Grow Mediums New autopot questions

[HemiSync]

I've been looking for good answers through search but havent found them exactly. Ive only done hydro (undercurrent), hempy and soil (ffof). I just bought a autopot x4 setup. Super excited about it. Everyone says coco is awesome, but ive never used it. Id like to know someone who uses promix or coco w an easyish regiment and autopots who is generally successful. I found hansbrick. Im trying to figure out what is best. I know organics dont mix w autopots unless mixed into soil. I got some megacrop to do next grow as i heard its great. I do not have alot of time as my responsibilities and work schedule are generally incredible. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Im in the US. What is best promix or coco w autopots? What is best nutes (yield/quality) for coco, that go well with megacrop? Do i have to go RO water im on tap previously and doing good, not great. Ty for whatever help in advance.

I’m just going to say what I have used and why. Have grown many plants in the Autopots and have used, coco/perlite, pure coco, coco/soil, and soil. I would never use promix because it is unsustainable and most folks I know have problems using it. I now prefer my soil/perlite mix I mix from compost, garden soil, and perlite 1/3 each more than any of the others. Since I starting using it I have had zero problems with pH lockout.

Air domes, I can’t tell you. I use them religiously but have no clue if they actually help. I can’t help but think they have to help or my airdomes wouldn’t look like they do when finished. There are literally a mass of roots entangled all thru the dome. That white mass at the bottom of my growing medium is where the airdome sits.

We still have not figured out why some people have bad scale buildup on in their trays and in their reservoir. Have seen MegaCrop do it on other people’s grows but never on mine. I have not even rinsed out my trays or reservoir since June of this year. I use mostly rainwater and highly recommend it, if you live away from major cities. I live out in the country and my rainwater is 0 ppm and a pH of 7.0. I have also used my tap water which is 200ppm with a pH of 7.0. My water company uses chloramines which don’t evaporate thru aeration so I use something for aquariums to remove it. Otherwise, just drop an air stone in your tap water for a few hours and away the chlorine goes. So far I have had very few problems with my tap water except I can back off the cal/mag a little. I have used distilled water but I do not like the way the pH drifts when using it, I seemed to be chasing it daily. Never used RO because of the initial expense and the amount of water it wastes to clean it up. Plus my rain barrel keeps me loaded up with rain/snow water all year round.

 

[C-rooster]

Ty all this info is great.

 

[briefbriefs]

Here is the schedule I used with Megacrop and their bloom if you would like to follow it. They've gone away from some of their bloom boosters but you have others by them that are close. Here is the last grow if you'd like to check it out. https://www.autoflower.org/threads/bushmasterar15-growing-again.67037/
Redline is 1-5-4
Mother Monarch is 0-52-32

I use Canna Coco bricks so my precharge to rehydrate is 2 grams Megacrop , 1 gram Sweet Candy, 8mls Earth Juice Oily Cann Calmag per gallon. It will take almost 4 gallons to make up their package of 40L brick. Then before I place germed seed into pot each pot get's 1.5L of the same nutes.
Day 5 from sprout they get 500mls same nutes
Day 10 750ml-1L same nutes
Day 15 1L same nutes and turn on airdomes if you have them
Day 20 mixed up 5 gallons of same nutes for the reservoir and turned on and final top water of about 1L each from the res to make sure the pots were evenly saturated and start drawing from the tray.
Day 30 filled reservoir with Megacrop 3 grams, 1.2 grams Sweet Candy, 8mls OilyCann Calmag per gallon, 1ml DripClean per 10 Liters
Day 40 @ 4g Megacrop and 1.2g Sweet Candy, 8mls OilyCann Calmag can start adding Redline 1.2 grams per gallon, 1ml DripClean per 10 Liters
Day 50 @ 4g Megacrop and 1.2g Sweet Candy, 8mls OilyCann Calmag, 1.2 grams Redline, 0.5 grams Mother Monarch per gallon, 1ml DripClean per 10 Liters


You'll kinda have to adjust days depending on how much they use from the reservoir from day 20 - 40 they'll be using about 10 gallons a week for 4 plants. Day 40 on is about 10 gallons every 5 days for me right now. At around day 65-70 I'll cut the Megacrop back down to 3 grams per gallon when filling the reservoir as I increase the Mother Monarch for the final push. Hope this helps

digging up post from the past! Are you still using this schedule? I’m wanting to use it as A baseline for my next grow.

 

[bushmasterar15]

digging up post from the past! Are you still using this schedule? I’m wanting to use it as A baseline for my next grow.

I did use that schedule for over a year. I'm now trying out their new 2 part megacrop as a stand alone which has been doing good so far following their nute calculator without adding anything extra besides a splash of drip clean to the res.

 

[briefbriefs]

I did use that schedule for over a year. I'm now trying out their new 2 part megacrop as a stand alone which has been doing good so far following their nute calculator without adding anything extra besides a splash of drip clean to the res.

sweet! did you get any burnt tips or lockouts during? I’m 100% gonna use your schedule!

 

[bushmasterar15]

sweet! did you get any burnt tips or lockouts during? I’m 100% gonna use your schedule!

Not really any issues, just a slight burnt tip when bumpin to the next stage when increasing the nutes but that didn't stop them and they continued on fine.