5x5 Corner-to-Corner Solo Cup Run

Observationist · Mar 16, 2023

Open to some potential and optimization

Mrautopot43 · Mar 16, 2023

Observationist said:
273grams here.
140grams untrimmed left.

Plus the 40grams of shake I've grinded in a coffee a grinder.

Plus the 300grams wet I trashed.
Let's say 20% of that possible dry weight = 60grams

At least around 513grams from the 115 solo cup run

Sorry if I'm missing something here but that's only near on 19 ounces.... From 115 seeds? All hand watered, trained then the work of chopping not to mention the lec bill I'd be crying if I'd got that much after all that time growing.... My grows aren't amazing but I get 30 to 40+oz from 8 plants and that was before I used an autopot system, is this just an experimental budget grow? Don't mean to sound like a noob

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Observationist · Mar 16, 2023

Mrautopot43 said:
Sorry if I'm missing something here but that's only near on 19 ounces.... From 115 seeds? All hand watered, trained then the work of chopping not to mention the lec bill I'd be crying if I'd got that much after all that time growing.... My grows aren't amazing but I get 30 to 40+oz from 8 plants and that was before I used an autopot system, is this just an experimental budget grow? Don't mean to sound like a noob
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It's a LB in 4 months from a solo cup run filled in a 5x5

And nothing was trained?

Mrautopot43 · Mar 16, 2023

Observationist said:
It's a LB in 4 months from a solo cup run filled in a 5x5

And nothing was trained?

Ok sorry I'm new here, to me just seems like a lot of work for little reward that's all, you're probably an expert grower trying something dif and 4 months seems a very long time to me as well..... Been growing for years and still learning due to so many hybrids around now, I always like to try dif/new strains with varied results.... But honestly I'd give up after 4months n 19oz wouldn't be worth my time.... Bud looks good tho

Observationist · Mar 16, 2023

Mrautopot43 said:
Ok sorry I'm new here, to me just seems like a lot of work for little reward that's all, you're probably an expert grower trying something dif and 4 months seems a very long time to me as well..... Been growing for years and still learning due to so many hybrids around now, I always like to try dif/new strains with varied results.... But honestly I'd give up after 4months n 19oz wouldn't be worth my time.... Bud looks good tho

Just pheno hunt and solo cup 80% perlite test

PipeCarver · Mar 17, 2023

Mrautopot43 said:
Ok sorry I'm new here, to me just seems like a lot of work for little reward that's all, you're probably an expert grower trying something dif and 4 months seems a very long time to me as well..... Been growing for years and still learning due to so many hybrids around now, I always like to try dif/new strains with varied results.... But honestly I'd give up after 4months n 19oz wouldn't be worth my time.... Bud looks good tho

You should have been here from the beginning, it was spectacular, never in the history of man kind has 1 person grown so many plants in such a small space and earned the respect of so many while doing it.....This little experiment was a one off to see if it could be done and he was successful. The amount of weight at harvest is impressive and shows that you don't need 10 gallon pots to grow indoors.....OB is the man...no shitting on his parade

Mrautopot43 · Mar 17, 2023

PipeCarver said:
You should have been here from the beginning, it was spectacular, never in the history of man kind has 1 person grown so many plants in such a small space and earned the respect of so many while doing it.....This little experiment was a one off to see if it could be done and he was successful. The amount of weight at harvest is impressive and shows that you don't need 10 gallon pots to grow indoors.....OB is the man...no shitting on his parade

Yeah you're right I should have been but I wasn't, but doing something just to see if you can doesn't mean you should, I started out with 4 plants pulling 15 to 20 in less than 3 months in a small space with HPS just hand watering in 10ltr pots and knew nothing about training, I wasn't shitting on his parade I just didn't get the point to the exercise but like I said I'm new here, so maybe this is genius to you experts out there, I'm just being honest, that weight wouldn't impress me after 4months... I built up over time tried coco for a while which just became a chore, switched to LEDs when I could afford it, now I'm back to soil as I saw no dif in plant size between Coco and soil, and the flavour was off, bought an autopot system, now I sit back relax and watch them grow.... As I said this just seems like a lot of work for little reward, regardless of whether it could be done or not (not making friends here am I )

PipeCarver · Mar 17, 2023

Mrautopot43 said:
Yeah you're right I should have been but I wasn't, but doing something just to see if you can doesn't mean you should, I started out with 4 plants pulling 15 to 20 in less than 3 months in a small space with HPS just hand watering in 10ltr pots and knew nothing about training, I wasn't shitting on his parade I just didn't get the point to the exercise but like I said I'm new here, so maybe this is genius to you experts out there, I'm just being honest, that weight wouldn't impress me after 4months... I built up over time tried coco for a while which just became a chore, switched to LEDs when I could afford it, now I'm back to soil as I saw no dif in plant size between Coco and soil, and the flavour was off, bought an autopot system, now I sit back relax and watch them grow.... As I said this just seems like a lot of work for little reward, regardless of whether it could be done or not (not making friends here am I )

No sweat man, just razzing you. I'm a Promix grower and I just bought a 4 pack of the Auto Pots with their new float valve 5. I'm just about to transplant 1 month old girls into them. I just need to get my drying plants out of the tent they're going into....Post up and let me watch how you do...there's a few of us starting them at the same time....we need an auto pot group thread

Madbud · Mar 17, 2023

I think the point here is that less is more. I like the idea of smaller containers, less can go wrong. Perhaps not 16 oz beer cups but 1 gallon seems more appropriate for quick soil grows than 3’s or 5’s.

Mrautopot43 · Mar 17, 2023

PipeCarver said:
No sweat man, just razzing you. I'm a Promix grower and I just bought a 4 pack of the Auto Pots with their new float valve 5. I'm just about to transplant 1 month old girls into them. I just need to get my drying plants out of the tent they're going into....Post up and let me watch how you do...there's a few of us starting them at the same time....we need an auto pot group thread

Will do, I'll post a pic soon lights come on at 8pm GMT so hour n half

PipeCarver · Mar 17, 2023

Madbud said:
I think the point here is that less is more. I like the idea of smaller containers, less can go wrong. Perhaps not 16 oz beer cups but 1 gallon seems more appropriate for quick soil grows than 3’s or 5’s.

I like the 3 gal,,,,it just seems to be the perfect fit for me with a 1 gallon water / feed need....that dry's every 3-4 days so I get 1 feed and 1 water per week per plant.....5 gal fks me up because its they dry in 4-5 days and only get fed once every 10 days....and they use 1.75 gal water / feed and that means math......lol

Mrautopot43 · Mar 17, 2023

Mrautopot43 said:
Will do, I'll post a pic soon lights come on at 8pm GMT so hour n half

Ok so on the left I have 4 Malibu OG gold by sensi seeds, the one back left is a mighty grape (free seed had it for a few years surprised it popped) by freedom of seeds (never heard of them ) the one in the small pot is an OG, I was gonna kill it as it wasn't doing anything had little mutant leaves but then it started to grow a bit so thought I'd give it a chance, 4 on the right are honey melon haze by sensi seeds, they're all healthy AF but the 4 haze are extremely small, they're day 15 of flower and have barely moved, I made a mistake in my haste to get the grow going of potting up too soon and the soil was too wet when I turned the tank on, so I think that stunted them a lot, I had to turn it off and let them dry out for a week which did the trick, I topped 3 of the haze except the back right as it was the slowest, they didn't respond to that very well at all took a long time to recover, in hindsight I should've stuck with LST, I normally only grow indica Dom strains which handle a beating topping, supercropping and defoliating, everyone has their own take on defoliation I just take away the inner leaves that are covering bud sites but only on decent size healthy plants so I've barely touched the haze as I didn't want to shock them. This is my second auto grow but it's made life a hell of a lot easier. My 1st grow I didn't forgot to fill the bottom of the pots with pebbles so it was just straight canna terra pro which had me worried it would f*CK them since they had no drainage and we're constantly saturated, but strangely it didn't they flourished so I thought why bother this time. I used this nute range 1st time round but only the grow, bloom, boost and dragon force and had the best results I've had in a while this time I'm trying their PK 9/18, foliar spray (twice a week) and zenzyme as it's supposed to help keep the system clean break down dead shit etc. The AN rhino skin is a new additive as well helps with stem strength and increased terp production (apparently) now some may scream most of this is snake oil but so far I've been pretty impressed with their range so thought I'd try the rest.

Observationist · Mar 17, 2023

PipeCarver said:
You should have been here from the beginning, it was spectacular, never in the history of man kind has 1 person grown so many plants in such a small space and earned the respect of so many while doing it.....This little experiment was a one off to see if it could be done and he was successful. The amount of weight at harvest is impressive and shows that you don't need 10 gallon pots to grow indoors.....OB is the man...no shitting on his parade

Ty pipecarver.....taking some down time and seeing about the next grow.

I wanna do it again with racks and double up on the cups, or 420 square pots and setup auto watering but my wife would probably kill me.

I'd need a Quest for sure at that point...

Observationist · Mar 17, 2023

Madbud said:
I think the point here is that less is more. I like the idea of smaller containers, less can go wrong. Perhaps not 16 oz beer cups but 1 gallon seems more appropriate for quick soil grows than 3’s or 5’s.

Yup

Definitely, can get a lot of plant out of a small container.

Goodshit97 · Mar 17, 2023

Observationist said:
Yup

Definitely, can get a lot of plant out of a small container.

I was amazed by the couple of 4 and 5 foot plants you had in solo cups man.

Other dude just jelly he didnt think to do what you did lmao

Observationist · Mar 17, 2023

Goodshit97 said:
I was amazed by the couple of 4 and 5 foot plants you had in solo cups man.

Other dude just jelly he didnt think to do what you did lmao

Crazy right.

I kinda wanna test it with a sativa on drip...maybe get 6feet in a solo or smaller lol.

Pretty much all dried, curing

Need to trim the 140grams.at some point today.

All in all, considering some I've trashed, and grinded all ready, probably got around 500-550 possible grams from this run and that could be optimized and scaled some.

Mrautopot43 · Mar 17, 2023

Goodshit97 said:
I was amazed by the couple of 4 and 5 foot plants you had in solo cups man.

Other dude just jelly he didnt think to do what you did lmao

I love the internet, you can't have a conversational opposing opinion without some illiterate piping up with "dude just jelly" mate if you understood anything of what I was talking about jealousy never once came into it, it was a lack of understanding on my part and more of a wtf for really, I've seen people grow in solo cups but not that many and for so little weight in a 4month grow time, then he explained to me what he was doing, and there's nothing amazing to me about a stripped stretched plant with a few decent buds on the end that's all. You're entertainment value must be very low.... Almost makes me jelly

Observationist · Mar 17, 2023

Mrautopot43 said:
I love the internet, you can't have a conversational opposing opinion without some illiterate piping up with "dude just jelly" mate if you understood anything of what I was talking about jealousy never once came into it, it was a lack of understanding on my part and more of a wtf for really, I've seen people grow in solo cups but not that many and for so little weight in a 4month grow time, then he explained to me what he was doing, and there's nothing amazing to me about a stripped stretched plant with a few decent buds on the end that's all. You're entertainment value must be very low.... Almost makes me jelly

Lol .

It's the condescending tone.

"I get 40 oz off my 4 plants, in the same amount of time or shorter"

Are you vegging for one month and flower for two?

Observationist · Mar 17, 2023

Observationist said:
It's a LB in 4 months from a solo cup run filled in a 5x5

And nothing was trained?

Which is nothing impressive it's the potential and the ground work

Bluebuddha · Mar 17, 2023

It's 100% no doubt ifs ands or buts, the best thread I've followed! Every night I'd log in and follow. You're birthday, shrooms, posts, you're watering woes. All I could think was "this mofo is hard core" and I loved every day of it. The stuff of legends. Keep on keeping on man!

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