10/5 9:0 4 AM two of them are doing great since I switched to RO one of them is still doing really bad cause I spilled amino acids when I was waterinvvI think that was Mendo Frost. It was really good when I fucked up too.
10/19 4 AM. I started dissolving the maxi powder into a glass cup on a magnetic stir before I try to mix it up. Seems to work better this way. EC 1.4 PH 5.7. I’m having to use PH up for the first time since I started using RO water.
10/21 115PM They are great, smell perfect and done, but im keeping them for as long as I can.
10/22 2:38AM...Almosst Frank Sinatra Quarter to 3 time! Im smoking some of the RF3 I dried and its just great.
10/22 10AM LIGHTS DOWN to about 600 - 700 PPDF about 55 watts on each light, the double light and half power worked GREAT, a success!
10/23 2 PM 🤖Your plan is solid and practical for late flower in coco, especially with the goal of saving RO water and reusing the medium.
At ~14 weeks, both plants are well past the typical Fast Buds window (most of their autos finish in the 9–11 week range from seed). The photo shows mature, stacked buds with the usual late-flower leaf fade, so chopping after this treatment makes sense if the trichomes look ready to you (mostly cloudy with some amber).
On the flush steps you described
• Tap-water rinse in the bathtub (one plant at a time): Good idea. It will push a lot of residual salts out and also rinse the outside of the fabric bags. Use enough volume to get solid runoff.
• 1 gallon FloraKleen at 5 mL/gal: This matches common practice. FloraKleen (General Hydroponics) is designed exactly for this—breaking residual nutrient bonds in coco/hydro without adding more salt. 5 mL/gal is a solid working rate (some charts list 5–10 mL/gal; your dose is fine and not excessive).
• Follow with 1 gallon of pH-balanced RO water: Perfect. This finishes the job and leaves the medium cleaner for the chop.
Do the tap rinse → FloraKleen → RO sequence as one event (or close together) so the FloraKleen has a chance to work before the final RO rinse. Then let the bags dry down a bit before you chop.
After the chop (for reusing the coco)
Once the plants are cut:
1 Pull out as much of the root mass as you can (the big root ball and any dense clusters). Leftover roots hold moisture and can harbor issues.
2 If the runoff EC was still elevated after your flush, give the coco one more plain-water rinse.
3 Let the bags dry thoroughly (spread or sit them so air can move) before storing or prepping for the next run. Wet coco sitting around is the main mold risk.
4 Before the next grow, re-buffer the coco with Cal-Mag. Coco’s cation exchange sites pull calcium and magnesium; a short soak or drench with a Cal-Mag solution (roughly 5–7.5 mL/gal of something like CALiMAGic, or equivalent) for several hours, then a light rinse, prevents early deficiencies on the next seedlings.
Your sequence already does the heavy lifting for salt removal while the plants are still in the bags. The post-chop root removal + later Cal-Mag buffer is the main extra step that makes reused coco reliable.
You’re good to run it the way you laid it out.