Trying auto-flower as our 3rd grow and it's not going well.

[hoobastank_enthusiast]

I truly think, that for new growers, that have beating their heads against the wall when they run into issues, that potting up is an easy target, a really simple thing to blame the struggle on, meanwhile it’s 50 other things that are really the problem. The myth needs to be crushed. The whole shocking an auto from transplant thing drives me crazy. Unless the grower separated the root ball with a cheese grater, that ain’t the issue.

There's lots of reasons you could shock on transplant, root damage is one of them. But as you say you need to do a considerable amount of actual damage to the root ball as a whole.

Something I think is more common is the incorrect preparation of the target (larger pot's) media. If you have substantial differences in nutrient makeup/composition/pH/EC/WHATEVER, the plant is going to notice and you will be suffering through those problems because.. well that's its home now.

Another reason I like coco over soil is how much easier this is to solve. When I transplant in coco, the target media is buffered in exactly the same nutrient solution I'm feeding the source media; when the plant moves it has no fucking idea because as far as it can tell everything is exactly the same.

The best argument I think anyone can make for transplanting is to just show the results of doing it successfully. This is a day 15 Durban Poison from seed that was transplanted on day 10 from a 1/4 gallon nursery bag to the 1 gallon bag it's in now. Within the first 24 hours after transplant the plant added over 1/2" of vertical growth. It DNGAS. Does not give a shit.

 

[Captspaulding]

Never got in coco, I’m one of them if it ain’t broke don’t fix it kinda dudes. But the benefits you describe sound pretty convenient on the seemless nature of the repotting using that medium. I went from 3/4 gallon to 3 gallon. I run photo though full disclosure.

 

[hoobastank_enthusiast]

Yeah with photos its perfectly fine. To be honest I would probably go straight into 3 gallons more if I was a more patient person lmao. But I am not; I really like to see that explosive growth in the early veg weeks. Also has to do with the fact that I only have space for one plant at a time so I need to move quick. My jump to coco was basically me wanting to learn more hydroponic-based methods without having to dump a ton of money on an actual DWC system lol.

 

[Captspaulding]

Yeah with photos its perfectly fine. To be honest I would probably go straight into 3 gallons more if I was a more patient person lmao. But I am not; I really like to see that explosive growth in the early veg weeks. Also has to do with the fact that I only have space for one plant at a time so I need to move quick. My jump to coco was basically me wanting to learn more hydroponic-based methods without having to dump a ton of money on an actual DWC system lol.

I’m slow rolling this run pretty handily, I’m planning on vegging until 2nd week of Oct, these have been getting topped cropped and lst last 2 weeks, they are 30 days old now, and I’m running them on a hard 20/4 veg, at 750 ppfd right now. I’m pushing them like crazy and they love it. The genetics are absolutely beast. Do you have a grow journal going? Link it if you do, I’d like to follow that grow your talking about…..

 

[Captspaulding]

Yeah with photos its perfectly fine. To be honest I would probably go straight into 3 gallons more if I was a more patient person lmao. But I am not; I really like to see that explosive growth in the early veg weeks. Also has to do with the fact that I only have space for one plant at a time so I need to move quick. My jump to coco was basically me wanting to learn more hydroponic-based methods without having to dump a ton of money on an actual DWC system lol.

More recent pic 30 days old

 

[hoobastank_enthusiast]

I’m slow rolling this run pretty handily, I’m planning on vegging until 2nd week of Oct, these have been getting topped cropped and lst last 2 weeks, they are 30 days old now, and I’m running them on a hard 20/4 veg, at 750 ppfd right now. I’m pushing them like crazy and they love it. The genetics are absolutely beast. Do you have a grow journal going? Link it if you do, I’d like to follow that grow your talking about…..

yes but its one picture a day posted in a random, unrelated thread that I just happen to also be posting in lmao. no I didn't make a dedicated grow journal thread. I journal literally everything I do in a notebook so I can always look back on my data/observations but never really kept any photographic record unless I needed advice on something.

 

[Captspaulding]

Fair enough kind sir, cool shooting the shit with ya!

 

[fishmon]

We followed an exact recipe from a Youtber that had success so I'm not sure.

Does anyone know how to measure light without spending a ton on a tester? One of our biggest issues is light and what strength at what stage.

I've had good results from the photone app. As long as it's calibrated to the light it's measuring its served the purpose so far. Using on any others and results will vary but still better than guessing.

 

[Nuggz23]

The soil has the nutes. But if that soils to hot seedlings won’t like it. I started learning with soil when I first started. Boy did I learn a lot about hot soil. Lol
Haven’t grown the genetics you’re growing. I grow photos . But with how far autos have came . I throw them in the mix every few months . To test them out and see how far they’ve come. I’m currently growing cherry cola by fast buds. Shits looks like it’s going to be fire.

 

[budsofgeorgia]

1 thing i do not get is if you buy hot soil it will burn a plant but i been amending my soil from day one amend the soil sprout the seed then drop it in and that doesn't burn them

 

[Hawk518]

I wish there was a flat out science to this stuff so there wasn't so much guessing and testing.

SO true! I'm a newbie and couldn't agree more with this!!