DWC flushing

[wjr]

hey guys whats up hope everyone is having a good smoke... this is problly a stupid question but i was just wondering how do u go about flushing a dwc setup? do u have a bucket with ph adjusted water and pull your plants up in the netted pot and dunk the roots in the bucket to was the nute build up off of them or do u not need to flush in a dwc setup...just a bit curiouse about it .. peace out

[Chato]

Hi wjr,

 

You just empty the bucket then fill it with plain water and let plant sit in it for 24-48hrs.

 

peace

c

[bilabonic]

My mate sets PH and EC then just dunks plant in. Does it weekly.

[Indycar]

I usually do a combo of what both Chato 'n bilbonic mentioned, with a bit of my own twist on top of it.

 

Firstly, I fill up a plastic rubbish bin 2 or 3 day before I intend to flush. So it has time for the chlorine to evapourate and PH balance and monitor it for that time.

 

Once it comes to the day I flush, I dump the old nutrient solution out of the DWC system. Then hook the system up to tap (town water) and fill the system up to the very top, then I dump that as well.

 

Once that has fully drained, I shut off the drainage and then fill the system up with the PH Balanced water that I prepped 2 or 3 days earlier. I usually cycle that through the DWC system between 24 to 96 hours.

 

Depending to what stage of the grow I'm at. If I'm still going through the vegging/budding stage I'll prepare another batch of nutrients and get that PH balanced over that time (1 to 4 days). But if I'm onto the final flush, before harvest. It's just a case of preparing another batch of PH balanced water. Because when it comes to final flush, I like to do two batches of PH balanced water, over the period of a week or so.

 

A little out there I know, It's just the routine I've managed to get into.