I appreciate that!
It was fun researching how to try and start off strong. She is looking healthy thus far with no water yet, so that’s a good sign haha. I’l be updating with pictures tomorrow!
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I have the socks too! I put them external.
Ahhh damn, nice move on the landscaping fabric hahahahah I will be doing that next run 100%!!
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Throughout the first week, I’ve been focused on letting the very moist, pre-buffered and charged coco do it’s work and thus I only watered twice. The water recipe was light for the first 7 days, but I am going to ramp it up for week two to prepare for when I activate the autopots and air domes.
Week 1 Recipe:
1 Gallon Distilled Water
2.5 ml Ventana Plant Science Support
1 ml Ventana Plant Science Grow
1 ml Tribus
Day 5 (9/4) - 100 ml water in a circle and 50 on Organiplug
Day 7 (9/6) - 150 in a circle 2 inches from plug and 50 on the plug itself
The coco has definitely dried back. We are dry to about 1.5 inches all around, but the plants look healthy (my Pink Kush CBD Auto from Seedsman that I might toss on a journal for too!).
Heading into week 2, I started upping the water dosages! She is drinking mostly every day at this point, and is looking great with each new dose.
Day 8 (9/7) - 200 in a circleand 50 on the plug
Day 11 (9/10) - Big water for today! 50 on the plug and 500 ml. I also added an additional .5 ml of grow to my gallon to give her some extra boost. She looked a little light green to me, so the extra nitrogen looked necessary.
I am going to start to include my Pink Kush CBD Auto too, as she is looking great!
Heading into this week, I will start to prepare my autopots and hopefully turn them on in a few days!
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A general rule of thumb for starting them on the res is to wait until the plant’s leaves are at the edge of the pots. The roots should be in the zone by then. Looking good 
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Great advice! I’ll do that. I have the first run giddiness hahaha.
Pink CBD is behind so I’ll have to disconnect her so I can start Northern Lights a few days sooner.
Hit Northern Lights with another 500 ML today, she’s drinking!
Got my wave maker all setup to move the mixture a few times a day and I am feeling good.
It’s been an interesting 13 days… hence why there has been some delay in my updates!
Week two (Days 7 to 14) went! We worked to establish the plant within the GeoPot so that we can turn on the Autopot system with the goal to turn on the autopots around day 21.
She was drinking enough to the point where I am watering every two days, and in general, was looking very healthy for my first buffered coco coir grow!
I watered the following days with a lighter recipie:
2.5 - 3 ml Ventana Plant Science Support
1 ml Ventana Plant Science Grow
1 ml Tribus
9/8: 50 ml on plug and 200 ml in circle
9/10: 50 ml on plug and upped to 500 ml in circle
9/12: 50 on plug and 500 ml in circle
9/14: 50 on plug and upped to 750 ml in circle
9/16: 1 liter closer to the edge of the pots
Pink Kush is looking good:
Minor staking of leaves:
General health on day 16:
WHOOPS TIME…
Heading into Day 17, I was eager to test out my system/pipes and wave maker, so I poured two gallons of untreated distilled water into my reservoir. I then…like a bit of a moron… attended a 30 minute work meeting without really thinking about what I had just done haha.
The result: Not only was there a COMPLETELY BROKEN X-JOINT connecting my reservoir to my autopots, but all of my shutoff valves were also WIDE OPEN. Not only did my tent completely flood with the distilled water, but both my Northern Lights and Pink Kush CBD completely soaked trhough with the untreated distilled water. WHOOPS!
Luckily I had pre-buffered the coco on the heavier side, and I made the decision to turn on my airdomes a bit early since the coco was fully saturated.
I was a bit worried about this accident, but the plant really showed no signs of worry. It was a very welcome relief!
I went ahead and fixed the system, added a few shutoff valves, and fixed a 6-gallon batch of my first reservoir water. The recipe for the 6-gallons was:
24 ml Ventana Plant Science Support
6 ml Ventana Plant Science Grow
3 ml Ventana Plant Science Expand
6 ml Tribus Original Microbial Inoculant
I turned the autopots on officially on day 21, and the plants have been LOVING IT!
I am really excited to wake up each morning to see the growth and given this is both my first run in coco as well as with the autopots, I am a happy man.
This week goes through day 24 to 31, we should be seeing some major growth and a big stretch. I’ll be increasing the next feed closer to 1 ec, and will maintain a ph of 5.9.
Day 24:
Wish me luck and leave some comments for moral support haha!
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It’s been two weeks since my last update! I’ve been busy traveling and hosting the in-laws, so I have only had the time to keep up with that, my kiddo, and taking care my many plants.
The good news is this is exactly what the autopots are for!
Before I went on vacation, I set up a 10-gallon mix of a pre-flower transition and get it added and set-up for my vacation time. The mix was added to the reservior on 9/29 with the following nutrients:
50 ml VPS Support
10 ml Grow
10 ml Structure
10 ml Expand
5 ml Flower
10 ml Tribus
She, along with my Pink Kush Auto, are looking great! I can back from 4 days away with no issues except an empty humidifier.
Day 26:
Day 30:
Day 37:
I noticed a bit of slime possible algae forming in the reservoir, so I did a nice distilled vinegar/hydro peroxide clean of the entire system (hoses, reservoir, trays, and aqua valves) and mixed another batch of 6-gallons of more aggressive flower nutrients with a touch of pre-flower transitional help before I make the move next week to a full flower brew.
Here are the nutrients:
6 gallons distilled water:
40 ml VPS Support
15 ml Grow
10 ml Flower
7 ml Structure
7 ml Expand
3 ml FlaVUH
I also made a 500 ml mix of 5.9 ph distilled water and added /5 ml of Tribus. I watered the base stem of each plant with this to help bolster some microbes, it couldn’t hurt!
She is looking bushy and healthy! Maybe a bit droopy, but I figure that it because she is consistently getting the water she needs with the autopots.
Day 40:
Pink Kush CBD Auto - Day 39:
I am doing some slight defoliation here and there but and really trying to keep the stress down.
Super happy thus far with the autopots, let’s keep it going!
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Things are going well, honestly I am SOLLLLLD on the autopots. I have never had an easier grow. I have really struggled over the last 10 or 15 plants finding the right balance between using distilled water, soil, watering frequency, and nutrients. I have had 0 of those issues using autopots.
I will be buying a set of 4 to use for my 4 x 4 tent when I am finished with my next 4 x 4 grow!
Day 44:
There wasn’t much going on over the last 12 days except a reservoir change on day 46 and a nutrient shift to a full flower load out! I rinse the reservoir and added 6 gallons of distilled water mixed with:
38 ml Ventana Plant Science Support
8 ml Ventana Plant Science Grow
10 ml Ventana Plant Science Flower
6 ml Ventana Plant Science Expand
6 ml Ventana Plant Science Structure
4 ml Ventana Plant Science FlaVuh
I also experimented a bit with adding some Stash Blend to the reservoir for this one. Since it is a power with some larger possible solids, I wanted to pre-dilute it and strain it out before adding it to the reservoir.
In order to do this, I slightly warmed 1 cup of distilled water and added a tablespoon of Stash Blend, mixed it up a bit, strained out any solids, and added her into the reservoir. It worked great!
My final EC for this 6 gallons was 1.0 and I have been keeping my PH between 5.8 and 6.0, checking daily and bringing it down, as it usually tends to drift up throughout the day.
Day 49:
I think 1.0 to 1.1 is as high as I want to take this batch, since my Pink Kush CBD shows a bit** of burn on the tips. I could see how you would maybe want separate reservoirs if you are doing different plants in autopots as my Northern Lights could maybe tolerate another .1 or .2 EC, but I think things are looking great right now!
My next fill will be closer to 1.1 for a nice full flower push to ripen Pink Kush CBD, as I think she will finish first.
Day 50 - Full 2 x 4 (Z-Up Auto, Northern Lights Auto, and Pink Kush CBD Auto)
Day 51:
I don’t want to jinx this one, but I am very happy thus far and am really becoming a believer in both coco as well as autopots when using these types of nutrients!!!
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Me too, your grow is looking great.
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Yeah I’m real happy thus far! I hope to get the nutrients dialed it to get some decent sized colas with all this flower potential!!
It’s my first run so I’m tempering expectations haha
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The autopots continue to not disappoint at all!
Here is where we were at on day 55. I’ve been defoliating a bit here and there on both the Northern Lights as well as the Pink Kush CBD (I officially added her to the grow diary, she looks too great to leave off).
Pink Kush CBD:
Northern Lights:
My recipe for this weeks fill (Day 60) was for 7 gallons:
40 ml Ventana Plant Science Support
10 ml Ventana Plant Science Grow
12 ml Ventana Plant Science Expand
10 ml Ventana Plant Science Structure
30 ml Ventana Plant Science Flower
3 ml Ventana Plant Science FlaVuh
EC came out to 1.05 and I have been doing well at keeping ph at 5.8 with a daily check.
Heading into week 9, I decided to shut of the reservoir to Pink Kush CBD (officially on day 61); She is smelling sweet and fruity, and was showing around 5 % amber trichomes and 90% dark brown hairs. I want to let her eat some of those terps before pulling, so I’ll likely pull around day 68 or 70! Here is where she is as of day
63:
Northern Lights is definitely a few weeks away as her hairs are just now starting to turn brown. However, her buds are starting to stack and ripen, and wow is she going to be built thick. She is also getting frosty. It’s been such an easy and fun grow this far and a totally different experience than soil for me, my dad would have loved to see this. Here she is on day 64:
A final side by side of my happiness!
A big update here: Pink Kush has been cute down and is a few days into drying… what an absolutely beautiful plant!!
Leading up to the big chop, I cut her from the nutrients (around day 60), and let her dry up and pull from life from the leaves. She soaked the coco dry after around two days and pulled some green another two days after that.
The official pull day was day 64, here is a final picture of her on day 64 before I pulled he and gave her 24 hours of darkness before the cutting her down and getting her in a tent at 60/60:
I am super happy with this strain, but more importantly, I am SO HAPPY with my first autopot experience!! The roots look great, and it was easy and worked SO WELL with Ventana Plant Science. The nutrient line is perfect for autopots and Coco. So happy!
Speaking if happiness…
Northern Lights continues to look wonderful as well!
She is ripening now and has a beautiful layer of frost on her. I have her in her own 1.1 ec batch of the same promotional flower nutrient mix as before, with a touch more FlaVUH for enhancement. I trim 5 to 10 leaves a day, but that’s really all the maintenance she needs minus a daily PH check…keeping her at 5.8:
We re in the final 2 to 3 weeks!
I bought another node for this set of autopots, so my next run will be x 1 CBD and x 2 autos. I got some ILGM Critical Mass Auto CBD for the CBD, and I’m starting to wonder what the others will be haha.
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