bk78
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Yup definitely overwatering I think. I’ll try harder next run.
How do you drain your runoff?
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radrolley
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In soil I don't drain any run off. I use 7 gallon pots. When the plants get big I never give them more than 3/4 of a gallon of water(less when smaller). I always let them dry out before watering again. Any water that falls in the trey I leave because the bottom of the plant sucks it up in minutes. If that water was to stay that would mean that it is being watered way too much.
If you're doing like hydro with hand watering and it's making the trey overflow, I would use a bucket underneath to catch the water. If you need to keep the container from falling in the bucket then put something tall and slim under the container. Or drill holes in the upper sides of the bucket and slide something thru the holes like bamboo sicks or anything that can support the weight. I've done hand watering with rockwool before and swapped they trey for dry one. Then dump the old trey in the sink and rinse it off for next time. I watered those everyday and never once did I have a problem with too much water running off after dumping the trey once.
If in soil I would highly recommend just watering less. If you're not watering too much, then water slower. If your soil is dry enough and you water fast, the soil doesnt absorb the water as fast and will fall into the trey until it gets absorbed from the bottom up like a sponge. If you still have water after this, then that was too much. Cannabis does not like stagnant water. Over watering can be easy to do on accident. Too much over watering can cause a world of problems. It promotes mold, pests, and hurts the plant because the roots can't get enough oxygen. Hydro like DWC can stay in water 24/7 because the water is highly aerated. At least should be.
There are people that like to 'flush' their plants. I used to do it but found it to be pointless after just feeding less and moving to organics. I still know growers that do this that grow great stuff. In this case better off just putting the plant in a shower or tub imo. That's what I did anyway. Best of luck!
If you're doing like hydro with hand watering and it's making the trey overflow, I would use a bucket underneath to catch the water. If you need to keep the container from falling in the bucket then put something tall and slim under the container. Or drill holes in the upper sides of the bucket and slide something thru the holes like bamboo sicks or anything that can support the weight. I've done hand watering with rockwool before and swapped they trey for dry one. Then dump the old trey in the sink and rinse it off for next time. I watered those everyday and never once did I have a problem with too much water running off after dumping the trey once.
If in soil I would highly recommend just watering less. If you're not watering too much, then water slower. If your soil is dry enough and you water fast, the soil doesnt absorb the water as fast and will fall into the trey until it gets absorbed from the bottom up like a sponge. If you still have water after this, then that was too much. Cannabis does not like stagnant water. Over watering can be easy to do on accident. Too much over watering can cause a world of problems. It promotes mold, pests, and hurts the plant because the roots can't get enough oxygen. Hydro like DWC can stay in water 24/7 because the water is highly aerated. At least should be.
There are people that like to 'flush' their plants. I used to do it but found it to be pointless after just feeding less and moving to organics. I still know growers that do this that grow great stuff. In this case better off just putting the plant in a shower or tub imo. That's what I did anyway. Best of luck!
Jimdamick
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A healthy pot plant can exist for 3 days at least without water, if it's not defoliated.
That's what rookies don't understand, that every leave on the plant serves a purpose.
Fan leaves hold water & are the plants solar panel in a way & if removed, you've fucked your plant.
Next time just let the plant do it's thing, it knows what it's doing
bk78
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I have 8 plants. Each plant gets fed 3 times a day with 2 litres each feed. They don’t seem overwatered
twentyeight.threefive
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There are better things out there than soil brother.A healthy pot plant can exist for 3 days at least without water, if it's not defoliated.
That's what rookies don't understand, that every leave on the plant serves a purpose.
Fan leaves hold water & are the plants solar panel in a way & if removed, you've fucked your plant.
Next time just let the plant do it's thing, it knows what it's doing
bk78
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A healthy pot plant can exist for 3 days at least without water, if it's not defoliated.
That's what rookies don't understand, that every leave on the plant serves a purpose.
Fan leaves hold water & are the plants solar panel in a way & if removed, you've fucked your plant.
Next time just let the plant do it's thing, it knows what it's doing
I probably pull more off 4 plants as you do your 27. I got this trump
Jimdamick
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Your wasting your time/nutes.I have 8 plants. Each plant gets fed 3 times a day with 2 litres each feed. They don’t seem overwatered
What do you do to be able to do that?
When I was crazy about growing a long time ago, (I'm hydro) I would test PH twice a day & adjust to bring it too my sweet spot, which I cosider to be 6.0.
No more, I adjust every 3 days & it works fine
DO NOT FEED!!!! every watering, or you will develop an imbalance
Every 3rd watering is sufficient to add nutes.
NukaKola
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Kind of ghetto but I wanted something cheap that didn’t use up a lot of height as I have short ceilings.
Made trays out of OSB & pond liner and put corrugated roofing panels inside that are elevated about 6” off the trays. I made them slanted so all the runoff accumulates in the front middle corners where I use a HD bucket head to vac it out.
Made trays out of OSB & pond liner and put corrugated roofing panels inside that are elevated about 6” off the trays. I made them slanted so all the runoff accumulates in the front middle corners where I use a HD bucket head to vac it out.
bk78
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god you’re awful. Get back to the politics section.
bk78
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@MickFoster would crucify me if I fed only every 3 days
PadawanWarrior
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I know now that the election is over, all these political fools are in the grow sections now. If they would've only spent the amount of time and energy they put into that bullshit, they would actually know how to grow weed.
bk78
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Right?
guitarguy10
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I'm not growing in soil, I'm growing on coco coir.
Flushing is a hoax, it does nothing more then deprive your plant of vital nutrients in arguably the most important phase of it's growth (buds fattening up).
PadawanWarrior
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I'm telling you, they know nothing about growing weed. They're just bored unhappy old men.
bk78
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I see that. One reason I’ve never even clicked on the politics section
bk78
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About 5% can actually grow
PadawanWarrior
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I did on accident. I didn't even know there was that kind of section on a weed forum. I mentioned that, and immediately people started bashing on me.
They can't be smoking weed if they're really that hostile.
guitarguy10
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That's just wrong (in coco or other soilless medium). You need to feed them nutrients every feed. Perhaps in soil you can water water fert water water fert or whatever but not in coco.
I'm definitely not a pro or anything but there is no way in coco coir that you would alternate just giving water and nutrients, they need fertilizer on every feeding.
I water about every other day when the pots are pretty much completely dry. Each plant takes like 1L ish in 8" pots.
Corso312
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I bottom feed-water... No runoff .. Just feed then 2- 3 days later water, then feed, then water repeated til harvest..no mess, no deficiencies, no salt build up.
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