I think I am going to alter the way I water this grow. I am organic so don’t have mix up an nutrients. Instead of doing the wet-dry cycle, saturate the containers let them dry out for a few days and repeat, I thought I would try to maintain a constant moisture level all the time. Again, being all organic I don’t have to water to runoff.
I have the systems in place to do this automatically. What do you all think?
Cannabis roots have a difficult time absorbing oxygen when the medium is always wet. Roots need oxygen; hence the reason for wet/dry cycles. Roots can absorb oxygen (although very inefficiently) when wet so long as the temperature of the medium is lower (~70F.)
When you water your plants too often, the roots end up sitting in stagnant water. A common reason for drooping around watering time is because their roots are starving for oxygen. I would stick with wet/dry cycles.
I run organics and with organics it is important to keep your soil damp/moist at all times as you should not allow living soil to dry out the importance of keeping it damp at all times is to keep the microbiology alive and working once living soil dries out the microbiology begins to die off therefore resulting in less optimized conditions for nutrients uptake without the microbiology the organic inputs wont break down it all comea down to pot size id recommend looking over at the build a soil blog as they have went over the importance of this topic as well as the ideal range of watering plants in living soil
Perhaps with enough perlite or another product to keep the dirt loose and some air in the soil it could work. .Like Midwest says the roots need air. The reason Coco Coir works with daily watering is its texture and once watered drains enough to give the roots a lot of airspace to breath.
Thanks. Is that blog a subsection of this forum or another website?
Another site just google Build a soil blog
Right. That what got me to thinking about this. I just recently move
Thanks. I used FF Ocean Forest as my base soil and added 20% perlite to it. FFOF seems to have a good deal of perlite to begin with so now it is pretty spongy soil.
Thanks, I will check it out
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Sorry my internet is all jacked up today… my reply got cut short, this what is should have read:
That is what got me to thinking about this. I just recently transplanted to their final containers, did a good watering in and still 5 days later the soil is saturated. And they are droopy. They are just not big enough to drink very much yet.