So, I was told by a trusted grow buddy of mine that he’s found that if you feed til run off it helps the plants stretch a bit as the roots go out to search for food resulting in a large plant.. my plants are short and squat right now but i want them to eventually fill three rows of trellis.. i understand they’ll stretch in flower but for some reason they aren’t stretching at all right now. they’ve been about the same height for the past 3 weeks or so.. slightly taller. Anyways my question is, how much do i need to be feeding to get 15-20 percent runoff if i’m in 5 gallons. i put a gallon of feed in and it doesn’t run off not even drop.. am i really going to need to run 2-3 gallons of feed per 5 gallon pot to get some run off? could it be that my pots get too dry in between, and when i run the 1 gallon through it it’s not even saturating initially?? some help me out. lol
Big pots burning up nutes
- Thread starter bankcee
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BobThe420Builder
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Easily 2g
never did 5 gallons pots, when i had to manually feed always did like 2-3 gallon pots max. did 5 gallon pots in living soil once but runoff wasn’t a thing lol so possibly more depending on size obviously.. they’re pretty large now.