Flushing???

How much water should you give your plant when flushing, they are in ten litre pots??

Give the same amount that you normally would. Usually you want 10% run off.

run 3x the amount of the size of your pot. so if your growing in a 1 gallon pot you wanna run 3 gallons of water through it

Hey max,Should I do that every day until I chop them and how many days would be best to flush for?? Thanks for help.

So is that wat I should do???????????

smokedog1 said:

So is that wat I should do???????????

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That's not good advice. I grow in 5 gallon pots, does that mean I need 15 gallons of flush water? No, that is over watering to the tenth degree and not good for the plant.

Well how much water is correct amount brewer!?

homebrewer said:

That's not good advice. I grow in 5 gallon pots, does that mean I need 15 gallons of flush water? No, that is over watering to the tenth degree and not good for the plant.

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How can you over water when your pots have holes in the bottom?

smokedog1 said:

Well how much water is correct amount brewer!?

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The amount of water needed for flushing depends on your soil's composition. If your medium drys out quickly and you have incredibly good drainage, then dump a lot of flush water through your pots. Maybe 3 times the volume is fine in that case. At least dump as much flush water though as you have soil in your pot. But if you're like me and only have about 10% perlite and 40% vermiculite, the medium tends to hold water for several days before it needs watered again. In my case, I flush with the same volume as I water with but do it for the last 2-3 waterings.

How can you over water when your pots have holes in the bottom?

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Your medium holds water and while excess drains out the bottom, completely and totally saturating your medium can be bad for your roots if your soil isn't set up to drain that kind of volume.

It can rot your roots to hell!!!

i just water like normal dont run huge ammounts through... maybe you could run extra the first time and let the water drain straight into a bath or sink...