Fruit by the 4ft

Missed the last two weeks but it's been a lot of trouble shooting. The nutrient burn was spot on, after two weeks where I flushed the plant by just feeding water but not removing any runoff (will do this in the future) the soul kept getting bogged down with nutrients, specifically for the strawberry cough. The pineapple haze didn't have the nutrient burn but it did start getting a little too high in the nutrient burn.I went to local hydroponic store they recommended recharge and Herculean harvest to try and do a fish. I didn't realize how nutrient-heavy the soil was luckily these plants can handle it I finally got a PPM meter and also a pH meter digital and took readings of the runoff and we were nearly at 4,000 for strawberry cough which is almost double where it should be at this point. that told me we needed to flush it so I got some RO water just now and ran about 4 gallons through each one The PPMs are well below where they should be now and I feel a lot better now that I've learned more. I'm going to just let them sit for maybe about a day and do a light feeding in a day or two from now it doesn't seem like I've hurt the plant too much The pineapple haze is doing just fine she's a little stunted but that makes sense she probably got too much nitrogen and that stunted her growth same with the strawberry cough and I think that's why we saw a slowdown in their growth and also water uptake. One new thing I learned is that a lot of nutrients use salt as the as the binding element to get nutrients into the plant and the plant, just like all things pee it out and end up putting salt in the soil, obviously the plant can't move so the salt builds up around the root base and that's why it flushes important because you literally need to flush your plants toilet for them. over feeding them only makes this worse because now they're salt with nutrients and salt in their urine byproducts. Plants stall out and starts showing signs of nutrient deficiencies which then you overfeed like a schmuck and only hurt it more. it looks like I caught this in time there's only slight damage on the leaves which look almost like a calcium deficiency on the strawberry cough plant only. I think my next feed I'm going to do a bio-thrive bloom with a little bit of the Herculean harvest which is a 0-6-0 but uses calcium instead of salt which is also going to help the calcium deficiency and then also feed it a heavy feeding of calcium to get the nutrients in the soil back up. if I was to redo the grow I would plan for at least 3 to 4 flushes maybe every 3 weeks especially if I'm doing heavy feedings now that I understand what a flush actually does. there's also another product called sledgehammer by I believe Fox farms that helps strip out all the nutrients in the soil when you do a flush for this exact purpose so you can go right back to feeding.Right now we're going to just monitor the plants for a little bit and if they have to linger in flour that's okay. Herculean harvest also has phosphorus which will help with the flowering and bulking.