Should I Overwater My Plants?
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Spanishfly
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I nute often and water every day. Go for it.
SIR SMOKER
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Its very important to let plants go through a wet and dry cycle for optimum results.
Punk
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There's a lot of factors on how often and how much water to give. Personally, I add perlite to my fox farm O.F. and so there's less moisture retention than if I was using straight up OF. Start off with evenly moist soil mix, if it's dryed out, use something else.
I disagree about it being that black and white in regards to letting it dry out. You should give your plants a deep watering and try to avoid totally drying out the soil because that will create preferrential channeling and you'll have a hard time evenly soaking entire rootball, which also causes ph problems. By nature, overwatering isn't what hurts the plants, its the lack of oxygen the water causes.
Case and point: in my learning stage of growing, I've pulled the dirt ball out of the container and noticed entire dry patches midway and in the lower area in the soil, but when I altered my watering habbits to include more thorough watering, my plants' health improved, instead of losing leaves prematurely.
All of this you must factor the size of your container versus the size of the plant, I tend to keep them in smaller containers, two gallon for closet growing. If you're vegging small plants in five gallon buckets, watering can be tricky. Another thing to remember is to keep the water warm, or heat it up in the microwave a bit if you just have a few plants. i found a spot on my floor in the kitchen hot water goes under, and after a day sitting there, my five gallon water jug is nice and toasty warm.
I disagree about it being that black and white in regards to letting it dry out. You should give your plants a deep watering and try to avoid totally drying out the soil because that will create preferrential channeling and you'll have a hard time evenly soaking entire rootball, which also causes ph problems. By nature, overwatering isn't what hurts the plants, its the lack of oxygen the water causes.
Case and point: in my learning stage of growing, I've pulled the dirt ball out of the container and noticed entire dry patches midway and in the lower area in the soil, but when I altered my watering habbits to include more thorough watering, my plants' health improved, instead of losing leaves prematurely.
All of this you must factor the size of your container versus the size of the plant, I tend to keep them in smaller containers, two gallon for closet growing. If you're vegging small plants in five gallon buckets, watering can be tricky. Another thing to remember is to keep the water warm, or heat it up in the microwave a bit if you just have a few plants. i found a spot on my floor in the kitchen hot water goes under, and after a day sitting there, my five gallon water jug is nice and toasty warm.
SIR SMOKER
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guy incognito
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why would the water need to be warm? ive never been in a warm rain.
SIR SMOKER
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It should not be warm. Just at room temp (not hot not cold) or you will shock the roots.
SS.
guy incognito
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Again, i've never been in a room temperature rain, it's ALWAYS colder than room temp. That's usually how rain works, because if it was warmer than the ambient temperature it most likely would not have condensed and fallen as rain. It's usually not as cold as pure cold water out of the faucet, but it's certainly colder than room temperature.
whietiger88101
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For some reason water left in a gallon milk jug left for a day or two helps with the plants ph level when adding the water and nutes to the water. Cold water will not kill the roots but could stunt growth until the soil is able to evaporate the cold spots.