Grow Mediums Autopot experts can you help me?

[yosim]

Hi to all, im looking for some help with my autopots

For some reason they are overwatering my plants - my airpump for the airdomes was accidentally turned way down, i turned this up and the next day the plants were ok but the following day looked poorly again

I shut off the water last night and this morning they look good again

From what i understand there is always water in the pot so im not really sure how they can over water?

the pots are 15 litre, 70/30 mix of soil/perlite - i covered the bottom of the pot around the airdome with perlite

thanks for any comments!

 

[namvet25]

https://www.autoflower.org/threads/setting-up-your-auto-pots.53151/ Check this link out and if you have any questions pm the poster.

 

[pop22]

Take the valve out and look inside it. There is a little, yellow dot of silicone. Make sure it is there, and had no debris on it. Something sounds like it is keeping the valve open a bit. The well where the valves sits will get almost completely dry before it lets more in.

Also, how old/big are the plants? You should hand water until the cvanopy is about the width of the pot. At that point, the root system is developed enough to use the bottom feed efficiently.

 

[yosim]

Take the valve out and look inside it. There is a little, yellow dot of silicone. Make sure it is there, and had no debris on it. Something sounds like it is keeping the valve open a bit. The well where the valves sits will get almost completely dry before it lets more in.

Also, how old/big are the plants? You should hand water until the cvanopy is about the width of the pot. At that point, the root system is developed enough to use the bottom feed efficiently.

thanks i will check the valves!
the plants are about 5 weeks old, i noticed 1 or 2 roots appearing out the bottom of the pots so i think they are well established at this stage

 

[pop22]

you should be good!

thanks i will check the valves!
the plants are about 5 weeks old, i noticed 1 or 2 roots appearing out the bottom of the pots so i think they are well established at this stage

 

[yosim]

i took out the valves and cleaned the whole mechanism, some very small bits of dirt or whatever but nothing major - hopefully this will do something.

i was watching a vid on autopots/aquavalve - seems its a flood and drain system, i thought there was always a quantity of water in there - so this means at certain points in time the tray should be dry, is this correct?

 

[pop22]

TGhere may be a few drops but it get essentially dry yes.

i took out the valves and cleaned the whole mechanism, some very small bits of dirt or whatever but nothing major - hopefully this will do something.

i was watching a vid on autopots/aquavalve - seems its a flood and drain system, i thought there was always a quantity of water in there - so this means at certain points in time the tray should be dry, is this correct?

 

[yosim]

TGhere may be a few drops but it get essentially dry yes.

doesnt make sense to me when i think about as i would think when the float starts to drop again that this would allow more water to come in?

 

[pop22]

That's the beauty of the Aquavalve. It has 2 floats and the primary can't rise until the secondary releases it. Auto pots website has a video on how it works

doesnt make sense to me when i think about as i would think when the float starts to drop again that this would allow more water to come in?

 

[yosim]

That's the beauty of the Aquavalve. It has 2 floats and the primary can't rise until the secondary releases it. Auto pots website has a video on how it works

i watched it but didnt really get it i need to watch it again, its a cool little device! thanks dude