Auto Flower Perpetual Redundancy Part 3

Week 2 Update Getting amazingly great growth out of these girls so far. Running 2 Exhale XL bags is really helping increase my Co2 levels. Indica shaped leaves are pretty good sized I'm guessing these will be hungry plants. I'm using only Canna Biorhizotonic and Mammoth P every other watering. Keeping watering to a bare minimum every 4th day once the surface of the pots is dry a couple of inches deep and only watering to moisten the top of the pots. Since I pre-moisten my soil mixture before I pot them up I know there is plenty of moisture that has wicked down deeper in the pots. Very impressed so far with Ethos auto flower genetics.👍👍 TIP OF THE WEEK Exhale Co2 Bags Most growers understand the benefits of adding extra Co2 to your grow space including increasing the growth and harvest potential of your plants. If you’re in doubt compare my first 4 weeks of Autoflower growth to your own grows to see if your plants could benefit from some additional Co2. For a typical 2-foot by 4-foot tent one XL bag should be enough for additional Co2 for 6 to 8 plants of modest size. I personally have been running Exhale bags for some time in my tents and have actually increased to running 2-XL Exhale bags per tent and pretty consistently getting Co2 levels into the 1500ppm range when the lights are on. I’m running 2 bags because I am in a warmer climate where excess heat building up in my tents can be an issue especially during the bloom phase, so my exhaust fans are running continuously. You will find that the Co2 ramps up when your lights come on over a few hours and then goes down when your lights go off. Since plants don’t consume Co2 at night this doesn’t present an issue and is completely natural. My system is pretty simple I have 4 XL Exhale bags they last about 6 -7+ months before they slowly get burned out. When you get a fresh bag it’s basically sterile then injected with a spore print with a specific type of mycelium. This mycelium spreads and fully colonizes the substrate and produces Co2. This process takes a few weeks before full Co2 production ramps up. To compensate for this, I order a new bag every 3 months and continuously rotate them out. While the Original size Exhale bag would be fine for a small grow, I recommend the XL Bag in other words go big or go home type of mentality. The third option is the Exhale 365 which comes with a mycelium colony inside the bag which is separated from the substrate which you release inside the bag when you’re ready to colonize the entire bag. Just keep in mind it will take longer for the mycelium to fully colonize the substrate and start producing enough Co2 to be beneficial to your plants. I’ve looked into buying the supplies to try to make and colonize my own bags but to be realistic it would cost just as much to buy them direct from the manufacturer. In the USA I’ve found Arbico Organics is a reliable distributor for Exhale bags at a reasonable price. They take your order then the manufacturer themselves send you a “Fresh Bag” not some bag that’s been sitting in some hydro-shop for a month or 2. Exhale bags are also available in Canada and the EU which makes for a great distribution range for the product. So go check them out a give them a try. https://www.arbico-organics.com/ https://www.exhaleco2bags.com/