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Artizzmo1
Artizzmo1started grow question 12 hours ago
I'm using 5 gallon fabric pots with HP Pro-mix medium, how much water/fluid are you all using per watering? For ease, I water/feed 1 gallon per plant and I'm thinkin I'm getting nutes build up cuz I'm not quite getting 10% runoff as is recommended,
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001100010010011110answered grow question 4 hours ago
This is essentially a soilless medium, despite it coming with a light pre-charge around 1EC of nutes. 1) water until 10% runoff, whatever it takes. 2) wait for top 1/2 to 1" dry before repeating. You should be fertigating everytime with a 1.3-1.5EC, well-balanced diet. The runoff ensures that a consistent equilibrium results, which may be a bit higher than your formula, but the consistency is what is important. From there diagnosing and adjusting is simple and fewer other causes to rule out as to any symptoms you might see. Over time if you don't have a formula that works for 99% of plants, try harder :P So, the 10% runoff is incredibly important. Do not skimp on that. It is probably the most important part of watering a soilless medium. If you water at a similar dryback, it will require a similar volume of water, so you can learn this in hindsight only. I use pro-mix hp or bx - whichever is available and cheaper. Consider adding more perlite #2 or vermiculite #3. The "HP" comes with 15-25% or 20-25%... You want it to be ~50%. You'll have to water slightly more frequently, but your roots and plants will thank you for it. It's impossible under any common sense context to overwater a well-constituted medium. the extra perlite or verm will keep it fluffy and airy. Vermiculite adds available Si, too.
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 8 hours ago
Never water a fixed/pre-determined amount or to a fixed schedule, like every third day or whatever.............how much to give is a variable depending on individual plant size, plant needs, pot size, soil mixture, air circulation, temperature, lighting, etc. Water the entire pot until run offf, however much that takes and then do not water again until the top inch or so has dried out again then repeat forever. Follow this wet/dry routine and things can't go wrong. In soil a schedule of plain water/plain water/fertilizer/plain water/plain water/fertilizer works well and will keep nutrient levels from building up to toxic levels. Getting run off each irrigation is essential as a preventative too.
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Grow4Releaf
Grow4Releafanswered grow question 9 hours ago
I water alil over 1 gal (roughly 1.5gal to get the runoff i look for) in 5 gal and just about 1 gal in 3 gal bags. Do u check ur EC before ur feeding to make sure ur mix isn't to hot ? That's helped me out just throwing it out there if u havnt. Merry Xmas bud ! Best of luck.
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Ninjabuds
Ninjabudsanswered grow question 11 hours ago
Plants look fine with what your doing. You can always pick the plants up and take them to the tub and run some extra water thru them periodically to flush some nutrients from soil. You don't really need that trellis net it's not doing anything
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