So I was thinking use a 1/4 gal nursery bag with living soil in it in a 3 gal fabric pot with also living soil until my roots are big enough to transfer into the autopot which I would fill with coco and perlite and run jacks through til runoff once. Then transfer and top water until ready to turn on. As the nute coco and living soil in the 1/4 gal would give it enough to reach the bottom fed
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5 gal autopot? If so why not just transplant into it? Use 1/4 gallon nursery bag into 5 gal autopot. Top water for 2 weeks for roots to fill pot and then turn on system. Transplanting from a 3 gal to a 5 gal wont be so easy. My 3gal autopot bags are the same size as my 5 gal autopot bags as far as diameter of pot. They even use the same tray and equipment.
Not for more then a couple weeks. It would also need to be activated prior to use to allow the microbes and fungi to populate and consume some of your organic matter to then make nutes available.
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Can you expound on that last part just a taddd? lol please and thanks 
Got a 3.9gal autopot
Could you be more specific as to what you want clarity on?
After bottom layer or airbase its about 3 gallons.
You want to transplant from a 3 gal pot to a 3.9 gallon pot?
Either way you will need to topdress along the way, a 5 gal pot really doesnt hold enough organic materials for a full grow so a 3 gal for sure wont.
Oh nooo im saying i want to just get the roots enough big enough to start feeding with the reservoir. So would the plant in the 1/4 nursery after it’s roots are decent be able to be too fed in coco and perlite and a autopot to grow roots to he bottom fed
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I was gonna grow the 1/4 with living soil
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It will take two weeks after transplant before you can turn the system on. You will have to topwater during that time.
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Okay when you say top water do you mean with nutes or just water? Bc it’ll be in a 1/4 nursery of living soil but the autopot filled with coco and perlite plain
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You’re gonna start organic and finish synthetic? Is there a specific cause or reason for this? Like you have some already established living soil cooked and ready to go but only a quarter gallons worth?
I read completely wrong, my bad.
And there it is right there. Sorry.
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