Grow Mediums How should I water Roots Organics Original mix?

[AppleFritter]

my shop told me to treat it like hydro. I'm not sure what this means. Should I let the soil get to unopened bag level moisture before watering again (when I pick the pot up it feels 50% dry)? Or let the medium get to "the pot feels feather light to pick up"?

I had a successful grow by watering when the pot feels 50% light, but unsure with how to proceed.

 

[AutoWonders]

Mediums that are coco, peat moss, vermiculite and the such (not soil) you treat as hydro, meaning you basically pretend that you have a hydro grow, so you use meanurements that pertain to hydro, like your ph level. Hydro calls for a lower ph level than soil ph level.

My current feeding schedule for my coco grows is one quart water every day to every other day, weather dependent, mixed with calmag and Rhiz for the first two weeks or so. And if using an A&B type nute, that too. Start your nutes at 1/4 amount to see how they take, work up from there. Auto's are very well known for suffering from nute burn.

 

[AppleFritter]

Ok thanks. My last, successful grow I was watering about your levels, 1 liter per day. I had a very large Mephisto Triangle which I was watering 1.5-2 liters per day when the weather was REALLY warm (summer growing sucks). That plant was huge though with 5 ounces of larf and trim, and about 3 oz of large top nugs.

I see that pH should be 5.8-6.2. Should I water to runoff? I haven't been and don't really see a need to. I am using Tangs AN schedule

 

[AutoWonders]

Should I water to runoff?

I will do the first couple of feeds with some runoff so I can check that ph level coming out. If stable, I go back to the quart watering. If I have lowish ph coming out, something like 5.6, then I can fix that with raising the ph level going in. I ph my plants from about 5.8-6.1. Don't know if you are familiar with ph up/down, but you'll want buy that to help control ph levels.

 

[AppleFritter]

Yeah I do have that. I only bother thinking about pH water for the first three weeks, as I don't feed until day 21, and on day 21 I begin AN pH perfect.