soil staying wet

does any one else have this problem? i water and it takes about a week or to dry up about two inchs down. my temps when light is off, the lowest it gets is around 60. When the light is on it gets around 75. humidity is 40-50% RH. also is this bad?

What type of soil are you using. Im using MG organic choice and I have the same problem. I try to keep my temps up and make extra drainage holes in my potters.

Poor ventilation will make the plants use less water.

im actually using that same soil.. huh.....i always have a fan going to, it is in a basement is that a ok atmosphere to grow in?

Mix in some perlite (like 30%) to assist in drainage.

It probably has vermiculite or some other water retention crystals or somethjing in it, perlite would help with drainage but if its got something in it that holds water you will be having this problem the whole time.

Basicly your soil is the problem, next time you grow go to lowes or home depot get a bag of topsoil, a bag of composted manure, small bag of worm castings and a couple bags of perlite throw them all together then add either veg or flowering nutes and you got some damn good soil to grow in.

i think your prolly right, im gonna get some FF soil for next one. thnx for advice

oh yea can this have any bad affects on plants??

The other problem I ran into is that organic choice has a really low nitrogen level and the leaves will turn yellow pretty quick. I'm not going to use oc any more. it should work ok, but you might try uping your N if you can. How far along are you in your grow???

im 36 days into flowering and the low N seems to be true i had problems with this during veg.

Fox Farms is good soil but IMO it costs way too much, the mix I listed earlier will give you twice as much soil for about half the price and it will grow some nice plants.

Its not prenuted its the organic mg soil and i do have pea gravel in the bottom about 3". but i definetly wont be using mg soil any more.