I need to get a hest press. I found a cheap one on Amazon. For 100 bucs. Will it be good enough to produce?
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My guidance for a press would be to pay less than $50/ton…so if that is less than a 2 ton, I would say no. I use an 8 ton I found on sale a while back.
You’ll get some examples and process knowledge if you take read on @low 's thread too:
The Perfect Press💧
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Thanks…
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Teach me bro lbs i grow autos but cannot get a plant to look like that to save my lofe yet lbs very nice. Im thinking about going to photos for yhe yield i actually have a couple white widows going still seedling an heres my sour diesel autos really need yo learn how to get dialed in
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Not sure what you want to know… this is an old grow thread seed to harvest on here, happy to answer specific questions if something on there doesn’t make sense:
Indoor Autos in Organic Soil with Tap Water
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Photos are generally more forgiving than autos. They both have their place, but IMO photos are probably a better fit for most new growers. They give you time to make mistakes or HST hard and still get a good yield. I grow photos mostly for the yield or training purposes. I don’t mind that they take a little longer when I pull 2-3 times the yield in 125% the time and I have plenty of room for big plants.
@Mozzy just curious, why do you like growing autos? I’ve seen you grow some nice plants and I don’t often get the chance to hear the autoflower side of the debate from a good auto grower.
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I’ve been fighting fungus gnats and I think the larvae started chomping on the roots, one of my plants has been sad for a while. Stems have been very weak, limp, “wrinkled” leaves, just no vigor at all. Anyway, I think I’m over the hump after mosquito dunks, bits and sticky traps. I want to continue the bit juice (
@MeEasy) but I’m wondering what I need to do going forward to get back on track? Her tent mate is just about ready to be flipped in about a week so I top fed some @Roadsideorganics.ok bloom formula and figured I’d feed them both since they’ll stay on the same schedule, so they both got the bloom formula.
I’m in 5 gallon SIPs with organic soil using roadside veg and bloom and top feed with molasses, recharge, and calmag on occasion.
Healthy one…
Sad one…
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They actually look pretty good Doc. I try never to switch a sick plant to flower but sometimes the roommates don’t wait for no one and you have to do it.
Is it possible that the bottom dirt is a little soggy? She looks a little overwatered maybe. I know that look all to well, I do it quite often
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What’s your Temp, RH, and DLI (or PPFD/Hours)?
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Likely not the issue, they’re in SIPs…~20% of the bottom of the bucket is water half the time or more, fwiw.
…unless the overflow drain is plugged, but they are not that new to them.
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DLI is 35-40 at 18/6, temps and RH are higher than I’d like at low 80s F and mid 50s RH, I turned the dehuey on and RH is going down but temps may go up
This is my second time growing photos, I’ve grown autos for a few years.
Would there be any harm adding amendments to the bit juice (molasses, recharge, etc)?
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that all looks good for veg to me, but I’ll defer to the bottle feeders for their experience and knowledge on the amending…if it helps:
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I want to try them but onnthe flip side, they kinda intimidate me. However this auto run has been very much up and down so maybe I’m overthinking photos needs. The autos have not been as “beginner friendly” as I hoped for. Its always depicted imo that photos are so much more stricter on their needs that it would be easy to screw them up. However I have come across ppl with the same thought you have.
@Mozzy I’m interested in this too.
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They are not. Photo gets the knowledge under your belt. Chance to fix issues and learn without an early flower scare. A runt. Get some but pretty damn rare. Recovery time. Higher yield with controlled flowering. Higher thc typically. Just my thoughts. Auto are only fillins when photo vegging out for me.
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Its been a ride and I got a hermie 
maybe I need a switch up.
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I’ve answered this a lot, and in a lot of different ways in the past…many of the answers are specific to growers’ needs/wants/goals. There are also significant differences between growing your own medicine and growing to sell, as well as growing indoors vs. out, etc.
Happy to answer specific questions, but autos are easy and I had to ingore all the bad advice about growing them from a lot of folks on here when I started, because environment issues with 12/12 forced me to only grow autos (usually 18/6 seed-to-harvest these days), so I taught myself and continued to learn through multiple grow cycles of multiple breeders/strains of autos; and I’ve still yet to see an example of anyone growing indoors easier and simpler than I do to produce more quantity than they need, at better quality than they can buy.
I also HST most of my autos due to environment in many ways, more than I see most photo growers even do…most of the issues folks have with autos I assume are either bad genetics from many years ago, or bad experiences due to personal/environment issues. The complicated way most folks tend to grow and teach others to grow by having to buy more products, constantly measure and adjust things, and bottle feed their plants to get a harvest, turned me off to most methods most folks use to grow, ymmv.
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I can agree there. I am caveman simple. Just my lights are top of the line. Rest is a fan. An exhaust fan. A timer. A humidity/temp meter. That is all for environment. Lung room controls overall temp.
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To be clear, I consider environment to be everything including water and soil…so if you were growing water-only in organic soil seed-to-harvest, with nothing measuring EC/PPM etc., I would then say you are getting close to as simple as I grow, fwiw.
You are also one of the folks that I know can grow photos successfully, regardless of what those methods are, so I include you as one of the ones that shocks me that you have had issues growing autos.
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Genetics. I get some super auto. Just more misfires than i like. Plus I grow for a circle and a very solid medical plant gets the clone love. Yes I am ammend/cook water and feed the life. Thats it.
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Can elaborate this? You mentioned this before, I meant to come back to this. I take it as ppl trying to sell probably dont give a fuck as much and just want to get something out. Versus growing for a real purpose, your going to tend to it better for a more specific outcome. I’m not looking to sell but I don’t want mid either.
For me that is the purpose. Just like growing your own fruits/veggies. I want to be in control and know whats going in it. To eventually get to that point of knowing I have quality outcome. I plan to read thru your old post you posted.
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