Need help with watering....please

Hello guys, this is my 1st grow. I am growing 3 autos in 5 gallon pots fabric and using coast of Maine Stonington blend with 20% added perlite. My plants are on their 2nd week and I've watered one time to slight run off, that was 6 days ago today and my soil when I just checked it Is still moist and dark about an inch and a 1/2 down. My question is should I give Sir another watering or should I hold off until It dries out more? Is just so worried about overwatering. So far they're looking good I know it's early in the game but I Also this is the 1st time I've actually seen a cannabis plant with my own eyes so not a 100% sure what it should look like...

Lift the pot. If it feels heavy, don't water yet. Wait until it feels light.

If you don't know what a dry light pot feels like, fill another identical pot with your medium and gauge it's weight. That's what a dry pot feels like.

Water again when the plants pots feel light like the other one.

I'm a huge advocate of starting your plants in smaller pots. Makes watering so much easier.

Phantombuilt said:

Hello guys, this is my 1st grow. I am growing 3 autos in 5 gallon pots fabric and using coast of Maine Stonington blend with 20% added perlite. My plants are on their 2nd week and I've watered one time to slight run off, that was 6 days ago today and my soil when I just checked it Is still moist and dark about an inch and a 1/2 down. My question is should I give Sir another watering or should I hold off until It dries out more? Is just so worried about overwatering. So far they're looking good I know it's early in the game but I Also this is the 1st time I've actually seen a cannabis plant with my own eyes so not a 100% sure what it should look like...

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is that soil or coco? When I looked it up it has peat and coco.

Its a organic soil, similar to ffof

Also add 20% perlite..... and do they look over/underwatered?

If you think it’s too wet to water it probably is. Just wait another day. I agree with above about lifting pots to compare etc. you will see the plant make a visual change and you will know it’s time.

Phantombuilt said:

Also add 20% perlite..... and do they look over/underwatered?

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They look a little light green to me. Are you sure there are nutrients in that soil?

Watering to runoff in 5 gallon pots with such small plants is dangerous but imo they look fine.

It’s hard to tell when to water from pictures but I would recommend waiting at least another 2-3 days and then ease into it your next watering. Start with maybe 1/2 gallon or less and see how they react. From there you can increase amount/frequency of watering but I would aim to water every 2-3 days which usually means less water per watering particularly in the beginning.

The person who mentioned weight also gave a solid tip but this can be tricky to gauge with small plants in large pots.

Wattzzup said:

They look a little light green to me. Are you sure they’re nutrients in that soil?

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I’ve used this soil in my last couple of runs and it’s fairly rich.

My guess is he may have slightly overwatered at some point which has disturbed the balance.

I'm growing in 7 gallon fabric pots. When you first buy your bag of soil and open it, it's moist. My 7 gallon I'm in week 1 of flower since I seen my first pisitils. I water about ever 2 days and a gallon I use a little less than half the gallon wait 5 or 10 minutes water a little more wait another 5 minutes and feed her the rest and she normally has about 10 percent runoff.

Hi I'm a noob so I'm sure I can be corrected, but here goes. I'm on my first grow and my first issue was water problems. I got clones from a friend that were about 12 inches tall. He claimed that he only watered on Monday and Wednesday. I picked up the plants on Friday and transplanted that night and added a half liter of water to each of 4 plants. I then waited till Monday and to my surprise they all had started to wilt. I quickly watered with a liter of water and they all had came back by the next morning. I then started watering a half liter every other day, but started noticing brown spots and yellowing of some lower leaves. Then I started watering 1 liter every other day and a half liter in between. This stopped new browning and yellowing so then I started paying attention to temp and humidity in the tent, I raised the light up to 24" above the plants. The plants responded well, but I was worried that my humidity was too low at 41% so as I looked for way to increase the humidity I decided to water until run off because I added a soil amendment (Meigs formula 1 & 2) I noticed right away that after watering to run off my humidity went up to 60%. In the picture it looks like yours did too. At this point for my grow it seams as though I notice higher humidity and less growth when I have too much water. I skipped my last two feeding to let the soil dry before I'll add more water, I think that when the soil is dry the plant see's growth as the root system reaches for water in the soil. I'm not an experienced grower so take my experience with a grain of salt. I think part of the journey is to watch your plants and learn their sweet spot when it comes to water intake. The water requirements will increase as the plant grows but you'll get to know as time goes by.

After growing indoors for over 20 years, in 1 gal or less pots, I still use and trust a simple moisture meter. Makes a grower a much more informed grower.....
Even in small pots, there's no way a finger deep feel can accurately judge what the root ball is doing ....much less a larger pot....
One thing I don't do ever is overwater.
Any plant can withstand a drought much better than a flood.

Phantombuilt said:

Hello guys, this is my 1st grow. I am growing 3 autos in 5 gallon pots fabric and using coast of Maine Stonington blend with 20% added perlite. My plants are on their 2nd week and I've watered one time to slight run off, that was 6 days ago today and my soil when I just checked it Is still moist and dark about an inch and a 1/2 down. My question is should I give Sir another watering or should I hold off until It dries out more? Is just so worried about overwatering. So far they're looking good I know it's early in the game but I Also this is the 1st time I've actually seen a cannabis plant with my own eyes so not a 100% sure what it should look like...

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I'm pretty sure that platinum blend is pretty F'ing HOT. I thought it was almost like a super-soil. Did you dilute it or go straight stonington? I would start by looking at how others use that soil mix-- It's supposed to be great stuff though

Your roots are way deeper than an inch and a half, wait a couple days.

You guys are awesome...... my gut said wait a few days to water....but naturally As a human I wanted to test the limits...... glad I had some self control and waited for reply before pulling the trigger. Much appreciated fellas

What they said - good stuff above.

For your next watering - wait till your plants ask for it. They will.

You'll start to see that really soon if you follow the above and observe your plants.

Phantombuilt said:

You guys are awesome...... my gut said wait a few days to water....but naturally As a human I wanted to test the limits...... glad I had some self control and waited for reply before pulling the trigger. Much appreciated fellas

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Sorry if I step on any toes. Stonington is similar to my method. I add 30% coco and amend. But as for watering you do not want to water to run of until the plant is established and using the pot space. Just enough to keep it moist for the first few weeks at the stem. I do every other day and just a heavy mist of less than a half cup. You will need to learn the wet/dry weight very soon.

And ignore the no transplant BS. It is almost essential with finicky autos. Here is 3 transplants and 1 to go. Cat mauling and no problems.Harder to drown or damp off in small containers. Asking for rot and washing needed nutes out of big pots. Bro science is so far off. LOL.

I tried these for the first time on this grow:
Started my germmed seeds in them - grew in them until roots were spotted.
Placed those bags straight into my FFOF / 5g.
Done.

Most painless transplant I've had - the plants agreed and exploded.

At first, I found the bags made a nice guide for watering - watered the bag & a ring around it - going a little wider each time until I noticed runoff (stopped there).
I found that mitigated my tendency to drown my babies before and after transplant.

EDIT - oops link to the bags below

Anyone know what might be causing this? Its only on this one bottom leaf and on only one plant other 2 have nothing

Phantombuilt said:

Anyone know what might be causing this? Its only on this one bottom leaf and on only one plant other 2 have nothing

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I'm too much of noob to help, but I had some leaves yellow like that right after transplanting and it turned out to be a watering issue. Not enough water. Once I got my watering under control it stopped happening. It could have been caused by the transplant shock too,, but I don't know. Here's a link to a good source of info on troubleshooting plant problems though.

Growweedeasy.com

Good luck and most of all don't panic and start throwing nutes and other stuff you'll likely make matters worse.