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[SowReapRepeat]

I have some 7 and 5 gallon pots with coco/perlite and grow dots. I’m about to harvest and started flushing. In deep stoner thought while watching water absorb, aren’t the grow dots still dissolving and giving off nutrients? Wondering if that will effect the taste Scotty?

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[rollin-fattys]

Couple questions….

What week of flower are you in?

What dosage of dots did you use per container?

How long did you veg in grow dots prior to flipping the light cycle?

Obviously Scotty would be the best to answer this although in my experience with grow dots by day 63-70 the plants are ready. When I use Dots I grow in 5 gallon containers with coco, worm casting and pumice for aeration. I used 75grams of dots, veg for 30 days then flip and would get a gorgeous fade by day 60 sometimes a bit later but around there. It’s normal to see dots left over in the medium if that’s your concern.

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[jmystro]

This is a plant dependent question. Grow Dots will run out of nutrition if timed right assuming you know the plant. Short flowering types would need to vegged a little longer than recommended to ensure little is left at the end. Grow Dots can veg a plant for over a month and still have 10 weeks+ of nutrient release during the transition and flower. Something that finishes in 8 weeks you may want to veg for 6-8 weeks.

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[rollin-fattys]

100% agree. The way I used them worked for what I had been growing at the time, which was a bunch of plants by square one genetics and they came out fire!

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[Scrog_Dog]

2nd grow using grow dots. Up till that I was using the entire Fox Farm line and schedule for feeding and flushing. The schedule flushes every few weeks to keep the salts from building up. Now I’m going last 2 weeks just water and then shop vac the trays out. Seems to work well for me.

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[Angus420]

Technically if you follow the instructions on the gro dots package and pay attention to what Scotty talks about, then you will release during the last 2 weeks, the gro dots are dissolving into nothing. And you are Technically flushing. By the end of the grow the grow dots are just empty shells and has been the last week of the grow. So if you’re argument is that you do have to flush with dots then you would be correct in the sense that according to the packaging you are flushing. Of course it’s labeled as a fade out and not flushing.

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[SowReapRepeat]

I just realized I didn’t mention they were autos, I had slow growth due to cold temps at night, so these girls from fast buds say 10 week to harvest, I’m on week 12 and showing no discoloration of leaves in 7 gallon pots, the 5 gallon pot has half yellow leaves today. I flushed 2 times in last 7 days. NOT the recommended “double the pot size worth of water.” I flushed about 3 gallons per 7gl pot. I also started bottom feeding this grow, so I took the wicks out of them so they just catch the runoff.

One great thing about the Grow Dots is that I did not have any deficiencies or toxicities. I just used Recharge, silica, Ca/Mg and growdots. This is a quick pic of Gorilla strawberry

• This reply was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by  SowReapRepeat. Reason: Pic description

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[pacnw-dan]

Grow Dots were never marketed as being targeted to “all growers.” There are definitely large swaths of growers who wouldn’t benefit from using them.

The specific target is the “set it and forget it” type who just wants to basically water, glance at a calendar once in a while, and enjoy the results.

That said, I run them. For me, it’s enabled me to easily run different plants on different flowering schedules in the same tent. At 5-6 weeks veg, I move a plant into the flower tent. I have 3 different flowering plants right now, all at various weeks of flower, and all I do is pour the same water into every single pot in flower and in veg. I add about 5ml/gal of NewMil RubyFul and some Recharge once a week as well, which is really all the “flushing” any media needs.

I know a lot of other growers for whom Grow Dots just won’t work with their grow styles, and in truth there are a couple limitations even for me that I just need to work around, the biggest of which is that if I decide I want to flower a plant, I have to up pot that plant into Grow Dots and then veg it for another 5 weeks before I can move it into flower. But as long as I plan things a few months out (it just takes a few minutes’ prep) Grow Dots are a fantastic product for their niche.

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