Dutch Passion PSC Grows Dutch Passion's AutoDaiquiri Lime and AutoBrooklyn Sunrise in Autopots

[Sensi Jay]

Subbed, looks like you're smashing it Poly! Hoping to do an autopot grow myself soon.

Are you finding running them is less demanding than hand watering?

Good luck, and keep up the good work bro..

 

[PolySizeCircuit]

Subbed, looks like you're smashing it Poly! Hoping to do an autopot grow myself soon.

Are you finding running them is less demanding than hand watering?

Good luck, and keep up the good work bro..

Yeah these autopots have made things much easier... not sticking my finger in pots of dirt every day and not having to clear out the runoff (big timesink for me in the past), no need to worry if I'm over/underwatering. pH is a lot easier since I only need to check the big res. Only thing I'm worried about is clogs and keeping the aquavalves working properly, so far only 1 out of 4 valves had an issue but I just needed to clean it.

 

[Groff]

Looking ace! When I first started (coco) I used to do run to waste … pun intended, what a waste! I perfectly understand why one would do that, but definitely not for canna. I'm able to perfectly run start to finish without any issues whatsoever. Granted, not advisable to a padawan grower, but once you get on with it you soon realise it's just money down the drain.

Subb'ing up!

 

[PolySizeCircuit]

Day 39:

Not much to say, continuing to LST when I can. For feed I'm currently using 3/1/5/7 of Micro/Gro/Bloom/Calimagic and I'm letting the pH go slightly over 6 to try to avoid more calmag spots. I was a bit worried about overfeeding with no runoff but the plants are doing great.

Lime main cola budding

Kept the Lime pretty short

Brooklyn Sunrise continuing to grow

Main cola budding, a few days farther along than the Lime

 

[PolySizeCircuit]

Day 40:

I added one more 100W LED, this time a Mars Reflector 48, so now I have 600W of HPS mixed with 200W of LEDs. Now my 4x4 space has no dark spots :smoking:. I'll probably start some seeds under the Mars since I'm gonna have some room left in the tent, can't do it yet cause I'll be away around the holidays (and the autopots will really be put to the test!).

The Brooklyn Sunrise measures 24" x 20" while the Lime is at 18" x 17".

The Brooklyn Sunrise still seems hungry, same with the Lime. I think I may need to up the feed even more.

Pic of the new light:

Lime:

Sunrise:

 

[PolySizeCircuit]

Day 42:

The Dark Devil was showing some N tox so I put it on a separate reservoir at 2.5/0/4/2.5ml of floraMicro/Gro/Bloom/Calmag. The Lime and Sunrise are the opposite with the Sunrise showing some N deficiency and Lime showing some P deficiency. I upped the feed for those two further to 5/1/7/5 and I'm still not sure that's enough. It seems like I'll have to be careful about which strains I put in the same res.

Lime:

Sunrise:

 

[PolySizeCircuit]

Day 45:

Girls aren't getting much taller these days but still expanding the canopy area. Brooklyn Sunrise measures at 24" x 21" and Daiquiri Lime measures at 18" x 18". The Sunrise buds are already looking kinda fat, the Lime is still a few days earlier in the bud development.

Lime:

You can see the P deficiency on the Lime in the corner. Not sure why it mostly affected that area and the rest stayed green.

Lime main cola buds

Sunrise:

Looking a bit paler than I'd like, but not too bad. She's still been growing well!

Main cola buds already pretty big.

Bonus Dark Devil in the back, at day 41:

 

[PolySizeCircuit]

Day 47:

The sunrise still seems to have low N or Mg though the buds are getting bigger every day. The lime got some discoloration in the corner, I think I put the extra LED too close at 14". I moved it up to 18". I did a full reservoir change because I found a lot of precipitated particles floating around in the mix. I'm thinking that some nutes got precipitated out causing the deficiencies. I upped the feed a bit more to 6/0.5/9/3 micro/gro/bloom/calmag. I have a new TDS meter now and found my tap water is 30ppm and my nute mix is 850ppm which I've read is about right.

Lime:

This leaf looks beaten up

Main cola buds.

Sunrise:

The edges of some leaves are tinting a bit purple.

The Dark Devil seems pretty happy though!

 

[PolySizeCircuit]

Day 49:

Lime seems happy, sunrise is still yellowing though maybe slower since I changed the res... I'm hoping it'll make it 3-4 more weeks to harvest. Seems to be a mg deficiency but I've already ph'd and upped the feed so not sure what else I can do. The Lime is on the same reservoir.

 

[BombBP]

Looking good!