My Brother I think they look better already 
I crack myself up sometimes
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Nice idea to use the retired auto pots for run off collection. At least I think that is the idea . Good luck 
on the new system.
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That’s actually temporary. I ordered some 15 in saucers to catch any leaks. Blumat isn’t a water to runoff system. 
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My Brother one other thing I don’t have to water to runoff to check my numbers that meter checks soil ph and ec along with moisture 
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That will take the run off check out of the equation then, save a little time.
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Is checking the run off numbers a soil deal? 
I went down a bad rabbit hole chasing numbers from my run off in my first grow. Now I only focus on what is going in. The plant up top let’s you know when it is happy or not.
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I’m no expert on the runoff thing I grew in autopots 5years till this grow. But I’m more worried about soil moisture than ec. But that’s a damn good number to know. That way you know how the plants are feeding and if you are over or under feeding. The meter is for the Blumat System. But I will be monitoring all 3 Moisture, EC & ph. It also measures soil temp.
Me too
I don’t chase numbers till I have a problem now. 
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My thoughts are. I would just feed till I see run off. And then back it off a touch. I do that for the first 3 weeks when starting new plants. I only feed them every other day also to let them dry a bit. I think you are following this grow of mine. I will tag you after this up date. You can see where I went wrong and let 2 of the one gallon pots sit to wet at the start and 2 plants were not happy about it lol You are getting some nice evening shots. I should grab a few when the sun sits on the ocean here
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Just got my Pulse meter and it’s gonna be a game changer! @Budbrother does it come pre calibrated?
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Cool deal time to crank er up growmie 
might check into one of those would take out alot of guess work hand watering
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@W.B.elpaso Welcome to the BOM Hall of Fame My Brother now there’s 10
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No you will need to calibrate it to coir medium. Calibration is done before roots fill pot, unlike the old video they had showing growing plants. Guess I’ll see if a new video is out. Nope. Just the old one.
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I calibrate to my soil mix while in totes. That’s the only way I can get 5 matching read points. Seems I could always get to 4 then nope with plants. In your case with choir it’s totally different. Have you run a basic check yet? Setup mixed medium coir, that should be pretty standard and basically calibrated.
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@Budbrother Yes I did do a media calibration. I saw that video. I still want to calibrate it one more time. I had one caution and one red flag during the calibration. Is the reading for moisture in actual % of moisture or VWC? My coco was saturated and it went no more than 61 % that has to be VWC right?
I have the moisture set to 35 min and 65 max
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Common sense would indicate it is measuring.
Volumetric Water Content (VWC) measures the ratio of water volume to total soil volume, typically expressed as a percentage.
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I got common sense. But I skipped science class to get stoned. I didn’t know what VWC was till about a hour ago.
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Was answering another tag but Steve got you
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Don’t worry about that, same here I had to google it as I run my grow soilless at 100% VWC. 
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What would I set my min moisture to and max to or am I close I did a ai search and don’t trust it!
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