She's getting frosty & starting to smell delicious. Also the Sugar Mango Ryder is at 22" now and still stretching. I'm gonna have a fight for space here reaaaaaally soon. These are great problems to have.
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Does anybody have any tips to get runoff to a minimum? I wait until my pots are nice and dry to water but some days it seems like all the water wants to do is be out of the pot. I "fork" the soil before each watering and the Equilibrium has yucca extract in it so I would think that would help.
ThatKracker
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If it seems like all of your water just wants to run out It helps if you pre-water with just a tad bit about 3-4 minutes before the full load. Gives it time soak a little up and expand. What's forking the soil?
I'll try that. Forking is using a plastic fork to break up the crusty soil before watering.
A4
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Don't let your pots dry completely. Always water when the soil is still moist but not wet. Going completely dry is terrible for the plants no matter what system you use.
mephisto
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Pre-water is a good idea, also if the soil is dry and has shrank pulling inwards from the rim of the container, you can use your hand to bust up the very top crust and push it back out towards the edge to fill the gap a little. This will help and hopefully the majority of your feed/water won't be pissed away down the sides bypassing your plant.
I don't know if you have a catch tray or not, but if so and its not too deep it's quite fine to let the plant draw some of this excess up from the bottom.
Those are some of our methods anyway
I don't know if you have a catch tray or not, but if so and its not too deep it's quite fine to let the plant draw some of this excess up from the bottom.
Those are some of our methods anyway
I guess I've had it all wrong this whole time! I've been letting the pots get pretty dry before watering. I'll need to rethink my methods for sure. How do you personally decide when it's time to water?
Unfortunately in my tiny tent I don't have room for a catch tray (I'm using pretty big pots). I usually take them out and water them in the bath tub but the HBSS is too big to do that anymore. I just sop up the runoff with a towel after watering. As soon as I don't have to be as discreet I will be getting a bigger tent so I can do things a bit better.Pre-water is a good idea, also if the soil is dry and has shrank pulling inwards from the rim of the container, you can use your hand to bust up the very top crust and push it back out towards the edge to fill the gap a little. This will help and hopefully the majority of your feed/water won't be pissed away down the sides bypassing your plant.
I don't know if you have a catch tray or not, but if so and its not too deep it's quite fine to let the plant draw some of this excess up from the bottom.
Those are some of our methods anyway
A4
11th Year Anniversary
I generally look at the soil and can tell. Some people go by the weight of the pot. My pots are too big to be lifting. I like to let the top of my soil just begin to start drying but if I scrape away the top I can still feel a little moisture in the soil underneath it. Not wet, just that cool damp feeling. The problem with letting them dry out is just like what you are seeing. It becomes painstakingly hard to get the entire soil moist again and you will normally end up with pockets of dry soil in your container and the roots will die in those areas. In the past when I let them dry out too long I have actually submerged the containers in a bucket of water to try and get the entire soil wet again. That was on some 1 gallon containers but it happens.
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