light leak question.

AltarNation

AltarNation

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Budist said:
dont flush until final flush. Look at my plants... I feed nutes everyday. no plane water until final flush
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I'd agree but would amend that with saying that if you NEED to flush you will definitely know it. (Talking about flushing excess nutes mid-grow due to overfeed and/or salts from non-organic ferts locking out nute uptake... also often referred to as "leeching" rather than flushing to avoid confusion with the end-of-grow flushes many do.)

When a plant needs to be leeched/flushed of salt build up in the medium, you will notice it won't uptake the fluids you add, regardless of whether it's nutes or a regular watering... it will wilt heavily, but that wilt cannot be cured by watering. Further, the medium will take longer than usual to dry up (because the plant is not taking the salty water) and while it might seem like you overwatered, it will only wilt more and more even when you leave it be to dry. If you see this pattern developing, flush immediately with 3x the container volume of clean, tepid, ph balanced water. You will see the plant recover drastically over the next couple days.
 
Budist

Budist

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AltarNation said:
I'd agree but would amend that with saying that if you NEED to flush you will definitely know it. (Talking about flushing excess nutes mid-grow due to overfeed and salt locking out nute uptake... also often referred to as "leeching" rather than flushing to avoid confusion with the end-of-grow flushes many do.)

When a plant needs to be leeched/flushed of salt build up in the medium, you will notice it won't uptake the fluids you add, regardless of whether it's nutes or a regular watering... it will wilt heavily, but that wilt cannot be cured by watering. Further, the medium will take longer than usual to dry up (because the plant is not taking the salty water) and while it might seem like you overwatered, it will only wilt more and more even when you leave it be to dry. If you see this pattern developing, flush immediately with 3x the container volume of clean, tepid, ph balanced water.
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thanks for typing all of that for me :hump:
 
AltarNation

AltarNation

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Budist said:
I was going to start getting to that subject and when I got back to this thread you did it for me
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Yeah, I get it. You were busy being awesome so you didn't awesome him enough and now my awesome is overshadowed by your awesome. Well played. ;)
 
Frame

Frame

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Ya I saw em, drooling! Quick question nothing to do withthis. Does calcium def cause leaves to rip or make holes? Since it has to do with the cells?
 
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