I hear a lot about water run off. If you have that much water running to the bottom of your pot wouldn’t you be over watering the plants? I thought over watering was a bad thing.

Yes and no. It’s true you don’t want to keep the plant wet all the time. But, you need to water enough that all the soil in the container get’s moisture. Typically in doing so, you have the runoff. But, you have to wait until the soil is dryish before watering again. Often over watering is not the a…

Thanks Matthew420. Don’t want to mess up my 1st grow.

I have found that it is a lot harder to over-water with the fabric pots that a lot of the growers have taken to using. You still allow the soil to partially dry to keep oxygen going in as @Matthew420 was saying. I use the weight method to tell when the plant needs water. The main idea of watering…

Okay thanks Jerry. I am using the three gallon cloth pots with my two plants that I’m scroging. I have one larger plant in a regular flower pot. I have been feeding them nutes every other watering. Maybe I should give them a good flushing. “Chromie”

Not sure you really need to flush, but I would allow a little water at least to come out the bottom each time you put in water or feed her. I couldn’t believe the veg that I had on my Strawberry Kush this grow, was lush andd as green as I have ever seen. I also had no pH problems to speak of. One…

Hey TxGrowman thanks for sharing. Run off was a little high so I got a gallon of good pH water and flushed. Checked a few hours later and it was good. Looks like I’m good to grow. Getting a lot of bud’s coming on this girl. [image] . I am in to 9 days of 12/12.

Rock it brother ! Looks nice. Keep on top of the pH and that lady should take off. Tag me, I want to see this lady in action.

Will do my brother. She not only looks good but smells good too. I’ll update picture as she bud’s out.

[image] TxGrowman: only 14 inches tall. It has 10 cola’s on it Sorry to get off the subject, but how the F did you do that??

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