Well, I just got back to AFN after an absence and saw this unanswered question and couldn’t help myself. First of all, sorry to hear about your lungs, especially with the way this virus attacks. Hope all is well now.
I mix my own soils, but far prefer coco to any messy damn dirt for indoor growing. It’s clean, renewable, reusable, and cannabis roots just love it. Yes, it’s less forgiving than soil, as there are no nutes there to back you up, but this also allows you that nutrient control you had in hydro. I recommend coco for MC and autoflowers, but I could recommend it for any nutrients and plant type or strain. Just remember that with coco and fabric pots your medium will dry out faster than soil.
Size of fabric grow pots will depend on what you are growing and size of area. For example I use 4x4 tents and for that area I will use 3 or 5 gallon pots for autoflowers and grow no more than 4 at a time depending on the strain. I have grown single super autos in a five gallon pot that filled a 4x4 For photo plants I like five gallon pots and one plant scrogged or two plants normal, again depends on the strains and type of training you plan on doing.
Sorry but shutup about the 12 plant limit that people don’t even need. HELL, I would give up my left nut for a 4 plant limit even if it was 2 mature and 2 seedlings. I can grow more than enough weed with two mature plants to take care of me and mine forever if they would just let me, but nooooooo, I get five years for each plant and that’s if they don’t tack on, “with intent to distribute” because there is a scale in my grow area. /rant mode off.
Just screwing w/you and very jealous that you live in a legal place.:smoking:
And yes, of course you should still be checking your pH as with any other grow. MC mixes quite well with most water. I’ve use my tap water (ugh), distilled water, and my preferred rainwater, but depending on what you are using your final pH could be anywhere. Soil is forgiving but can’t compensate someone pouring 5.0 or 8.0 pH water into it all the time. A good EC/PPM meter is not absolutely necessary because you can just mix stronger or weaker based on what you are reading from your girls and using their feeding schedule. Although, a meter helps a lot for dialing your feedings in exactly where you want them.
You did not mention using AutoCOBs, but since you posted here I’m assuming you are using them. Screw that 1000 watt HPS. I run four 3500k COBs in my 4x4 with an extra 2700k or 6500k directly in the middle depending on if I’m in bloom or veg. Here is an example of my configuration. Note the redder one in the middle.
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I hope something here helps.
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