During the vegetative stage, how often should you flush and water the plants with just PH water? And in that solution is root flushing stuff good?
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What kind of growing medium are you using and what kind of nutes?
I am using Happy Frog soil and for nutes, I start out light for the first 4 weeks, pretty much just ph water for foliar and soil maybe like an eighth of tspn cal mag per gallon if even that, I am debating it. But, really just worm compost tea and root solution in smaller amounts for the first four weeks and then I just have absolutely everything you can think of for after that, which i measure with ppms.
So I don’t flush unless something is way off with soil ph. When I do, sometimes Just use plain ph water and sometimes I use the FF Sledgehammer. Always follow up with 1/4 strength nutes. Heck, I don’t even flush anymore before harvest… I honestly never saw a difference but some people swear by it (along with dark periods which I can’t do outdoors LOL)
Water the plants when the pot feels light or you stick you finger in up to the second knuckle and it’s dry, dry…
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I use same soil. Frog is good for 4 weeks. I uppot 4 times so i never need nutes until flowering.
Proof of Life
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as in transplant? 
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Flushing should be a last resort to correct soil issues like PH or accumulated salts in the root zone. Water and feed alternating these to run off. Collect a sample and test the run off PH and PPMs, this will let you know to water or feed
I follow the FF flush schedule. Every like 4 weeks. It isnt even about fixing the soil for me, the plants are always SUPER happy looking after. It has zero negative effects as far as I can see, only positive.
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Yes. Seedling cup to quart
Quart to gallon
Gallon to 2.3 gallon
2.3 gallon to 5 gallon
@Bonjoyle what nutes do you introduce after week 4? I’m on day 19 of my first grow and used Happy Frog as well.
I think that he said that he did not have to use nutes because he changes pots and soil often enough.
Good eyes @justinsloan. That is correct. I do not use any nutes from germ to flower. 4 weeks after the last transplant into the 5 gallon is when I start adding the calmag and bloom nutes every 10 days until she is done. There is root science behind my decision to transplant 4 times each grow. And to answer your other question in the title, I run about 2 gallons 7.0 pH distilled RO through her 2 days before the final transplant. I truly keep my grows very simple and only react when she needs something. I don’t give her stuff just to do it.
The pic I am trying to upload is a web file so it is not letting me. Here is a link with a diagram of how the roots spread when transplanting vs planting a baby in a 5 gallon.
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