Anyone Currently Growing Autos In Two-Litre Bottles?

[TorturedSoul]

Er... The thread title says it all.

 

[HashGirl]

I found these for you:

Reservoir Dog SIP Club (@ReservoirDog )

Pennywise Grows in Pop Bottles (@Pennywise )

Guerrilla Grow (@cannanewb )

KingJoe's Pop Bottle Tip (@KingJoe83

BearsWhoWalk's Recipe for High THC Honeyoil (probably not what you want but it might be interesting) - (@Bearswhowalk)

Comment from Woody re a pop bottle SOG (@NorCaliwood - )

It looks like @B A R grew in 2-liter pop bottles: B A R Grows in Pop Bottles

I have no idea how useful these will be to you. I posted my reply here since it's more relevant here.

I agree with @Carmen Ray , you should try growing in a Solo cup. There are lots of members growing in them.

 

[TorturedSoul]

I found these for you:

You're a peach. Thanks. I've read through some of them, others are new to me.

I agree with @Carmen Ray , you should try growing in a Solo cup. There are lots of members growing in them.

Of all the things I am desperately lacking... vertical space is not one of them. I've had seedlings in Solo cups, "mini mother plants" from time to time, and flowered some photoperiodic clones (either Serious Seeds Simon's Bubble Gum or Chronic, 20-year old memories are foggy) a couple times in them when I was "hot-bunking" two sets of plants under one light and sticking them in cabinets, closets, and galvanized trash cans during the dark half of their days.

But not autoflowering plants. I started to do one for sh!ts and giggles, an unknown breeder's White Widow Auto, IIRC. But I picked it up for something or other when it was midway through flowering, and managed to drop the thing and break it immediately above the first leaves. At which point, I got disgusted and threw it in the trash can. A day or so later, I was about to dump coffee grounds onto it, when I thought, "Why not?" and retrieved it. I repotted it into a green two-liter bottle of soil, and did it the kindness of mostly ignoring it. I was impressed by its resiliency, as it regrew much of its lost structure before reentering the flowering phase... but not by its harvest mass or buzz.

I really don't even want to put any into pop bottles, but at least they have some depth. If I still had a working pH meter, I wouldn't mind - I'd do some "hempy" bottles of perlite/vermiculite, and some with bottom drainage full of coco. I'm not really a soil guy at heart, lol. But I haven't tried to do a hydroponic grow without monitoring pH since... IDK, the late '90s or thereabouts, and those were 20+ gallon DWC reservoirs - with a photoperiodic plant in each - and I knew my water supply, knew my nutrient set, knew the strains, was growing enough at one time that the thought of taking even a big hit to my yield wasn't a big deal... and I still checked pH once in a while, to make sure that the numbers were generally about what previous runs' experience and observation suggested they would be.

These strains are all new to me, the water is "somewhere in the neighborhood" of 8.5 pH, I have only the vaguest guess as to what my likely nutrient mixes will drop it to, I'll be growing in a single space with not a lot of light wattage... and I have the distressing feeling that every gram will be far more precious to me than it used to be.

<SHRUGS> And I'm looking at growing in some factory soil product. I did manage to buy a bag of Fox Farms Happy Frog with most of the remainder of what I had "stolen from my budget" for this little folly. But my mother happened to be with me that day, and she immediately assumed that I purchased it for her . My own fault, that, because I was in the middle of tending to both her existing plants and several new ones that I'd just obtained for her, and her garden supplies consisted of a sack of garbage peat moss soil amendment and... er... well, that's about it. So she's going to have some healthy houseplants and herbs, and I'm looking at scraps for my cannabis, lol.

The funny(?) thing is, I have the nutrients, pH adjusters, containers, aeration equipment, et cetera to do both an active DWC and several passive/hand-watered hydroponic plants. But without a way of checking pH, that almost certainly won't be happening. I expect I'll be shooting at shadows in the dark, and hoping that I don't end up overwhelming the soil's (or "soil's") buffering ability. While also hoping the 100-year old wiring holds up, that I can pay the electric bill, and that the lighting doesn't push the mid-90°s Summer indoor temperatures much past 100°F, of course.

What could go wrong?