Could lst cause droopy leaves

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ComfortCreator

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Ċikku said:
So what should I do

some people are telling me its under watered some other are saying overwatered
Should I just let it dry and water till run off everytime it dries ?
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You carefully think (or tell us) about your watering practices and we can help you be sure.

As an example...I grow in soil, and when I am at the 3gal stage (roughly the 13liter pots), I water 64oz each time, as needed. I usually use a probe and have a system that works well. Lifting works too but when I get to 10gal there is no lifting of those for watering purposes!

So if in a 3 gal pot you water 1 liter only? As HD suggests...you may not be watering it enough when you do water. So underwatering the pot WHEN you water. But then...how often do you water?

How much do you water when you water? How often and how do you decide? When you get runoff, does it take a long time to come out or quickly?
 
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Ċikku

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ComfortCreator said:
You carefully think (or tell us) about your watering practices and we can help you be sure.

As an example...I grow in soil, and when I am at the 3gal stage (roughly the 13liter pots), I water 64oz each time, as needed. I usually use a probe and have a system that works well. Lifting works too but when I get to 10gal there is no lifting of those for watering purposes!

So if in a 3 gal pot you water 1 liter only? As HD suggests...you may not be watering it enough when you do water. So underwatering the pot WHEN you water. But then...how often do you water?

How much do you water when you water? How often and how do you decide? When you get runoff, does it take a long time to come out or quickly?
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I usually water when I feel the soil has dried up (I put my finger in about an inch deep)

And as for how many times I watered

in the past 2 weeks Iwatered about twice with 1 litre
 
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ComfortCreator

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If you have the materials, grab another fabric pot and fill it to the same level with soil as the plants now.
Keep it on the side as your reference to being "dry." When the pots are almost as light, water.

If you don't, I suggest getting a soil probe and sticking it all the way down and taking 3 or 4 measures around the pot.
When it gets to under 5 on average, water.

When you water, water a liter slowly and carefully. Wait 10 min then water another 1/2 liter. If no runoff after another 10min, water 1/4 liter and repeat every 10min until slight runoff. After doing this a few times, it will go faster as you will know how much it takes before runoff.

Water is the #1 that a plant needs, as important as light. You have not watered the pot fully and are slowing and limting its growth. Fix this and watch them explode with growth!
 
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EpicBagseed

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Underwatered.... I am doing the same on my current second tent grow.
Transplanted to 5 gallons and watered then got fungus gnats, so I trimmed the water and still had good growth to a point then they started looking sad.
Indoor rookie here so I looked up droopy leaves. All online pics didn't really look like mine. Stem still up but leaf down, so I waited a day and the bottom section of one plant was actually stem and leaf dropping.
So I soaked them all real slow real good, next day bright and happy and perky.
Calculating Runoff for watering practices is vague if not all the soil soaks up the right amount of water.
Happy frog soil.
 
Budzbuddha

Budzbuddha

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Ċikku said:
I usually water when I feel the soil has dried up (I put my finger in about an inch deep)

And as for how many times I watered

in the past 2 weeks Iwatered about twice with 1 litre
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Lift the pot to judge……. Medium often becomes hydrophobic ( not fully saturated ) - slow thorough watering / maybe even a wetting agent .
 
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