I have 8 autopots and 6 are cut down. I'm going to leave the last 2 alone for the times I want an XL size plant. Or just to keep them and keep comparing small vs large. I don't feel like I have done enough justice to the comparison I had in mind in the first place.@lunarman Did you try the cut down pots this time around?
What medium are you growing in ? it's said that coco and other hydro mediums produce much better results in size so a 8 litre pot with coco/hydro medium is equivalent to a 15 litre when using soil.. 15 litre coco is like 25 soil etc.I have 8 autopots and 6 are cut down. I'm going to leave the last 2 alone for the times I want an XL size plant. Or just to keep them and keep comparing small vs large. I don't feel like I have done enough justice to the comparison I had in mind in the first place.
My medium is based on about 75% coco I'd guess. I have read and looked at grow journals done in coco where the growth rate is very fast in smaller pots. Not sure about yield. There are so many variables from journal to journal too so its pretty hard to say one way or the other. But I saw enough to cut down some of my pots and I have no regrets.What medium are you growing in ? it's said that coco and other hydro mediums produce much better results in size so a 8 litre pot with coco/hydro medium is equivalent to a 15 litre when using soil.. 15 litre coco is like 25 soil etc.
don't know how true this is but I've heard it in a few places..
I asked Autopots if there is a way to tweak the aquavalve to reduce how much standing water is in the tray. You can increase how much water is in the try, but not decrease.Yea if you were having issues that changes things.. I hooked up 4 plants to autopots around 21-22 days in, 3 out of the four were bigger healthier plants, the smaller one didnt drink from the tray for the first few days so I took it back out and hand watered til it got slightly bigger. The autopots seemed to work well but I didn't like how much water mine were constantly sitting in 20mm or so and I didn't get the air stones plus I run all different strains so some prefer stronger feeds than others so the res system doesn't really work out. I might try them again in the future..
What medium are you growing in ? it's said that coco and other hydro mediums produce much better results in size so a 8 litre pot with coco/hydro medium is equivalent to a 15 litre when using soil.. 15 litre coco is like 25 soil etc.
don't know how true this is but I've heard it in a few places..
I asked Autopots if there is a way to tweak the aquavalve to reduce how much standing water is in the tray. You can increase how much water is in the try, but not decrease.
But you can get a similar affect according to them. Just put in hydroton pebbles in the tray to raise the pot up. Or they also have a product called a cocomat that is 1 inch thick and that could work too as in it would raise the pot out of the tray water more. Thereby reducing how much depth of water your roots are sitting in.
I'm going to look at doing this soon.