Transplant from Soil to DWH for Flushing..???

[Stosh]

I have been thinking of the DWH (deep water hydro) method to flush my currently soil growing girls when the time comes to Flush. I have experimented last fall with this method with a pepper plant late last summer and the plant had stayed alive for a couple weeks with just plain water. So for flushing purposes, has anyone ever tried this
soil to Hydro method? Or would anyone have an opinion on this?

 

[insomniaczzz]

Hopefully someone else will come along and answer, but I have never heard of anyone (on this site) switching from soil to hydro to do a flush. Simple stop nutrients and water with plain pH corrected water for a week or so prior to harvest.

 

[South Sierra Dude]

Next time you harvest try to separate a root ball from its substrate.

 

[Eliot Pryor]

Disturbing the roots on a flowering plant does not sound like a good plan.

 

[Stosh]

Thanks for the opinions and comments. I will be doing this as a controlled experiment with one of the 2 "Light of Jah" girls to see if there is any positive or negative outcomes.
The process will consist of removing the plant and substrate from 2gal soil container 2-3 days before expected harvest, and placing gently into 5gal bucket of Distilled H20. Letting the soil and roots separate, to hopefully have bare roots to then submerge in another fresh 5 gal H20 with air stone at the bottom. For a period of 2-3 days, changing the H20 every 24hrs.
I will post any findings, differences and results.

 

[South Sierra Dude]

Subbed. It's like a car crash.

 

[Stosh]

The test has proved to be an overall more effective way to flush the root system before harvest.
3 separate grows and 3 controlled tests performed. The results as a whole showed a 50% cleaner taste than with just flushing soil alone @ equal parts water to soil voulme compared to 5 gal water and air stone.

 

[oldjarhead100]

I had some plants in coco and transplanted into dirt I dipped them in water until most of the coco was off and in the dirt they went so far so good ,if your careful you should be ok