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Growth rate on par with the DWC?
Hard to tell for sure with autopots having an eight day head start and different varieties. My impression right now is on par or better than dwc. I've never been able to push EC much above 1.4 on dwc. This morning I've got the autopots up to 3.0 and they're loving it.
 
Trifoliate I believe it’s called, may grow out of it, may not. Still, I love finding interesting stuff like that in the garden
I've seen that term used on this and other forums but I don't think it's entirely correct. The definition for trifoliate I found is "a compound leaf having three leaflets". Either way it's going along for the ride.
 
I'm out of my 2x4 in a closet and into my new 4x8 in a spare bedroom. Man, all the room is unbelievable. This my first grow in the new tent started 38 days ago. I added three autopots with straight coco. My plan was to run a side by side comparison grow with the autopots and my old rdwc system. They were all supposed to be the same variety but of course that didn't work out as planned, lol. The two on the left are Mephisto Chem Dogging and the other three are various freebies from Mephisto.

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One of the freebies is some kind of mutant. Instead of two leaves and stems on each node there are three and the leaves are huge. The growth is so dense I can't make heads or tails out of it. I'm hoping when it starts to stretch it'll work its self out.

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So far I'm really loving these autopots. I'm running their EC at 2.8 which is double what I have the rdwc at and it seems like a lot less work.
I'm out of my 2x4 in a closet and into my new 4x8 in a spare bedroom. Man, all the room is unbelievable. This my first grow in the new tent started 38 days ago. I added three autopots with straight coco. My plan was to run a side by side comparison grow with the autopots and my old rdwc system. They were all supposed to be the same variety but of course that didn't work out as planned, lol. The two on the left are Mephisto Chem Dogging and the other three are various freebies from Mephisto.

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One of the freebies is some kind of mutant. Instead of two leaves and stems on each node there are three and the leaves are huge. The growth is so dense I can't make heads or tails out of it. I'm hoping when it starts to stretch it'll work its self out.

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So far I'm really loving these autopots. I'm running their EC at 2.8 which is double what I have the rdwc at and it seems like a lot less work.
Dude, youve really got your setup hopping! Im very interested to see how that turns out with the comparison. The biggest autos ive seen have almost exclusively been grown on Autopots. A few running DWC can pull off a pound plant. But, the Autopots just make it simple apparantly. Im going to buy a couple as soon as i can afford them. Hell, i might just build some replicas and buy their nutes. Im a loyal Mephisto customer, but i have had a couple issues myself with their F1 limited releases. Grape Crush spat out a Photo male and CDLC xHBH was a Hermie. I only ended up with 27 seeds and the bud was great. They give enough freebies that it was ok. Cant wait to see that Chemdogging at harvest time.
 
Hard to tell for sure with autopots having an eight day head start and different varieties. My impression right now is on par or better than dwc. I've never been able to push EC much above 1.4 on dwc. This morning I've got the autopots up to 3.0 and they're loving it.
Really? Using same chems? That’s interesting.. And that’s using straight coco? I always thought coco had to use a lower ec than straight water.. well there you go.
 
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Dude, youve really got your setup hopping! Im very interested to see how that turns out with the comparison. The biggest autos ive seen have almost exclusively been grown on Autopots. A few running DWC can pull off a pound plant. But, the Autopots just make it simple apparantly. Im going to buy a couple as soon as i can afford them. Hell, i might just build some replicas and buy their nutes. Im a loyal Mephisto customer, but i have had a couple issues myself with their F1 limited releases. Grape Crush spat out a Photo male and CDLC xHBH was a Hermie. I only ended up with 27 seeds and the bud was great. They give enough freebies that it was ok. Cant wait to see that Chemdogging at harvest time.
Yeah, I started following autopotamus on instagram when this website went down. He grows some monsters! I pretty much have followed everything he does. 100% Canna Coco bricks with the autopot air base and air dome. I've been pushing the nutes along with lights. The only thing I couldn't quite wrap my head around was feeding seedlings immediately at 2.0 EC while upping the lights. I did go quite bit heavier than usual and it didn't hurt them a bit. He says you have to get maximum growth starting from day one to get pound plus plants.

It wouldn't take much to build your own system because their vacuum aquavalve is what makes it work and they do sell just the valves.

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Yeah, I started following autopotamus on instagram when this website went down. He grows some monsters! I pretty much have followed everything he does. 100% Canna Coco bricks with the autopot air base and air dome. I've been pushing the nutes along with lights. The only thing I couldn't quite wrap my head around was feeding seedlings immediately at 2.0 EC while upping the lights. I did go quite bit heavier than usual and it didn't hurt them a bit. He says you have to get maximum growth starting from day one to get pound plus plants.

It wouldn't take much to build your own system because their vacuum aquavalve is what makes it work and they do sell just the valves.

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Yes.. autopotomus, that was the bloke I mentioned listening to on the podcast a while back. He was claiming big things with auto flowers wasn’t he?
Well, keep the updates coming, I want to hear all about this run.
 
Yeah, I started following autopotamus on instagram when this website went down. He grows some monsters! I pretty much have followed everything he does. 100% Canna Coco bricks with the autopot air base and air dome. I've been pushing the nutes along with lights. The only thing I couldn't quite wrap my head around was feeding seedlings immediately at 2.0 EC while upping the lights. I did go quite bit heavier than usual and it didn't hurt them a bit. He says you have to get maximum growth starting from day one to get pound plus plants.

It wouldn't take much to build your own system because their vacuum aquavalve is what makes it work and they do sell just the valves.

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They are honking along aren’t they? And not a spot of deficiency to be seen.. nice job!
 
Yes.. autopotomus, that was the bloke I mentioned listening to on the podcast a while back. He was claiming big things with auto flowers wasn’t he?
Well, keep the updates coming, I want to hear all about this run.
Yes he is and thank you for the tip! It's opened a lot of new doors for me.

One thing he stresses is that when you start pushing EC you better have some good lights and they better be cranking or you'll burn your plants. Also, you better have your temp and humidity dialed in. I asked him if I could do the same with DWC and he honestly admitted having never grown DWC that he didn't know.
 
Doesnt Autopotamus run CO2? He bubbles air into the medium also if i remember the video i saw. Dude knows his shit. 26zips from a Night Owl strain and Over a pound from the Mephisto Ripley's OG, the strain im harvesting next. Im hoping to get 6-8 zips this time. The Super soil and 7g container has really helped. Im following your progress closely, @marzig. I can see me doing Autopots whether bought or built and if i could reliably get 8+ zips a plant then I would be happy.
 
Doesnt Autopotamus run CO2? He bubbles air into the medium also if i remember the video i saw. Dude knows his shit. 26zips from a Night Owl strain and Over a pound from the Mephisto Ripley's OG, the strain im harvesting next. Im hoping to get 6-8 zips this time. The Super soil and 7g container has really helped. Im following your progress closely, @marzig. I can see me doing Autopots whether bought or built and if i could reliably get 8+ zips a plant then I would be happy.
Yes he ran his last grow with CO2 but his really large plants were grown without. He recommends using the air base and dome with an aquarium air pump. He has a new YouTube channel now and shows his last grow.

I got 13oz of flower and 14g of bubble off the 2 plants from my last CDLC grow. People I shared it with complained it made them too sleepy, lol.
 
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