something like that. I dont know about a whole week with no water tho.
I have some young plants (37 days from seed) that I transferred from solo cups into 2 gallon black nursery pot containers on the 16th ----now 11 days with ZERO water !!!
They look fabulous. Better than any of my seedlings from my first two grows. I believe I'll be watering today (finally) it's been killing me to go this long.......but this long wait has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt----I have always been "over watering".
The beautiful roots I saw when I transplanted them were something I did not see the first two grows transplanting from solo's. I think due to my excessive spray bottle waterings---maybe the roots never had to go in search of water? and therefore never developed properly? they just sat there and lazily waited for the next 12 sprays :(
A fellow from another forum made a comment that stuck with me, so I tried it this grow (and still am now). He said to grab the solo cup by the edge and swing it back & forth. You'll be able to tell by feel if there is momentum in the cup (thus showing there was still some measure of moisture there). They needed so few waterings it blew my mind. Now that they are in these 2 gallon containers I've continued w/ that practice.....along with having made several holes in the nursery pots (to stick my moisture meter in to gauge and confirm).
100% I have ALWAYS overwatered. I insisted I didn't. I was so sure I didn't......but this experience with the 11 day wait tells me how wrong I was all this time. Also along with the overwatering I'm sure I also overfed. So far all I've used for nutrition is half dose
pro-tekt silica, half dose clean kelp, and half dose growers recharge (watered in before the transplant)-- and a top dressing of neem cake and diamataceous earth (pest control reasons for the latter two). I'm in pretty good organic soil and it appears they have all they need?
I just top dressed the pots with worm castings and plan on finally watering today. I desperately want to use the hydrolyzed fish fertilizer I just received ....but damn, I don't think they even need it right now?
****BTW --I didn't mean to single out your comment---but I want to ensure new growers are aware that YES your plants surely can go longer than a whole week without water and be perfectly healthy plants. It's been rainy and humid here, which I believe is contributing to the slow consumption, so obviously we each have unique conditions to contend with :)