Help please!!
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patrickkawi37
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Am I wrong In assuming if there is moisture in the medium that the roots will grow and to find the moisture? By the looks of the plant im assuming it's screwed up because he waters too often and doesn't let the pot get dry. Telling him to water a little every few days isn't going to help him because that's what he's been doing and he's killing his plants lol. My opinion. Hey op. I'm sure they want all those nutrients your planning on giving them .
Good luck
They were getting 40 to 50 ml of water every other day in solo cups thats not over watering they were completely dried out and the roots were all the way at the bottom probably should of been tansplanted weeks sooner
patrickkawi37
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I do it according to size I give my 5 gals at least a gallon to by the time there almost ready fpr flower but why would I give a half a liter to a 2 inch tall plant in a cup if you run 250 mils through a solo cup your gettin a shitload of runoff, the root zone is only 5 inches deep roght now if I give em a gallon im soakin the whole pot wouldnt I wanna keep it jist past the root zone so the roots will stretch out as that dries up?
I usually cut my own clones much bigger and never go through any of this but I got these ones from a friend and he brought em over ina fuckin bag lookin like shit and super weak and tiny didnt even expect them to live Being in a just growcubes and a plastic bag for hours on end but said fuck it and they ended up rootin out hard in 3 days never worked with tiny baby clones before so I am new to this
patrickkawi37
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Once again. My opinion is to always saturate your medium if you expect roots to be there eventually. There is nothing wrong with getting some run off. As long as you let the plant dry between waterings.
Collect it , and check the ppm and ph. Nice way to know where your plants are at.
If you were feeding 50ml to those solo cups I bet if you fed 350 they would only stay wet one day longer and the entire root system would be saturated
Collect it , and check the ppm and ph. Nice way to know where your plants are at.
If you were feeding 50ml to those solo cups I bet if you fed 350 they would only stay wet one day longer and the entire root system would be saturated
patrickkawi37
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Usually take aroumd 6 inch clones and then supercrop it once it gets arpund a foot lay the main branch down and it turns imto 8 or so main tops and keeps it short n stocky, if this is ttue that it will only take a day extra ill give this a try I just domt want to water 1 time every ten days I do what you do in flower, completely saturate evertime and check the runoff to know what to do next watering but I can do this and soil is light af in 2 days so I can do that every other day always figured this was because soil is full of roots drying out the soil by the plant soakin it up and with that logic if I watered my plants now with that much water there is hardly any roots even in the pot to soak it up do im gonna be waiting 10 days for the soil to dry out instead of slowly increasing the water and aiming for just going below the root zone so they can dry out faster and grow faster then when there big enough I will satuarte the whole pot and not have to wait 10 days for it to dry out? Thats just my thinking
Just talked to a friend of mine who owns 2 dispensarys he puts his root cubes directly into 10 gallon pots waters with half cup few days later full cup dew days later 2 cups and so on up to 3 gallons and flowers after a month gettin a pound per plant religiously, so there must not be omly one right way to do this as this is usually the route I go but with 5 gallons and usually hit 4 to 7 zips per plant and I have also heard of people doing your way more water less frequent, either way ypur doing it as long as your saturating root zone and then lettin it completely dry in veg I dont see how that could be wrong, you are right I was probably giving them nowhere near enough water with 50-60 mils in cups but when I did that they would be heavy, all the way through and dried out a couple days later
patrickkawi37
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Dude Indont know how many times I've said it now. And let me start off by thumbs up to your friend. Putting a small plant into a big ass pot is stupid. i go from 1 gallons to 7 gallons.. In coco/sunshine4.. I fully saturate the pot.. It usually doesn't need water for 7 days from then, sometimes even 8-9 days . When the plant finally gets dry after a week... I already can see roots at bottoms of pots.. Second time
I water, fully saturate the medium , Probably goes another 5-7 days . By the 4th watering , my plants are 30 inches or so bushy as fuck topped plenty of times , done vegging and drinking 2 gallons every 4 days. Then I flip into flower. By day 10 of flower damn near every plant is drinking every 48hours 1.5-2 gallons. I pull over 2 per light 90% of the time. This is going to be my last post cause you are arguing such an ignorant question. Your mother should of taught you how to garden when you were a young lad. You can water your plant any which fucking way you want. I'm just pointing out the obvious that your plants look like garbage so maybe another route is the one you should take . Good bye. Please post grow pics so we can lol. Go buy a fuckin 12 dollar moisture meter and water when it tells you. Yuh donkey
Im not argueing anything dickbag simply asking for information from others to understand everyones methods and I really appreciated all your input but dont gotta be a fuckin asshole about it thats not what these forums are for
