Live Stoner Chat Live Stoner Chat - Oct-Dec '23

[JP1]

i haven't been doing too bad, My yields have been Ok, no one has complained about the quality of the buzz, it's freaking easy as hell for me and I'm not denigrating anyone elses's style of growing....I don't care about chasing that elusive extra few grams from a primo high times cover photo plant to the detriment of my health or mental state worrying about my plants all the time. I'm happy with what I do, since he could never get the auto pots to work well for him I suggested what works for me....that's all..it wasn't directed to you nor was it meant to say anything about your style of growing, to pop off like denigrating my style of growing seems like it should be on a Reddit thread.

I've seen good soil grows with the autopots. If I had enough electricity to run another tent I'd definitely be using them with soil. A lot of the Europeans around here love the autopots with soil and biotabs and are growing beauties

 

[Frankthetank]

I dont know where to look, you think the township its in would have it?

Contact a local realtor and see who they use for water testing

 

[Lil Dab]

 

[Cannaficionado]

Contact a local realtor and see who they use for water testing

Ill try that. I would have never thought to do that. Everyone in the area collects water for drinking from it so Im sure its been analyzed locally on a regular basis

 

[JP1]

Hey does anyone know of a lab that tests water. I wanna know what the mineral content of the spring water I get and there is a place online but they want me to have a membership to get access to that data...$50 a year and I dont think they regularly test it. Pretty sure it was only tested once

Check local garden supply places. The place around here that does soil tests also does water tests. They send it to a lab out of state and email results. Don't do the home Depot test kit, they'll just send a salesman to your house to sell you a water softener system Edit: or any college agriculture department can do it if you're anywhere near one

 

[Bill.de.Cat]

Nobody is disparaging anything just pointing out you can’t just do a generalized feed and then blame the genetics if some of the plants don’t like it!

Two paragraphs typed out, deleted, one more typed out...deleted...I took it as disparaging my style that works for me as a suggestion for someones coco style that didn't work with a certain bottom feed system. You do you, Me do me.

 

[JP1]

@Lil Dab

 

[Bill.de.Cat]

I'm a HUGE cheapskate, So I get it.

*edit* I only made my comment because it seemed like this was going to turn into a huge argument, And I'm way too stoned for that shit.
We all experiment, And do things our own way

Said my piece...I'm done with it.

 

[DDubs]

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That sounds like reddit advice from the same ding dong giving @Blue_dreamer shitty advice!

Unless a good drain-to-waste is done frequently, I presume salts will tend to accumulate whether you feed from top (salts build up at bottom) or bottom (salts build up at top). Wherever you feed, that part of the media/soil will have the highest water/fluid concentration which will tend to flow, diffuse, move by capillary action/adsorption, etc. to areas of lower water concentration, including to distant areas that will dry out faster, where salt concentrations will build up. In nothing else, there will be some salts buildup wherever media/soil is exposed to the air.

Salts buildup may not be a problem, such as if the salt deposits remain dry/drier and undisturbed, or if simply lucky. For ex., with AutoPots many (I've done it) go a whole grow without doing any top feeding or drain-to-waste. But if do top feed and disturb the top salt deposits, need to this as a serious flush, with lots of feed/water, to get rid of all the now dissolved salts.

This is the first conversation I could find of it on here but the couple of posts mentions the function of capillary action, absorption and salt deposits.

 

[Bill.de.Cat]

They're pretty ok Definitely better then nothing. They keep the tent to the poles instead of sucking inside. Might get me about 2-3" extra on each side at canopy. My tent is pretty used and seems a little stretched out at this point so they do help

I cut 2x2 's and zip tied em to the outside poles half way up...work Ok, but then again my tent is always open in front, sooooo.....