My plants need water less than every 24 hours

ilovereggae

ilovereggae

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Slimber said:
They’d need 2 of those to show runoff normally so those 15 plants would take 8 gallons
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I think like stated earlier you are overthinking it.

Your plants are going to increase their water needs steadily up to the 2nd to last or last week of flower when you will notice they are not drinking as fast.

If you look at like you have been thinking about it, where you feed them a fix amount at lights on, then yes, you would need a 2nd feeding later in the day to top them off. That way the next day they only need 2 Mason jars to get runoff. This might actually be more beneficial in an organic soil setup where you dont want to get all the way dry. Or even in DWC, people feed multiple times per day to maximize nutrient uptake.

The other simpler way, which is what you are actually doing, is to just feed them til they get runoff, which as you noted requires more water each time. It makes mixing nutes more difficult because you might wind up mixing more or less than you need. Part of the reason I moved to a watering only + top dress regimen (or trying to).
 
Raspberrykiwi

Raspberrykiwi

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Wattzzup said:
That’s a good idea I have some hard to reach plants. You just remove the spray nozzle?
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It came with like 3 nozzles. I just have one that sprays in a cone shape. Slow watering and I don’t have any runoff. I also use it to wet the walls and floor of my tent to help increase humidity
 
DarkWeb

DarkWeb

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Yeah def gonna need something more....even a couple plants end up getting gallons every few days.
 
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mark's grow

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Hard to reach plants, small length of hose pipe on a watering can

Often water my plants when the light out(use low powered light) spend no more than 5 minutes every two days in the room and you should be ok.
 
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Slimber

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ilovereggae said:
I think like stated earlier you are overthinking it.

Your plants are going to increase their water needs steadily up to the 2nd to last or last week of flower when you will notice they are not drinking as fast.

If you look at like you have been thinking about it, where you feed them a fix amount at lights on, then yes, you would need a 2nd feeding later in the day to top them off. That way the next day they only need 2 Mason jars to get runoff. This might actually be more beneficial in an organic soil setup where you dont want to get all the way dry. Or even in DWC, people feed multiple times per day to maximize nutrient uptake.

The other simpler way, which is what you are actually doing, is to just feed them til they get runoff, which as you noted requires more water each time. It makes mixing nutes more difficult because you might wind up mixing more or less than you need. Part of the reason I moved to a watering only + top dress regimen (or trying to).
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a mongo frog said:
What strain are you growing? Awesome first grow!
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zookies
 
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Slimber

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Came to the conclusion I’m gonna start giving them an extra jar in the morning at like 6am to keep them saturated until the lights turn on at 8pm then proceed w the other 2 jars let y’all know how it goes
 
SidV

SidV

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Just water more than one time during lights on. Give them a splash before lights out or something.

Water intake is going to increase. If your running dry now just plan on watering more often.
 
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Slimber

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SidV said:
Just water more than one time during lights on. Give them a splash before lights out or something.

Water intake is going to increase. If your running dry now just plan on watering more often.
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Yessir ! That was an old photo from a week ago too heres one I just took for u guys Zookies Day 5 into flower I spend so many hours in this room trying to learn the plant and it feels like minutes wake up everyday looking forward to it feels like I found my calling.
 

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