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P 14%
Photoperiod
100%
Indoor
100%
Breeder preferred:
Barney's Farm
others
100%
Light preferred:
Migro
others
75%
Nutrient preferred:
Athena
BioBizz
others
100%
Grow Tent preferred:
Homebox Original
others

@Smalltentgrower, Thanks mate! Warming words, love it!๐Ÿ˜ŠYeah they stretched quite a lot, but since its only a single phenotype from 1 bean only it may be an outlier ๐Ÿ˜Œ Autopots are definitively a great system. But youยดll have to mix the right structure of substrate for them to work nicely, had a lot of overwatering issues in the first runs as the water level never really drops to 0 as long as the reservoir is kept filled. I use 50/50 Coco/Perlite right now with a layer of clay pebbles at the bottom, but with soil its a bit more complicated. Run a big part of aeration ingredients like rice hulls or perlite. Since the plants wont have any water deficiency issues when using Autopots, you wont need as much of water holding capacity in your substrate and a quicker dryback is desirable. Make sure to not start bottom watering before you find the substrate more or less fully rooted to avoid anoxic conditions and I really recommend running them with airdomes (Its an Autopot product but I 3D-printed mine and use them with aqaurium bubble stones during lights on period). With those you can actively oxygenate the part thats often submerged in water. Just my learnings of a full year, summed up in too long of a comment LOL. Hope I could help you with some of it๐Ÿ˜œ I think I have it on the final spurt now with the carbon filter placed at the tent bottom, now they have a little more room to the lights ๐Ÿ˜ Next run I will try the tray2grow module by Autopot together with a drip irrigation setup and rockwool cubes on slabs.