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You can just turn on the auto pot right away if you want, I do that sometimes, I only water by hand in the beginning to control how I want the roots to grow. I feel like by hand watering in the beginning keeps the water near the top and i use that to draw the root growth out towards the edges to get a wider root grow. If you have water saturating the very bottom only like in an autopot, the roots will head straight to the bottom searching for water instead of growing outwards.

It really depends on the conditions and how many tops you create, when they are perfect like great temps and I make like 16 tops I was getting like nearly a pound of flower per plant. Lately it's super hot through and I don't to so hard core with mainlining that I don't get as much from it.

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No I generally use the same lights through out the entire grow, however I adjust the intensity of the light accordingly. Initially it'll be at half power and I gradually increase it to full power once it's in flower.

Yea, I have a bad habit of doing that because I either top it too late or something it's just a personal test to show people how resilient cannabis plants are.

So yea it doesn't flip as well as normal butterfly knives, in fact, if feels weird and is difficult to do tricks with because of its shape. It's also significantly heavier than others. Personally I feel that it's not as smooth or balance like my benchmade balisongs.

Glad to hear it! Thanks for the support

It was the only way to make sure the powerdry mildew was eliminated. In the end the smoke was still good. I wouldn't want to bud wash though unless it was absolutely necessary.

Possibly, I'm not sure I'll have to check but hopefully it's not too bad since I only add silica once a week during my hand watering.

Yes I always get in that situation. Do I top it and make it bigger, do i let it just finish as is? The thing is it's all a matter of how soon you want to harvest. You can just keep topping until the end of time and it will keep regrowing but I do notice that the long you push it the more likely the soil nutrients are exhausted.

Yea I still find them super useful and ever time I see them at costco I think to myself maybe i should get more.

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It's just a cheap one I got from Amazon for $30. amzn.to/3Ihnko0

Thanks for the sub and the compliment, I try my best. I really hope I can start another grow season soon but it's been too hot here lately.

absolutely, it could be so good but that along with the messed up screw kinda makes it lame but it is cheap afterall.

Yea I probably won't do it in the future unless I really have to. It is a real hassle. So as long as I can keep the air circulating well I shouldn't have powdery mildew in the future.

Most of my grows are hybrids, with Moby Dick from my latest grow being mostly sativa as for Indica's my next grow will probably include some Northern Lights for some friends who've been asking for it. As for hydro vs soil I don't think it matters, both work great and all comes down to how much work and care you'll have to do for each. I think if people say Indicas are better for hydro my only guess would be that it's because Sativas can grow very big and tall. Blue Dream which is more Sativa leaning can grow up to 10 feet tall which I imagine is quite huge so hydro just from the shear size of the pot would have to be enormous to maximize it's potential, but no matter what the medium or the method it's potential size is really up to you and how long you want it to veg for and how big your pot size is.

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Yea I've been trying many different ones so I'll take a look at it.

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LOL yea I love these gloves, they won't get punctured and I can dig all the way down up to my arm pits when I'm doing things like mixing soils or other stuff.

Not just that but I want to keep my reservoir clean with water only because it's just easier to manage, the pump and the autopot lines won't get clogged up with gung. So if I want to use any liquid nutrients, I do it by hand. I'm not using any chemical nutrients this is just my weekly application of ferments, microbes and silicone.

@@HairyBeard . So you don't put any nutrients in your reservoir because it clogs up the small hose ??

@@davidblack5551 it's not really the hoses but the other stuff, so because I use both a pump and a torus perfect ph a lot of buildups occurs in that Perfect PH that after a while becomes like a glob of brown gunk due to both the chemical nutrients and just natural oxygenation from the pump. They don't necessarily clog the hoses but it clogs the ionizer thing that's inside the Torus perfect ph and inside the pump filter. Other than that it's also just annoying to clean out. However, I do think chemical nutrients can really produce huge yields, I'm just a bit lazy about it and water only with organic living soil is sort of a stress free grow.

TBH I really want to do a chemical nutrient grow maybe for my next grow so we'll see how it goes. If you guys have suggestions for keeping the reservoir maintained let me know.

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I would double up the scrog going from 3x3 squares to 6x6 but I just didn't want to spend the money on matching p-scrog or make my own with bamboo so instead as you'll see through out my series, I just keep raising the scrog to match the height of the top flower to push that one down and let the others catch up.

Yea that seems to be what most people do. I guess I like the ease of using binder clips so far since I can easily just pop them off or loosen it when I pull the ties down. I think it just happens to work well with these autopots since the lip is flat, wide and deep to allow the binder clips to clip on.

It's hard to say because the soil itself is relatively cheap, the OceanForest is only $24 per 1.5cu.ft. at my local provider. I think online it's like $34 but most wholesalers are cheaper. 2 bags of these should be enough. I can't say about the top dressing because I bought all those a long time a go and even now 2 years later I still have more than half the box of each of those but I have about 10 different nutrients amendments from Down to Earth, like the all purpose or kelp meal, etc and they are about $25-$30 for each 5lb box so if I add it all up it is probably about $300 in total but that should last you a long time. So if I just accounted for what I actually used for this grow I'd estimate it was $100 total at most. If you check out the latest season though, I got everything from Build-A-Soil to give that a try and that was a total of $360 for the soil and all the ferments and liquid nutrients.

I don't know if it's common but it at least seems pretty acceptable among the cannabis growing community. If you look up the opinions of more popular streamers like Pigeons420 or MrGrowIt they have all commented on how it is standard practice for many. In my one and only experience so far, the taste and smoke seems unaffected. I think it gets about as wet as it would from a everyday rainstorm and dries out in about the same time as if it was growing outdoors (half from the sun evaporating the surface and half from the plant just absorbing it through the leaves). Ofcourse in the same way rain can cause problems like mildew, mold, etc, so can budwashing so you just have to be careful to make sure it's really dry before you start hanging it in your drying area.

Yea, I do it manually because of a couple of reasons, first is I don't want to get the tank and the lines dirty with nutrients, cleaning and clearing a water only reservoir is much easier. I also want to control how much because if I fill up the reservoir I can't really control how much and when they take in the nutrients, it might end up sitting there for awhile and lastly I'm using a Torus Hydro Perfect PH balancer on my pump and if I use nutrients it will make that thing full of gunk. But all this is only because I'm doing a fully organic living soil grow. I do feel if you do a non organic grow you have potential to force it to grow bigger faster and with organic you are kind of at the whim of the plants own desire to grow and at what rate.

That's awesome, keep it up and let me know how it goes.

Yea I was thinking of just moving the AC into the tent but TBH it's getting to the point where the electric bill to keep it cool during the summer is just not worth it. I just have to get better a getting huge harvest during the winter spring period. As for the 48 hours of darkness, it's one of those things that you people argue about all the time some saying it doesn't do anything and others saying it does. The premise is that it makes the plant think the end is coming so they rush to produce more trichomes to try to survive. but it doesn't hurt to do it, you don't lose anything and there is a tiny chance it actually does help so I just do it and got used to doing it but I don't have enough equipment to really like measure trichomes before and after to me I can't tell but I don't have that kind of eye.

Technically you are half right, it doesn't stop them if they land on the soil but if it catches them that it stops them from laying eggs. I did follow up with diatomaceous earth to make it so they can't land on the soil but I guess nematodes could also help. Thanks for pointing that out.

It’s a lot of work so i think if i didnt have to do it i wouldn’t but since we took care of the powdery mildew when it first started i think we were lucky we squashed that and the washing is just a extra precaution but now it’s been dry for awhile they look clean under a scope so I’m happy and the smoke was really smooth even only after 1 week of curing so I’m pleasantly surprised by that.

Yea I’m more into a clear head high so I usually get it when it’s mostly cloudy with a bit of Amber

I think if you set it up properly, you can have a pretty hands-off grow. Pros are you only have to worry about adding water to the reservoir every 2-3 weeks and if you are going for a full organic living soil then you don't have to worry about anything else. The biggest con I have so far now is that the pots are pretty smaller and I think that does directly affect the plant's growth potential. I think if you are hands-on every day, then traditional fabric pots should be better.

The hydroton isn’t for keeping the roots in which even with fabric bags the roots can poke through but because the auto pot always has a couple inches of standing wanted and you don’t want roots sitting it which causes root rot. The idea is when the water drains down there is a gap of air between the soil and water level which then prunes the roots so they grow past it. But you are right it could work in keep the dirt out of that area because in the past even without dirt or hydroton in the air dome i had a root bundle form there which is bad if it’s always submerged in water

Bro the scrog is sick

@@ledgrowlabs442 Thanks, That's awesome, Hopefully you can learn from my grow and my mistakes. Having now done both LST and Mainline, I do feel the mainlines are bigger not because of the technique per se because I've had huge LST grows too but it's just easier to manage, it takes longer to veg but you can really focus the development. with LST you can hope they all grow equally but sometimes, some branches just grow big and some don't and you never know which is which so you end up wasting effort and resources on those that should have just been trimmed off. Based my experiences so far, definitely getting that gravity-based electronic watering timer is a must so you can really have dry soil periods and the P-Scrogs make it so much easier to tuck branches than tying down branches.

LOL I have no idea how they will turn out so we'll have to see next season

Not much buddy, just still learning and trying to get bigger and better grows each season. fingers crossed.

Nice pollination video I wanna try it one day