. I got a fresh batch of coco though and will probably pop another bean in a few days. I grew a massive Mephisto 3wok last year and fed her too much b-vitamins too early in flower and she Hermied. i eventually found out that was the cause. So I have a shit ton of beans from an amazing 3Wok plant. I had other female plants in beside her so she may have cross pollinated? Who knows but I have like 50 seeds stored in a zip bag. Will the hermie? Who knows haha but I may pop one to see what it comes out like. I’m interested in growing Tropicana cookies too. May run two more plants when these finish... :smoking: also the water pump thing.. do u have any examples? I had to make a DIY water sucker and I still use it. I made it from a box with lid, ran a hose through a hole in the lid,fire the opposite end of the hose into the saucers and then use a hover to Vacuum through the box and it causes the hose to suck up the water in the saucerdirectly into the box
The nosel on my hose is thin so it takes a while haha. As for bottom feeding, I’ve only been doing it three days now I believe. It is very interesting. I sat watching exactly what the plant was doing and you can literally see the roots poke out and back in which is odd to see. You can watch them soak the water up quickly. If you go in an hour later and feed more and it doesn’t draw it up quickly, you know it doesn’t want as much. I’ve fed around 2L today around 2hrs apart. I noticed my Bruce banner stopped sucking up as quick after another 750ml. So she’s had 1.75L today in two hours. It’s kinda fun tbh because you don’t overwater this way. When they stop sucking up the water you know they’ve had enough. I’ll try Bruce banner again in a few hours with another 500ml to see if she uptakes it. It is a good method so far for sure. It is helping me eliminate fungus gnats and I can see how hungry they are within hours so I know how much they will wanna drink. If you top feed 3L for example with a sprayer and you wanna do this several times a day, it becomes a bitch because it takes so much time. Bottom feedin definitely eliminates that
I did autopots with coco/perlite, and the wicking worked fine. The main thing with sub-irrigation of any kind is that management of nute concentration can be trickier. In order to avoid salt buildup, EC levels need to be lower than with top irrigation to runoff. I don't do subirrigation with salt nutes any more, I find top irrigation to be more easily managed, although at the cost of throwing out a lot of nutes.
Yeah this was the only concern I had.. salt build up. My feed is a bit heavier since I’ve been packing in the P K in six week of flower. My plan for this is to keep bottom feeding over the next few days to kill the gnats off and then occasionally do a bigger volume top feed to bring the ppms down if they start building up. Something along the lines of... bottom feed for five days in a row, heavy top feed to rid salts on the 6th. I dunno if it will work just yet, but I will soon find outI did autopots with coco/perlite, and the wicking worked fine. The main thing with sub-irrigation of any kind is that management of nute concentration can be trickier. In order to avoid salt buildup, EC levels need to be lower than with top irrigation to runoff. I don't do subirrigation with salt nutes any more, I find top irrigation to be more easily managed, although at the cost of throwing out a lot of nutes.
Intermittent top feeding to significant runoff definitely helps avoid problems, at least it will with soil-less media and salt nutes. Soil is more complicated. There are a few autopot peeps here who do exactly that in their autopot grows with salt nutes. If I ever moved back to autopots to avoid the waste of water and nutes, that is exactly how I would manage the grow. I would top water to at least 20-30% runoff ~once a week, and the runoff would be disposed of immediately.
