Plant Watering Secrets Pro Cannabis Growers Swear By 

Bruce bugbee taught me so much for my grow this summer. I’m a science freak!! PLEASE he would be an incredible guest for your show.

Professional overwater here of 15 years! You can always spray more water on… (although that exactly is what gets me in trouble)

Sharing an Ol'Head trick here for all you youngsters! Increased the speed and size of your grow by watering your plants with Mineral Water. that will bring CO2 straight to the roots you'll see a big difference. The girls LOVE it! Y'all welcome and Happy Growing.

If you are going to water by hand you should water about 30 minutes before you turn on the lights in the morning. A simple routine is to keep the exhaust fan on a separate timer, set it to go on 30 minutes before the lights so then you know when to irrigate.

I do 5 gallon pots with soil, when I water I’ll usually throw two liters in the top and one liter in the tray to bottom feed, I do that every other day, I also try to always make sure I water within the first two hours of the lights coming on. btw those cheap green moisture meters do actually work good for a long ass time if you take care of them ie clean the probe when you’re done with it, I’ve had mine for 5 years now and it works the same as the day I got it.

I learned so much from his videos. He researching everything to see what’s what, like the fact that 1-2 days of darkness does nothing or how flushing should be unnecessary if you have the nutrients dialed in correctly. If u overdo it u waste $ on mutes u lose and flushing causes unnecessary stress.

I find it very easy to monitor my water needs!! I use a water meter with one long prong, and I will insert it into the side of my fabric pots, top bottom, side corner, anywhere on the pot. I plug the holes up with a small piece of chop sticks stick. I cannot pick them up to check, this works much better for me.

Totally agree with pick up the pot. I'm tuned in with my soil enough to the point I can tell by looking.

My years of DWC growing led me down the road of when it comes to soil, light regular waterings is BEST, but not always practical for everyone. Most problems from soil growth come from overwatering as the plant just cant breath, thats why alot of people when they switch from soil to DWC comment on the growth, as they are no longer dowining their plants and they get a chance to really go for it. Its as portant to let your medium dry out as it is to water them, if you dont, the plants will be stunted because of it. Might even look healthy, but its nt what it could have been.

Awesome show guys! Thanks! I water every morning 2L regardless, grow in Coco n Perlite 3g pots, I water t run off cuz Coco classed as Dwc, dwc roots don't get root rot due to air exchange therefore watering in Coco everyday to runoff gives the plant the fresh oxygen n nutes an I don't get pests or deficiencies BUT I only grow 1 plant at a time under mars hydro ts 1000 in 2.5x2.5. avg 3oz per auto (FastBuds) ✌️❤️

10min left, perfect. Blunt cone time 🌌Cheers folks, bless.

I have definitely weighed my plants. In fact, I did a post about it with a postal scale that I had found for free, of course. It was very useful for learning to get the feel.

I also cannot lift a pot with a mesh net. I find unless they are small, once I start training, lifting is not an option.

For outdoor plants. Once in the morning. Check plants for droop. Will probably water 3-4 on 100*F days.

I use a postal scale to weigh my pots and base my watering on weight, not guess work. I've been doing this for 5 years with great success. I use the same size and type pot (5 gallon plastic) for each plant and don't trellis because I keep the plants mobile in my rooms. My 5 gallon plastic pots with a 70/30 coco perlite mix weigh about 4000 grams when dry to the point of needing water. I will water until they hit 5500 grams. At 6200 grams they start to runoff. It's not a difficult as it sounds.

I grow in Cocoa I water and feed everyday if I could I do twice a day I grow in 2 gallon pots start off cups then one gallon then I transfer into two everyday I water and feed never had a problem used to grow organic I do bottles now My plants are three times bigger my yields three times bigger my stems are three times bigger when I water and feed everyday twice a day Big difference

Get a set of slimline electric weighing scales that people weigh them selfs on and weigh your pots dry and again after watering them until you get run off. A better measurement and slim enough for scrogers to make use of too.😊

I love DGC. Huge bigups to the dude, scotty and grambo. Love you guys

Scotty's right, coco every 3 days 1 gal of water. Flowering im every other day...specially if you have fans blowing and more particular in a smaller tent 4x4 and smaller.

i think dude and scotty you guys need to go on some adventures together and post the video sounds cool to me

You were 26 in 1999?😮 Didn't think I was 8 years older than you.😅 You guys remind me of a group of us,that use to talk " all grow topics 30 years ago. Deja vu I see your guys videos. Keep it up.

Hey thank you guys so much for all the information you have given all of us ! LEGENDS !

jeremy silva has the water math "his dragon style garden kung fu is strong"

Depends on plant size but 1 gallon of water in a 5 gallon is perfect for Organic half way through flower for 3-4 days.. With Synthetic in a soilless mix you would want more to get it dripping out the pot to avoid salt build up while using a constant liquid feed.

i had 24 litre sacks 5.3 gallons for most of the flowering i gave them 7 litres 1.5 gallons ever other day,monday,wednesday and so on,they needed that,they were so dry when come to feed again 👍🏻

I've always been a evening waterer, it stays in the soil longer and goes deeper without burning off from the sun. For outside.

the amount of water hugely depends on the size of its bed i like earthbox and city pickers raised beds for my tents

In organics I water about 5% water volume, usually eod-e3d depending on growth stage, with salts I water to runnoff, don’t go for an exact amount of runoff just as long as I’ve got some, occasionally I’ll have reason to flush straight water

The thing about keeping dry and rinsing depends on the variety, whether you benefit from it, because what use is it to have slightly higher terpenes if you have 30% less yield, you have to understand that the hydroponic system doesn't have to do with dryness at all work, and despite producing the most potent cannabois, how is it supposed to be different on earth? In order to rule out errors, you can do the following experiment, you plan to plant a small pot in a large one, 1 to 3, and whoever does the rinsing It was also important that you pull the small pot out of the big one in the last 2 weeks, so that there is enough root mass left so that the plant doesn't die, and the rinsing can begin without the plant drowning, at the same time, you can do it better Try to control wilting and drying better by watering a little, as you mentioned, large pots in organic cultivation hardly allow rinsing, otherwise they will drown, as this plant is no better than the others that were not rinsed and left dry If there are, then that doesn't help, it's best to use a comparison for at least two varieties, e.g. b1afgani, which are used to being dry in nature, plus a breeding variety as a comparison, of course everything twice to eliminate any errors.

I believe that the Cree (from Dr Cree, long ago) spectrum map shows what light plants absorb. Shane, of MIGRO, has a meter that tests for, and shows what the UVA/UVB output, along with Far Reds and Infa Reds, that do put out usable photons for the plant. Pretty sure..?! Not very efficient, but I believe these photons are usable..?! Maybe Shane will give a visit, and clear any of this up..?! Great guy! I've watched him for several years now. Thanks for the great show DGC! Just missed the live show, but you'll always have my support. It's a great community here!👍💯🙏✌️

in the shire were full of it ever tried the halflings leaf :)

Scotty I’ve had good luck with the wicking pots. You mentioned all the things that you need to do to make them work at different points in the show. You kinda need to steer the roots down at first but once they reach the bottom you’re good to go. You need to rock the humidity and heat and have plenty of light but the real trick is getting air to the roots. So I picked up a 13$ suction pump and drained it every night and agitated the water/nutes when I watered. Almost only from the bottom. When the roots start pulling they pull it right to the top. You need to get the root structure down there at first though.

The love of watering and its problems with the different soil media, if you haven't noted something down, such mistakes happen again and again,1 not only with beginners, but also with professionals, not only the medium is important, but also the type and uniformity of repotting, some leave it loose, the other presses the soil so that the soil is heavier, if there is still sand in the medium it is even heavier 1 ensures uniformity in the medium 2 then weighing is good Especially for growing smaller Plant. A prewertres moisture meter when repotting in large pots is a good thing. To reduce the inaccuracy of the measuring system, insert the measuring device with the measuring tip into a Jiffi pot, and start with the soil when repotting. The Jiffy Pot ensures a better surface adaptation of the moisture, and prevents measuring errors caused by pearlite voids in the soil medium.

With organic living soil growing I like to keep it at 10% water to soil volume when I water. Gets you in the ballpark and they'll be healthy for sure. Scotty, the new real buckets are awful tipsy topsy, really need that larger diameter for the base for how tall they are 🧐. Keep up the great work 😎🤙 much love from Pennsylvania 🥳🇺🇲

Bottom watering or butt chugging does wonders if you have fab pots feed on top if organic medium

I hand water. Wish I had auto irrigation system. I just uppoted my sprouts and I add growdots and recharge for the 1st time. Excited to see how it all grows out. Thx

Aloha from Australia DGC

I use a meter with tape put on 4 inches up for deper roots. I also use living mulch, when the mini kale wimps and the meter says to water, i water.

Wow! Blown away that you would mention my post from the DGC forum. We're doing much better. Now watering about 3/4 gallon every other day or until the weight tells us they're thirsty. Much improved! Should we forego the worm castings on the next grow?

Mixing per gallon and using clear ketchup bottles. Which I get 6 per gallon. And I feed my plants 3 times a day. Babies babies won't take a whole gallon a day. 6 tp 8 weeks weeks. Tip for everyone grower's choice. Tangerine Dream auto flowers. 😎 During their stretch, I could push a gallon 20 hours on 4 hours off. 5 gallon fabric pots with happy frog. And I would put cardboard under and it was very rare. I would have run off fox farmtrio along with Cow mag plus Daytime temperatures 80 to 82

If you live in a dry climate. Many times infor come from California and Colorado. Super dry climates feeding and watering is different.

Great show as always fellas looking forward to another DGC cup

Sooo once you have agreed you overwatered and leaves are yellowing 3 weeks into flower. Do dry backs help? And if so how long? Did a dry for a week and pots still heavy. Feel I’m hurting the over all growth of the trichromes. Suggestions?

Uv is actually an important part of plant development Bruce can tell us all about it!! He had a video just about it

I use 5 gallon fabric pots in a tent and I water a half gallon at a time with minimal to zero run off but I'm using soil so .....

Lol great Hank impression Grambo! Highest5 🖐️

Never worry about time of watering, amount of water or over/under watering when doing hydro.

My biggest problem with watering was my square fabric pots were flat against my overflow pan and had no airflow underneath causing the water to just sit in the lower 3rd of the pot. Put pvc pipes underneath and haven’t had a problem since.

I just finished my 1st run. During veg I had hydrophobic soil due to under watering. I weighed the pot. Then I dunked the whole pot in water for 5 seconds and drained. Then weighed pot again. Now I know how much water I could add.

Definitely will keep supporting you guys! Just really bad at computers & havent been able to join any of the benefits but that’s ok. First time I tried to post a pic to IG, it went to all my accounts & the sheriff saw it. SMFH. So I’m going to back off until I can not screw myself.

Those bone conductor headphones really are awesome.

I’m running four Black Soap photos in 3 gals in a 5x5 they are fifty days in veg and gulping down the water. When I pick up the pots they feel dry after only about thirty hours. Using liquid nutes. Temp at 82 RH 62 thanks for the info

Can’t wait for the show

Dr. Prof Bugby is great. Definitely requires some research to understand everything he’s saying at times, but he’s big on the research!

How does RU-vid restrict you guys so much for showing plants but you got Jeremy from build a soil showing off a 10x10 tent full of plants from seed to harvest?? Haha crazy

Great show guys i just tried something different and went from coco back to soil mix and my worst plants in years going back to a coco mix

Coco you need to leach with calcium before use. A lot of growers don't, then they will get problems with certain nutrient uptakes later.

My resolution is to start work in my compost pile earlier. And I have so far succeeded.

5 gallon pot needs 2 gallons

I use the AC INFINITY XL Self watering bases! I top water the nutrients in so the bases stay clean.

When is the conversation going to turn to watering serecert

Great video fellas!! Thanks again

Earth Box works so well for me 🙌

im new, love the hang!

Well almost correct , Bugbee got the standard changed to EPar which is 400-750nm . So they do see and use IR photosynthetically. Actually the Emerson Effect

Weed has evolved thru millennia going through dry periods and probably wet periods depending on strains/locations. Obviously potted plants have a much smaller window of too much or too little, but if you aren’t salting up the media just watch your plants and use common sense. Often, certain strains will suddenly quit quaffing water…tune into their needs and throw strict schedules and amounts out the window.

I always water my plants 10% of my soil volume. Mine are 15 gallons so 1.2-1.5 gallon of water every 3 days using living soil.

Thx much guys...☮

😂 30:34 😅missouri has lots of ppl going through prison ptsd😅

Key is to water slowly. Water should trickle and not be poured. I try to mimic rain not a flood 😂

Great show guys! If you smoke on camera or vape that is going to get you age restricted just as much as showing plants imo.

I use 5 litre pots in the uk , keeps em short and stocky

10 bucks for the moisture meter is fine in my eyes for beginners to learn how much an often they water

I want to get my yields up this year so I stop running out of smoke and better identify deficiencies and mis diagnosing and limit all my homework to reputable sources like the dgc cuz there alot of bro science out there happy 2024 oh and make it to the cup this year

One gallon per 5 gallons works great for me , I never water to run off because it’s a waste. 90% peat and 10% perlite . Absolute fire

Do you want to hit plants with far red lights more towards ir and dark blue more towards uv at the end of day or mid day like sun produces? When they would be dehydrated more to trigger more resin production? Or should it be a morning thing to get them working faster?

cool funny show in which we can learn a lot

I leave my moisture meter inside the pot. Only got 3 currently but I put them in a random pot at the same stage of growth. So when it says dry I just water them all the same.

How do you get nutrition like egg shells and shrimp shells to a hydrophilic state where plants can absorb through drenching or foliage feeding.

Bugbee is legit.

commenting for the algorithm. stay up guys.

I have a plant in a 5 gallon that takes a gallon of water every day right now and have barely any runoff.

Yea washing and freeze drying is a pain in the ass, but dry sifting isn’t it. Just freeze your trim and lowers and get some dry sift screens and you will have hash the same day. Then press that and you won’t be disappointed with the results. Its the easiest way for the homegrower to get some high quality extracts

Damn! I wish those guys would have a sale from time to time huh!?

Use a chapin sprayer the big red ones for indoor plants

I just finished up Bahama runtz tyrains kush color of space

i bought a digital fish scale to weigh my next dry before and after in plant form muhamuhahmuhahah got the idea from build a soil video question

Is it OK to use the water from your tents dehumidifier to feed your plants?

Great show guys

Die Baguettes könnte man auch gut in Deutschland verkaufen da werden bestimmt viele Leute Probleme haben, mit ihrem Wasser wer das eine gute Markt für Euch hier.🎉🎉 Bräuchte nur noch einen der euch ein bisschen bekannter macht😮

Can you use grow dots with happy frog and ocean forest??? I haven't grown in 3yrs would like some input as I plan to outdoor grow this yr auto for first time for outdoor thanks .

Scottie looks miles ahead of high he looks ripped today what u smokin dawg?

Control with perpetual is imperative. Bison that sheet Scotty! Big UP to the Dudes(that includes you GramBro! ;P) Peace

Speaking about drying your recent harvest...what do you think about CANNATROL?

you guys are a great team , but it pains me how much you talk over each other ,, be careful you got a great thing going

i use ocean forest with 5gallon fabric pots in flower i use one gallon every 2 to 3 days

I water with a solo cup, 1 cup of water per gallon of soil, never had an issue

I am running HP pro with grow dots extended at the moment and I found 1 full gallon each works good. Zero runoff. Unless I am missing something?

Temus basically alibaba more geared towards consumers instead of retailers/brands. Bottom bin products that don’t meet brands quality standards mostly.

It's funny after my first I been thinking of getting a press for tge next one