Dinafem White Widow and Critical + 2.0 in 1 gal pots of Coco with Automated feeding and Airdomes.

[slowandeasy]

Not sure I can explain this. @slowandeasy would be better at it.

But I think the "density per pot" is important. If you have less medium to get air in to with a small pot that means that pot will get a lot more air (per cubic inches of medium) and therefore a healthier and maybe bigger plant. The bigger pot is not getting as much air to the overall root structure.

Also I think with the smaller pots and perforation the medium is going to get more air on the sides etc. And the smaller pot is maybe going to dry out faster and then drink more than the big pot will, therefore it will take in more nutes and grow bigger/better.

And one final thing. I am thinking that starting out an autopot grow in a small perforated pot will mean that I can turn on the reservoir and airdome faster. The depth of the pot is shallow compared to the full size pot. So the sooner you can turn on the air the more rapid the plant goes. Will it be bigger in the end since it started starter earlier? I don't know but will try and find out. Going to do a side by side grow with the regular pot and my modified pot. Just waiting for two Dinfem Critical 2's to pop their tap root.

I am not claiming bigger plants with smaller pots. I will claim faster growth and faster finished plants. A 4 gal Autopot will definitely grow a large plant. Just slower initial growth, and longer flushing time. Potentially Adding 1-3 weeks to your growth cycle.

 

[lunarman]

Right. I get that. You wrote in an earlier post you are not looking for monster plants.

Faster is better. And if its faster and relatively the same yield per plant, I get more yield over time and my costs are lower. Ballpark if you save 3 weeks per cycle and you grow 4 cycles per year, that's 12 weeks or 3 more cycles for the same 365 day period. Not sure if that math is right.

That is pretty huge. Plus faster cycles means I get to try more strains over time which is really important for me.

 

[slowandeasy]

Right. I get that. You wrote in an earlier post you are not looking for monster plants.

Faster is better. And if its faster and relatively the same yield per plant, I get more yield over time and my costs are lower. Ballpark if you save 3 weeks per cycle and you grow 4 cycles per year, that's 12 weeks or 3 more cycles for the same 365 day period. Not sure if that math is right.

That is pretty huge. Plus faster cycles means I get to try more strains over time which is really important for me.

My thoughts are the same!

 

[slowandeasy]

Today is day 41 from seed. I will add a few pics later. I have bent over the [HASHTAG]#3[/HASHTAG] White Widows main stem. That plant is about a week behind the rest, and it also was the one plant that the air hose came undone for a week or so before I noticed...that was a few weeks ago.

 

[slowandeasy]

White Widow [HASHTAG]#3[/HASHTAG] day 41

 

[slowandeasy]

White Widows [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG] and [HASHTAG]#2[/HASHTAG] day 41

 

[slowandeasy]

Critical+ 2.0 day 4.. hard to tell which plant is which in pic...but they are all doing well.

 

[slowandeasy]

White Widow [HASHTAG]#3[/HASHTAG], least far along out of the 6 plants total.

 

[slowandeasy]

Wire Widows [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG] and [HASHTAG]#2[/HASHTAG]. [HASHTAG]#2[/HASHTAG] stretched more, but I believe it is done stretching

 

[slowandeasy]

Critical+ day 45 from seed...that is one plant up front, very large. The other plant is on the left rear of the picture and another straight ahead behind the front plant [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG] , [HASHTAG]#2[/HASHTAG] isn't as tall, but it is still large and is budding the fastst. [HASHTAG]#3[/HASHTAG] on the left is shorter than the others, but stocky. Different pheno. BTW, the [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG] plant is about 3ft wide.