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Wizthc
Wizthcstarted grow question 19 days ago
Hey guys im about to start flushing after 1-2 days and currently im using RO water and on every watering im adding first potassium silicate and then calmag and nutes but when im flushing should i water them with pure RO or can i ad only potassium silicate or both silicate calmag
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Spike_KCanG
Spike_KCanGanswered grow question 17 days ago
Doesn't flushing mean, flushing the soil and plant of all the nutrients? Why would you want to add nutrients if you are intending to get all nutrients out? Or did you not mean flushing?
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001100010010011110
001100010010011110answered grow question 19 days ago
If you provide some nutes, might as well give a full diet. Flushing is bro science. Do you see people "flushing" plants outside? No, because that would be absurd. give water only if you want to be lazy, but don't think it is some sort of value-added behaviour. Flushing is a tool for a severe problem and shouldn't be don'e whimsically. I'd wager if anything a drastic shift in chemistry for no reason at the end is a net-negative. At minimum it'd fuck with osmosis/diffusion that needs a certain goldilocks zone of concentration gradients inside and outside cells to be optimally effective.
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 19 days ago
Plain water.........nothing else.
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Beadle420
Beadle420answered grow question 19 days ago
When I flush or leach at the end it's water only. I cut silica off at end of week 3 or 4. You can add cal mag, I do a water with calcium sulphate next to last week and then calcium carbonate the last week, instead of using calmag. Hope this helps
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