Quote Originally Posted by Mrbig1
I water just enough to cover the whole top soil of pot like quarter of an inch
you don't want to do that. you want to saturate "all" of your medium. you also want to allow for some run-off. this will wash-out (flush) built up nutes. if you continue to water the way you mentioned, you will quickly accumulate an abundance of nutes in your medium, causing your plants to burn...