420blazeit
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Hey I'm on first grow and I'm 4 weeks in using fox farm grow big at 1/2 tsp per gallon and I water every other day until the top of soil is wet, not even a quarter of a gallon is that 2 little??
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seedling master
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Depending on how big the plant vase is, post a picture?
sounds wrong to me or is this a giant jiffy cup grow .............me...... i would water em from the bottom w plain water to make sure they get soaked the bottom of your pots are prolly dust .........then wait till the first couple inches are dry on top water again with plain water pour that water in till it runs out the bottom good .......wait till there dry switch the lights ....double dose of bloom ....etc......
420blazeit
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It's a big 5 gallon pot with fox farm ocean forest.
tommyo3000
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Dude, dude, dude...
I can help you.. my first serious grow like 10 years ago was with FFOF and those nutes. Listen up young son:
You need to learn how to water properly.
5 gallon bucket is exactly what I grew in.
you want to water to 20% runoff..
That means, you put in one gallon, and 3 cups drain out the bottom. Or you put in two gallons and half a gallon comes out the bottom.. It is messy, yes, but that is a real watering. What defines it as such is going for the 10 to 20% runoff. Without runoff, you have not distributed that water well enough to remove toxins and fill all the spaces with nutes.
Your plant wants more than a half teaspoon?? or whatever of nutes.. Juice it up! Follow the directions on the bottle. They tell you how strong to make it, they also mention runoff ( i would bet they do, I forget now).
Mix up three four or five gallons of foxfarm and get that thing soaked. get the floor all wet (or do it over a tub to collect it.. lots of water will come out)
You want it to be at field capacity. This is a concept you must now learn from horticulture. I offer you this paper "MOISTURE DISTRIBUTION IN SOIL IN CONTAINERS
A. H. HENDRICKSON AND F. J. VEIHMEYER"
available here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC437955/pdf/plntphys00294-0160.pdf
Learn about soil moisture. I have been watering super heavily for years after talking to some one who introduced me to field capacity. Also, pockets of dry can trick a plant into thinking the whole container is dry.. No joke.. Never let any part be dryer.. This promotes channeling in the pot.. this is no good. You want even soaking with those nutes at full strength (or any strength). You want heavy containers.. Yo u may not have to water for another week or two after watering like this.. this is good.
OK, so think about that stuff.
tommy
I can help you.. my first serious grow like 10 years ago was with FFOF and those nutes. Listen up young son:
You need to learn how to water properly.
5 gallon bucket is exactly what I grew in.
you want to water to 20% runoff..
That means, you put in one gallon, and 3 cups drain out the bottom. Or you put in two gallons and half a gallon comes out the bottom.. It is messy, yes, but that is a real watering. What defines it as such is going for the 10 to 20% runoff. Without runoff, you have not distributed that water well enough to remove toxins and fill all the spaces with nutes.
Your plant wants more than a half teaspoon?? or whatever of nutes.. Juice it up! Follow the directions on the bottle. They tell you how strong to make it, they also mention runoff ( i would bet they do, I forget now).
Mix up three four or five gallons of foxfarm and get that thing soaked. get the floor all wet (or do it over a tub to collect it.. lots of water will come out)
You want it to be at field capacity. This is a concept you must now learn from horticulture. I offer you this paper "MOISTURE DISTRIBUTION IN SOIL IN CONTAINERS
A. H. HENDRICKSON AND F. J. VEIHMEYER"
available here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC437955/pdf/plntphys00294-0160.pdf
Learn about soil moisture. I have been watering super heavily for years after talking to some one who introduced me to field capacity. Also, pockets of dry can trick a plant into thinking the whole container is dry.. No joke.. Never let any part be dryer.. This promotes channeling in the pot.. this is no good. You want even soaking with those nutes at full strength (or any strength). You want heavy containers.. Yo u may not have to water for another week or two after watering like this.. this is good.
OK, so think about that stuff.
tommy
420blazeit
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Ok ok but suppose I water it as much as you imply I should, what about over watering? And I puthalf a teaspoon of nutes in a gallon and watered and got nute burn. So I went down to 1/4 tsp of nutes for the last week just going up to half tsp 2 morrow.or should I jump to full tsp??? Well that's allDude, dude, dude...
I can help you.. my first serious grow like 10 years ago was with FFOF and those nutes. Listen up young son:
You need to learn how to water properly.
5 gallon bucket is exactly what I grew in.
you want to water to 20% runoff..
That means, you put in one gallon, and 3 cups drain out the bottom. Or you put in two gallons and half a gallon comes out the bottom.. It is messy, yes, but that is a real watering. What defines it as such is going for the 10 to 20% runoff. Without runoff, you have not distributed that water well enough to remove toxins and fill all the spaces with nutes.
Your plant wants more than a half teaspoon?? or whatever of nutes.. Juice it up! Follow the directions on the bottle. They tell you how strong to make it, they also mention runoff ( i would bet they do, I forget now).
Mix up three four or five gallons of foxfarm and get that thing soaked. get the floor all wet (or do it over a tub to collect it.. lots of water will come out)
You want it to be at field capacity. This is a concept you must now learn from horticulture. I offer you this paper "MOISTURE DISTRIBUTION IN SOIL IN CONTAINERS
A. H. HENDRICKSON AND F. J. VEIHMEYER"
available here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC437955/pdf/plntphys00294-0160.pdf
Learn about soil moisture. I have been watering super heavily for years after talking to some one who introduced me to field capacity. Also, pockets of dry can trick a plant into thinking the whole container is dry.. No joke.. Never let any part be dryer.. This promotes channeling in the pot.. this is no good. You want even soaking with those nutes at full strength (or any strength). You want heavy containers.. Yo u may not have to water for another week or two after watering like this.. this is good.
OK, so think about that stuff.
tommy
xXOnyxXx
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after a drench like tommy said, being FFOF you might be good for a week before the next water/feeding. gently work your finger all the way into the soil and feel for moisture, ya want it to feel dry and then hit it again! watch your plants they will tell you when they need a drink 
tommyo3000
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Give it a good watering.. 10 to 20% runoff.. You need to get the soil uniform in that bucket.. uniformly wet.
Overwatering would be to KEEP the plant at field capacity by soaking it every day. Soaking it once will not hurt you. It will teach you how much your bucket can actually hold when it is full.. It should be so heavy that you cannot lift it with one arm. 5 gallons of wet soil is heavy as shit.
You should not have nute burn at that low a level. You are weeks along in this bucket?
How much light you got?
this is how to use grow big:
Get your garden going with Grow Big®, our fast-acting, water-soluble fertilizer for lush, vegetative, compact growth. Use Grow Big® early in the season when young plants need an extra boost. We add earthworm castings and Norwegian kelp into this special brew to encourage sturdier, healthier stems and leaves, but we also provide enough nutrients and trace minerals to create the kind of healthy branching that you’ll need later in the season for more abundant buds and blooms.
Garden Tip: Allow new plantings a few days to settle in, then begin using at the rate of two teaspoons per gallon of water every other time you water.
PS- give the first big soak with just water.. you prolly have stuff food all in there that you will activate by soaking it all
Overwatering would be to KEEP the plant at field capacity by soaking it every day. Soaking it once will not hurt you. It will teach you how much your bucket can actually hold when it is full.. It should be so heavy that you cannot lift it with one arm. 5 gallons of wet soil is heavy as shit.
You should not have nute burn at that low a level. You are weeks along in this bucket?
How much light you got?
this is how to use grow big:
Get your garden going with Grow Big®, our fast-acting, water-soluble fertilizer for lush, vegetative, compact growth. Use Grow Big® early in the season when young plants need an extra boost. We add earthworm castings and Norwegian kelp into this special brew to encourage sturdier, healthier stems and leaves, but we also provide enough nutrients and trace minerals to create the kind of healthy branching that you’ll need later in the season for more abundant buds and blooms.
Garden Tip: Allow new plantings a few days to settle in, then begin using at the rate of two teaspoons per gallon of water every other time you water.
PS- give the first big soak with just water.. you prolly have stuff food all in there that you will activate by soaking it all
420blazeit
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All right, cool thank you guys. I'm only 12 years old, I like to grow pot. It's nice.
tommyo3000
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holy jeesus, any advice offered by me is part of my delusional mental state and is entirely fictional and theoretical knowledge.. In fact, I can't grow anything.. I am a robot.. I am self destructing... 12 years old.. lolz
lol...........................................................
420blazeit
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Haha. No no really 15
420blazeit
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Haha I watered it with about a gallon and had quite a bit of run off the water made roots show so I put another inch o soil on. It's night time for my babay. So thank u guys... Haha im 15 years old
420blazeit
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Just joking again age of 22.
Gmz
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Over watering is watering too often. So like he said just let it dry out completely before giving it another watering.