New Grower Watering Plants - trying a new way

[chixdiggrowing]

over watering isnt the amount you use per watering, it is how often you water

for example: i could pour 50 gallons of water through my 5 gallon pot and not worry that ive over watered, but i could also pour that same 50 gallons of water through my 5 gallon pot over a period of 1 week of daily waterings thus overwatering

pretty simple to grasp eh

 

[SHRED]

over watering isnt the amount you use per watering, it is how often you water

for example: i could pour 50 gallons of water through my 5 gallon pot and not worry that ive over watered, but i could also pour that same 50 gallons of water through my 5 gallon pot over a period of 1 week of daily waterings thus overwatering

pretty simple to grasp eh

^This

 

[Corgy]

Only poor soil that doesn't drain well make "over watering" possible, i.e. an anaerobic condition. No matter how much watering, if there is oxygen available in the soil/medium at all times, "over watering" is a myth........

 

[pop22]

whether its poor soil or watering too often, the plants die/get damaged from lack of O2 to the root zone. "When you water your plants too often, its roots are sitting in stagnant water which no longer has any oxygen left"
quote from www.Growweedeasy.com

What I am trying to do, is get a reasonably close idea of the best volume of water per pot size. then the next thing to determine is the frequency. Once I figure that out, then I can think about an automated watering system for a Sea Of Green. And besides, I don't have much of anything better to do than to think up crap like this..........LOL! :Sharing One:

 

[thetreeman]

I have had to flush a couple of my seedlings because I went overboard with organic fertilizer. Being in a mostly in a peat mix, I didnt want to leave them waterlogged, so I grabbed the pots and spun around till I was dizzy, this caused a lot more water to come out the bottom than just allowing gravity to do it would have and my plants really took off afterward. Just an idea to anyone needing to flush, with plants that are too small yet to use up all the excess water involved in that process.