Hello . Few things would like to know

[Just done]

Hello guys. I’m new. And I’m thinking about autos. What medium is best for autos ? Soil or coco ? Soil+perlite or coco +perlite? How much nutes should I give ? I heared that atleast for few first weeks I should give like 1/4 of what the provider says as autos burn easy ?

 

[Smoking Frog]

Just one year experience here but will try to help you with the little i know since no one responded yet.
Best way to have a successful grow is to educate yourself by reading everything on this site!
So much different ways to skin a...plant?
Both soil and coco are great to grow,just different good and bad side . Perlite is there to aerate your soil and peoples usually add about 30% to soil or coco...but some don't use it at all.
The 1\4 strenght nutes is valid for coco as coco contains 0 food for your plant,you have to feed with nutes everytime you water.Soil on the other hand has almost everything a plant need to grow and some soils are good from start to finish with nothing else but water.But to write here everything you can do to have a great yield would be too long for this 2 finger typer.
Again,read,read and read some more.Growing is both simple and complicated but cannabis is a hard plant to kill and without any major errors you can have a great grow and smoke your own weed in less then 3 months!
Go for it!

 

[cubfaninmo]

I agree, there are many ways to grow successfully. I am also a new grower, just under a year and on my 3rd grow The first thing to consider is how much tinkering do you want to do. For me, I wanted to keep it as simple as possible. After spending a lot of time researching here, I landed on @autobeast method of growing. Look up his guide for details. Basically, he uses Biobizz Light to grow in (it has perlite in it already), 3-5 gallon pots, no nutes for 2-3 weeks, then sensi grow until bloom and switch to sensi bloom, nutes a couple times a week. No muss, no fuss.

Most importantly, find what works for you and a style you enjoy. The folks around here have such depth of knowledge and are super helpful.

Welcome to AFN and the wonderful world of auto growing!

Edit: Forgot an important detail, genetics matter! Research breeders, a good seed makes a ton of difference. I’m loving @RocBudInc currently. Super impressed with the stability and ability to take a licking and keep on ticking!

 

[Olderfart]

Hello guys. I’m new. And I’m thinking about autos. What medium is best for autos ? Soil or coco ? Soil+perlite or coco +perlite? How much nutes should I give ? I heared that atleast for few first weeks I should give like 1/4 of what the provider says as autos burn easy ?

Hi, and welcome to AFN. My recommendation for your first grow is to keep it simple, and stick with a single grow design. Soil works, coco works, organic works, salt nutes work, and so on. But mixing and matching often spells trouble. Choose a medium, and then study how successful growers here deal with it.

If you go with non organic, I recommend getting some MegaCrop single part nute mix, some CalMag, a cheap EC/PPM pen, an Apera pH pen (cheap is a bad idea for pH), and some coco and perlite for your medium. Read up on here how others grow with coco/perlite mix to see how to make it work. Do not try to run a coco grow with organic nutes, you will likely run into difficulty. If you go with coco, study the information on Cocoforcannabis.com before you start a grow. There is lots of good information there, and it is focused specifically on coco growing.

If you go organic, which in my opinion is likely to prove harder for your first grow, understand that organic nutes feed microbes, they don't feed the plant directly. They work slowly or bloody slowly, and you need to factor that in how you manage your soil preparation and your grow. Also understand that lots of new growers here run into issues with organic mixes that are too heavily fertilized for autoflowering cannabis. Getting an organic mix right for a first timer means fastidiously sticking to a recipe for soil that has been thoroughly proven by other growers. This can get inconvenient and expensive due to the diverse ingredients required, as well as the preparation time needed, and if you try to wing it by altering recipes, preparation, or grow technique, you may bugger your grow.

All considered, I think a coco/perlite grow with Megacrop would be your best bet for a first time grow. But you need an EC meter and a way of monitoring pH to manage a coco grow. The pH drops can work, sort of, but many people including me find them difficult to use due to the difficulty of reading the color change. I recommend a digital pen, and getting a good one like an Apera. EC pens can be cheap, but pH pens are a different animal, far more sophisticated technology, and the cheap ones usually fail early if not sooner.

As already mentioned, read, read, and then read some more. Once you decide how you would like to try a grow, there is lots of more detailed help available here if you ask for it.

Good luck with it.

 

[automan2]

We've all been new at some time. Welcome to AFN where new will become a thing of the past when you burn your first bowl of your first plant.
I remember my delight at my very first own-grown nugg over 15 years ago....
Being in a farming community, growing was a natural but with a simple weed that made ya high, had to be hid so we'd just sow a few seeds among corn and let'em do as the corn does. Knowing how farmers do it makes growing weed much simpler.
My first inside auto grow was a seed snuck into a friends winter flower room and it got sparse care and 3 months later.....smoked that shit.
Much simpler than some seem to make it.

 

[EP3]

Simple till you hit a problem. :smoking:
I am a total novice BTW. I rely on reading loads of posts on here to build my knowledge, advice from those who can actually grow and know, in detail, things I had never heard about.
Just pick a medium based on how you think you want to grow and start. Best way to learn is getting in about it and get your hands dirty. I know loads more now than I did last time and will learn more as I go. Hopefully at some point I produce a decent plant and in the future really know how it happens.

 

[420Forever]

Hello guys. I’m new. And I’m thinking about autos. What medium is best for autos ? Soil or coco ? Soil+perlite or coco +perlite? How much nutes should I give ? I heared that atleast for few first weeks I should give like 1/4 of what the provider says as autos burn easy ?

heya @Flexus13 and to afn! in a nutshell, "what medium is best for autoz" is one o' them ques'z u'll get 1000 diff answerz to, lol i meself go the organic route, makin up a good soil from the start, in order to have a water-only grow it may cost a bit more in the beginning, but is def worth it in the end happee holidaze & anything u need, jus give a holler

ppp &

 

[Just done]

Thanks for so many answers guys, really helped

 

[St. Tom]

Thanks for so many answers guys, really helped

hi bro nice to meet you also whatever medium you use you will find tons of help along the way i grow in coco and i love the stuff but maybe starting with soil may suit you better i have lots of time to look after my plants and with coco i feel a little bit more work but bigger harvests for me personally

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

@Flexus13 Welcome to AFN A good indoor grow starts with the environment. You must provide the basics and it is harder than it sounds. Cannabis is a weed and will grow under many conditions but if you want it thrive then you need to optimize these conditions. Night temperature 68°F Daytime Temperature 78°F, Relative Humidity >40% <60%, ~40 DLI (daylight integral) at the proper spectrum, gentle continuous fresh air movement. Good Quality starting water. Most indoor growers use a tent to help control this micro-climate. The taller the better.

Then decide on a grow style that suits the time schedule you are willing to devote to the grow. After preparing the soil (which can take months on DIY soil) Organic Living Soil take the least amount of tent time. Time demands go up from there on other styles.



Precharged soils have a learning curve as to when and how much to feed your plants. Many new growers mess this one up by feeding too much too soon. I work the Infirmary and this trips up many and is difficult to get back under control. Less is better.

Coco is a form of hydroponics and many growers are successful in coco but you need to do the research first.

Hydroponics is a full time every day, even multiple times a day grow style. A solid understanding of salt nutrition is helpful in this style. I grow Hydro in precision drip irrigated rock wool. A DWC Bubbleponics bucket can be done with a little research. Some of the biggest best plants I have grown were in Bubbleponics.

Choose a grow style then choose a nutrient line designed for that style of cannabis farming and use that entire line. Do not mix and match based on flashy names or bottles. Nutrient lines are developed with the products designed to work together to keep the all important "Balance" in the media. To understand balance research Liebig's Law of the Minimum.

Understanding your water's starting profile is important. If you are on municipal water you should be able to get a water quality report off the internet. The sections we are interested in are the Hardness and Sanitation sections.

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