Watering ?

[Honest al]

Starting to flush today , and wondering if I can totally submerge the plant and pot in a bucket of water for a minute or two ? Growing indoors and approximately 7 days to go . Good or bad idea ?

 

[orangesunshine]

thought the point of flushing was to rinse nutes from the top of the pot thru the drain holes---submerging seems it would just water log the plant---i don't flush and never bought into the theory of it anyway so good luck with that---7 days to harvest wooohooo

 

[AladinSane]

My "flush" consists of using plain water only for the last week to 10 days of watering.

 

[WeedHopper]

Never flushed anything but the toilet.
But i would never submerge my girl with big buds.

 

[Papa Indica]

No, I wouldn't submerge it/them. Pour water through them instead. If I remember right the standard is like 3x the amount of your pot size. So if you have a 3 gallon pot you want to run a total of 9 gallons through for a thorough flush. Which as I understand it is more about the removal of salts from your medium than anything else. So if you're not using a salt based nutrient(s) (EDTA) then it's not necessary. Some would argue that it's not anyway but I usually switch to just water and molasses for the last couple weeks if I'm using a watered in nutrient system. If using an organic soil mix they're pretty much just getting those two anyway...for the most part at least.

Good luck!

 

[Honest al]

No, I wouldn't submerge it/them. Pour water through them instead. If I remember right the standard is like 3x the amount of your pot size. So if you have a 3 gallon pot you want to run a total of 9 gallons through for a thorough flush. Which as I understand it is more about the removal of salts from your medium than anything else. So if you're not using a salt based nutrient(s) (EDTA) then it's not necessary. Some would argue that it's not anyway but I usually switch to just water and molasses for the last couple weeks if I'm using a watered in nutrient system. If using an organic soil mix they're pretty much just getting those two anyway...for the most part at least.

Good luck!

Got it , thanks .