Watering

overwatering -- if you run too much volume thorugh it, the plant will drooop. -OR- you water too often and teh roots develop some sort of disease due to constantly soaked conditions. frequent watering is not necessarily "overwatering". So, water when needed.. make sure the whole thing gets wet.. don't try to give a specific volume... you give what it needs to get the job done... if consistent about 'when' you do it, it will be a fairly predictable volume of water, but you don't choose the volume... resulting factors do. If you do this, it won't be 'overwatered" have you seen people that do 3 irrigations per day? now, that setup has increase dry back and much reduced water retention (coco retains 2/3rds the volume as sphagnum peat, for example) So, it is used up faster and you can quickly re-irrigate. Frequent fertilizations does increase plant growth compared to a control group. This doesn't "overwater" the plant, so you need to think differently about what this word means. If they are droopy for a long time after you provide an irrigation, add more perlite or vermiculite or hydyton to improve drainage and increase rate of dry-back. This will mitigate whatever problems you are seeing. Again, make sure you get the entire volume of substrate moist/wet... a small amount of runoff is likely necessary. since oyu are living soil, you don't want a lot of runoff, but some is necessary to unsure proper moisture. You may need to irrigate more often with the coco-based pots than the others.. but how much perlite (et al) you added will also be a factor between the two types. (this is why oyu often see a 70/30 ratio suggested for coco, and 50/50 for sphagnum peat-based substrates) After a transplant, growth often slows a bit... roots will fill out the new volume of substrate and may not be as vigorous above ground as it once was --- even without transplant shock, which is also a possibility. when it hits bottom of container, will be more vigrous above ground. container size controls plant size to some extent. After a transplant it takes a while for the drinking to match new volume.. e.g. i just xplanted from solo cup to a "1gal" nursery pot. It was taking 2 days between irigation in the solo cup at time of xplant. it took 9 days before the pot needed another (i allow significant dryback early on to promote root growth - the stereotypical 1" deep dry on surface). Next one will take 6-7days... then 5-6 etc. if the gap between is not decreasing, then you have a reason to worry... as long as it is shortening between, it's growing new roots. later on i don't wait for 1" to dry... i try to water when it is about 1/2 weight as previously (maybe not a good idea fo living soil, but shows that the perception of 'overwatering' is a bit off). i use bti to kill larva as a preventative measure. my roots are lily white and devoid of any negative microbial growth of note. no overwatering issues. i use a proper amount of perlite to ensure it is virtually impossible. My plants rarely even droop after an irrigation, even if it is much sooner than the 1"deep dry point. you won't deplete what is in the living soil if you don't have a bunch of run-off... so frequency of watering isn't going to impact that much (assuming you are avoiding significant runoff, since it is a living soil) none of your plants look "too small" for their pot, but some are smaller than others... so there will be differences in how fast they deplete what hydration is in the soil. if you are still within first week or two since last transplant.. .it'll pick up shortly.

if you have 2 in soil and 2 in coco, and your treating them both the same., then you just answered your own question. They are two different mediums and they do not get treated the same way. Coco has to stay wet.., you don't give a dry period with coco. Feed and water to keep your ec in the planter at constant proper ph and ec levels. Soil is kept at higher ph and ec levels., and a drying out period between waterings. Coco you never let dry out. Coco ph in veg 5.8 and 6.2 to 6.3 in flower. soil is 6.5 right through.

Hey Growmie, Looks like the humidity is too high for a plant this age. High levels of humidity decrease the amount of water lost by a plant through transpiration (aka the evaporation of water from a plant's leaves), and low levels of humidity increase the amount of water lost through transpiration. Hopefully this was helpful and I wish you nothing but success on your future endeavors.

For 50 days from sprout, does anybody have any opinion on if these look on the smaller side or not? And do they look healthy to you? I want to transplant into 5 gallon pots to get ready for flower, but if they are taking almost 4 days to dry out after only applying a quarter of a gallon of water in 2 gallon pots, then I feel like watering in 5 gallon pots will again overwater the roots again. My previous runs I remember them drinking so much more water, it has me really thrown off this run. I had them in solo cups for 25-30 days and then transplanted into 2 gallon pots, where I believe I may have overwatered a bit in the beginning after transplanting them. That slowed growth down a lot after transplant and also I should have given them a tea after transplant because they were starting to show some deficiencies either from the overwatering or not having enough nutrients while the microbes were breaking down the new nutrients from the transplant, or a combination of both. I am just really mind boggled on how long it is taking the medium to dry out.