They might still be overwatered at this stage. I would wait until the container feels light, say less than a quarter of what it would weigh after being watered to runoff.
Right!! Guess I should have looked a little closer, at least for me it’s hard to tell if it’s too much or too little water. I used to water more frequently when I first started but the leaves started drooping. And they kinda twisted too. thought i put too much. It was worse than this but don’t have a pic
It takes some getting used to. Everyone wants to love them to death when we start, but its better to let them get a little too dry than stay too wet.
Always got to be careful with LEDs you see them advertise as equivalent watts(how strong of a BULB they are replacing) gotta make sure your going off true power draw
OK now I'm confused. I do the light pot method to know when to run my synthetic. Make the roots chase all the moisture out the pot for Maximum root growth, Water like every 3ish days, maybe 2 during weeks 4-5, thought organic was the opposite let the microbes eat as much as possible not water to run off or even fully saturated the soil but can't let your culture get dehydrated
I was using the weight of the pot after being watered to runoff as an example more than anything. You have to feel a pot fully saturated and dry to really get the range, you know? Soil is not my Forte.
Honestly, this sounds like a recipe for overwatering. The common wisdom in soil is to water when the pot feels light - when it’s a bit dried out, atleast on the top layers. This is every three days or so with me. Surely there’s still moisture in the lower layers, but it’s important to let the soil dry out a bit between waterings also.
I was brought up on soil and salts. Weak ass soil my pots have more perlite then soil in them. My understanding was you water to run off to push out the old salt residue out to prevent it locking out uptake. I plan to switch to organics on my next run, because want to be lazier+ kinda broke atm. I thought I was repeating the advice from organic growers here on rui. I know if my veggie garden dose not get daily water my maters, peppers and cukes are not happy about it. OP is definitely not watering to run off "just get the top a little moist" I normally let it pool 3times before I get the level of run off I look for. I think we are all in agreement that he needs more light and heat. So since we are there I'll go ahead and say wattage is not a direct relationship to photons, and all the advice on wattage he will find her will be in reference to grow lights, which are more efficient at directing photons to the plant he's gonna want to get a photon meter app on his phone and report his ppfd and lummin numbers
