What is the ppm of everyone’s last feeds?
I use my well water @~180ppm (decent analysis with PH 7.2) for the last week-ish. I also water less volume per feeding than I normally would by about 20%. And harvest occurs on a day that would have otherwise been a water day.
I don’t consider this anything close to a flush. Nor do I consider it a feeding. This is just end of cycle norm. Once again, flushing is a terrible way to end your plants life and that is not based upon my opinion.
A flush is a medium reset. Running water through until a desired ph or ppm is reached through slurry analysis. Flushing your plant at the end of its life cycle will suffocate the roots and negatively effect (ie confuse) all plant functions at a critical point in the grow. Which is also fact and not my opinion.
All you guys that have been doing this for a long time obviously know what you are doing have the ability to micromanage your pH levels and nutrient feedings, etc. etc.
But growing in soil in a greenhouse is a whole different animal. I have no illusions of attaining maximum yields, as I am struggling just to keep these babies alive.
My plants have to regularly endure daily temperature fluctuations that can go from 60° at night to over 85° when the sun is out during the day. One 25° night my heater tripped a breaker and the temp in the greenhouse fell to 32° before I came aware of it at 3 AM. Cranked up the propane heater and had it back up to mid 70s within the hour, but… These are hearty plants and survived the trauma, although I do not know the stress effect.
Even though I have had an organic vegetable garden for years, this is definitely a challenge, but I am giving it my best shot, And I am learning a lot as this is my first attempt at growing MJ in the greenhouse in the winter. Overnight temperatures in the mid teens tonight with wind chills of 0°, hitting a high of 18° tomorrow.
Good thing there’s a Pandemic on cause I can’t leave my house as these babies need almost constant monitoring.
I appreciate all the feedback and knowledge you guys are willing to share. Wish I could share some of this beautiful smoke if/when I can successfully bring it to harvest.