Is 16 oz of water around the hole enough to start with it is promix and perlite and pretty dry these are 11 gallon pots and I don't want any chance of root rot
I do about 50ml of water right on the stem or cube for the first 1-2 weeks (a regular shot glass is about 45ml for reference), although they are usually in 1 liter starter pots for me when I do this, so your milage may vary. Once they have 1-2 sets of true leaves (or they have over-spread a solo cup for general reference) I start upping the water as needed, like the ones your size if they were mine I'd be doing either like 100ml every day or 200-250ml every other day (if you feel the roots are established enough that they can take a full day off with no water.) I use starter pots or sometimes the double solo cup method so I can see the roots reach the bottom, and know by the time I put them in 5 or 7 gallon pots they should be established enough (after recovering from transplant) to go a day off without water, but thats just because I'm lazy as hell and don't transplant until I see the roots reach the bottom. This is a more or less average veg plant for me at approx 50 days (just flipped the lights) I water typically every other day, and every other watering I throw nutes in depending on how the plants are looking. MY medium is typically just bag soil with some perlite mixed in (FF, build a soil, coast of maine, the standard bag stuff more or less, so your mix may have slightly higher or lower drainage as well depending on what you used) Thats just how I do it mate, hopefully it will be of some use to you, and best of luck, in 11 gallon pots you should have some sizeable plants in a few weeks. (pic plants are just in 7 gal pots)
i did the double solo cup and the roots were not very big yet i needed to get them in there though i will take your advice and go a little at a time
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The only real problem I've had imo in starting plants off in big (5 gal plus) pots is while they are baby sometimes the roots don't have the establishment to grab enough water before it drains down and to the sides on a big pot. Usually I water on the stem, and as the plants grow (and I water more) I basically make little circles starting at the stems and out towards the edges, to encourage roots to spread out and seek more nutrients and water within the confines of their medium. I have a small watering can with a water spout about the diameter of a drinking straw for doing these early pours (also easy to get up under tiny branches until the plants are tall enough for me to trim out the undergrowth) By the time the plants have overgrown a 5-gallon pot edge though, you can pretty much just turn a gallon jug upside down over them at that point for watering imo (though don't do that as the force from all that water is likely to wash a lot of dirt away from your upper roots) since the roots should have fully permeated the medium by then. Best of luck mate, I've got 2 autos coming in sometime this month but otherwise just starting the long and hopefully uneventful trek through flower on my current photos. I'll be curious to see what 11-gal pots do as I started with 5, and have moved on to 7-gal but have been wondering about sizing up to 10 or even 15 gallon bags and run like a 10-12 week veg on them, see how big they get.
TBH I only sweep and mop my tents between grows unless they get super funky myself. Do a grow, sweep, hose and mop down the tent, let it dry and germ some new seeds.
i cleaned it once then made a mess lol i am paranoid about mites but never ever had mold and i use an organic spray in veg to keep any buggers at bay but i always get comments on how dirty my area is lol
And if I'm in a hurry. Started using 5 gal bucket in bucket sips with the 1/2" fill tube & it is so much neater, virtually no spilled water to clean up. The vegies are loving them, herb I'll let U know in app 10 weeks.
to get Root Rot you need the Fungi, the temps 16C/60'sF, and the humidity, also the food, in most cases its hard to grow, more important is giving the plants the right amount of water for that I LIFT-THINK: to water or not the best way to prevent root rot is have enough holes in your pot bottom as a grower if you never had it consider your self lucky, but its a door we growers must step thru I can only go by my opinion and go by the rotten sox smell cheers ps the pots you use look to me a Italian made flexi pot, for me the right shape and size but be warned the plastic rots out like no other, the lighter the color the quicker it fux up. carry a spare
It is still a 1 at a time small scale operation for me but could be fairly easy for someone handy to rig up fill system for them.