I watched an interview with the owner of Fastbuds and he said that autos want deeper soil instead of wide soil. So I am going to put that to the test as well as I can
I have a 15 gallon fabric pot with a 7 gallon fabric pot with the bottom cut out of it so the roots could grow through it stacked on top of it. Since I don't have any large diameter bags that are short, I'm going to fill a 7 gal bag about 6" deep and see if that will work for a wider, shallow bed. The control will be in an average sized 5 gallon bag.
9-7-24: started soaking these three lovely seeds
9-8-24: put them into a paper towel
9-9-24: All three popped! Yay! Putting them in rapid rooters
9-10-24, Day 1: today I will be putting them into their final homes, and hopefully my two experiments run well!
9-11-24, Day 2: today I just made sure the soil was moist, especially the biggun. That's gonna be a bitch to keep hydrated..
9-14-24, Day 4: Today I harvested 3 decent sized autos, and moved 2 into the flower room so I cleared out a bit of space, so they got moved to a place that's better for them for light and air flow, and the controllers probes are closer to them. I can't wait until the "22 gallon" pot is big... Genetics and room to grow it could be huge.
9-16-24, Day 6: They are doing good! Gonna start giving them 350ppm bites today. They are looking hungry!
9-17-34, Day 7: This brings an end to week 1, and they are doing very well. Depth of the substrate hasn't seemed to have had an impact on growth.
@Natrona, Thanks! The tying down was a bit hectic to make them not stress out the branches, and I made it to week 7 before #1 had any purple in it ๐