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I’m ready to transplant from my 2 gallon container, into a 7 gallon container.
Should I water the new medium until runoff?
Seems like a lot of water for the little rootball?
With no need to search for moisture, the roots wont need to grow, and when the roots hit bottom, the moisture has been sitting for days, if not a week. No oxygen, settled salts.
 
Thanks for the harvest reps y’all, starting on the blackjack fast first on Sunday am during the bills-jags game. I’ll prob be doing that every night next week. Clip leaves, remove stem, into mesh screen dryer, repeat! Already warned the wife and she said it’s good. She likes the smell of this stuff!
 
“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.”
 
I’m ready to transplant from my 2 gallon container, into a 7 gallon container.
Should I water the new medium until runoff?
Seems like a lot of water for the little rootball?
With no need to search for moisture, the roots wont need to grow, and when the roots hit bottom, the moisture has been sitting for days, if not a week. No oxygen, settled salts.
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