Second grow - how much should I water my seedlings? (PICS)

goldencharlie15

goldencharlie15

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Hey everyone! Just had a few quick questions if anyone knows advice would be appreciated! My little seedlings are in their 16th day of life since sprouting, I was wondering how much/often to water them while they are in 16 OZ cups? I have been using a spray bottle daily to mist soil and have been giving them 3 OZ's of water in a measuring shot glass every other day. They are starting to get bigger quickly so they probably want more water I just don't know how much is to much....I also was planning on transplanting them straight into 5 gallon containers (my first grow I had to transplant twice and I just want to do it once this time no messing around/no stress to the plants) but I don't know when I should do it this time, I was thinking when they hit 5 inches possibly? If anyone has a better idea please let me know and happy growing!

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hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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Put them in the 5s now. I'll be posting pics son when I deleaf these 2 indicas for pics the days I chop them. To show you need to leave all the fan leaves on (Lesson 1) and that the malarkey about roots needing to touch anything is just that - malarkey. What a load of hooey and unneeded work to plant in progressively larger containers. See my signature for my standard advice.

I nested 1 18-gallon tub inside another with props beneath. The inner I drilled like hell. Looks like a frigging sieve. I filled the very bottoms with tree bark mulch from a mill here and then mix FF OF with it in a shallow mix zone then some FF OF.

That was this Spring. Now I use Premier Tech BX. 60# compressed block at Wally World. 75% peat with vermiculite etc.

This is a Super Silver Haze that is topped multiple times then braided and laid over. Planted as a seedling like yours in that 18-gallon so I could fit 6 plants in 18s under a single 1000 and she is budding like mad. She has about 7 more weeks looks like. Her leaves are droopy and curled because the frigging power had been off for 16 hours and, in fact, just came back on a couple hours ago. Window open for light and the wind 60 MPH. Was 90MPH last night. 70 trees down at my landlords. Life in Alaska.
 

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thespaceman937

thespaceman937

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Snip small holes in the bottom of your cup to begin to allow extra water to run off. Wait until the soil is almost dry to water them
 
goldencharlie15

goldencharlie15

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hotrodharley said:
Put them in the 5s now. I'll be posting pics son when I deleaf these 2 indicas for pics the days I chop them. To show you need to leave all the fan leaves on (Lesson 1) and that the malarkey about roots needing to touch anything is just that - malarkey. What a load of hooey and unneeded work to plant in progressively larger containers. See my signature for my standard advice.

I nested 1 18-gallon tub inside another with props beneath. The inner I drilled like hell. Looks like a frigging sieve. I filled the very bottoms with tree bark mulch from a mill here and then mix FF OF with it in a shallow mix zone then some FF OF.

That was this Spring. Now I use Premier Tech BX. 60# compressed block at Wally World. 75% peat with vermiculite etc.

This is a Super Silver Haze that is topped multiple times then braided and laid over. Planted as a seedling like yours in that 18-gallon so I could fit 6 plants in 18s under a single 1000 and she is budding like mad. She has about 7 more weeks looks like. Her leaves are droopy and curled because the frigging power had been off for 16 hours and, in fact, just came back on a couple hours ago. Window open for light and the wind 60 MPH. Was 90MPH last night. 70 trees down at my landlords. Life in Alaska.
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Thanks for the advice I will put them in 5 gallon ASAP gotta go get pots first. You mentioned topping off plants I would love to know how to do that is that the sme thing as the FIM method? Where you make a cutting and it grows 4 main colas versus one?
 
goldencharlie15

goldencharlie15

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lokie said:
How much did you water the first round? what were your results?
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The first crop I did I only misted plants soil with spray bottle on a day to day basis and I know now I should have been actually watering them a lot more lol but I did end up with great results last go round just misting soil daily
 
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