ImpulsiveGrower
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Yes I am already lifting the pots to feel the weight and I’m learning a lot every day I just want another weapon to add to the arsenal to help me determine when I should water again.how small is the the plant might be better to water the soil with a little hand spray bottle..
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Ok so you want it to go past the original dry weight before watering again? I figured you would wait till it gets close to the original dry weight...I use the scale mainly to prevent overwatering. If a cup of fresh soil weighs 200g, wait til it weighs less to water again during the first month.
Yes I am already lifting the pots to feel the weight and I’m learning a lot every day I just want another weapon to add to the arsenal to help me determine when I should water again.
you could start to water the full cup meaning enough to wet all of the medium and just don’t water till it’s as light as styrofoam and i mean styrofoam, going a little dry is WAY better than overwatered just a bit too much..Ok so you want it to go past the original dry weight before watering again? I figured you would wait till it gets close to the original dry weight...
I definitely 100% agree!! I however have zero indoor experience and I’m lifting pots everyday and I know there’s no substitute for experience but I have none yet. I’ve seen ppl discuss using this method so I’m trying to get some input of how they do it. So I want to combine both intuition and carefully paying attention to my plants but wanted to also try to the scale method during the first month. It could only help along with me lifting pots.If you're looking to buy tools there are soil moisture meters and soil tempreture meters that will give you more useful information. However, and I don't know how much horticulture experience you have, these tools aren't really going to replace experice and just thousands of times lifting pots.
those plants can handle a full watering now but not drenched meaning you pour very slowly and take your time to let the water settle through the soil, that way it won’t compact and push out all the oxygen..you could start to water the full cup meaning enough to wet all of the medium and just don’t water till it’s as light as styrofoam and i mean styrofoam, going a little dry is WAY better than overwatered just a bit too much..
make sure there is air holes in bottom and lower sides of the cups for oxygen/airflow and to help with drying out..
Thanx for the advice farmer famDry out the soil to the lowest moisture percentage possible and record weight by volume. Do this with several samples and of several sized samples to get a mean. Take record of the pot weight. Take weight measurements of water that will be used unless using distilled water then its 1ml/g. Then you can get a relative consumption/evaporation weight ratio.
Well the scale I ordered from Amazon came today so I filled an empty pot with soil to record the dry weight and then i weighed all my planted pots to get an idea. I’m lifting pots all the time as well but I’m trying this out at the same time.a good way to know, fill a pot with just soil, compare it to yours, water when they feel about the same.
I have a cheap lil moisture/ph/light meter as well so I’ll try using it some tooBlumat auto drip system and a moisture sensor takes a lot of the guess work out. Not to mention simplifying ones life.
a good way to know, fill a pot with just soil, compare it to yours, water when they feel about the same.
Exactly the type of info I was looking for thank you! I know feeling it out is best but this will ensure I don’t mess anything up. Since I did slightly under then over water my seedlings...To keep it idiot proof, I get the dry weight, then the wet weight (to slight runoff). As you can see in this case the difference
is just over two ounces. I stay 10 grams below wet weight and don't add water until I get down to 10 grams above dry weight. As I pot up, I adjust accordingly using 16 oz. or 1 quart increments. This works for me, the idiot. By the way, those
are nice looking 8-12 day old plants.
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