Terra canna soil peat moss

First time using this soil, first time planting straight into 2gallon as there autos in a smaller space.
I must not have wet the medium enough before planting and due to only watering close to the plant the outer ring of the pot has dried up and dosent except water deep into the soil. Should I do a lrg soak or keep going with watering small around 5cm around the plant. Woke up this morning to one off them toppled over it self and a hey like stem, given it some water and looking much healthier so thinking the soak is best but don’t want to over water.

I've been saying this forever. Watering around the plant only Is a recipe for disaster. Not only does it create hydrophobic patches, roots don't chase dry medium in the first place. If you only wet one small area of the pot, the roots are only going to inhabit that small part of the pot. You need the whole pot moist, and as it dries from the top down the roots chase the moist soil and dig down.

I put seeds straight into 3 gallon pots, and I water the pot to runoff before I even put the seed in.

Thus obsession with underwatering here is getting out of control. 9 out of 10 posts with issues you can guarantee that every one of them waters around the plant only and leaves 70% of the pot dry.

Newsflash people. Water properly. Over watering comes from too frequent applications, not too much volume in one go.

You need more light too, shouldn't be stretching like that in the first place.

ye ur not wrong bit off a duizy to say the least ahahah but only one way to learn. Iam new to this and no matter how much mixed information I read I will still only learn by fucking up myself. I ended up trying to water them and that just went no where. so I dug around them as best as I could keeping it in its root ball, then pulling the rest off the soil out and mixing it with some water, and then add it all back in been a morning i won’t forget.
Anyone one else have a similar situation?
What did u do to fix it just curious
Cheers

Caution_baking said:

ye ur not wrong bit off a duizy to say the least ahahah but only one way to learn. Iam new to this and no matter how much mixed information I read I will still only learn by fucking up myself. I ended up trying to water them and that just went no where. so I dug around them as best as I could keeping it in its root ball, then pulling the rest off the soil out and mixing it with some water, and then add it all back in been a morning i won’t forget.
Anyone one else have a similar situation?
What did u do to fix it just curious
Cheers

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Set your smart pots in a tray of water till it sucks some in to moisten the medium. It will wick up the water keep adding water till it’s all moistened and lower you light closer to the plants so they stop stretching. Once you have the medium moistened properly then continue regular waterings when needed to keep it moist not soaked all the time. Go by weight of the pots fell them now and then after they are properly soaked and you will be able to tell when they need watering. Good luck