I'm a 70 year old Canadian living close to the Atlantic ocean. I've tried outdoor growing here and the weather just doesn't cooperate for a good finish. Too many cold,wet,damp.foggy days that doesn't burn off and days on end of that leads to the dreaded Bud rot & PM. I went inside about 23 years ago with a 1000w hps....I vegged and flowered under it not knowing any better for a few goes before I went under T5 fluorescent that I;m still using today, ( new tubes & ballasts of course ).
I now have a variety of SpiderFarmer lights and a Burple I'll use for extra light on the edges if needed in a 5x5 tent, I've only been growing for 4 years with any advice and boy did I have a lot wrong. PH? PPM? whats that you say? Humidity % is important? WTF an auto? Light leaks in flower? it can take 10+ weeks for a plant to finish? WTF is a trichome? on and on it goes. lol Before legalization I was too paranoid to look on websites for help for fear the man may track down my address and burn me down for growing 4-5 plants in my basement.
Any ways I came here because I was looking for info on Auto Pots. I'm not sure about the reservoir system and whether I feed light nutes all the time or use the res for water only? and feed once a week? or do I switch out water for food? then switch out food for water? I'm confused....(70 ) The 4 plants I have to put in the new pots are clones from now flowering mothers. I'll take cuttings off the clones to keep the strains I want to keep alive. I've a choice of 2-GG#4, 2- Gelato, 3- AK47/Blackberry & 2- Gsc. I have them all in 3 gal fabric pots.
In my 5x5 tent I've only 3 plants flowering now, I had 5 but on a bad morning about 2 weeks ago I took my cutters to 2 of them and chopped them out. The GG & Gelato were fked a few different reason why I fked them up but I couldn't look at them any longer and they were gone. I'm not in need of half assed weed that I'd stunted & I was also killing off their leaves so instead of growing them out and turning them into oil. I put them in a garbage bag and disposed of them.
I've a bunch of pics on a different computer so I'll update with pics when I can. I'm going to soak my balls today (clay) to lower the ph after watching a couple of Yt vids it recommends I lower the ph, I'll refresh but I think its 5.8? If I only had a working hot tub I'b soaking my own...lol ....(70)
Another little tid bit I'll add is I'm Revegging an auto......yes.......yes I am for those of you that doubt me I have a trail of pics and both mom & a brother from the same batch that I let bloom outside. Shes an odd looking thing but she's ready for transplanting into a 3 gallon pot from the small 3/4 gal shes in. She is around 3 months old from a lower branch I cut off mom 1 week into flower and put it in a 1 gal container of water....I kept topping up the water with feed when I was feeding my vegging plants and after 2 months I saw a root out of the bottom with a bunch of small whit bumps on the stem. I put it in a solo cup with promix and she started to grow slowly now she has 3 blad leaves and I see 5 in behind.......shes growing.....last pics
I now have a variety of SpiderFarmer lights and a Burple I'll use for extra light on the edges if needed in a 5x5 tent, I've only been growing for 4 years with any advice and boy did I have a lot wrong. PH? PPM? whats that you say? Humidity % is important? WTF an auto? Light leaks in flower? it can take 10+ weeks for a plant to finish? WTF is a trichome? on and on it goes. lol Before legalization I was too paranoid to look on websites for help for fear the man may track down my address and burn me down for growing 4-5 plants in my basement.
Any ways I came here because I was looking for info on Auto Pots. I'm not sure about the reservoir system and whether I feed light nutes all the time or use the res for water only? and feed once a week? or do I switch out water for food? then switch out food for water? I'm confused....(70 ) The 4 plants I have to put in the new pots are clones from now flowering mothers. I'll take cuttings off the clones to keep the strains I want to keep alive. I've a choice of 2-GG#4, 2- Gelato, 3- AK47/Blackberry & 2- Gsc. I have them all in 3 gal fabric pots.
In my 5x5 tent I've only 3 plants flowering now, I had 5 but on a bad morning about 2 weeks ago I took my cutters to 2 of them and chopped them out. The GG & Gelato were fked a few different reason why I fked them up but I couldn't look at them any longer and they were gone. I'm not in need of half assed weed that I'd stunted & I was also killing off their leaves so instead of growing them out and turning them into oil. I put them in a garbage bag and disposed of them.
I've a bunch of pics on a different computer so I'll update with pics when I can. I'm going to soak my balls today (clay) to lower the ph after watching a couple of Yt vids it recommends I lower the ph, I'll refresh but I think its 5.8? If I only had a working hot tub I'b soaking my own...lol ....(70)
Another little tid bit I'll add is I'm Revegging an auto......yes.......yes I am for those of you that doubt me I have a trail of pics and both mom & a brother from the same batch that I let bloom outside. Shes an odd looking thing but she's ready for transplanting into a 3 gallon pot from the small 3/4 gal shes in. She is around 3 months old from a lower branch I cut off mom 1 week into flower and put it in a 1 gal container of water....I kept topping up the water with feed when I was feeding my vegging plants and after 2 months I saw a root out of the bottom with a bunch of small whit bumps on the stem. I put it in a solo cup with promix and she started to grow slowly now she has 3 blad leaves and I see 5 in behind.......shes growing.....last pics
