CanadianDank
Well-Known Member
Yeah man I only recently started paying more attention to my watering habits because things went far south for me. Turns out i had no idea how heavy my pot should be. I wasn't letting it saturate enough and the two gal I vegged in was mostly peat so it became a hydrophobic center in my five gal flowering pots. I though because I was getting run off and they felt decently heavy they were good. But most the water was flowing through channels it had made inside the pots and not really getting the entire inside. I should have known, because I was watering way less then I thought they needed but it didn't click till too late. Good rule of thumb is they need one third the pots volume of water when almost dry. Which means a 3 gal pot gets one gal water. If it a lot runs off, get rid of initial run off and pour fresh water in the pan underneath, enough that in can be sucked up into the pot. Check back in a few hours and remove any standing water.Thanks for the advice yes I've been watering from an 18 liter cooler bottle I've pretty much been just pouring er in there and letting er fill up and sink down. I'll see what my local pet store has for straw.
Just to be clear I'm not saying you need to do any of this, your plants probably don't need to be watered more right now, just relaying some useful shit I've learned the hard way.