Indoor Mephisto & AutoPots

[RivetGrrl]

I've seen how your photo girls turn out, so Im super confident these mephisto girls will turn out great

Thank you for the compliment, I feel kinda down because I haven't had a great harvest since first mites, now pythium but fingers are crossed for my next photo run. Everything is in separate Farms right now until I can harvest the last plants and clean everything out and reset. So it's more work but worth it in the end to deal with the bad guys. Vegging photos are always separate until I can throw them into the flowering recirculating system.

I live by the gulf coast and this time of year the temps can change 30-40 degrees in a day and my tent is in a metal building so climate is a tough thing to control. Not looking forward to the 100 degrees and 100% humidity coming up though that will be a challenge lol

Damn that will be a challenge, start a journal for sure as people are great here to help you sort out any issues you have growing

 

[CALEB]

One quick question. I did have planned to stick with 5 gallon buckets but with autos bot growing very large will 3 gallon fabric pots be sufficient for grows?

 

[RivetGrrl]

One quick question. I did have planned to stick with 5 gallon buckets but with autos bot growing very large will 3 gallon fabric pots be sufficient for grows?

Don't take my word 100% for this as I'm new with auto's, but I did see in my research that 5 may actually be a bit too big unless you are growing larger strains or XXL varieties. The standard AutoPots are 3.9 gal size and people grow all different sizes in them. Saying that, they do have the copper fabric square to stop the roots from going crazy as they come out of the bottom.

I would look at some other grow journals and see what size people run, I'll also keep an eye out in the forums I'm on here.

 

[HighnDry]

One quick question. I did have planned to stick with 5 gallon buckets but with autos bot growing very large will 3 gallon fabric pots be sufficient for grows?

My first 2 grows were in 3gal fabric. I'd go with that size, it'll air prune anyway which will encourage new root growth.

 

[lunarman]

I switched from the half size autopots (2.5g) to regular plastic 1g pots for this run because others are killing it with small pots. I see no need to use big pots. Waste of medium. Waste of my time and my costs to keep a long grow going with electrical costs being what they are. big pots don't really add any extra yield either. They are good if you can't water frequently.

 

[CALEB]

Yea it seems to me with auto only growing roughly 75ish days depending on the strain 5 gallon fabric pot seems overkill and a plant wouldn't have enough time to fill the pot out anyways. But I have no experience yet and I'm kind of basing it off of what I've seen my first grow do in 5 gallon buckets.

 

[HighnDry]

Yea it seems to me with auto only growing roughly 75ish days depending on the strain 5 gallon fabric pot seems overkill and a plant wouldn't have enough time to fill the pot out anyways. But I have no experience yet and I'm kind of basing it off of what I've seen my first grow do in 5 gallon buckets.

https://www.autoflower.org/threads/lots-of-roots-coming-through-base-of-fabric-pot.68396/

 

[lunarman]

https://www.autoflower.org/threads/lots-of-roots-coming-through-base-of-fabric-pot.68396/

Is that meant as a caution for using small pots? Or just a heads up?

 

[HighnDry]

Is that meant as a caution for using small pots? Or just a heads up?

Heads up, I made mistakes. Using the smaller autopots this grow myself

 

[MordecaiAlliVanAllenOshea]

Are you all doing coco in the autopots? Just curious if anyone runs real soil.