Grow Mediums Mom's AutoCob, AutoPot, AutoMazar, MegaCrop Grow :-)

[RivetGrrl]

Yup that’s the solution. Odd your pH pen doesn’t haven the cotton in the cap.

 

[MassMom]

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I say that about my hands when I hold things. Like, ummmm my buds. Uhh they look big in my small hands.



I had great luck with both HM brand meters off Amazon cost effective and when I compared the pH pen to my BluLab it was still accurate!! Used over a year too. I kept them as backup.

Yes, I checked out blue lab but more expensive over the others, thanks for the photo, Ill check em out on amazon! I have gone through so many ph and ppm meters, drives me nuts.
This is the PH pen I have (along with 4 other cheapies)
Amazon product

Everytime I see my hands in pictures I always want to get my nails done

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

Yes, I checked out blue lab but more expensive over the others, thanks for the photo, Ill check em out on amazon! I have gone through so many ph and ppm meters, drives me nuts.

It is a consumable not like a pair of pliers. They need maintenance and periodical replacement. I have a BlueLab PH pen that is 3 years old and still works accurately. It is slow though. I have a BlueLab combo meter that is over a year old and it is still on the same PH probe.

 

[4d-Rock]

Hey @MassMom , great job on the grow!
I'll pull up a chair and follow along. I have a couple starting out in solo cups for an MC test grow myself. Mine is in soil though and only at days 7/3 at the moment, I only hope to come anywhere near the size of those seedlings. Nice and healthy!

 

[MassMom]

Hey @MassMom , great job on the grow!
I'll pull up a chair and follow along. I have a couple starting out in solo cups for an MC test grow myself. Mine is in soil though and only at days 7/3 at the moment, I only hope to come anywhere near the size of those seedlings. Nice and healthy!

Welcome 4d!! My babies in cups started out with half coco and half strawberry fields soil. A good friend on this site told me to always start babies in cups with at least half soil so that when you pull them out of the cups at transplant everything stays together. I am beyond speech how good the little ladies are doing at 2 weeks! Trust me, purely by accident! HA HA

Another good friend taught me the "bottom dunk water method" that I think really saved my little plants lives. Mom has a habit of overwatering!

 

[MassMom]

It is a consumable not like a pair of pliers. They need maintenance and periodical replacement. I have a BlueLab PH pen that is 3 years old and still works accurately. It is slow though. I have a BlueLab combo meter that is over a year old and it is still on the same PH probe.

Sometimes we take these wonderful tools for granted. We use them, throw the covers on, and thats it. They are so important to the grow, and need to be taken care of. I never did, and learned the hard way! (I think my ph was about 5 when pen was reading 7. oops. Now my ppm pen is reading 180 when I know it is closer to 810!..but at least with the ppm issue I had a "clue")

 

[MassMom]

3/13/19
DAY 18
Tent Temp 80

OK, so after talking with a couple of very good friends here on AFN (thank you @lunarman & @HemiSync) It was decided that I probably should transplant the ladies from their 1g pots into 3g autopots. I wanted to keep the ladies in the 1g pots for a bit and keep hand dunking/watering them....but once I put the little pots on the res I noticed that they were getting really waterlogged. (I firmly DO believe you can over-water young ones in coco) Also, it was pointed out to me that the little pots left a large area in the base for the water to get algae from the lights. Sooooo, not wanting to self water these plants for the duration of their lives, I filled (3) auto-pots with coco/perlite with an empty 1g pot in the middle of each one, watered each in with 1.5 liters of RO water, 3grams per gallon Mega Crop, 1/4 tsp per gallon of Sweet Candy and then lifted out the empty 1g pots. This created a great hole to just "drop" my ladies into. I sprinkled Mykos in the holes, removed each lady gently from their pots (noticing the nice white roots) and placed them in the holes in the middle of the autopots. I then watered in each lady just a bit to get rid of any air pockets. I put them in the tent under the cobs, and there we sit as of now. I will not turn on the res or airdomes for about 5 days.

So, contrary to popular belief of "no way should you transplant autos" (which I did TWICE IN 2 WEEKS!) the ladies seem to be doing awesome 24 hours later and have great growth! Fingers crossed all goes well from here now that they are in their final homes. Next time I will just transplant from the solo cups directly into the auto-pots. Live and learn But mannnn I did love dunking those cups.....


Like the 3 bears, baby plant, mama plant, daddy plant. HA HA

Plants [HASHTAG]#2[/HASHTAG] and [HASHTAG]#3[/HASHTAG] are in coco, but this plant [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG], the big one, is in 1/2 soil & 1/2 coco because I ran out of coco when transplanting. I was damned if I was going to stop where I was and run 30 miles to get another bag of coco for about 1.5 gallons worth!

 

[pop22]

Ohh yeah, your going to have a jungle soon!

3/13/19
DAY 18
Tent Temp 80

OK, so after talking with a couple of very good friends here on AFN (thank you @lunarman & @HemiSync) It was decided that I probably should transplant the ladies from their 1g pots into 3g autopots. I wanted to keep the ladies in the 1g pots for a bit and keep hand dunking/watering them....but once I put the little pots on the res I noticed that they were getting really waterlogged. (I firmly DO believe you can over-water young ones in coco) Also, it was pointed out to me that the little pots left a large area in the base for the water to get algae from the lights. Sooooo, not wanting to self water these plants for the duration of their lives, I filled (3) auto-pots with coco/perlite with an empty 1g pot in the middle of each one, watered each in with 1.5 liters of RO water, 3grams per gallon Mega Crop, 1/4 tsp per gallon of Sweet Candy and then lifted out the empty 1g pots. This created a great hole to just "drop" my ladies into. I sprinkled Mykos in the holes, removed each lady gently from their pots (noticing the nice white roots) and placed them in the holes in the middle of the autopots. I then watered in each lady just a bit to get rid of any air pockets. I put them in the tent under the cobs, and there we sit as of now. I will not turn on the res or airdomes for about 5 days.

So, contrary to popular belief of "no way should you transplant autos" (which I did TWICE IN 2 WEEKS!) the ladies seem to be doing awesome 24 hours later and have great growth! Fingers crossed all goes well from here now that they are in their final homes. Next time I will just transplant from the solo cups directly into the auto-pots. Live and learn But mannnn I did love dunking those cups.....


Like the 3 bears, baby plant, mama plant, daddy plant. HA HA

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Plants [HASHTAG]#2[/HASHTAG] and [HASHTAG]#3[/HASHTAG] are in coco, but this plant [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG], the big one, is in 1/2 soil & 1/2 coco because I ran out of coco when transplanting. I was damned if I was going to stop where I was and run 30 miles to get another bag of coco for about 1.5 gallons worth!

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[MassMom]

Ohh yeah, your going to have a jungle soon!

Your mouth to God's ears my sweet!!!!


I cant wait to turn on res and airdomes.

 

[MassMom]

Just a little trick I saw but cant remember where. Here on AFN? YouTube?

Attach syringes to bottles with Velcro to avoid bottle contamination...I found it FABULOUS and a nice time saver. I used to use (1) syringe and have to clean it in between. yuck.
I got a bag of syringes on Amazon for cheap.