Watering your Cannabis Plants the RIGHT WAY!
Watering your Cannabis Plants the RIGHT WAY!
Your Guide to Successfully Watering your Cannabis Plants
If only watering your cannabis plants was as easy as giving them some water once a week.
Unfortunately, it isn’t, so get the watering element of your plant care wrong, and very quickly you’ll have dead or dying plants.
It might surprise you to learn that it is easier to overwater your cannabis plants than underwater them.
However, before you start thinking that watering is seriously complicated, it isn’t, you just need to follow a few basic rules.
First off there is pot size. For your seedlings, you want a small pot with a light and airy growing medium. You want to be able to get the growing medium nice and moist, but still well drained so that it will dry out.
If you put seedlings in a large pot, invariably the soil will never dry out to any extent, and the roots will begin to rot.
Once transferred to a large pot, you want to make sure that the soil, or growing medium, drains easily. The idea is for the soil to be moist, not soaking wet.
The pot should have holes in the bottom so that excess water can drain off, and the pot should be slightly raised so that it doesn’t stand in any excess water.
If your soil remains too wet, it will encourage the growth of mould and bacteria on the surface.
In a good set-up, the surface of the soil should dry out between watering – this stops mould and bacteria forming.
When you water the soil, it should take roughly two or three minutes for excess water to drain through. If it takes a lot longer, then the soil is too heavy and will remain too wet and compacted around the root system.
Adding perlite to soil is a good way to encourage healthy drainage.
While you can’t tell how wet the soil is at a depth of greater than six centimetres, sticking your finger in the soil is a good way to check if the plant needs watering. If it is dry all the way down, chances are it needs watering.
If you can feel that the soil is damp, leave things alone.
Often a good way to tell if a plant needs watering is to lift the pot – if it feels appreciably lighter than it did when it has just been watered, it’s time for a top-up.
The only other thing to keep an eye on, is the pH of the soil, as too much water can change it from the optimum 6.3-6.8.
So remember, cannabis plants are not the same as goldfish, so they don’t need to be immersed in water 24/7!
do they grow in dry areas in the wild?
You don’t even mention ppm at all…
Many of these tips are amateur and wrong
Questions, do you water just the soil or dump the water over the whole plant?
They want to drink more faster the bigger they get ot serms
Is this the guy who also runs the channel Riddle??? 🤣🤣
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Cannabis will tell you when to water I mean if you lift the pot and it’s light and the first inch of soil is dry definitely water but not long after that you plant will start wilting and prior to wilting the stem will become flimsy and rubbery like the stem is wilted but the leaves aren’t also this will tend to happen much quicker in coco rather than sool
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for us over 60 what happens when you can’t feel anything or lift anything : )
How about auto flowers? I’ve heard they are supposed to be planted directly in the big pot… confused af
good general indicators for watering, thanks for the tips
Is this the narrator from kurtzgesagt?
I honestly hate the tip for sticking your finger into the pot to tell if you need to water…
Great information 👌
Only thing I disagree on is- how can you have any idea if a plant needs to be watered using your finger to check the top 5% of the soil, what about the other 95%? going by weight is much more accurate 🙂 thanks for the vid!
Very informative. Great tips. Thanks.
What about auto seeds??I was told to plant my auto seed in the pot that I’m going to grow it in and NOT to transplant…I planted mine in a 5 gallon vinyl bag pot
Water 1/2 of the plant 🪴 pot…who likes drowning? 😒
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Try my method. It works perfect on all plants without being careful or much work! Even on vacation 😎👌
What a nice new and informative channel
thanks
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The majority of this is only applicable if you’re using shyt soil in a small less than 5 gallon plastic pot.
If you want to grow in SOIL then you grow in Living Organic Soil in 20+ gallon fabric pots, use a proper aerated soil, add a cover crop, worms, predator bugs, thick mulch layer, inoculate with mycorrhazae and water about 5% of soil volume pretty much EVERYDAY, you NEVER ever allow roots to "dry out" which will kill root tips and hairs and the top feeder roots.
If you want to bottle feed nutrients then do NOT use soil, use coco coir and again water everyday and never allow the medium and roots to dry out.
If you have to do what this video says then you are hamstringing
yourself.
Also putting a seedling in a large pot is not any problem unless you’re an idiot.
You only water a small circle around the plant not soak the entire pot, that way the water gets literally sucked away by the slightly drier soil and you may have to water more than once a day and each time you do you add dissolved oxygen to the root zone.
0:09 your question answered. Just water once a week. Done.