thank you very much!
Hey @SaintAliasKnife. Its been a little bit but just closed on my 1st spot and cannot wait to get started on some real growing.
Hope all is well and things going flawlessly!
Speak with ya soon got more shit to pack.
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CONGRATULATIONS! Iām very happy for you! I was just thinking about you the other day, tried to find your plant in the app. yup, things are going reasonably well. I just pollinated the the 2 young plants. hereās hoping for some interesting a couple of months down the road!!.
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Thank you!
Yeah been a rough few weeks. Had to break down my stealth grow. Couldnāt keep it discreet enough, with people in and out I felt it safer to halt growing until I got out of current situation.
Now just trying to pack and move.
Glad things are well for you. Hope your pollination is fruitful and abundant. Ill be in and out of chat for a few weeks. Have a great Christmas and New year if I dont get a chance to stop before then.
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best of luck with the move. hope its painless. no big deal, nothing that cannot be regrown. peace of mind is priceless. thank you and very much likewise!
The front row is on Jackās ultraviolet fee now.
WC f2 (front left) is largest. Seems the short containers work better in octopot format
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Interesting to noteā¦
Mine are all 2ās at the moment. Wonder how much 1g fabrics would hinder em? Iām comfy with the 2g so farā¦ 3g is a bit large honestly, at least mine here were pushing over the edges a little.
Nice lookin buds ya got there 
Donāt ya just love some color in there, and not all the same looking buds? I love the variety!
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YUP YUP YUP! the back 2 plants are nightowl strains, the one at 1 oclock is positively purple. it is on a 12inch tall container (~2.5gall), same for the 11 oclock plant.
the front 2 are home mage strains. WC f2 on left, WCxGG4 on right. theyāre in 2 gallon pots and are beginning to dwarf the older plants.
Iām thinking 2g is ideal for this platform.
I think Iām gonna try the genuine article next. I have their 6gallon bases with their 6 gallon sleeves and I have some 3gallon smartpots. itās going to be an auto strain and I am trying to decide.
what do you think, 3g or 6g sleeve?
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3gā¦ When I had the black creams in 5g felt pots they didnāt come anywhere near to filling up the pot with roots, lots of āempty dirtā. 2nd run, for seedm was in 3g pots, and they grew just as bigā¦
For autos at least. Photos could veg long enough to take advantage of it. I also think the 3g pot might speed up the autos vs a 5g potā¦
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Mango Sunrise wrapping up day 74. switched to water feed for flush out for another week or twoā¦and because the camera was out anyway.
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LOVE the colors! What a gorgeous looking plant!
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thank you. it grew so tiny, I think it was my fault on that. I have a couple more seeds I want to run it again, I donāt think I did it justice, tbh. hopefully I got a couple of seeds out of her pollinated branch.
Very Beautiful Plants!!!
For what itās worth, here are some 3gal fabric plants that fit nicely on the micro pots. 8" tall by a smidge over 10" diameter when they are packed.
Iām already having post partum anxiety over forsaking my 20-30 gallon super soil pots to walk the Path of the Octopuppy. The appeal is strong and Iām fascinated by the idea of the āTwo Root systemsā one in the rez and the other in the fabric pot. Seems to me that optimizing conditions in each zone should produce the best results, hence a short 3 gal seemed to make sense.
Unfortunately this is all theory since Iām in the middle of a major grow room remodel and, between that and travel plans, I wonāt be able to start anything till late Spring. The soil in the pics has a few sweet pea seeds that Iām popping just for fun.
Iāll be following your ongoing work here, thanks for posting it.
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thatās great. you gonna lve how they grow. I got twitchy because its so low maintenanceā¦nothing to tinker with!
I really think the pot height is important in this format. maybe 8" is the sweet spot. Also, Iām noticing the coco packed netcup work better at keeping the pot moist than the expanded clay filled netpot.
eh, next run will be on 3 gall pots.
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Iām considering whether it would be possible to turn my setup into DIY octopots, personallyā¦ already most of the way there, since I use 10g fabric potato bags in 17g totes. The difficult part, I guess, would be figuring out how the hell to get one of the tote lids to actually support a 10g bag of damp soil above the reservoir rather than just letting the pot sit all the way in the reservoir, which is what I do now. Iām surprised they can even support 3g, but definitely donāt think theyād manage 10. Are there support columns on the Octopot reservoir lid, or something else that Iām not seeing on the pictures people post?
All in theory myself right now too, my grow room is also in a constant state of construction projects. 
But eventually, itās something to work forā¦ maybe, if itās physically possible. I can barely carry one of the 10g pots wet, so I have my doubts about a piece of plastic supporting one for months on end.
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Hi @Cormoran, the octopup kits do come with little vertical supports that attach under the lid. I donāt think most folks use them because they arenāt needed for small pots.
@SaintAliasKnife, I used tightly packed soil in the net pot for my experiment and it is keeping the bottom three inches of the fabric pot damp. I donāt know if that is ābetter,ā but it seems like itās working.
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Ok, probably just included because theyāre part of the original Octopots then. That makes more sense, that was the one missing part of the puzzle on how they worked. I definitely wouldnāt be using an Octopup with 10g pots, theyāre 14" diameter even for the potato bags I use and 18-20" diameter for normal low-profile fabric bags. Probably too big for the regular Octopot system at that point too. As far as the bags, theyāre basically fabric stretched over a metal bracket for stabilization, kind of like a tomato cage but around the medium/root system instead of for the branches? Then cut a hole in the bottom and attach a net pot full of hydroton/coco or any other wicking material?
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Interestingā¦ I did 3 with expanded clay in the netpot, and filled the fabric pot with a mix that would include my own compost and Coast of Maine Stonington blend. No coco, and my pots are just right for moisture levels, even checking with a few moisture meters. I put the provided wick in one netpot, filled with hydroton and soil mix, and THATS the wet one, the alaskan purple in it tells me all the time with its claws that its still too wet. That wick was the ONLY difference, otherwise, same hydroton and soil mix.
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perhaps different media wicks differently, my pots are coco/perlite and no wicks.
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Oh absolutely different materials wick differently! Just think of a pot of compost vs a pot of pure coco. throw a few gallons of water on each, and the compost would weigh 10x more. That ability to āholdā water, can also be used to gauge its wicking ability. I worked in the ornamental pond industry for 10 years, and wicking was a problem considered a leak even though there wasnt a low edge or hole in the liner, putting soil in contact with pond / surrounding ground would wick FAST. If it was mulch it wicked slow. If it was gravel, there was no wicking.
I experimented with the wick ājust becauseā. And I can say for sure, wick+hydroton netcup + stonington would be WAY too wet. hydroton netcup + stonington is just right.
I wondered if packing the netcup with the stonington would be too wet because of its composition. But you and @GrouchyOldMan have packed netcups with coco mixes and that seems to work tooā¦ I think the hydroton helps to slow down the wicking in my case, and would slow it down too much in your caseā¦
Either way, the more notes we share, the easier it will be 
Thereās more than one way to skin a cat after all! Knowing what doesnāt work is just as valuable 
And these things are so cheap, Iām surprised more dont use emā¦
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