Auto in soil grow
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Budzbuddha
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If you are using good soil , it wont matter.
HighLowGrow
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Looks like this thread is over.
No I'm still waiting for a relevant response to my question. What budzbuddha said is irrelevant to my question, all soil types should read in a certain range corresponding with my question. Good or bad soil. But I am using FFOF
Tankado78
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Hey Budlove93!
I'm pretty new to this myself, but I never paid much if any attention to the run off. If anything at all, I pay more attention to what's going in on the ppm levels. If you don't mind me asking, what's your ppm as you put it in? Was your soil new when you started your grow? What's your nutrient at this point if any? I'm just genuinely interested n if possible, help ya out. Don't know Budz personally, but I have gotten good advice from his post n don't think he/she was trying to abrasive.
Tank78
Marijuana Mercenary
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I will try to help but not much experience in soil. I believe no one can answer your question because most auto growers do not test runoff?
I think Budz was trying to say let your soil feed the plant and do not worry about ppm runoffs like you would if you had to use nutrients.
Autos do not need much nutrients for safe growth. Most commercial soils I have seen seem to feed them up to the point of solid bud development. This is usually week 6 for heavy nutrient soils and I was getting to week 5 with Happy Frog when I grew with soil.
I hear FFOF is a little hotter, could probably last until week 6. Good luck, got a journal?
I think Budz was trying to say let your soil feed the plant and do not worry about ppm runoffs like you would if you had to use nutrients.
Autos do not need much nutrients for safe growth. Most commercial soils I have seen seem to feed them up to the point of solid bud development. This is usually week 6 for heavy nutrient soils and I was getting to week 5 with Happy Frog when I grew with soil.
I hear FFOF is a little hotter, could probably last until week 6. Good luck, got a journal?
westbmorekush
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I'm going to start my first multi-auto-flower soon. About 4 different strains; nothing big just trying to get some of these autos out of my bank.
Chem dog
Blue dream
Grizzly purple
White widow
Cbd sugar gom a couple more I can't remember.
If I don't fly imma die anyway
Chem dog
Blue dream
Grizzly purple
White widow
Cbd sugar gom a couple more I can't remember.
If I don't fly imma die anyway
Just Let Me Be Faded
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Tim Fox
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FFOF is ph buffered and stays very well in the zone, I never ph my run off when using ffof,,
and yes ffof is good for an easy 6 weeks ,, and even then i would only ad organics ,, such as brewed teas, or a product such as Fox Farms Big Bloom which is organic and doesnt burn the plants,,
Budzbuddha
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Exactly as stated .... Premium soil like FFOF is buffered ( oyster shells ) and will not need to be necessarily checked in runoff . It balances between 6.3 to 6.8 when i first presoaked a container i planned to use in a few days later. I never check during the grow. If see any issues .... I keep CalMag on call if needed. You will find autos start to tap out before , at or around 90 days with some running a little longer. So It will remain pretty viable up to week 6 ( therefore a little hot for some seedlings ) and just " feed " water only up week 6 when i flip then begin its BLOOM feed. Sometimes i just top dress a little " fruit and Veg dry fert on top before a watering and that works fine too.
Just add PH controlled water ( 6.5 ) and let the AUTOS do their thing .... They are preprogrammed in size and preflower trigger. No need to bother with runoff , besides overwatering AUTOS stress them .
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A.K.A. Overgrowem
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Been doing 2/3 plants at a time in soil 4 a while. Never tested ppm in run off. test ph of run off at start. Knowing Ph and PPM at watering and adding this and that occasionally is all I've needed to get good results.