Wathering/Feeding frequency help

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Clk55r1d3h

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Ok guys here's the situation. I have 99 plants, water every other day in a 5 gal pot, each pot gets about 1 gal of water. Also, they have just been transplanted into the 5 gal pots. Not sure what was fed before. Today is the first day of flipping it, plants are healthy and about 16-18 inches tall.

My question is, do I feed also every other day with watering? I use Athena pro line, the chart says 3.0 EC but ive been doing 2.5 EC for the two feedings after acquiring the plants (i did not veg them myself). After last nights watering/feeding I checked the runoff PPM was at 3000, and PH was 6.0. I know the PH is fine, but why am i getting such high runoff numbers. First feeding was on wednesday right after transplant with 1750ppm and friday was 1950ppm. Should I only just water for the next feeding which is tomorrow, Sunday. Also, I don't use RO water, only a BIG BOY filter. My tap water is 250-300ppm. This is all in coco 30% perlite. Lights are Growers Choice 720 at 25% at the moment. Temp is around 77-78 day time and night is 76, I leave the ac on the same setting. Will be increasing temp to 80 in the next few days. Daytime humidity is around 62% and night time is 65%. I have no problem of controlling either one at the moment. Thanks in advance.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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Clk55r1d3h said:
Ok guys here's the situation. I have 99 plants, water every other day in a 5 gal pot, each pot gets about 1 gal of water. Also, they have just been transplanted into the 5 gal pots. Not sure what was fed before. Today is the first day of flipping it, plants are healthy and about 16-18 inches tall.

My question is, do I feed also every other day with watering? I use Athena pro line, the chart says 3.0 EC but ive been doing 2.5 EC for the two feedings after acquiring the plants (i did not veg them myself). After last nights watering/feeding I checked the runoff PPM was at 3000, and PH was 6.0. I know the PH is fine, but why am i getting such high runoff numbers. First feeding was on wednesday right after transplant with 1750ppm and friday was 1950ppm. Should I only just water for the next feeding which is tomorrow, Sunday. Also, I don't use RO water, only a BIG BOY filter. My tap water is 250-300ppm. This is all in coco 30% perlite. Lights are Growers Choice 720 at 25% at the moment. Temp is around 77-78 day time and night is 76, I leave the ac on the same setting. Will be increasing temp to 80 in the next few days. Daytime humidity is around 62% and night time is 65%. I have no problem of controlling either one at the moment. Thanks in advance.
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If your plants are healthy then why are you worrying about runoff? Worry about what you put in. You said the plants are healthy so what's the problem? Seems like you're looking for something wrong to fix. Let the plants grow.
 
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Clk55r1d3h

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xtsho said:
If your plants are healthy then why are you worrying about runoff? Worry about what you put in. You said the plants are healthy so what's the problem? Seems like you're looking for something wrong to fix. Let the plants grow.
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They are healthy now since it's been only 2 feedings and I'm worried it would gradually throw something off.
 
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