scrubby explains soaking with drenches: Doc Bud's HiBrixBLEND

scrubby;2496441 said:

SweetSue;2495802 said:

This is one of those confusing points scrubby, so maybe you can help me clear it out. Before they go into the final pots you soak instead of dunk. Let's try this way scrubby: I have five small pots that hold about 4 cups of soil apiece. I understand this is very different from normal, but stay with me please. Would you walk me through how you would set up the drench process, including what materials and supplies you would have on hand? Kind of a step-by-step? In particular how much water would you use, and I'm assuming this would be in a 5 gallon bucket? I think the problem some of us have we get little bits and pieces of it scattered about, but it's just enough to feel intimidating. Hell scrubby, I don't intimidate easily and it makes me pause. It's probably because we get the impression that you have to be so precise, but something tells me that's part of the misunderstanding we're trying to clear up.

I appreciate you trying to help us make this easier to grasp scrubby.

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This is what I do when im feeding my small pots. I go from solo cups to 1 gals to finish (7 or 10) btw. In solos ill use 1 gallon of water in something smaller than a 5 gal bucket so that when theyre all dunked the feed liquid comes over half way up the cup. I use the 1.25 mils of drench in said gallon of water and have found that's good for 4 solo cups. After dunking those 4 ill pour the remaining water down the tops and let em drain for a while. If youre doing 5 quarts id use the 5 gal bucket, put 2 gallons of water in it and do 2.5 mils of feed. Now that sounds like alot but you gotta take drain into consideration and actually 2.5 mils is miniscule! I let mine get rootbound in the solos then go to 1 gal plastics. In the 1 gals that's when I go to my .36 mils per gallon. I have a bin that will hold all 4 1 gallon pots and a tray for the runoff. Ill use 1.5 mils of feed in 2 gallons of water with .5 mils of tea and soak all 4 pots for about 20 mins. Then take the remaining liquid and pour it down the tops of the pots and let it set in the tray, theyll absorb what's left over over night. My goal is to get that .36 mils of drench into each pot...one way or another! When I feed my 7s (what I'm using now) ill use 2 or 3 gallons of water...It kinda depends on conditions. But you want 2.5 mils of drench in the 7s. I usually pour a gallon of straight water in the tray and then a gallon of feed down the top, or 2 gallons if I didnt get around to it for a while (beautiful thing about the kit is that your plants will become very forgiving lol). Anything that comes out the bottom will be absorbed in a short time...like I said earlier
Others might do stuff differently but thats what works for me...Check my plants out and theyll tell you the same

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