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SurfDad_grows posted an update in the group
2 weeks agoAsk a Grow Question What do you Growers do about preventing drastic drybacks and the impact because of it with outdoor without overwatering and or buying a dripper system. Its DRY here but will get super humid randomly also( 105°F/80%) everyday is 40’s-50’s humidity.its 71/62% today.
Whats Dudes favorite topic? VPD. Lol
Anyone use those arrogating spikes you put on a plastic bottle to keep the soil moist as it’s needed? I know @scottyreal had some on a episode one day, those carrots i think they were. She’s 3’ in a 2.5g and a clone from my 1 of the other 2 who have a drinking problem as well at 4’ tall. Chose the plastic over fabric this one to see if it held moisture and didn’t dry as fast but now conflicted. Gets shade for 2-3 hours from a tree during the day.
Any suggestions is much appreciated. I have a cardboard ring that covers the soil as you’ve maybe seen in previous pictures but the box is to keep the root zone cooler but still allow airflow. Just been Wingin it trying whatever. She’s doing better than the others so im trying to prevent the same things happening again because this is the last one for the season (outside) that is.. Aaaaaaaaand now scotty finally sold me on the grow buckets lol. Touché
Stay high on the homegrown supply🤙
sicko_grows, PuraVidaFarms and 4 others11 Comments-
I love my grow buckets!
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I use a kiddy pool and set my plants in when it gets really hot out, with just about 2inch of water just during the heat of the day
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@hoss see, I cut the tops off 2- 55gal plastic drums for my water catch under the other 2. That’s a good idea. I saw last night somewhere it was a tray with pretty much same thing.
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@SurferDad_grows_aka_CannaDad id say with your hot environment this would be the best bet. Next time if you use a 15 gal or so dry back will be way better
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Check on it a lot and water when dry back occurs. It looks like it’s flowering pretty good so a transplant wouldn’t be ideal. Next time use a bigger pot. Get some mulch on top. It’ll work together with the shaded zone you added to keep moisture in the pot instead of leaving through the top
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@farmville i add a liter between feeding ( every other day) . Feed is every other day so I’m already adding water everyday. I used the 2.5 for a reason not the 5gal. I go through 5 gallons each a week on the other 2. Catching what I’ve been throwing out there, they drink a lot and evaporation is fast as well. My other 2 are in 5&7 gal. Proving a point to my girl it doesn’t have to take 6 months for harvest and don’t need bushes in big pots for a good harvest. I did a 10wk vegg with the other 2 hence the bigger pots. Minimal stretch on 6 week vegg as you can see at wk 5 flower. Everything outside here is dry. Hell the humidity was so bad at 100/100 last month it killed all the plants in my neighbors yard. My plants were indoors at that time. Mulching helps nothing where I’m at unfortunately without a 1foot layer. I’m 2 hours from Canada bro. Upper Midwest is dry.
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Haven’t done any pruning other than removing 6 fan leaves.
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You can get some 20% shade cloth…
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@ol-no-7 I’ve had it under my deck so it only gets sun till noon and after 3p because of the tree providing shade at peak temps.
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At this point your plant to pot size ratio might just need daily watering, possibly even twice daily according to conditions, i see a lot of perlite, that makes for a very porous mix, next time add some sticky stuff, we use the term coloïdal, usualy called compost, but porosity has to do with carbon to mineral ratios, so peat/coco and compost together should make up 80 to 90% of the mix, now compost is not a precise term, but the best stickiness is in the worm castings…
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@FlowFrog just ordered the blumat self watering 3pck. Don’t want to quit deal with a pump just yet.
My media is Mother Earth Growndswell. I didn’t do anything to it.
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