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Accidentally watered with runoff

Grindlife219
Grindlife219started grow question 2 days ago
I made a big mistake and accidentally watered one of my plants with the run off from a bunch of my plants I was planning to throw out im planning on changing pots and flipping next week should I just transplant that one now
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00110001001001111Oanswered grow question 19 hours ago
Runoff is fine. In a pre-amended soil, the worst thing that happened is that you leached off a little bit of nutrients you paid for. no big deal. You should always have a minimal amount of runoff to ensure you fully saturated the soil. Never half-ass an irrigation, never water superficially. Always fully saturate, and a little runoff ensures that. so, this should happen more times than not when you irrigate correctly. Otherwise, you are training superficial roots and elevating risks of other things. 1) fully saturate 2) wait for top 1" to dry and repeat... This is as simple as it gets for soil. If coco, you don't wait for 1" deep because that media holds significantly less water per volume. If doing this causes anyn problems, it is a direct cause of a poorly constituted soil. Add more perlite in future. (50% for a heavy soil, 33% for coco) If soilless, 10% runoff or more is required to do it right. It is part of how that method functions.
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m0use
m0useanswered grow question a day ago
should be fine. just do it right next time. Run off is not toxic to the plant just has all the left over bits that was not used and can buldup over time.
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yan402
yan402answered grow question a day ago
ps, I use my runoff to water my tomatoe plants on the balcony so no it ain't a huge problem lol
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yan402
yan402answered grow question a day ago
Why panic? 💧 It’s just runoff, not nuclear waste. If it came from healthy plants and wasn’t sitting too long, you’re probably fine. If you're flipping and transplanting next week anyway, just ride it out. Keep an eye on her, maybe water a bit extra next time to dilute it further. Worst case? Slight stress, nothing terminal. You got this.
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Ninjabuds
Ninjabudsanswered grow question a day ago
He there do not toss your plant this will cause 0 problems your run off is fairly clean water don’t worry really don’t worry I have watered plant with plain tap water b4 and never ph adjusted the water for while grows and the plate still turned out decent Just next time you water plants make sure to collect some run off water and test that waters ph to get an idea of the ph the soil is at
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gREEn7o0
gREEn7o0answered grow question 2 days ago
My 2 cents, and thats about all their worth: I think if you up pot it a week earlier than the others it may get a jump start at growing bigger and the rest may have a hard time catching up, if its smaller than the rest I would transplant today, if it is bigger I would not. Tha said if it is the same size and growing about the same as the rest of the keepers my plan would be to simply flush it a little bit to wash some of the runoff out, then feed as you normally would. If you are going to runoff anyways the extra water flushing through before feeding isn't going to cause any issues as long as your feeding it what it wants after.
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