Got blockberry and Halle Berry pruned and trained. I’m super impressed with their growth already for being so small when I put them into flower. I’m going to try to maximize production for these 2 plants so we get a nice sample of what they have to offer. Thanks again @Crafty_Flame!
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Flower tent is now on cruise control. What a pain to set up, but so nice once it is set up. I’ll still hand water every 1-2 weeks just to give them a nice soaking.
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Very nice brother. I have a kit I bought eventually I will set up when I’m done with a couple projects so I can just grow some these beans I’ve got. Flora flex kit 5 gal pots x 8 , matrix irrigation, with a plan to automate it. drain platforms ,55 gal drum reservoir , WiFi water quality probe setup. Lol. , 90% of what I need to set it up, most of which is just plumbing , setup Area will have to be figured first. It will take up a 4x8 area. So the space to set it up right now not gonna happen 
. Eventually I will be on auto pilot 
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I really dig the blumats for my style, the plants really seem to enjoy a more constant light saturation of the soil and I don’t have to mess with watering them often.
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That’s what I’m looking forward to. Filling buckets is a pain. Just have to adapt to coco
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I was telling @Crafty_Flame last night, again for the 1000th time, I want to start to play with coco, but it’s hard to give up running organic when I have a watering system and a ton of free inputs. Hard to walk away from that.
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My brother runs coco and does drain to waste. He is licensed commercial and one of the smalller ops. But his focus is on quality. I see his grows and like damn!!! And it will be 100
Plants that way. lol
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I figure you could run Blumats with coco if you used big enough pots. My problems were from trying to use them in tiny coco cubes that only held like a 1/2 gallon. The coco dried super fast, so it was really hard to dial them in.
With that said if your setup is working, then there’s no need to change unless you really want the challenge yourself.
With that also said, you have enough carrots to setup a little system big enough to run a couple plants in coco while you also run a soil. That would be a cool experiment.
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The problem with testing that way is feeding.
Well I guess I could set up a 5 gal bucket and a small pump as the res.
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It takes some time. Measuring output at different durations and figuring how quick the coco dries out in your environment and setting the water schedule up, to water accordingly. my brothers was feed everytime , nutes mixed 55 gallon drums and fed off those
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Alright. What prebuffered coco am I getting and what nutes?
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Mother Earth coco is what been recommended to me
My clones in clone tent( FPOG ) are in it
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How about this?
Coco Coir Perlite Mix Premium Pure Blend 70/30 RHP Certified Pre Buffered 9 Quarts /10 Liter / 2.6 Gallon Organic Coconut Coir Fiber Indoor Outdoor Flower/Vegetable Garden Plant Potting Soil https://a.co/d/dF4kVOT
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There would be some expenses. You would need PH and EC pens, bottles of PH up and down, and a few little bags of nutrients, and coco.
Canna Coco 100%. If you can get bags instead bricks it makes life a lot easier. Also Canna Coco AB nutrients are really good and easy to use. Most people are using powdered nutrients these days, but I would get into that if you decide you want to switch over. I had years of great grows using Canna’s coco and nutrients, and am constantly tempted to go back.
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I wouldn’t use perlite with blumats.
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Just straight coco? I have a blue labs ph pen. I have an ec pen but it’s not great.
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2 days late but yes! And yes. And yes. Element specifically I’ve noticed robs flavor. I don’t know what it is, but I swore them off years ago for this exact reason. Hadn’t even really thought of them til you brought them up. How funny. Big yes from me.
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I always used straight coco. I used a bunch of different sized pots, but I found 3 gallons were the best. They were all fabric pots, but those net pots that BK started using seem pretty ideal. I’m not sure which size. I think his were 8" or 10".
I’ve been thinking about buying 6" net pots that would fit inside of my
current trays and run coco instead of rockwool. That way I wouldn’t have to switch up my drainage system and go back to either flood trays or individual saucers.
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That’s crazy they’ve grown that much. Can’t wait to see the colors you get
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I’m going to drop the light tonight and we should see them take off even more.
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