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Zarayju
Zarayjustarted grow question 6 months ago
Is it ok if I flush coco with normal water before adding the nutrient water? I don't want to waste nutrients by watering till runoff with them
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001100010010011110answered grow question 6 months ago
You only need 10% runoff. If you don't want to do that, go with hydroponics or go with soil. The various ways to accomplish what you want involve flooding the roots for a period of time before fertilization and tying to blindly balance the resulting EC while maintaining some consistency. This will have a domino effect of negative repercussions that may not be seen for weeks or even a month+ later, but they will evenetually happen and something that would have bveen totally avoidable by just doing it the correct way with 10% runoff waste water. If your nutrients are that expensive, buy a different brand. Fertilizer should be cheap. It's made from a pool of potential ingredients that are all ubiquitous commodities. If you paid a premium, you paid for a name. My soilless/hydro nutes mix up at less than 4 cents per gallon. Losing less than a penny per 1gallon irrigation is an acceptable loss given the value it adds and the simplicity of maintaining a consistent "goldielocks" rootzone (well, once you refine the formula to work with 99% of every pot plant, which should only take 2-3 grows to accomplish in a soilless context with good products). There is a domino effect of positive, value-added things caused by the religious 10% runoff. It is not waste. It is providing necessary function. Oh, you can use that waste water outside. It's just no good for a potted plant of any kind. Go toss it on your outside garden or something, then it isn't "wasted"
AutoflowersSucK
AutoflowersSucKanswered grow question 6 months ago
Just water with your nutrient mix. You don't need runoff till way later into flower so don't stress about wasting nutrients out the bottom. Look at my last Journal of Biscotti Mintz run. I flushed 1 time out the bottom with a 1000ppm mix of nutrients, and that was at day 21 of flower. And that's it. Side note. Beware of this questions section. There is a lot of bullshit advice on here from people that copy n paste from google and pretend they are some legendary grower, or just plain dummies that really don't know shit but want to answer as many questions and get selected the most to win shit. It's fuckin stupid beyond belief.
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