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It will run out the sides if the soil is so dry that the water doesn't easily soak in, which is likely the case if you have been consistently underwatering. I would suggest soaking them in a tote with a few inches of water until they are saturated to correct it, it will be less messy than watering several times until it's saturated. Once it's saturated pick it up and get a sense of the weight. If you have an extra pot and soil, fill it up and get a sense of the weight dry. By weight is the way to go if you don't have a moisture meter... which the cheap ones aren't very accurate anyway. I was consistently underwatering in fabric pots the one time I used them, for the same reason, thought the runoff meant they were saturated.... they were not.My thoughts as well now that I think more about it. I did notice some of the water running out the side of the pots. I'm going to run out tonight and fill up my RO 5 gallon water jug and soak them a bit more with 1/4 strength feeding and watch them.
It's tough to know if all the soil is getting wet.
What ever you do do not do this. Give them about 4 oz of water maybe every 3 or 4 days. Get another pot and fill it with just soil. Pick it up and see if it plants in the pot weight the same as the pot with no plant. When they weight about the same you can water. I usually grow from clones. they go into a 1 quart container. They are watered to run off and put into the veg. It takes a good week for those pots to dry out. When you are in soil you have to dryback the soil so it is allows Oxygen to the root system. Ever hear the term, the girls like their legs dry. Just fill a pot with soil and use that method.They need water, like a gallon each. Then again in 5 days or so.
Get good soil and stick with the smart pots. The reason why the original pot was called a smart pot was because it breathed air better than a plastic pot. Spend the money on Soil and not pots. Once you start feeding the plants still weeks away use at about 1/3 of as advertised and kick it up to maybe 60 percent at like week 4-6 of flower. For the rest just run it at 50 percent.Hmmm......I'd probably have better luck with plastic pots and ditch the fabric ones.We don't have a store around here with good soil. Just the garbage from Walmart that says enriched with miracle grow. I had no choice. I may have to make a trip to the city for good soil.
This is where I was going to say to go. Just replant them like DB is saying.Nevermind.. Walmart soil with miracle grow, and then meal additions in top of that?
You've likely got a nutrient imbalance that's overloading the soil and locking up nutrients.
Kinda hard to reverse that one. Especially if the miracle grow is slow release like it sounds it is, and the plants are rooted in. That's also way too much blood and bone meal.
I know what I would probably do.. but ill be damned if I'd advise you to do it.
I'd get good quality soil, not add anything to it, then cut away the fabric pots and rinse as much the old soil away from the roots as possible, as gently as I could, then re-plant it in good soil ultra carefully. It would piss them right off for sure, but they'd be happier in the long run.
Alternately...I'd maybe just try and reset the CEC by flushing very slowly with something like florkleen or clearex, or a homemade version. But those organics you added will be impossible to remove with a rinse, so I don't really know. Enzymes possibly.. but yeah. Not great options.
That said, I'm curious to hear if anyone else that grows in soil has other ideas for treatment.
Coco is not as easy to grow in. What is your growing experience? I always try to get people to get good at soil before taking on a more challenging media. Soil things happen over a week or so. Coco a 2 or 3 days. Hydro can be in 12 hours. So your understanding of the health of the plant needs to develop as you move to quicker growing media's. But that is just my opinion so you get some smoke each timeThere is a store in town that sells coco hair or what ever it's called. Is it possible to just use that to transplant into and then start feeding with my organic advanced nutrients?
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