Grow Mediums 4x Autos in Coco with Drain to Waste (DTW)

[KryoniK]

Hi All!

I recently switched to Coco for a number of reasons, and so far it has been amazing. This is also my first attempt with autos. I opted for DTW after reading the coco guides on this site, and hours of additional readings elsewhere.

Medium: Atami High Porosity Coco
Pots: 7L Fabric pots (Leca is filled at the bottom of each pot, and the remainder was added to the top)
Light: Kingbrite 240W LED Running at ~40%
Current Water: 1.0 EC at 5.8 PH
Resevoir Hardware: Air pump and air stone to keep the water fresh, 1000L/H pump.

The plant growth has been fantastic, the autos popped around the 14th November, and a few weeks later they are much larger and healthier than any grow I have achieved in the past. I started with manually feeding using a jug until they were decently established. They are now at about week 2-3 right now, and have just begun LST.

I saturated the pots at the end of week 2. This lead to them being heavy and wet for a few days, but i felt it neccesary to give the coco a cal.mg boost as well as fertigate with some nutes. Additionally, I also ran the DTW system for a few seconds yesterday morning. I am now afraid that I did not allow the root system to be established well enough.

I have read on many forums that some start automated daily feeds around day 20, and since I am approaching that point I was hoping to leverage you guys expertise and experience. Should i start running my system with daily fertigations?

The pots are currently quite heavy, and the bottom feels wet despite the Leca stones/balls at the bottom.

Thanks in advance for any feedback!

Here are the lovely ladies:

Bruce Banner (Sweet Seeds)

Bubblegum (Fastbuds)

Pineapple Express (AB Labs)

Blackberry (Fastbuds), This one is smallest, Note the side branches are not as healthy as the others.

 

[KryoniK]

COCO Drain to waste is definitely THE SHIT, just wanted to update this thread cause I am sure there are a few peeps who might be interested in the progress. We all share a common passion anyway.

Things are out of hand here though, i sadly see Imminent light burn in the future.

BlackBerry Auto is already beautiful

 

[Country Green]

Looking good

 

[DCLXVI]

Holy cow, is that the same plants!? Looks like you got it right! Nice job.

 

[KryoniK]

Thanks Gentlemen!

Apologies for the late response, even though I have email notifications on, I did not see any.

DCLXVI, yep they are the same plants. Im shocked as well, I will be using coco exclusively moving forward. But next time I will train the plants better from all I have learned this grow, honestly expected autos in 7L pots to be half this size.

Blackberry Auto is a damn stunning plant

As you can see I am way way too close to the light, can already see the lime green on the buds above:

And this leads to slower development on the outlying buds:

But I plan to harvest in stages as they mature, do a bit of defoliation and then bend down the plant as neccesary to get as much of the buds to pack on weight last minute.

 

[DCLXVI]

Gorgeous, and stuffed to the gills!