Showbiz, it is not soil surface, that is the most important, but overall quantity of water, so overall pot weight will be checkout Nr.1, then comes soil surface.
I agree with A4 completely, except for the beginning of the grow, when a plant sucks very little water and you need to wait longer, so the surface is normally much more dry as the bottom. Simple solution is to wet it while waiting for overall dryout. Later on, plants start to drink and when surface is dry, bottom will soon follow (6-12 hours).
I have discovered, that carefull and more often watering (once a day) gets better yield,if done properly, in smaller quantities. I had a round of plants watered using extreme wet-dry cicles, so lets say 1 l overrun (15l pot) each watering and then waiting 2 days when soil gets dry completely. I have got around 100g average only, while previous round, the first one with much, much care was at 135g dry average.
Once you solve other problems, quantity & timing of watering and quantity & type of nutrients will remain ever present problem. Not real problem, of course, but something that is worth thinking about if you want better and better yields.
Your soil is just fine, in fact it was very good choice, you made some initial mistakes, because it was pro medium, and you were not pro, it needs carefull and often watering and feeding from the beginning. I made same mistakes when started to use Plagron Light Mix. I warmly recommend you to learn how to treat soil and then go to coco. I think your soil is someting like Plagron mixes, so it is most probably capable of 200g if not 300g dry per plant, what we have seen around in the right hands and with the right strain, of course.
I agree with A4 completely, except for the beginning of the grow, when a plant sucks very little water and you need to wait longer, so the surface is normally much more dry as the bottom. Simple solution is to wet it while waiting for overall dryout. Later on, plants start to drink and when surface is dry, bottom will soon follow (6-12 hours).
I have discovered, that carefull and more often watering (once a day) gets better yield,if done properly, in smaller quantities. I had a round of plants watered using extreme wet-dry cicles, so lets say 1 l overrun (15l pot) each watering and then waiting 2 days when soil gets dry completely. I have got around 100g average only, while previous round, the first one with much, much care was at 135g dry average.
Once you solve other problems, quantity & timing of watering and quantity & type of nutrients will remain ever present problem. Not real problem, of course, but something that is worth thinking about if you want better and better yields.
Your soil is just fine, in fact it was very good choice, you made some initial mistakes, because it was pro medium, and you were not pro, it needs carefull and often watering and feeding from the beginning. I made same mistakes when started to use Plagron Light Mix. I warmly recommend you to learn how to treat soil and then go to coco. I think your soil is someting like Plagron mixes, so it is most probably capable of 200g if not 300g dry per plant, what we have seen around in the right hands and with the right strain, of course.
