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 a lovely Wedding Gelato from RQS. The trio of crosses (Triangle Kush x Animal Mints x Gelato 33) sound amazing and I think she will be the perfect tent compliment to my two Punch Pie’s in my 2 x 4.
I might try some more advanced training on her 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 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 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
Setting up my Airdome:
To ensure proper airflow through the airdomes, and as I did last time I set up my autopots, I took some q-tips and cut the cotton ends off of each side.. Once cut, I threaded each pipe through the q-tips and let it sit for 48-hours to ensure proper time to settle into shape. It works great!
Once I let those sit, I installed them into the airdomes, connected them to their appropriate tubing for the air pump, and placed them under the airbases.
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!
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!
She had both a taproot pop out as well as a little sprout pop out, so she was ready to go!
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 have some fun with this grow!
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Used method
Rockwool Cube
Germination Method
1
Week 1. Vegetation
4d ago
1/5
5.08 cm
Height
24 °C
Day Air Temp
5.8
pH
400 PPM
TDS
60 %
Air Humidity
1.7 liters
Pot Size
121.92 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 2
Tribus Original
0.264 mll
Support 4-0-0
1.057 mll
Aeromatics She has been growing very well under 24 hours of light! Very little water has been needed this week since the coco was very saturated when planted, but I have watered when the coco was dry at about 1/2 inch down from the top and the pots were feeling pretty light. I can start to see the roots peeking out from the bottom holes, so we are likely going to transplant into 1-gallon buffered coco this week!
Here are my waters this week with the following recipe:
In RO water: 4 ml/g Ventana Plant Science Support, 1 ml/g Tribus Original
Day 4: 100 ml
Day 7: 150 ml
It looks like she will need water today or tomorrow (day 10 or 11), and I will add some Ventana Plant Science Grow to that water to start some Veg nutrients. That will be the final water in these small pots before the move to 1-gallon pots!
She will be in a 1 gallon pot for around 1 week to set some solid roots before the move to her final resting spots in the 3.9 gallon Autopot.
She is looking a bit deformed compared to her Punch Pie compatriots, but I think she will grow out of it with care and time. I am not worried at all!
Things are going well heading into week 2!
@OzarkCannaGrower, thank you! I grew photoperiod clones with my father back as a teenager in 2007 with my dad in California before he passed from Cancer in 2011. I took a growing break for awhile after that before getting back into it recently and the world of autos just boomed!
I'm excited to try out what I've learned with these autopots with the forgiveness of photos and try some training too!
