Watering question Is this advisable?

You are much better off to give 2-5 litres every 2-5 days than you are to water small amounts every day. You need to wet the substrate from top to bottom and from edge to edge and ensure there is run off each watering (water coming out of the bottom of the pot). This will ensure 2 things, firstly, that the substrate is moist from top to bottom and to encourage roots to grow deep and wide, setting up a good anchor point and a good network to find water and nutrients, and secondly, this helps prevent any mineral salts from the fertilizers building up in the substrate and causing problems later on, like burning. The importance of watering to run off can not be under stated. There is no need to change this progressively, your plant will not freak out if it gets more water than the previous day. Think about what happens in nature, plants do not get little sprinkles of water multiple times a day, usually they get a good soaking once in a while. This is why it is important to have a deep root system and you must encourage your plant to grow one by deep watering every few days rather than shallow watering every day. Watering small amounts next to the stem just causes a shallow root system that is inefficient in finding water and nutrients and an ineffective base anchor which could see your plant falling over when carrying large heavy flowers later on. So, water deeply, to run off, every few days, and only once the top 2-4cm of the substrate has dried out, should you water again. Hope this helps, ............. Organoman.