How much water for one gallon soil medium

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Toxicbutt

Member

• Feb 2, 2011

• #1

How much water should i give my babies, like the size of a coke can or a half gallon? Should I get the hole bucket wet with water and let it drain?
Quick and simple thx. (In 1 gallon buckets, drys up in under 2 days)

 

dangledo

Well-Known Member

• Feb 2, 2011

• #2

as long as you have a decent draining soil, completely saturate until 20% runoff.

 

Travis9226

Active Member

• Feb 2, 2011

• #3

I use one gallon pots with fox farm ocean forest and put about cups of water or nute mix every 24 hours but I did make sure soil was good and wet before the seed went in

 

nicktater

Well-Known Member

• Feb 2, 2011

• #4

Hes got it. Soak it, and let it dry out, then soak it again. When growing in soil i sometime let my plants start to droop before watering again.

 

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growone

Well-Known Member

• Feb 2, 2011

• #5

this was a question that i searched for a while on, wasn't easy to find the 'standard' method
i did find a fair number of posts that mentioned 1/4 the volume of the pot, so one quart per gallon of soil
has worked well for me, though many seem to do it by feel

 

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frmrboi

Well-Known Member

• Feb 2, 2011

• #6

dangledo said:

as long as you have a decent draining soil, completely saturate until 20% runoff.

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I recommend this style too, you need to flush your soil regularly 'speacially with peat based soils.