted him to hold off watering and wait for it to dry out and droop. He thought the plant started to droop, I didn't. Next thing I know he is flushing (using the word flush) and being assisted in the flush, less than 1 week before chopping. I couldn't argue that choice, I did not know if it was right or wrong. 268 posts 3001 views and no one said flushing or leaching was wrong at the end. I still don't know if it was the right choice. I would have let it dry out till harvest.
Any and all opinions? Flush/leach or let it dry out?
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Just taper off nutes at the end then let it dry out before chopping. Starving a plant is never helpful unless it's been overfed.
It also helps to keep humidity as low as possible during the last couple of weeks.
 
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