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@Sundancers , are you growing in a 20L pot with organic soil, or with coco? I guess I have heard that coco needs to be moist all the time, and the the rule with coco is to ALWAYS keep the substrate moist and NEVER dry. PS If you used worm humus then it's not coco, then 3L/plant may be too much because it's a lot of water at the same time. Why not divide it into two parts, and give your plants 1.5L a day? I am curious how you think dryip up of the soil can produce benefits for the plant. (PS I myself like drying up the surface, but I was wondering what your point of view is).

@HumanCompanion , wir sind nicht der Meinung das das austrocken der Erde vorteile bringt ? Die Erde ist nicht komplett ausgetrockent nach 2 Tagen. Das wäre sicher nicht gut. Um die Menge des Gießwassers zu bestimmen nutzen wir eine magische Technik. Wir heben die Töpfe an und am Gewicht lässt sich feststellen ob, und wie viel gegossen wird. :)

@Sundancers, so do you water every 2 days only for convenience?

@Sundancers, if you want to get rid of most of those minerals and problems, just get 70 liters of organic soil and your main problem will be defoliating 30 leaves a day. You are a kvadratish, practish, gut german dude, so why not just go organic and simple?

@HumanCompanion , hmm, thats a interesting opinion. Maybe we try this in the futur. Now we watch your strawberry grow :)

@Sundancers, they are wild strawberries found in a local field outside. Their fruit are tiny, but smell almost like chocolate. They can tolerate hellish droughts without water for a month. Their main task is survival, not producing fruit, unfortunatelly. I even wonder how many hours of light a day they might need to start making berries. They've been in this vegetative stage for some months, and it seems like the problem is 12h days, but even now at 18/6 they are still in veg, those wild strawberries.😍

@Sundancers, what do you think could happen if you switched to 6.1pH? Why 5.5? I've always heard that 6.1 is good for soil, but you have a semi-hydro setup and maybe that's why your pH is different from mine. I saw their info about their soil, but IMO it looks like simple peat, because it is so brown. And peat, yeah, peat is usually more acid, isn't it? PS dude, your water is not hard because hard is about PPM, right?? I guess you wanted to say alcaline in pH, right?

@HumanCompanion, yes, you're right. 😅

@Sundancers, 😜 what do you think could happen if you switched to 6.1pH? Why 5.5?

@HumanCompanion We have two humidity meter, one mechanic and one digital. Both show nearly the same data. It looks more retro with an mechanical humidity meter and i don't need glasses to see the humidity value 😆

@Sundancers, I remember that I had a mechanical timer in the past, and it was quite good. I guess they are safer thanks to no batteries! i wish my TDS meter didn't use any battery... It died exactly after I watered my gentle seedling with hydroponic solution, and I had suspisions that the water was really high PPM. Oh, and those paper stripes are terrible for pH tests. I guess you and your glasses understand me. Thanks and have a good day!