Watering ?s

[#1cheesebuds]

In your opini is it better to water from top or bottom?

 

[Zeta Reticuli]

From top imho if you grow organic in pots or fabric pots,for hydro i dont know,never growed hydro.

 

[#1cheesebuds]

I grow in fabric pots.

 

[kordo]

hi,

from top most of the time but if soil starts to become compressed, drenching is good.
If i could, I would always water plants drenching them.

Bye

 

[Redrum92]

Better is hard to say. They each have lots of uses. I've done both with soil with not much difference. Prefer top watering just for speed/logistics.

 

[stiff]

Same here..from the top...soil or coco.
Once I tried to battle fungus gnats by bottom watering...the fuckers go in there just the same way they go in from the top. Didn't make a difference at all!

 

[El Timbo]

I water from the top - the action of the water dropping down through the soil pulls air down with it.

 

[shiva82]

both

 

[driver77]

Both...plants seem to love a good bottom feed.....talking soil here.

 

[PoorDad]

I grow in fabric pots that are in very large trays for runoff. I water slowly and let them absorb it. You can dump water on a fabric pot and it will run out the sides. So I water slow. I water until there's a quart or even two quarts of runoff in each tray. I let them sit in that for up to an hour. They will absorb most of it. Then shop vac the trays.