New Grower First grow ever

Yeah, a lot of us are using autopots now, it's just one less thing to worry about (as long as you dont let the rez run dry lol)

Give it a go, they're not that expensive and i can't imagine anyone going back to hand watering (unless they really found it theraputic)

A question though if you don't mind : having the soil perpetually moist ; isn't it a door opened to, for example, fungus gnats ?

Maybe .. I've never had them - It could be a geographical location thing!
 
Here it is ... the blue method lol (for a 1 plant grow), start to finish (including harvest and cleanup) should take less that 3 hours of your time.

You'll need:
(tent and light obs)

1 x AutoPot (with rez)
1 x bag of biobizz lighmix (or equivalent)
3 x 5 Litre bottles of water (for nute mixing)
Nute: Canna Start, Canna Vega, Canna Flores, Calmag, PKboost.
1 x small platic cup
1 x small watering can
(optional) 1 x garden tube heater.

Phase 1: Prepare 1 x 5 litre bottle of water with canna start at 3/4 strength.. (pop it in the bottle, put the lid on and shake shake shake)
Use one litre to prewater the soil.
the rest will be used to water the plant with a small plastic cup to start, then a little watering can and will last until day 20 where the leaves ill hit the side of the pot, and then you'll be onto phase 2.

Phase 2: Prepare 1 x 5 litre bottle of water with 3/4 strength Canna vega and 1/4 cap of calmag. And put it in the rez
Go back 3 days later to check the rez and plant - It's fine .. do the same.

Day 30 something - vertical strech is over.

Phase 3: Prepare 1 x 5 litre bottle of water with 3/4 stregth Canna Flores and 1/4 cap of calmag. And put it in the rez
Go back 3 days later to check the rez and plant - It's fine .. do the same.

Wait until the PK window where the buds are forming and nearly joined on the stem then do phase 3, but add 0.8ml per litre of PK boost.
Repeat until the end, and harvest.

The key is having the water bottles up there and ready to mix.

You can mostly spend less than 5 minutes on each visit - if you're brave, you could just mix 15 litres of the feed and not go up there for a week :D (i like to keep a very quick eye on things)

That's it!

Day 10:

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Day 20: (Start Veg Nutes and Watering from Rez)

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Day 35 (vertical stretch ended - now onto flower nutes)

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Day 45 (PK window opening)

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@blue Thank you so much !
AutoPot, is that a common name or a trade name ?

No worries mate! It's a trade name - I've got the single 15 litre pot with rez system

@blue quick question - have you ever used fabric pots (Smartpots, etc) in your Autopot system and how did you like it?

I've never used fabric pots .. but i guess they'll work fine! actaully @pop22 is the resident Autopot expert (it was probably him that turned me on to them years ago) and makes his own ... so if you're handy with DIY check out his threads!!

:bighug:
 
@blue When you have some time could you share how you deal with T° and HR ? What are in your experience the best levels ?
I could deal with these by referring to VPD charts no problem, and I got help too, I'm just curious to learn how successful growers manage constants.
 
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