How much water for 10 gal fabric pots?

2absolute2purity2

2absolute2purity2

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How much water do you notice your plants having from the time of transplanting to 10 gal fabric pots til harvest? How much each week. Il they take more in flowering than veg but plz say how much each week of veg and each week of flower per watering. Would help me out greatly


Answer these simple questions the best you can. If you aew not sure, just bring it to oue attention. We will figure it out.
  1. Indoor or outdoor? - size of grow? A: Indoor 48x48x80” tent 5 plants only.
  2. Otigin of seeds? A: Gb
  3. Regular, feminized, or autoflower? A: Fems. photoperiods 18/6.
  4. Origin of water. PH, EC/TDS of source water? A: tap. Dechlorinated in 5 gal bucket w air stone 24/7. 8.4tap ph before gh ph down to 6.5
  5. PH and TDS/EC of if mixed solution? 6.5 gh ph down used.
  6. Grow method? Soil, Soil-less, Coco, Hydro, Aquaponics. Please explain. A: soil. FF oceanforest & happyfrog 50/50 mix w 5% coco added also a bit more of perlite and wormcastings
  7. Nutrients or fertilizer system used. A: Gaia green 444&284 50/50mix only 1 tbsp each & bit of wormcastings.
  8. What typr of lighting are you using? LED, HID (MH, CMH, HPS), or Fluorescents? Please elaborate. A: spiderfarmer sf4000 40% 24ish” 132watts above tops of plants.
  9. What are the temps in your growspce? Day / Night? A: 68-70 night. 71-77 day drafts make this hard to control.
  10. What is the RH = relative humidity in your growspace? Day / Night?26-32
  11. AC, Humidifier, De-humidifier?
  12. Do you have a Ventilation system? Size? 4", 6"?
  13. Co2 Yes / No? A: no.
  14. How long have you been growing? A: First timer. On week 4 veg.
  15. What budget have you set in order to grow successfully? A: Cheap as possible for essentials only w longevity.
 
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LeastExpectedGrower

LeastExpectedGrower

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In half that volume (5g) and promix soil and drain to waste, I'm using 2g per bag per watering or 4g per week, so it would be a reasonable assumption to double that to 8g per week or 4 g per feeding. Of course it all differs depending on plant size and the medium + setup you're using. Also the RH and temps in your grow space.
 
LeastExpectedGrower

LeastExpectedGrower

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I'm of the opinion that your plan is flawed and you should be looking at 3 or 5g pots/bags. No need to be using 10g for a 4 plant 4x4.

Also, CO2 in a tent? I'd rethink.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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2absolute2purity2 said:
Ty for ur reply. So I’d probably need a 40 gal bin to hold enough de chlorinated tap water for my whole grow?
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There's not enough chlorine in municipal tap water to worry about. If you can drink it you can give it to your plants. And no it won't kill all the microbes. If it did then using tap water to make bread would kill all the yeast and the bread wouldn't rise.
 
Jjgrow420

Jjgrow420

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xtsho said:
There's not enough chlorine in municipal tap water to worry about. If you can drink it you can give it to your plants. And no it won't kill all the microbes. If it did then using tap water to make bread would kill all the yeast and the bread wouldn't rise.
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It kills some, you'll get better counts with filtered water/ro but yes totally fine to use tap water
 
xtsho

xtsho

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Jjgrow420 said:
It kills some, you'll get better counts with filtered water/ro but yes totally fine to use tap water
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Yes it does but the populations rebound to previous levels quickly. For that matter synthetic fertilizers kill some microbes as well. If you use microbial products you're just creating a dominant strain that will outcompete other microbes so even when you feed microbes you can be killing off other microbes. That's mostly with commercial products that have a few sometimes even just one strain. If you collect your own using KNF and JADAM methods then you're more than likely going to be increasing the diversity of microbes rather than fostering a few dominant strains. I've used tap water to farm microbes. I prefer rain water but in the middle of the summer it's not available. I get a nice frothy bucket teaming with JMS in a day or two using tap water.
 
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