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I'll grab some then it's pretty cheap to thanks for the info 300 grams is a shitload hahaYou bet it is. Pay attention to @Dabber, he knows this stuff. You would be hard pressed, very hard pressed, to do much better than Megacrop, even if you spend a pile more money, which you probably will to match or even come close to MC results. Even Mk1 was great, and as I understand it, we are now on Mk3, and each version has been changed specifically to make your weed happier. Look at the results Dabber and others get with this stuff. Hell, even have a look at how I did as an unmitigated noob - >300 grams of seriously nice buds from my 2x4 first time around. Your weed will love MC, just dial the nutes as MC advises online, and pay attention to the amount used by other successful growers. I suspect that with the continuous irrigation supplied by autopots, you may want to use a slightly less concentrated mix than others not using autopots,
In any case, in my opinion, there is no better option than MC for a new grower. Start with it, stick with it, and when you get it dialed you will get whatever the genetics have to offer.
Good luck with your grow,
They seem to love the stuff for sure any other supplements you would recommend?
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You could get some sweet candy and bud explosion, both made by Greenleaf who makes MC, but I expect neither are necessary for a first grow. If you get the base mix dialed, your weed will do very well regardless. OTOH, grabbing some while you are at it would make sense as they will come from the same source. I know that Dabber uses Sweet Candy more or less throughout his grow, and you have seen the results there. You should also have some cal mag just in case you need it - likely not necessary with your soil setup, but at some point you may want some at hand. Again, it can come from Greenleaf with the rest of your order.
FWIW, I suggest using lower concentrations of the mix than others not using Autopots do. Autopots keep the pots wet with nute mix 100% of the time, and nute mix is always what is supplied. Many growers not using Autopots alternate watering with plain water which overall will reduce the effective nute concentration a lot. I don't have enough experience to make specific suggestions, but I suggest that you start reasonably low, and raise it as suggested by plant color. Definitely do not plan on higher nutes than others regularly use.
Good luck with the grow.
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Jack's 321 (I think) is getting lots of attention. Very affordable and seems like essentially everything you need.
I was going to use only small amounts at first and see how they react I'll grab some cal mag just in case I might grab some of the sweet candy. Thanks for the tipYou could get some sweet candy and bud explosion, both made by Greenleaf who makes MC, but I expect neither are necessary for a first grow. If you get the base mix dialed, your weed will do very well regardless. OTOH, grabbing some while you are at it would make sense as they will come from the same source. I know that Dabber uses Sweet Candy more or less throughout his grow, and you have seen the results there. You should also have some cal mag just in case you need it - likely not necessary with your soil setup, but at some point you may want some at hand. Again, it can come from Greenleaf with the rest of your order.
FWIW, I suggest using lower concentrations of the mix than others not using Autopots do. Autopots keep the pots wet with nute mix 100% of the time, and nute mix is always what is supplied. Many growers not using Autopots alternate watering with plain water which overall will reduce the effective nute concentration a lot. I don't have enough experience to make specific suggestions, but I suggest that you start reasonably low, and raise it as suggested by plant color. Definitely do not plan on higher nutes than others regularly use.
Good luck with the grow.
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You could get some sweet candy and bud explosion, both made by Greenleaf who makes MC, but I expect neither are necessary for a first grow. If you get the base mix dialed, your weed will do very well regardless. OTOH, grabbing some while you are at it would make sense as they will come from the same source. I know that Dabber uses Sweet Candy more or less throughout his grow, and you have seen the results there. You should also have some cal mag just in case you need it - likely not necessary with your soil setup, but at some point you may want some at hand. Again, it can come from Greenleaf with the rest of your order.
FWIW, I suggest using lower concentrations of the mix than others not using Autopots do. Autopots keep the pots wet with nute mix 100% of the time, and nute mix is always what is supplied. Many growers not using Autopots alternate watering with plain water which overall will reduce the effective nute concentration a lot. I don't have enough experience to make specific suggestions, but I suggest that you start reasonably low, and raise it as suggested by plant color. Definitely do not plan on higher nutes than others regularly use.
Good luck with the grow.
@pop22 is another site member that uses MC with pretty impressive recommendations.
All depending upon the kind of water you're using.
Something not mentioned is, use an EC & PH pen if possible this will help you dial in your feed for concistancy.
I use tap water with a little ascorbic acid to kill the chlorine,
The strain I grow is very finicky about magnesium def'c, so I start my feed mix with 20ppm (straight tap water), then add a little Epsom salt to bring the ppm up to about 50 to 70ppm, add the Sweet Candy to a ppm of about 150ppm.
Finally, I add the Mega Crop to top up to 500ppm.
I use this feed from the second week of seedling to flower.
Once into flower, the reciepe will need to be readjusted to a higher concentration of Bud Explosion to Mega Crop.
As @Olderfart mentioned, start low, and listen to your plants.
Some strains are really greedy
and some not so much.Better to start low, and add,...than to get nute burn and wonder what solution is now required to fix
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Hello again,
If you have a ppm/ec meter, I suggest using it to mix your nutes. EC meters are reasonably reliable and accurate even when cheap, unlike pH pens, so I recommend putting one in your kit. As I mentioned, I do not have enough experience to confidently advise you on nute concentrations with your setup. However, since others haven't chimed in, here is what I will likely be doing in my next grow with autopots and MC. I will start at ~6-800EC (3-400ppm on most meters), and plan on increasing that gradually to no more than ~1000EC once plants start putting on some volume, unless the plants ask for more due to leaf color. You will want to check the EC of your water source as well, and if it is more than ~300, you may want to find another source as higher EC levels can bugger your nute delivery, at least with coco medium. I ended up using creek and lake water after I was having possible nute problems and discovered that my tap water was almost 400EC.
As I recall, @Dabber goes more or less immediately to ~1200EC, but he is not using Autopots, so the irrigation conditions in his setup may not be precisely comparable to yours. In any case, your plants will guide you as long as you get them started happily - they do not need a lot of nutes initially. You are a lot better off starting low and raising concentrations gradually while monitoring leaf color. If you are doing more than one strain off one autopot reservoir, you will want to adjust nutes to the most sensitive plant in the grow.
You will need to watch pH of both your mix and possibly your runoff if you end up chasing a problem. If you do not want to spend ~$75US or so on an Apera or equivalent meter, my advice is stick with the pH drops. Cheap pH meters fail too often to bother with them. The drops are a pain, and not as accurate, but they are better then nothing, and with care they can keep your grow on track. Having said that, by the time I was using MC, I had a meter, so I have not tried testing and MC mix with pH drops. MC produces a nute mix with a tan color which may interfere with color of the test results, maybe interfere a lot, I don't know. After working quite a bit with the drops, I would not do a grow without a pH meter, especially with MC.
Good luck with the grow.
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