First mephisto grow

Due to the fact I use an Autopot, I never actually fill in the info on quantity of water. I simply add 5l each weak (or towards the end, 10L) to the res using the cannabis specific feed chart from Hydrosol. It’s quite similar to their tomato one actually - I know a lot of hydro grown commercial tomato growers use it due to it being cheap, easy and relatively quick to prep. Also I like that you can choose your own dilution ratio. So if I double the amount of powder to the same amount of water, it just means that you half the amount you add to the res. Aaaanyway. What a difference a week makes! It’s still slightly droopy but I realised last week that the outtake fan was turned almost all the way off! It wasn’t getting any CO2! So anyway, I found a happy medium between keeping humidity in the tent but also having the extraction fan turned up enough to keep the co2 flowing! It’s still small and dainty atm and so I’ll wait a week or two to start training. I just want it to be in its element before I fimm or top it. Apparently this is a really hardy auto so HST isn’t an issue. On a separate note iv now been testing long enough to actually have been sent some ‘coded’ new genetics - when I say coded, I mean the names are like gy104, ot723 and stuff like that but you can bet one of them will be building off of their newest line - it’s typically how breeders work a lot of the time. Either that or will be similar to one of their strains as it’ll most likely be a cross between two of their own plants. I have asked if I can test some fast flowering photos of theirs too , as I’m currently growing a fast v of a sweet seeds strain and they were the first to realise it was a thing that could be done - take the traits from the fast growing autos and almost breed backwards to how they would normally do it for an auto. This week has been okay - I got a swap out for my medical bud for some orange cake which iv had before and is loveley. I found the Aurora Farm Gas and the Aurora Sourdough to be similar, in effect, and seeing as iv had a few months worth of the farm gas at 27%, I wasn’t upset when they said the farm gas was out but the 29% sourdough has a similar effect - well, it worked last night when I woke up at 3 or was it 2 or was it 4? Who knows? Ha Still, the smell I get when I grind up the stuff I grow, is so much nicer than any med weed -it’s just weak. I don’t want to say fast buds lie about their numbers but It’s notorious that there are wild variations in the lab testing of THC. Everyone raves about mephisto but if the numbers are real then their strongest strain is like 5% stronger than mephisto’s. Comparing what iv grown to the medbud, both of them so far, since I started up again, has been weak and feels like around the 20% mark…considering the medbud has to be fairly accurate with regards to testing, I feel like I have a pretty good grasp on what has what sort of %, so it’ll be interesting to see how this one comes out as they brag about it being 25.5%. Now, okay, yeah it could be the genetics of why I am getting weak flower but tbh I don’t ever remember growing really strong flower and my only successful (as in got it through flower) was way more seed than bud and was around the same strength (the small amount of flower I could get from it). I need to drain the res today and last week I stupidly added 10L instead of 5, forgetting that I am RIGHT at the beginning of the grow and it’s taking up hardly any irrigate if that’s a word; I think people tend to refer to it as nutrient solution though! It’s staying in solution surprisingly well due to the fact that I don’t have a stirrer or air bubbler in the res at all and it’s fine - probably coz I change it weekly (trying not to be too wasteful). The plant will present itself to me when it needs topping - the plant will cry out to me and be in virile growth. Probably by this time next week I’ll have done it- I like to top quite low. So you’ll see in the photographs that I’m using perlite as a ‘mulch’ just coz it holds moisture really well and keeps the media protected. It is pretty annoying though. I wouldn’t mind getting some of them hydroten balls I can never spell it right, maybe I should just refer to them as clay balls - just for the section that sits in the water. If you do it with perlite, it’s too small and it clogs up the AquaValve and it gets stuck can, lead to a leak. It’s annoying - having plain coco there is okay but it just puts a slight sludge on the valve. I think iv said enough for today… uhh! iv got to drain the res and work out the difference in mutes from week to week. Great! Lol