When should I water
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Dank Bongula
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Wait until the fabric pot is light and the lower leaves of the plant are just barely beginning to droop.
Pick up the pot and get a feel for the weight at this dry point, it should feel very light. Then fully saturate your pot with a normal watering and pick up the pot to get a feel for the weight at this watered point. It will be rather heavy.
It may take a couple times to dial it in, and you don't want to let it get to a point where it is drooping everytime, but you will get a feel for when it is actually time to water by what your plant is telling you versus what a schedule or moisture meter tells you.
Pick up the pot and get a feel for the weight at this dry point, it should feel very light. Then fully saturate your pot with a normal watering and pick up the pot to get a feel for the weight at this watered point. It will be rather heavy.
It may take a couple times to dial it in, and you don't want to let it get to a point where it is drooping everytime, but you will get a feel for when it is actually time to water by what your plant is telling you versus what a schedule or moisture meter tells you.
This is sound advice.
Indy73
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I went out of town for a couple days and decided to wait until I got back to water the plants. Like I said the soil meter said it was still very moist. When I came home one of the plants bottom leaves turn yellow and brown like they are dying. They are crisp and dry. Is this from not watering them or does it have some type of deficiency.
I went out of town for a couple days and decided to wait until I got back to water the plants. Like I said the soil meter said it was still very moist. When I came home one of the plants bottom leaves turn yellow and brown like they are dying. They are crisp and dry. Is this from not watering them or does it have some type of deficiency.
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Dank Bongula
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Looks like you went a little long for water. Pick up the pot, how light does it feel? What's that weird shit all over your leaves?
Dank Bongula
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Of course. Fully saturate, dry out, repeat.
Hollatchaboy
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What style are you looking to do, living organic, or bottled nutes? If your doing living organic, water 5-10% by volume. If using bottled nutes, water to 20% runoff.
Hollatchaboy
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What ph do you water?
Dank Bongula
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Since you just transplanted into fresh happy frog you don't need that strong of nutes.
I have three bag seeds all growing in happy frog. After a month I gave their first two feedings of fox farms liquid trio. Started 1/4 and 1/2 strength and two of them started clawing.
Can we get some pics under normal light?
I have three bag seeds all growing in happy frog. After a month I gave their first two feedings of fox farms liquid trio. Started 1/4 and 1/2 strength and two of them started clawing.
Can we get some pics under normal light?
Soul Dwella
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Can you explain 5 - 10% by volume?
Hollatchaboy
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What is your pot size?
Hollatchaboy
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100 gallons of soil....5 gallons of water is 5%...10 gallons of water would be 10%
Hobbes
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I have different advice for you - water the "inner pot" as frequently as you watered it before the transplant.
The roots in the smaller root ball will suck up water and make the inner pot dry before the 5 gal fabric pot. Think of the two root balls as two units to water
After a week or two the roots will grow into the outer root ball, or outer pot, and you can water as one unit.
Often the 5 gallon fabric pot will seem heavy but the inner root ball is dry and the leaves drooping.
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I have different advice for you - water the "inner pot" as frequently as you watered it before the transplant.
The roots in the smaller root ball will suck up water and make the inner pot dry before the 5 gal fabric pot. Think of the two root balls as two units to water
After a week or two the roots will grow into the outer root ball, or outer pot, and you can water as one unit.
Often the 5 gallon fabric pot will seem heavy but the inner root ball is dry and the leaves drooping.
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Indy73
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Between 6.6 and 7