Flushing

[M1Dnite]

Hi and good evening/morning/afternoon.

Possibly a daft question.

But I was thinking....

When we flush our plants especially when we run into a nutrient lockout or even before harvest...
How do you gather the water. We can't just bring our plants into the bathroom and turn on the taps can we ? straight tap water can't be doing our plants any favours. This does seem to be the easiest way.

I'm asking this because I recently flushed my plants due to a potential lockout as the run off was coming out at the acidic end of a PH of 5..during the process I ended up running out of pH adjusted water. I had filled up just 6 x 5 litre drums of tap water that I left out to dechlorinate. It took approximately 15 litres of water to get the run off adjusted to where it should be for just one plant. It took almost a whole week to flush 6 plants because I obviously have to continuously refill the 5 litre containers and let them sit in order for the chlorine to evaporate which takes far too much time. Is there an easier way upon doing this other than using straight tap water or having quadruple the amount of 1 gallon containers.

Any thoughts? Is it OK to just use straight tap water.

I don't know if I should even ask by creating such a thread. But I just can't get my head around it.

 

[Trichome farmer]

Hi and good evening/morning/afternoon.

Possibly a daft question.

But I was thinking....

When we flush our plants especially when we run into a nutrient lockout or even before harvest...
How do you gather the water. We can't just bring our plants into the bathroom and turn on the taps can we ? straight tap water can't be doing our plants any favours. This does seem to be the easiest way.

I'm asking this because I recently flushed my plants due to a potential lockout as the run off was coming out at the acidic end of a PH of 5..during the process I ended up running out of pH adjusted water. I had filled up just 6 x 5 litre drums of tap water that I left out to dechlorinate. It took approximately 15 litres of water to get the run off adjusted to where it should be for just one plant. It took almost a whole week to flush 6 plants because I obviously have to continuously refill the 5 litre containers and let them sit in order for the chlorine to evaporate which takes far too much time. Is there an easier way upon doing this other than using straight tap water or having quadruple the amount of 1 gallon containers.

Any thoughts? Is it OK to just use straight tap water.

I don't know if I should even ask by creating such a thread. But I just can't get my head around it.

not too sure on this but ecothrive make a dechlorinateing product is fairly cheap if you can get it

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

Are you on municipal water? if so you should be able to go out on the internet and get a water quality report. If you do not have chloramines then aeration is good for most of the time but it wont hurt to water without aerating it occasionally or for a flush. Just do not water every day like that.

 

[Son of Hobbes]

Are you on municipal water? if so you should be able to go out on the internet and get a water quality report. If you do not have chloramines then aeration is good for most of the time but it wont hurt to water without aerating it occasionally or for a flush. Just do not water every day like that.

Calling your city hall/town hall would be another way to request a copy, all that should be on file.

 

[NorthernLights_420]

I dont waste my time flushing. I've tried it and compared it to non flushed plants and no difference to me in smell or taste or burn or ash. It's all the same. Waste of time and starves the plant of nutrients when she needs them most. Last few weeks they fatten up. Take away the plants food and you might get a little smaller of a harvest in my opinion.

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

I dont waste my time flushing. I've tried it and compared it to non flushed plants and no difference to me in smell or taste or burn or ash. It's all the same. Waste of time and starves the plant of nutrients when she needs them most. Last few weeks they fatten up. Take away the plants food and you might get a little smaller of a harvest in my opinion.

Yes I agree with not flushing for harvest. I was talking about flushing for a lock-out.

 

[M1Dnite]

Aww excellent some replies.
I actually thought I'm not getting replies on this thread. So thanks for replying.


@ northernlights I wasn't really meaning about a flush before harvest. I should have been more specific. I apologise.... It's merely for a lockout. I've heard of some people running the garden hose through their plants but that had me thinking that they are running straight tap water. Which sounds nasty.

@ trichome farmer

Any idea what the product is called dude.?

@ man o

I don't know what you mean by municipal. But I'll Google it. Cheers duder

Seems like the only way is to buy more containers in order to let the chlorine evaporate.

OR.

Flush the lockout with straight unadjusted tapwater... then when you get the run off buffered... Head back to using pH adjusted water with a little nutrition.

Christ it seems like I start answering my own questions one I've heard everyone else's contribution.

I'm definitely switching to Coco. Growing in soil seems absolutely crazy to do when we have the option to use coco.

Cheers an all the best

 

[Uro]

I would still ph the water. Do one plant at a time. I also sit my plant on something so the water freely runs out the bottom. Like a milk crate.

I suggest backing off the feeding to avoid any flushing. It takes a lot out of the plant. First getting locked out and then recovery. Depending on when it happens it's never good.

 

[Proph]

Running gallons of "water" or water in general, into your soil is not how you adjust the ph of the "soil".. Just want to throw that out there! Also, checking the ph of the run off is not how you check the ph of the soil.. If the run off ph is in the 5 range, you'll want to find out why! In your case, excess nutrients sitting in a pot can often be or become acidic. Im leaning towards that being the reason for the low ph. Using plain, unadjusted tap water to "flush" out excess nutrients will never be worse than overfeeding. If you want to know the ph of your soil (which is RARELY the issue) do a slurry test or buy a soil ph probe. You also need a ppm meter to know when the ppms are back in range, and when flushing is no longer needed. Coco is 1000% less forgiving than soil.. And you'll be checking/adjusting ph/ppms everyday. If you do not yet understand the difference between soil ph, and runoff ph, you will run into the same issues, if not worse, in coco. Don't look for the easy way to grow, lol. Just spend the time to learn the basics and it will get you much further than you'd imagine.