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@Emilya, idk..I was thinking they would be getting fed more by watering every 3 days. I was just making sure I wouldn’t start over feeding them. And making sure I didn’t miss anything. Another question, I noticed that they probably could have taken water yesterday, which would be 2 days, would this be ok? They are looking a little droopy today (3rd day). Im thinking it’s the intake fan drying them out a lot faster than before.
Keep in mind that if you are doing this correctly, you are giving feed one time and then the next time they need water, you give only water. Feed rates for soil have been adjusted to allow for a heavier than needed feeding for that first pass in the f/w/f/w watering cycle, by making that feed dosage heavier than it would be for a hydro system where you are feeding with every fluid application... with the soil method of f/w/f/w it is a lot harder to overfeed, because on the water only pass the plant cleans up the soil and makes it ready for the next feed pass. If you are giving too much, typically the plant will react almost immediately, giving you indications on the leaves of the overage. Also keep in mind that you are not just feeding, as some of the gurus would have you believe, you are attempting to FERTILIZE, giving the plant more than it needs just to survive, in the attempt to make the plant bigger than it would be naturally. Like I say in my signature, garden like a Boss, and fertilize like you mean it. Timidity is for YouTubers... I don't subscribe to the practice.
Then, watering frequency. I have refined the way I water over the years and now know that it is just as important to allow the soil to dry out whilst in Bloom, occasionally, just as in Veg and for the same reason... to get oxygen down to the lowest and deepest roots. I work and work to build my rootballs during Veg, by making them work for the water, and also right up to the end of stretch at the start of bloom, and then I flip a mental switch and attempt to USE those roots, by shaving one day off of the wet/dry cycle that I established in Veg, pushing water by watering a day earlier than I had been doing. I keep that up for 3 waterings, and then on every 4th watering, I let them go that extra day again, allowing them to dry out just a bit more, to pull more O2 down deep so as to reinvigorate the roots that have not seen oxygen for a while. I notice an increase in trichomes and a spurt in growth, every time I do this.
Regarding your extra water usage with the extra air movement... I submit that this is not technically what is drying out your soil... it is the added ability for the plant to evaporate water off of the leaves with fresh moving air, allowing for more water uptake, sucking your container dry faster. Most of the water gets used by the plant, it doesn't evaporate. To see this, set a unplanted pot of wet soil in the grow area, and see how many weeks it takes to dry out.
Love the training!
