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ShLUbY said:

All is well my dude, thank you; same to you. well think about it... you have a small root system in a large pot and a small canopy... not gonna see a lot of transpiration They look great to me! It's going to annoy you but I'm going to say... watch for too much and too little! You don't want your soil to get too dry and go hydrophobic... so you have to water to prevent that. However, you don't want to push all the air away from the roots with too much water. So you find that balance, where you're saturating the soil but not drowning the plant... and then spacing watering out so that you only water when necessary, no specific water schedule (I hate water schedules b/c its all relative to the size of the plant... no one schedule works indefinitely lol). You're going to mulch that soil yes? It will help prevent evaporation and crusting of the upper surface. Or maybe living mulch? Clean set up! I see you have the vivosun tent? I recently bought one to dry in.

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Northern Boxer said:

Yes, I can see a gradual increase in the watering needs and anticipate this but the reason I was asking was I have populated the top soil surface with a 6 seed cover crop at time of transplanting and trying to keep the surface continually moist until I get them established. My preference would have been to use a shredded bark mulch but I have not been able to find any source locally or online. The way I see the cover crop when green will benefit the microbes and once it dies back will feed the fungi. What are you using and what are other options I can use? Thanks

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ShLUbY said:

I'm using wheat straw. But living mulches are great, creates a HUGE network of microbe/plant interactions. when it died back in flower, throw some brown mulch on there and get the soil covered.

something else you could do is cut a piece of poly plastic in the shape of a donut to the size of your containers surface. them make a slit from one edge to the inside so it opens up. you could then place that loosely on the soil surface, and it will create a little humid environment for your seeds to start germinating. Very effective at water condensation, putting it right where the seeds need it.

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ShLUbY said:

I'm using wheat straw. But living mulches are great, creates a HUGE network of microbe/plant interactions. when it died back in flower, throw some brown mulch on there and get the soil covered.

something else you could do is cut a piece of poly plastic in the shape of a donut to the size of your containers surface. them make a slit from one edge to the inside so it opens up. you could then place that loosely on the soil surface, and it will create a little humid environment for your seeds to start germinating. Very effective at water condensation, putting it right where the seeds need it.

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Northern Boxer said:

I think this will work just fine.....thanks for the tip.View attachment 4295421

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