Like many people with lots of experience and expertise I think Matt makes it look easy but there’s bound to be issues if someone hasn’t done it before (me) or is lacking the experience to know what to do when things go wrong (also me). But it’s fun learning!
I came across his videos a while back and liked the idea of using coir and not having to feed with every watering along with good aeration and less potential bugs. Coir is more available to me than other soils or soil ingredients so that’s another reason I wanted to use it.
He uses a lot of Gaia Green, but I did come across someone here who uses even more! Green sneks 4th grow 8 auto strains in coco in a 4x4 I’m not sure what pot size is being used but even so, I don’t see how all those nutes can get used by the plant without overfeeding.
I like your approach: difficulty=entertainment. I agree, my thinking is along the lines of if something is challenging then those challenges I want to try to solve and not just give up or go to another method if something doesn’t succeed immediately. It’s also fun to prove people wrong when they say something won’t work or is impossible. Not to gloat but just to solve it or discover something new and hopefully better for me and my situation. I had actually posted for help in a different forum (before I found ILGM) and while some people were ok, most were trying to tell me the way I was doing things was wrong, or to switch to soil, or that I’ll eventually hate autos, etc. I just wanted some help! I’m glad to have found that helpfulness here.