Watering - 2 gallons per plant per day?

xIPhobiaIx

xIPhobiaIx

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Hello all,

I know watering is dependent on many factors (growing medium, lighting, pot size, environment, etc.) but is it ever, in any inside environment/configuration, normal to water each plant 2 gallons per day?

I will be growing in soil indoor and have the room to grow very wide and tall and have 6 x 1000 watt gavitas and will prob end up using 15 gallon pots as final pot size (maybe 10 not sure) but wanted to ask this question first.

Thank you!
 
Eugenios

Eugenios

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Very unlikely but then again, I have only 7 plants harvested under my belt. One thing's for sure, don't try to make/plan a watering schedule from now. You will have to water when they're thirsty, that could every other day or once a week. Simple as that. Good luck!
 
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Bookush34

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I’ve had a 5gal perlite hempy that took 1.5gal a day in peak flower. That was a 3f wide 4.5ft tall plant.

I also did a 1 plant 3x3 scrog that pulled 18oz
In 15gal Promix. That plant was watered maybe every second day at its peak consumption.

Some plants are thirsty some are not.
Depends how big your root mass was and temp and RH in the room.

Like others have said. Water when they need it. Not when you want too.
 
MustGro

MustGro

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I have 7 big plants in hydro and they need 6 to 7 gallons a day to keep the reservoir level good. About 50% RH, good temps, and CO2 so they're using fluids. They're about 36-40 inches tall and 24-30 inches wide. They only use 1 gallon each so I don't think you'll be much more than that unless you grow them bigger in veg.
I have my moms in 5 gallon cloth bags now and I have 10 gallon bags but they're big for inside.
Here's my grow if you want a look https://www.rollitup.org/t/lower-leaf-drop-day-9-of-flower-in-hydro.1051317/
 
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jonnynobody

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xIPhobiaIx said:
Hello all,

I know watering is dependent on many factors (growing medium, lighting, pot size, environment, etc.) but is it ever, in any inside environment/configuration, normal to water each plant 2 gallons per day?

I will be growing in soil indoor and have the room to grow very wide and tall and have 6 x 1000 watt gavitas and will prob end up using 15 gallon pots as final pot size (maybe 10 not sure) but wanted to ask this question first.

Thank you!
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I have 5 plants that take 1 gallon of water twice per day presently. However, this is water to waste hydroponics in 5 gallon buckets with a hempy hole 2" from the bottom for run off to drain out. #4 chunky perlite for the medium. That would be very unusual in soil. I do however have a godfather OG that's getting bushy in a 5 gallon container that's dam near taking a gallon per day. It's really just relative to plant size. If you have trees you'll be watering daily / twice daily in peak flower as water and elemental demand is at it's highest and the plants are in small containers. If you don't want to water as frequently just use larger containers for your final pot / bucket.

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MustGro

MustGro

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Well since @bk78 is laughing at me maybe I'll change my answer; or understand the question better. I skimmed over that very wide and tall comment you made @xIPhobiaIx , guess I shouldn't have. Most people don't water every day; we do it like @PacerMan says, wait until the pot gets light then put the fluids on heavy enough to get a good runoff then go away until the pots get light. To constantly put on 2 gallons a day would waterlog your soil and drown most plants; maybe not a huge one, but it's not a great way to put fluids on.
If you can go real big then 15 gallon or bigger is great, big pots grow big plants. I grew outside in huge homemade pots last year (hardware cloth wrapped in burlap) and you could pour on two 5 gallon buckets of nutes one right after the other and it'd only wet out a two foot circle around the stalk. I had to run a drip system to get nutes to the outer parts. But that's not putting fluids on all the time. I let the soil get real dry and start to pull back from the pot edge, then hit them heavy. That any help to you?
I'm gonna include a pic of 4 seed moms I have going now in a homemade tray. They were in 3 gallon plastic pots and I switched to 5 gal cloth. Love the breathable bags. That tray is 4 by 4 and I wouldn't be able to go up to a 10 gallon pot and keep them in that 4 by 4 footprint, they'd be too squashed together in the middle. Maybe you can use it as a guide for how much room you'd need for 15 gallon pots. I'll include a pic of my outside plants from last year too, the tallest was 8 feet and went 8 feet wide. The pots are up to 5 feet across and would probably dry up at 2 gallons a day. If you have lots of space you could go that big inside but hard to light them.
 

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MustGro said:
Well since @bk78 is laughing at me maybe I'll change my answer; or understand the question better. I skimmed over that very wide and tall comment you made @xIPhobiaIx , guess I shouldn't have. Most people don't water every day; we do it like @PacerMan says, wait until the pot gets light then put the fluids on heavy enough to get a good runoff then go away until the pots get light. To constantly put on 2 gallons a day would waterlog your soil and drown most plants; maybe not a huge one, but it's not a great way to put fluids on.
If you can go real big then 15 gallon or bigger is great, big pots grow big plants. I grew outside in huge homemade pots last year (hardware cloth wrapped in burlap) and you could pour on two 5 gallon buckets of nutes one right after the other and it'd only wet out a two foot circle around the stalk. I had to run a drip system to get nutes to the outer parts. But that's not putting fluids on all the time. I let the soil get real dry and start to pull back from the pot edge, then hit them heavy. That any help to you?
I'm gonna include a pic of 4 seed moms I have going now in a homemade tray. They were in 3 gallon plastic pots and I switched to 5 gal cloth. Love the breathable bags. That tray is 4 by 4 and I wouldn't be able to go up to a 10 gallon pot and keep them in that 4 by 4 footprint, they'd be too squashed together in the middle. Maybe you can use it as a guide for how much room you'd need for 15 gallon pots. I'll include a pic of my outside plants from last year too, the tallest was 8 feet and went 8 feet wide. The pots are up to 5 feet across and would probably dry up at 2 gallons a day. If you have lots of space you could go that big inside but hard to light them.
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I just found it funny how you were telling a soil grower how much your hydro plants were drinking that’s all.
 
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