So I’m leaving Monday for a week for work, and I was going to ask my wife to water my plant in the tent while I was gone. I’m on an every 3 day schedule as that’s when she dries out. When it comes to plants I would say my wife has a black thumb but really she just doesn’t have a thumb 
and I guarantee my plant will be deader than a doornail when I get back. I ordered the ACI auto watering base today and it’ll be here Monday morning hopefully before I have to leave. Any experience with this and will it hold my plants over until I get back? I’ve attached a pic, and yes I know there’s a deficiency as I was a little light handed on the Jacks and mathed wrong with my PPM not factoring the water base PPM.
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How many you have. Thats just a curiosity.
For the aci bases. Leave water already mixed with nutrients. Get reports from wife while gone. If she has to fill. Her trying is better than the alternative.
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I used the bases last grow. They’re easy to operate once setup and it should be easy for her to water without over watering. I would just top feeds like normal and then add plain water to the base. Then have her just top off the base every couple of days. It has a little meter to show full and would just overflow and not hurt the plant if over filled. Make sure you seal the cut end of the wick with a lighter and soak the wicks before each use. Otherwise the wicks may not uptake properly.
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I would trust the black thumb 
cant remember who but it couldn’t of been more than 10 days ago, someone here went away and trusted autopots, they came back to their plants looking like fried onions
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I only have one photo going in veg still. Haven’t flipped to 12/12 yet.
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Oh man! I remember seeing the pics. I thought it was his wife/gf that watered them lol…now I’ll have to find that post lol
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We had 2 that week one left wife in charge, one left autos in charge, both toast 
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Man I’m screwed but in all seriousness RIP those plants 
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I wouldn’t sweat it to much. Give your ole lady a little faith 
What size pots ?
Over water before ya leave and come back home and water again 
Edit… I’m 
those leafs turning light 
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lol, she’s murdered in the past hence my hesitancy . I have 5 gallon fabric pots. I was thinking of doing the overwatering thing. Do you think they’ll make it the week without being a dead wilty mess when I get back?
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Me too, on the lightening leaves. Working on that one.
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Can’t answer that honestly.
Lower your light intensity a tad, raise your humidity a smidge and add a catch pan. 1 plant I read, correct
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Yep one plant. I did underwater and undernute for sure which is the turn in color. I definitely shorted her in the nitrogen department. I’ve corrected and the plant is doing much better. I had to water and feed yesterday so I soaked her good. I’m going to see how much she uses between then and tomorrow morning and make a game time decision I think.
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You got this
She is in veg so just slow everything down and she will be fine
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Just want to make sure I have it covered. What should I be doing to slow it down?
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Raise light or lower intensity while your away to slow down photosynthesis
No biggie, we are so use to pumping and growing fast as possible.
Now ya needa just slow your roll a week 
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Perfect! Thanks!
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You got this, yo woman got your back
If she is down she will do just fine this time 
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If they’re in veg I think you’d be fine for 5 ish days if you top water just barely to runoff and then fill the base. If she’s doing plain water though and you setup the wicks right and tell her absolutely no nutrients no matter what it’s pretty fail safe. A week in deficiency is always better than burn and if you feed before it’s more like half a week without nutrients so no feed and wicking base is the way for black thumbs. It’s how I’m learning to be a green one.
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Nitrogen is mobile and you’ll want to bottom prune usually anyways so that’s not terrible in my opinion. I overfed nitrogen and it can really build up in end of life so be careful when you rebalance and don’t be scared of some deficiency in bottom leaves during flower because being slightly low on N and high in PK will improve flavor. Sorry if this is all stuff you know, I’m still learning and just like talking it out.
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