Feeding Question

[TipRat67]

In brief, what is the best way to feed your autoflower in or out the tent ?
What do you use as saucers for 5gal fabric pots ?
I have been feeding inside the tent with a pump spray with wand.
I was told to feed every 3 days with double the capacity of pot.
All advice much appreciated and loving my journey to nirvana !

 

[Suki]

Tutorial - A word on Nutrients

The proper use of “salt” based fertilizer to grow Auto Flowering Cannabis. Salts: Natural and man made any chemical compound formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, with all or part of the hydrogen of the acid replaced by a metal or other cation. Learning how to use salt based...

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Per @Mañ'O'Green

What you need to learn about watering will come with practice. Here are the basic rules: Never let the soil dry out. Soil and or coco can become hydrophobic if allowed to dry. This means it repels water. This in turn will create dry pockets in the soil and the roots and microbes will die there. If your soil - coco have accidentally dried out use a surfactant to help re-wet it. I like yucca powder. Don't let soil remain soggy by watering too much too often. Root rot, damping off, molds, fungus gnats and other problems start in soggy soil. When you do water water the entire pot. How to learn when to water starts before you plant the seed. Fill your container with fresh soil/coco and weigh it (heft it) this is the lightest weight and consider it a dry pot. Now slowly water until the soil/coco will no longer absorb the water and run-off begins; weigh the pot (heft it) this is the maximum water, the wettest the pot can get. The difference between wettest and driest is the maximum water weight, for ease of explanation lets just say the water weighs 20 pounds. When the pot loses 10 pounds (half of the water weight) it is time to water again. There is an art to watering.

 

[TipRat67]

So in or out of tent ?
Waste catcher / saucer ?

Gracias

 

[Suki]

So in or out of tent ?
Waste catcher / saucer ?

Gracias

I don't move mine unless I have to lol. I have a tray under them with a grate over it so they don't sit in the runoff.

 

[TipRat67]

I don't move mine unless I have to lol. I have a tray under them with a grate over it so they don't sit in the runoff.

Suki813 exactly what I do so thanks yet again for your help !
TipRat from down under

 

[Suki]

Suki813 exactly what I do so thanks yet again for your help !
TipRat from down under

Here's how I've got my 4x4 set up. I wouldn't have them so close together but my timelapse camera can only go so high with where the lights are. These were all going to stay in my 2x2 so I trained them small/short but I got an early Christmas present from hubby lol. Probably for the best

The tray/grate is from a 2x3 rat cage that I don't use anymore, but any combo that will catch water and keep airflow under the pots would work.