I could easily be wrong, but 1.25 gallons 5 times during a 12 hour period sounds high for anything lower than 5 gallon pots, but I have not done a drip... can only speak from my experience with hand watering.

Going a little further fatcat... I'm going to use more perlit this run through so they dry up quicker. Going a little further fatcat... you said you put 4 cubic feet per bale of SunShine... which bale are you using? I know they have the 70 cubic foot bales as well as 110 cubic foot (dense pack) Thanks in advance.

Even that sounds like alot to me 6.25 gallons in a 5 gallon pot each day? maybe I'm way underwatering my plants then? I have zero experience with big pots till now and still trying to figure it out properly. I have been doing about 1-2 gallons every 2-3 days in a 9 gallon pot. At 4.5 weeks flowering.

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Also which size bales of SunShine are you using... they have compressed and loosely packed.

Thanks in advance.

Sorry for the repost above.

Mexi~ yeah quite honestly it sounds like a shit ton of water to me as well but he says he hasn't had root problems...I am curious to hear what type of pots he's doing. Are you using perlite? I use about 25%. But yeah, you are under-watering your plants in my opinion.

I used to give my plants 1.5-2 gallons every other day during bloom and I was only using three gallon pots. SunShine is super airy, and seemingly can take alot of water.

I say give em close to double what you are but that's only my opinion based on past experience. Obviously you aren't getting any run off with 2 gallons right?

When I was hand watering I was doing a few gallons, and then when the surface of the SunShine dried out I would water again. Give more water a shot, they will tell you immediately if you are over-doing it but you are definitely under-watering in my opinion.

Have a buddy who keeps his sunshine nearly completely saturated at all times and never has root problems just to give you an idea of how forgiving this shit can be. Got any pics of your garden mexi?

There is a link to my journal in my sig at the bottom of my posts. The sideways daze. They are two clones that I transplanted on their side 1 week before flowering.

I did add a little perlite, not as much as you tho maybe 10%. I also have about the same % compost in the mix. that seems to keep the bottoms of the pot wet according to my moisture meter but I don't like to rely on that thing too much.

Yes I do agree I have been underwatering. at leat for the last week or 2 only. I did give them a good soaking last week. Early on they didn't use nearly as much water and I had them runoff a few times. Another factor would be that I just upgraded from 400 watts hps to a 1000 watt m/h 4-5 days ago, so a little higher temp and boost in growth is proly drying them out a bit quicker. I will remedy that today. I was kinda in the prosses of watering less amount more often, as opposed to spread out soakings. Just went a little too "less" I guess.

Thanks for the info McGruppsMonsters. Drip system sounds like a good idea! I will have to see what I can come up with, try it myself. Maybe for the next round of clones. They won't be in as much soil. 4 gal.

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No problem. She looks healthy.

Ideally you would give her a small amount of water very frequently, that's essentially what drip systems do but because you are doing it by hand and only water every 2-3 days... I say give her a solid shower every single time you are feeding her.

Did you give em more water Mexi? What were the results? I'm guessing they took it just fine?

Yup I did. I don't think I can overwater these things as they are pretty big already. when they were smaller I could soak them and the leaves would show sings for an hour or two and perk right up agian. Because they were getting fairly dry I gave them each about 2 gallons on friday and another 2 gal each on saturday. I spread it out because I needed to feed them and didn't want to feed them when dry. I will probably do another 2 gal each today, and continue with that type of shedule till they are done. they have about 2.5 weeks to go, so the last week I will start to let them dry out agian.

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First let me apologize for the error in my first ( I was pretty hammered) post. Should have said 1.25 gal. in 5 waterings, not 5 min. So the actual amount of water at each watering is .25 gal.

It is the 3.8 cf. compressed bale.