What’s up OG. Been a few months since I posted any updates on my grow, figured now is as good of time as ever to start a fresh topic.
I’ve made some changes to the grow over the last few months. For starters I finally managed to build a system to drain my runoff out of my tent to a bucket with sump pump, then pumped outside. This allowed me to finally hook up external high capacity reservoirs and meant I didnt have to fill my old 5gal reservoirs and dump my runoff every other day or even daily as I was doing. This was a huge upgrade and meant I can actually go away on trips and stuff, which I’ve done twice since hooking it up.
Here’s a video of how it all works.
The other big change was switching to larger pots. I admit that over the years I scoffed at a lot of you who said my small 3L pots were too small, and I didn’t think something could truly be “rootbound”. As long as you were getting O2 and nutrients to the roots I thought the only effect of having a small pot was a smaller plant.
Well I still believe that, but the problem I think I’d been having for a long time, is that my roots were getting so thick and dense in the pot, that the water and nutrients werent evenly making it all the way through the pot. I came to this conclusion during my last run, where for the first time ever, all of my plants died prematurely. It wasnt horrible they were only 2 or 3 weeks from harvest but the problem was they grew so damn good, that hardly any water could get through the pot at all. Most would just spill over the top and the rest would just sit in a permanent puddle on the surface of the coco.
For reference, here are some pics of the devastation that occured:
So now I’m trying 2 and 3gal pots which are much much bigger than the 3L pots I was using, and my plants are yet to skip a beat. Usually by this time they are seriously burnt up and spotted, but they may still run into problems as they’re only on day 41 of a suspected 80+.
As usual they are all autos. In the first tent (from left to right) I have one Wedding Cake and one Wedding Cake x GG#4 from @SaintAliasKnife and one Ghost Toof x Sugar Black Rose from @ReikoX.
Some light training, defoliation and tucking along the way. They are all due for another defoliation now that they are in full bloom. Overall pretty happy with the progress.
Currently feeding 3g part A and 3g part B per gallon of MegaCrop 2-Part which works out to 1.6EC over base. I’m thinking of either increasing to 3.5g A/B per gal or introducing some Monster Bloom for the next 2 res changes to help keep their plates full through flower.
In the other tent I have another 3gal plant, a (Red Poison x Cookie Devil) x Dark Spark by @Mr.Sparkle that wasn’t going to fit with the others so it’s going to finish in here alongside 3 new seedlings that are actually the identical strains I’m growing in the other tent. This was by accident as I just picked the strains that I know grow big plants and accidentally picked the same ones I’m already growing. I smoke too much.
Day 1 on the seedlings, day 41 on the RPCDxDS.
Summer is here, how’s everyone been the last few months? Miss chatting with y’all!
, nice improvements, wishing to see your good results … 
, sorry for your injury, did you try one of these?