Dude I’m sorry it’s biting you in the arse once again. I’m going on a rant but please understand my frustration is with the situation you are experiencing, not you personally!
you mention fully drying out but also being watered in large gulps every 1 one 2 days… these are polar opposites…
Gravity works so when top 1/2 inch of soil is dry, the bottom is still very much wet. Weed roots can’t breathe in constantly wet or damp soil. Adding more water does not equate to more growth or faster growth. The real problem with water is lack of oxygen to the root zone… no soil based grow media dries out fully in one or two days….
Tiny plants need tiny amounts of water, a tiny plant can’t use all that water nor does it evaporate that quickly. So the excess water sits in the soil as silent killer, but before the plant can use up the existing moisture in the soil, more water gets dumped in. More water equals less oxygen in the soil…less oxygen to root zone. Yep weed roots need access to oxygen…
You can’t overwater in a day, overwater occurs by adding more water than the plant can use on a frequent basis.
Put a dowel rod or bamboo skewer in the soil, to be effective the rod must hit bottom. Next put a sharpie marker on the dowel at the soil line and leave rod in place in the soil for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes remove the dowel rod, there should be a visible difference, above the sharpie mark it should be totally dry. Below the sharpie mark the stick should be wet to indicate the water table in the container. You can see and feel the moisture on the stick… it reflects exactly what’s going on with water in your container of soil mix. Do not add any more water until there’s only 1/2 to 1 inch of waterline marked on bottom of your dowel rod dipstick. For small plants do not pour water on your soil, best to use pump sprayer and go very sparingly… airpots are better than regular hardside plastic but cloth pots are best for oxygen to root zone & shorter time between wet dry cycles
Don’t water where your roots are, water where you want roots to grow. Water in a circle about 5 inches away from main stem. Note: you want your roots to find water- not the other way around.
If you water frequently it makes for lazy roots, they are treated like royalty and never learn to work or search for water. Have a sneaking feeling autopots will be bad investment and money would be better spent on feminized photoperiod beans. Right now your young plants are not getting out of starting gate, imho autopots won’t fix that
Seriously step away from the autoflower seeds.….you’ll thank me later. Autos can sit for days unchanged above ground while roots try to grab a foothold below ground. Seriously try any other kind of bean besides autoflowers, heck even a cbd bean will tell you more than continuing to fiddle with autos. Honestly once you stunt or piss off an autoflower seedling- typically it doesn’t just resume growing… Autos can sit stalled for days on end but typically here comes more water to fix a problem that water can’t fix or to fix a problem that water plus nutes can’t fix. Funny thing but once a rootball is drowning in water and choking from lack of oxygen- adding more water doesn’t fix it.
Other media types like coco & hempy can handle water every day, not so for soil. Heck coco doesn’t even begin to compact when compared to soil… again many issues are related to lack of oxygen in the soil… as mentioned these other media types don’t have same problem. The yellowing could also be attributed to ph being out of whack from the dolomite, when nutes are out of ph range it’s like they are not even there.
For weed plants- never water a wet soil… pull the dowel rod dipstick and take a gander before ever adding water. The other thing is upcan, or upcan too soon, think this last round was upcanned too soon which only compounds water probs. You want solid rootball from top to bottom before giving her bigger pants, rootbound isn’t a bad thing. Now rootbound for weeks on end is bad, but rootbound in itself only tells you yes it’s finally time to upsize. Upcan too soon then roots are surrounded by even more wet soil and less oxygen than before. Upcan is great for photoperiods too where an autoflower can blow a gasket if you look at her wrong… Anywho hopefully few months from now we can all look back and laugh while you chop down a big monster mama…
Ok rant over, please accept my apologies if I’m off base.
Peace out & have a great day! Hope something here helps
you mention fully drying out but also being watered in large gulps every 1 one 2 days… these are polar opposites…
Gravity works so when top 1/2 inch of soil is dry, the bottom is still very much wet. Weed roots can’t breathe in constantly wet or damp soil. Adding more water does not equate to more growth or faster growth. The real problem with water is lack of oxygen to the root zone… no soil based grow media dries out fully in one or two days….
Tiny plants need tiny amounts of water, a tiny plant can’t use all that water nor does it evaporate that quickly. So the excess water sits in the soil as silent killer, but before the plant can use up the existing moisture in the soil, more water gets dumped in. More water equals less oxygen in the soil…less oxygen to root zone. Yep weed roots need access to oxygen…
You can’t overwater in a day, overwater occurs by adding more water than the plant can use on a frequent basis.
Put a dowel rod or bamboo skewer in the soil, to be effective the rod must hit bottom. Next put a sharpie marker on the dowel at the soil line and leave rod in place in the soil for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes remove the dowel rod, there should be a visible difference, above the sharpie mark it should be totally dry. Below the sharpie mark the stick should be wet to indicate the water table in the container. You can see and feel the moisture on the stick… it reflects exactly what’s going on with water in your container of soil mix. Do not add any more water until there’s only 1/2 to 1 inch of waterline marked on bottom of your dowel rod dipstick. For small plants do not pour water on your soil, best to use pump sprayer and go very sparingly… airpots are better than regular hardside plastic but cloth pots are best for oxygen to root zone & shorter time between wet dry cycles
Don’t water where your roots are, water where you want roots to grow. Water in a circle about 5 inches away from main stem. Note: you want your roots to find water- not the other way around.
If you water frequently it makes for lazy roots, they are treated like royalty and never learn to work or search for water. Have a sneaking feeling autopots will be bad investment and money would be better spent on feminized photoperiod beans. Right now your young plants are not getting out of starting gate, imho autopots won’t fix that
Seriously step away from the autoflower seeds.….you’ll thank me later. Autos can sit for days unchanged above ground while roots try to grab a foothold below ground. Seriously try any other kind of bean besides autoflowers, heck even a cbd bean will tell you more than continuing to fiddle with autos. Honestly once you stunt or piss off an autoflower seedling- typically it doesn’t just resume growing… Autos can sit stalled for days on end but typically here comes more water to fix a problem that water can’t fix or to fix a problem that water plus nutes can’t fix. Funny thing but once a rootball is drowning in water and choking from lack of oxygen- adding more water doesn’t fix it.
Other media types like coco & hempy can handle water every day, not so for soil. Heck coco doesn’t even begin to compact when compared to soil… again many issues are related to lack of oxygen in the soil… as mentioned these other media types don’t have same problem. The yellowing could also be attributed to ph being out of whack from the dolomite, when nutes are out of ph range it’s like they are not even there.
For weed plants- never water a wet soil… pull the dowel rod dipstick and take a gander before ever adding water. The other thing is upcan, or upcan too soon, think this last round was upcanned too soon which only compounds water probs. You want solid rootball from top to bottom before giving her bigger pants, rootbound isn’t a bad thing. Now rootbound for weeks on end is bad, but rootbound in itself only tells you yes it’s finally time to upsize. Upcan too soon then roots are surrounded by even more wet soil and less oxygen than before. Upcan is great for photoperiods too where an autoflower can blow a gasket if you look at her wrong… Anywho hopefully few months from now we can all look back and laugh while you chop down a big monster mama…
Ok rant over, please accept my apologies if I’m off base.
Peace out & have a great day! Hope something here helps
