Wet muck at bottom of pot!

brogro

brogro

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Hello,

This is the first year using this size pot. It's about 30% bigger than the 20 inch pots I normally use. I read some where that a large pot isn't always better. Despite the many extra holes I drilled the bottom third of soil is wet muck while the top 2/3 of soil is dry enough to cause wilting. This happens to be an eggplant but same goes for dope plants.

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ALPHA.GanjaGuy

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get rid of the bottom cap pieces and put it in a saucer if you need to catch the runoff.. that appears to be one of the pots that has a resevour at the bottom for bottom feeding.. they usually have a grate that goes on the bottom of the pot from the inside that holds the soil above that resevour.. I would bet that's where the much is from.. it can also lead to over watering/soil staying too wet for too long
 
Billy the Mountain

Billy the Mountain

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brogro said:
Hello,

This is the first year using this size pot. It's about 30% bigger than the 20 inch pots I normally use. I read some where that a large pot isn't always better. Despite the many extra holes I drilled the bottom third of soil is wet muck while the top 2/3 of soil is dry enough to cause wilting. This happens to be an eggplant but same goes for dope plants.

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The pot size is not the issue.
The problem is the medium.
 
brogro

brogro

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ALPHA.GanjaGuy said:
get rid of the bottom cap pieces and put it in a saucer if you need to catch the runoff.. that appears to be one of the pots that has a resevour at the bottom for bottom feeding.. they usually have a grate that goes on the bottom of the pot from the inside that holds the soil above that resevour.. I would bet that's where the much is from.. it can also lead to over watering/soil staying too wet for too long
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Hello my brother, good eye. This is the only plant that has the saucer under it because it's on the deck and I didn't want to get it stained. For everything else it's actually elevated on a grate.
 
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ALPHA.GanjaGuy

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brogro said:
Hello my brother, good eye. This is the only plant that has the saucer under it because it's on the deck and I didn't want to get it stained. For everything else it's actually elevated on a grate.
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Totally reasonable, are the others mucking up as well?
 
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