watering advise

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Bartfark

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how much do u guys and girls let your soil dry before u water again. untill it is complete dry, moist at the bottom and dry at the top, or when u see first signs of dryness.
please compare with your results. thanks
 
Whereisdabud

Whereisdabud

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i like to let the soil dry until the plant is drooping a little and then give them the water, they drink it right up. Too bad it has been raining a lot where i live so my soil is constantly wet but it will dry up in a few days.
 
babygro

babygro

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Bartfark said:
how much do u guys and girls let your soil dry before u water again. untill it is complete dry, moist at the bottom and dry at the top, or when u see first signs of dryness.
please compare with your results. thanks
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Use the 'wet/dry' method. Feel the weight of a fully watered pot and then feel the weight of a dry pot. When the pot feels light again - water it again.

Don't stick your fingers into the soil, you'll damage roots, and if your hands aren't clean you can start introducing harmful pathogens and bacteria into your soil, and it's not a very good way of judging the moisture content of a pot. The dryness of the top couple of inches of a pot is no indication at all of the dryness of the whole pot.

This is the tried, trusted and proven method of judging watering schedules that pretty much all experienced growers use, except those newbies who stick their fingers down into the soil by 3 inches of course.
 
MajoR_TokE

MajoR_TokE

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babygro said:
Use the 'wet/dry' method. Feel the weight of a fully watered pot and then feel the weight of a dry pot. When the pot feels light again - water it again.

Don't stick your fingers into the soil, you'll damage roots, and if your hands aren't clean you can start introducing harmful pathogens and bacteria into your soil, and it's not a very good way of judging the moisture content of a pot. The dryness of the top couple of inches of a pot is no indication at all of the dryness of the whole pot.

This is the tried, trusted and proven method of judging watering schedules that pretty much all experienced growers use, except those newbies who stick their fingers down into the soil by 3 inches of course.
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This is how i do it.
If it's heavy leave it, if it's light then feed it.
 
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