Container sizes for autos

[PuravidaC]

Thanks for your help, everyone. When I took photo above, I added a fan to blow directly on fabric pots to help dry. Even though I watered this morning, the bottom of the pots are still soaking wet (pots are on stands) and water drains out easily from bottom of pot when pressed with finger. Feeling like a rookie! 😁

[PuravidaC]

I think you guys are right... over watering! I always watered every 2 or 3 days with 5 gal plastic pots and thought top 1 inch of soil (FFOF) was dry enough to water this grow but... again, thought fabric pots would dry faster than a plactic pots. They were growing great until a week ago, then flower started and now they have stopped stretching and are droopy. They are 4 1/2 weeks old now. I'll diffently let them get thirsty before watering again.

[BlueBudz]

This sounds like too much water to me. Unless your plants are huge or very dry and ventilated. Do you have pics? Info?

[Tika]

Are you in real soil? Any perlite in it? Or other assistance for draining / oxygen?
i feed every other day in the last weeks of flower. I don’t agree with really dry light weight bit yea..light in weight.
i believe Green75 uses 5 gals for his autos

[Sockfilter]

PVC, you mention soil and you mean soil correct? Not coco? Just making sure, I have been using little 7" plastic square pots that hold about 1.5 gals of coco/perlite and I use 1qt of nutes in each one every 24hrs, that gives me runoff as well, I run about 1pt in between the 24hr full feed (just for flower), but again this is coco and small pot. I just got 5 of the 3 gallon smartpots and am already thinking that due to the water retention and size, I will probably only need to feed every few days, which will be nice for a change..haha

Good Luck..

[D.A.A.S.69]

Hey PuravidaC, yeah ,I'm with what 147,an 99, said . That's way to soon to be watering in a 5 gallon pot, that's been watered to runoff, 1 time or 2 times a week at the most. It takes a while for a 5 gallon pot to dry out where I live. Pick up your pot when it's bone dry an feel how lite weight it is, pick it up again after you water to runoff, it's alot heavier, then don't water again till it's light weight again. To much watering will slow them down to where they aren't even growing anymore, that's when bad problems start.Let it get bone dry before watering again, at least that's what I would do, lots of people do it differently I reckon.

[Californiakid]

I use 5gal fabric pots to grow autos. But it's usually a few days between watering, it's varies.

When in doubt I use a moister meter.

[Locrian99]

Watering every other day in a 5 gallon pot seems like a lot to me, I’m in 3 gallon fabric pots and I can go 4 days between watering with photos week 4 of flower. Are you lifting your pots to see if they feel light? Pics of the plants could help.

[Canuck147]

Probably watering every other day would be the reason they are overwatered.
When your pot is light as a feather dry - then it is time to water.
Drowned plants will not produce any buds.

[PuravidaC]

Got some relatively minor issue going on and trying to figure out problem. It appears to be either over watering or wind burn. I have adjusted fans and keeping an eye on soil before watering. Tutorials mention small plants in large containers are susceptible to over watering. I am growing autos in 5 gal fabric pots and have been watering to run off every other day. Pots seem light and top of soil has been dry before watering. I know some here use 5 gal fabric pots for autos and others use 3 gal fabric pots. I would think it would be difficult to over water with a fabric pot but could 5 gal be too big for autos?