Hey all, so I'm new to the forum, and have been growing for a living for 8 years now. I've dabbled with AFs in the past lightly just for fun, but photos are what I know. I've typically grown in 20g pots, across super soil, no till living, and salt, though I've moved exclusively into salt based over the last 4 years and grow under 15kw of LED. I've had plenty of experience and success growing outdoors concurrently with my indoor, typically in 60g living soil. I'm used to photo trees, I guess you could say.
This cycle, in my room, I've introduced 3g pots on a netafim dripline system (about 20% of the room, whereas the rest is still 20gs)... Everything is uniform conditions, same strains and phenos, and using the advanced nutrients sensei dry line, for the most part. The growth and level of uniformity and fullness of canopy on the 3g system is exceeding my usual 20g plants (out of which i average ~1¼lb each under 630 watts of thinkgrow Ws). It's doing well enough that it got me to thinking about switching up my outdoor to the same, using autos.
I've been eyeing the Ethos autos, particularly the bigger ones, ie; lilac diesel, pina, og Kush, zweet, and banana daddy. I've grown their line plenty in the past and had great success with the cultivars which find themselves in these autos. So I'm hoping to tap into the collective's empirical knowledge here to ascertain whether this is a good idea, and what I might wish I had known about autos in retrospect, but never asked. My tentative plan is to run about 200 of them in 3g pots using the exact same system described above, expect outdoors and under an elevated quick-hoops greenhouse film (ceiling height expected to be around 6', with completely open sides... This is essentially just rows of 6'wide, 6'high, 50' long transparent rain shields) , with the dripline running anywhere between ½ to 2 gallons/day, depending on ambient conditions and the stage of growth. I'm not really trying to crop steer as such, just keep them moist throughout the day. So here's a starter question or two; are 3 gallon pots too small, as in will they limit the size of the plant terribly? Can anyone attest to the yield numbers ethos states, and what size containers they grew them in? And the overall experience, quality wise, relative to what they normally grow?
This cycle, in my room, I've introduced 3g pots on a netafim dripline system (about 20% of the room, whereas the rest is still 20gs)... Everything is uniform conditions, same strains and phenos, and using the advanced nutrients sensei dry line, for the most part. The growth and level of uniformity and fullness of canopy on the 3g system is exceeding my usual 20g plants (out of which i average ~1¼lb each under 630 watts of thinkgrow Ws). It's doing well enough that it got me to thinking about switching up my outdoor to the same, using autos.
I've been eyeing the Ethos autos, particularly the bigger ones, ie; lilac diesel, pina, og Kush, zweet, and banana daddy. I've grown their line plenty in the past and had great success with the cultivars which find themselves in these autos. So I'm hoping to tap into the collective's empirical knowledge here to ascertain whether this is a good idea, and what I might wish I had known about autos in retrospect, but never asked. My tentative plan is to run about 200 of them in 3g pots using the exact same system described above, expect outdoors and under an elevated quick-hoops greenhouse film (ceiling height expected to be around 6', with completely open sides... This is essentially just rows of 6'wide, 6'high, 50' long transparent rain shields) , with the dripline running anywhere between ½ to 2 gallons/day, depending on ambient conditions and the stage of growth. I'm not really trying to crop steer as such, just keep them moist throughout the day. So here's a starter question or two; are 3 gallon pots too small, as in will they limit the size of the plant terribly? Can anyone attest to the yield numbers ethos states, and what size containers they grew them in? And the overall experience, quality wise, relative to what they normally grow?
I'm going to tag a grower here that may have input for you.
