Photoperiod Little help please auto pots

[Huggzfornuggz]

Hi guys back after a while , every thing been going fine. Amy way after last harvest, very eggy smell.when removing root ball, obv rot was starting to ceeep in but they finished fine and had amazing yield ect, im now 6 weeks into flower and 2 of my 4 are no where near as far as i would like or should be , i mamaged to lift one out of pot, difficult because under a net but i did get a little wiff of smell from the pot couldnt actualy see roots , i turned water off for 48hrs and leaves dropped so i switched back on, i am running biobizz.light with a layer of pebbles , i will get some photos in aprox 4 hours when lights come on. Any help or advice would be apricated thanks.

 

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Hi guys back after a while , every thing been going fine. Amy way after last harvest, very eggy smell.when removing root ball, obv rot was starting to ceeep in but they finished fine and had amazing yield ect, im now 6 weeks into flower and 2 of my 4 are no where near as far as i would like or should be , i mamaged to lift one out of pot, difficult because under a net but i did get a little wiff of smell from the pot couldnt actualy see roots , i turned water off for 48hrs and leaves dropped so i switched back on, i am running biobizz.light with a layer of pebbles , i will get some photos in aprox 4 hours when lights come on. Any help or advice would be apricated thanks.

Hmm, I use the same soil (no pebbles), with autopots and haven't noticed that kind of smell in the soil, but i did have some organic BOOM spray that was left too long in the bottle and when opened had the same aweful stench.

mystery!


Edit: I've just been reading the same problem from someone using Autopots and soil - although from 12 years ago. Some of the advice is shockingly bad, but one thing i see in common is the pebbles.

Saw someone mention the rootball should smell like freshly pulled potatoes, and that's usually what my soil smells like following a grow when i throw it out.

Others saying, the roots are rotting, but i've used Autopots for years and never had that.

Check that the bottom of the the try only has a small amount of water under the pot, and not an inch of sitting water.

FYI, i use Canna nutes (not organic)


Double Edit: What size resevoir are you mixing up at one time, and how long does it sit in the rez for? I only use about 10 litres at a time (one plant grower) and that gets used up roughly every 4 days and run a minimal nute lineup .

Could it also be that the nutes in the rez are getting funky over time?

(just thoughts really)

 

[Huggzfornuggz]

Thank you for reply , im am suprised hearing you dont use pebbles , hate the thought of soil sitting in the water for that long lol, glad every thing is going well for you, i use the general hydro tri part nutes, and 47L every 3-4 days like you thier is a film layer on the water in the res and bottom of pots not sure what thats from in an hour i can take some pics and have a good smell, would it be possible to start top feeding, the soil is so dam dry tho on the top couple of inches in the pot . @blue

 

[idiopathic neuropathy]

Autopot grower here for several years.

I have done grows with---
Coco only, coco/perlite mix, coco/perlite with perlite in the bottom inch of pots and coco/perlite with clay pebbles in the bottom of pot.

I always use Hydroguard in all my grows.

My findings-- generally I grow 3 or 4 different strains and have had 1 plant with root rot from time to time.

I have found that when i have used the airdomes that I don't get any root rot. I am guessing that the airdomes are "good insurance"against root rot. Perhaps from oxygenation of the root zone if the strain is fussy about sitting in a solution. On the otherhand, I have grown without airdomes without any problems, and so has many others here who use Autopots.

Hope this helps.

 

[Huggzfornuggz]

Hope these look ok

 

[Huggzfornuggz]

Week 5 yesterday so 3 weeks left but dont look that far too me

 

[St. Tom]

i had the eggy smell late in flower when i used sohums live soil in autopots and I bought some cannazym ran it in my res and they perked up and the smell went away

 

[Huggzfornuggz]

Do they look behind too you guys, it smelt fine after drying it out

 

[St. Tom]

Do they look behind too you guys, it smelt fine after drying it out

maybe you just drying the pot has helped a great deal also I run autos normally so I can't say what stage they look but they look very healthy girls