Grow Mediums Runoff pH question

[Olderfart]

Yup already been in contact with MOG and he told me same thing just fergitate to runoff once a week and I should be good. What did you switch to after the coco & auto pots with Salts?

I did soilless peat (Sunshine #4) last winter after my DIY soil mix was shut down by gnats, and my current grow is another water only soil attempt. I also have some coco/perlite solos going at the moment. The current soil grow is going ok and will produce lots of bud, but it suffered a bit from my soil mix being a bit hot and/or incorrect pH. I am not sure what I will do next winter. It will either be a water only soil adjusted by this winter's experience, of back to salts and soilless or coco medium. At the moment, I feel like I might want to try soil one more time to see if plants stay healthy all the way on water only.

If I go back to salt nutes, I may ditch the autopots and go with automatic top irrigation similar to what I set up this grow for my solos. After working with autopots for a few years now, I have concluded that I am not a big fan of sub-irrigation with salt nutes. Top watering with runoff is a fair bit more controllable with salt nutes IMO. Cost for my solo irrigation setup was trivial. Maybe $40 or so for a digital timer, and I already had a pump that I grabbed used at a junk store a year or two back. The rest was pretty much just hose and fitting I had in the supply stash already. So far, the system is working well, and I could easily use it to feed my 4x4 with 4 full sized plants and a few solos in it.

Too many options, too little time.