Next grow Prep Questions

[UrbZ]

I was thinking of doing a few things different on this grow 1st I am going to do low stress growing as possible so Im going to plant right in 3 gallons from the start to avoid any transplanting.

I also want to run my nutes from the beginning more like in hydro or coco.

So can I flush my 3 gallons with enough water to get rid of starting nutrients? I planned on using 5.8 pH'D water to also get the soil into the correct pH range for initial planting.


Thanks in advance.

[Canuck147]

Your talking about soil?
If it's a yes, then yes. Flush with six gallons, and always pH your water. It's good practice.
I usually make sure I've given my plants nutes at least twice before topping.
I practice the feedings as - nutes/nutes/flush - all the way until it's just flush.

[UrbZ]

Yes sir it is in soil.

I plan on buying 12-15 gallons of r/o just for the intial flush. Get the soil to a good starting pH and lowest ppm possible. Before my seed ever goes in then I plan on feeding a much more rigorous diet.

Thank you!

[Locrian99]

Good info I think I’d rather start with a cleaner medium and have more control on what you out in rather than waiting for what’s there to be used up.

[DingusKhan]

Sounds cool!

[UrbZ]

Yes and plant size in correlation to pot size is huge. The size of my 3 plants in flower are ridiculous for a 4x4.

[DingusKhan]

Yeah they are. It's pretty lush in UrbZ tent.

[Locrian99]

It’s great reading these threads things I don’t think about etc being an issue. I debated going to 7 gallon in my 4x4 for four plants. Current plan is 5. I have 6 plants in 2 gallons right now in a 32”x32”x63” watered them all yesterday. My humidity has been pretty solid in the 45-55 range, hit 67 post watering.

[Waltermelon]

Why not just run Coco? I think you're going through too much trouble TRYING to rinse out the nutrition in the soil. Honestly you won't know if you rinsed it all out until you have some kind of wierd problem. Then trying to diagnose a problem and have no idea what's in the soil. Coco is super easy to work with and much much less of a mess. With your set up how you're talking about you'll get soil growth rates and results and none of the coco/hydro results. I don't see many good things about using soil period. Then you're talking about adding in wierd nutrient issues you'll run into along the way, just grab a block or bag of the tried and true coco. You won't go back to soil.

[Waltermelon]

If you aren't wanting to waste the soil you could always veg in the soil with solo cups then a few weeks in to veg you can transplant the solo cup into a larger pot of coco? A few weeks in you can use up most of the nutrition in the soil. It will be enough substrate to sustain them for a month and not have to worry about feeding them. That way you can use the soil AND the coco?

[Waltermelon]

You can also use the soil nutes in the coco. There isn't really a huge difference in how they work. N-p-k is n-p-k.

[Locrian99]

My understanding is you need to water coco much more frequently. A 3 day camping trip in soil no problem could you go 3 days w/out watering coco