Watering questions

How much water is a good starting point for each week of an autoflower grow cycle. I have had issues with over watering and would like to know how much water other growers typically give their plants each week and how much they increased week by week.

If you're growing in soil, water to saturation, then let the pot get significantly lighter before you water again...not bone dry, but significantly lighter.

55OG said:

How much water is a good starting point for each week of an autoflower grow cycle. I have had issues with over watering and would like to know how much water other growers typically give their plants each week and how much they increased week by week.

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If you're growing in coco keep her wet.

It won't be answerable
If you and I grow the exact same clone the results often will be completely different due to so many variables, humidity , location , lighting, container and medium as well as grower skills all play a role
Best bet is to go by weight of pot , but a trained eye can tell by just looking at the plant

Tracker said:

If you're growing in soil, water to saturation, then let the pot get significantly lighter before you water again...not bone dry, but significantly lighter.

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Even during seedling stage? I am growing in a tent 2.3x2.3x63 150watt led complete setup is a mars hydro. I have plant in a 5 gallon smart pot just starting seedling stage

55OG said:

Even during seedling stage? I am growing in a tent 2.3x2.3x63 150watt led complete setup is a mars hydro. I have plant in a 5 gallon smart pot just starting seedling stage

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And thus begins your watering problem
To hard to know how much to water a seedling in that big of pot
I don't care what they say about one pot auto's it is BS if you know how and when to transplant harmlessly

55OG said:

Even during seedling stage? I am growing in a tent 2.3x2.3x63 150watt led complete setup is a mars hydro. I have plant in a 5 gallon smart pot just starting seedling stage

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If seedling stage, you've got to keep the soil semi moist in the area of the pot in about a 3" radius around the seedling until it starts developing roots and throws out its first sets of leaves. It's very easy to overwater a seedling, so be conservative with how much/often you moisten the soil. Once it has a couple of sets of true leaves and it's in full veg, then go to the method of saturating with each water/feed and letting the pot get lighter in between waterings.

I appreciate the info I have already had 2 failures due to over watering but this time should be better since I have kinda learned what not to do