Grow medium for gorilla cookies auto

For a hemp hybrid, you are investing too much in soil.

Never layer soils, always mix soil thoroughly. About 10-15% perlite is all you need...........adding 50% is ludicrous, you may as well grow hydro! 5 gallon pots will be fine. Adding some worm casting and 10-15% coco coir may help root growth for autos. Also, the addition of mycorrhizae/beneficial bacteria, volcanic rock dust and kelp meal will really get them motoring. Always water/fertilize the entire pot, ......... this whole concept of watering close to the stem in little circles is wrong on so many levels.........roots will not grow into dry soil! Besides, a plants roots will be twice as deep as the plant is tall and twice as wide also, so watering thimble-fulls near the stem just encourages weak root systems that are localized and not spreading deep and wide to anchor the plant.

hey 👋 I recommend 15L pots if you have enough space, or 11L more reasonably, geotextile in any case, which is sufficient for autoflowers. The soil you’re considering is quite rich; you should cut it with 30 to 50% coco and perlite. In any case, I would go through peat pellets before planting in the pot

LOL Ah, the TL;DR generation that thinks a handful of sentences is a book.. there's the first red flag. Facts.

if someone has difficulties doing something as simple as potting up, they should get a new hobby, lol. Just becasue you can get away with watering a tiny plant in a large pot doesn't mean you should. It results in more difficulties, more risks which will inevitably result in less consistent results. a ton of guides tell us to do the wrong things. Marijuana sites are more a congregation of ideas based on anecdotes rather than any evidence. You end up with groupthink. Some small clique forms an echo-chamger and develops rules and concepts that are mostly whimsical in nature. Cocoforcannabis.com has some of the best guides that don't fall prey to such issues. final pots for autoflower seedings are quantitatively a bad idea. Just introducing risks for no benefit. Ah, the TL;DR generation that thinks a handful of sentences is a book.. there's the first red flag.

I like clay pellets in mine aswel as perlite, if you are going straight into the final pot only feed small rings around the plant till roots are established, making bigger rings coinciding with the plant hight.. Good luck with your first auto..

It seems numbers has written you a novel. What he says is true it is difficult for a novice to water a large pot correctly it is also equally difficult to transplant if you’re a beginner. Do your research. Look at tutorials. Learn how to water correctly and the rest becomes easier.

autoflowers are just plants. I'd strongly suggest resisting the misinformed idea that you should start an autoflower in a large pot. The difficulties and risks of doing so far out-weigh the perceptions that potting up somehow slows a plant down. I have potted up 300-400 some plants or more... not one has stopped growingn from "shock or stress." So, saying something over and over again doesn't make it true. Root zone will develop better if you pot up like every other plant. Watering will be easier. If you can't pot up without molesting the rootball like a chatholic priest left alone with a choir boy, then you should consider planting in its final pot. The negatives of trying to water a tiny plant in a huge put alone are worth avoiding like the plague. Exact constitution of a medium depends on the water capacity. Something that absorbs and retains more water needs ~50% perlite or similar for the best drainage and aeration properties. Something that holds less water per volume, like coco coir, only needs 33% of volume to be perlite or similar. Also, don't make 2 distinct layers. This is an over-sophistication that has more of a chance to cause oddities in your medium than any chance of being beficial. Over-thinking it / over-doing it. if you do add some perlite or vermiculite, etc, then expect to supplement with fertilization sooner than you would have in the past -- assuming familiarity with the products with past grows. as a 'new grower' i strongly suggest doing things in an orthodox way without sophistry involved. Once you have a good feel and confident you can grow anything seed to harvest without issues or headaches, then start trying new things, gimmicks and over-sophsticated setups... less likely to lie to yourself about whether or not they helped and better equipped to properly resolve such things with a baseline expectation of results to compare. Confirmation bias is a prevalent human foible.