Punch Pie x 2 - Ready for a Knockout!

Aeromatics Plan for the grow: My autoflower autopot grow went great (see Northern Lights Auto and Pink Kush Auto 30:1 Auto Diaries), so I want to take what I learned from that grow and try out some photoperiods! For this diary, I will be featuring two Punch Pies from RQS x Tyson. The blend sounds amazing and the pain management effects are exactly what I am looking for! I might try some more advanced training on these given photoperiods are much more resilient than autos and have time to recover, and the autopots and coco can clearly produce some solid recovery… but we will see! I plan on doing two transplants. I’d like to go from 1.7 pints to 1 g the final 3.9 gallon autopots, using mykos at each step of the way to encourage growth. I doubt they will stay in 1 gallon for long, maybe less than a week. Nutrients will of course be different too, a much higher ec as we get closer to 2.0 at some points during the grow. It’s all one big experiment with these, given my first photos! Additionally, given I’m making the full switch to autopots for both my tents, I am going to move to Reverse Osmosis instead of distilled water. I’ll start off with 0 ec water for each reservoir fill and add what I need! Here are my specifics for the autopots: Autopot XL Geopot 3.9 Gallon System Autopot Airdomes Autopot Airbases 12.4 Gallon Reservoir (shared between 3 autopots) HITOP 10W Powerful Aquarium Air Pump: 4-Outlets 320GPH Coco Coir Preparation Process: For this photoperiod autopot round, I am going to run a bit higher of a ratio than my previous first run with coco and do an 80/20 coco/perlite ratio. I want to eventually get the courage to push to 90, and I will do that for my 6.6 gallon autoflowers that I am preparing, but let’s try an 80 for these photos and see how they do for this run! My preparations for the coco went well and I don’t think I am going to mess with it! Here is my process: Soak for 4 hours and rinse coco in/with RO water and drain well Repeat Soak for 4 hours and rinse with RO water Buffer with 1 ec solution (Ventana Plant Science Support), soak for 24 hours and drain Buffer again with 1.2 ec solution (Ventana Plant Science Support and Grow), soak for 24 hours and drain. I buffered around a gallon of coco for this first batch of photoperiods and filled 2 1.7 liter pots to get ready to received the 2 germinated organiplugs with some Punch Pie seedlings! I'll follow this same process as I buffer the coco for each transplant, and I might increase the ec for each buffer. That would be part of the "experiment" that I need to research. If you all have any experience there, let me know in the comments! Germination: I’ve been using Organiplugs for all my germination for my last 20+ seeds, and I am not going back to any previous system. All you do is: insert the seed, place into a germination cube holder, place in a ziplock back, wrap it up in a towl, place it in a tent, and wait for her to sprout! I don’t have to worry about anything really, and it almost protects the seed from any real concerns from the seedling/sprouting process. Once she is sprouted (either I see a taproot, or the sprout actually pops out of the hole, or both!), I placed her about ¾ of the way down into the coco. In the coco hole, I added some Xtreme Mykos to encourage root development, one of my favorite reasons to use organiplugs! One sprout is looking just a bit perkier than the other, that is because she popped a day before. They will catch-up eventually! In terms of watering, the coco was pretty saturated going into this first week of planting, so I may not have to water. But if I do, I will be sure to make note of it during my week 1 post. This is going to be another fun experiment, but with my previous success in autopots, I can’t wait to get knocked out with some Punch Pie!