Brix, Buds & Blades: Knifemaker420's Auto Perpetual Garden

[Knifemaker420]

Morning Fam, wondering if anyone can help.
I'm having a discussion about up potting and I'm sure I read somewhere on the forum about someone who starts in small fabric pots and just puts the whole thing pot and all into the larger pot instead of removing the pot. The roots grow through the starter pot into the soil in the larger pot. I'm thinking about trying it as a method to up pot autos without the stress of a traditional transplant.
Thoughts? Does anyone know the journal or thread where I saw this method discussed?
If I remember correctly I believe it may have been @SweetSue or @Amy Gardner but I have terrible short term memory lol
Thanks
Have a knife day

 

[SweetSue]

I’ve done it, but remembering when that happened over the four years would be near impossible.

I started with a one gallon and simply dropped it into the larger pot. It was while I was using the kit, because I remember coating both the hole in the 7 gallon pot and the exterior of the one gallon pot with Roots!

It worked as well as removing the plant from the one gallon pot. Made life easier all the way around, and the small pots wash right up.

 

[Knifemaker420]

I’ve done it, but remembering when that happened over the four years would be near impossible.

I started with a one gallon and simply dropped it into the larger pot. It was while I was using the kit, because I remember coating both the hole in the 7 gallon pot and the exterior of the one gallon pot with Roots!

It worked as well as removing the plant from the one gallon pot. Made life easier all the way around, and the small pots wash right up.

Thanks! I knew I read it somwhere here lol

 

[dr.h00k]

...personally. I don't see any benefit other than less messy...the fabric poses a substantial barrier to pass, and I suspect that there would not be a lot of root activity beyond the original pot...the general consensus has been just start auto's in their final home, whether it be 3's 5's or 7's...if you decide to give it a go, I'll be interested to see the roots post harvest...cheerz... ...knives sell out??...h00k...

 

[Knifemaker420]

...personally. I don't see any benefit other than less messy...the fabric poses a substantial barrier to pass, and I suspect that there would not be a lot of root activity beyond the original pot...the general consensus has been just start auto's in their final home, whether it be 3's 5's or 7's...if you decide to give it a go, I'll be interested to the roots post harvest...cheerz... ...knives sell out??...h00k...

The benefit IMO is in the watering. It is hard to provide the proper wet/dry cycles to young plants in such a large pot. I did up pot my DDA this round and seemd to have had no Ill effects and the M.O.B got planted directly in the 5 gal pot and has been small and slow since it sprouted. I think I will give it a try to see...

 

[Seedlingmtl]

 

[Amy Gardner]

I’ll be curious too see it, too. I actually mentioned that method somewhere just recently so maybe you saw that .

Nice knives you make

 

[Knifemaker420]

While looking for smaller fabric pots to try the double potting thing I stumbled across these.

Same or similar non-woven fabric but much thinner than the fabric pots. At under $20 cdn for 100 of them I figured I'd give them a try.

 

[JCTJ]

Just started reading through your thread, things look great. Count me in, back to reading

 

[Knifemaker420]

What a time to be alive I tell yah. So, Ive been seriously considering the purchase of a rosin press. In my random searchings online I stumbled across an ad on Kijiji for a rosin pressing service. They come to your place, press the rosin and even provide the silicone containers to keep it in. I had an oz of my Northern lights and a quarter oz of zkittles pressed and came away with about 5 g of ooy gooy goodness. 4.6 g of NL and .4g of zkittles. The zkittles didnt put out like the NL did but what I did get is super terpy.

 

[Knifemaker420]

Update

Dark Devil auto day 60 week 3 of flower
Not much to report with DDA she's still plugging along, buds are filling in and she's still super happy in the kit. Did the recharge amendment with ewc on Saturday. On sunday she got watered with 1.5g RO water with 10ml of GI drench and 10 drops of tea. Tonight I did a destress Foliar spray.

M.O.B auto day 33
This one is growing to beat hell. Went from a slow start to blowing the doors off lol. Looking like she's going to be a fast finisher as she's already starting to alternate nodes and showing some budsites. Alot lankier than pretty much all the other plants I've grown but also I did no training with this one at all sinch she was so small untill about a week ago lol
M.O.B also got 1.5g Ro water with 10ml GI drench and 10drops of tea last night. She's now drinking 1.5g a week she also got a destress Foliar spray.

Teenage wedding auto
Dropped the next generation in a shot glass of RO water on sunday night, into paper towel this morning, and was already cracking open this evening. I'll be planting it in Doc's Kit soil, in one of the fabric seedling bags that came last week.

 

[Skybound]

Is that a DHT temp/humidity sensor stuck to the wall?

 

[Knifemaker420]

Is that a DHT temp/humidity sensor stuck to the wall?

It's the sensors for my inkbird controllers. I have one for temperature, and one for humidity. I also have an inkbird bluetooth temp/humidity sensor with an app for my phone so I can monitor the environment remotely get alarms if things get within your pre selected parameters.

 

[Skybound]

It's the sensors for my inkbird controllers. I have one for temperature, and one for humidity. I also have an inkbird bluetooth temp/humidity sensor with an app for my phone so I can monitor the environment remotely get alarms if things get within your pre selected parameters.

Is the Inkbird a programmable device like Arduino or Raspberry Pi?

 

[Knifemaker420]

Yes, you program them with your temperature or rh% and they turn on and off at those settings. Each one has 2 outlets so the trmp ine can run a space heater and an ac unit and the humidity one can run your humidifier and dehumidifier.
Huge help in keeping the environment stable

 

[Skybound]

No, I meant program in the sense that you need to know a programming language, and write code for the device to operate, etc.

 

[Knifemaker420]

Oh, no you just imput the temps/rh% max and min plug in whatever you want controlled and forget it. Easy peasy

 

[weenmeoff]

Knife, everything looks on point in here!

 

[Graytail]

I have to agree. I'd be embarrassed to show you what my veggers look like right now.

Good color, good posture - looks like they're in the groove - at different stages, too.

So, there's nuthin' to do. Makes a guy with a inkbird controller a little crazy, huh?

If you want to push DDA a little, you can double or triple a Growth drench leading up to the Cats ...

If you want to fiddle with the schedule ...

 

[Knifemaker420]

Thanks guys.
Here's an update

DDA day 68
Gave my Dark Devil her second Cat drench tonight. Also starting to notice a tiny bit of frost showing but still next to no smell without touching it. She's got some unhappy looking areas but overall doing good. If these colas fill in good she's gonna be a beast

M.O.B day 41
Pretty sure we're almost done stretching now and looking like she's going to be about the same height as DDA so that worked out lol
Really seems to be focusing more on the bud sites now so should be time to do the recharge soon....? @Duggan

Teenage Wedding Day 01
Dropped the seed into wet paper towel on saturday the 21st but it didn't even crack open until Friday the 27th.
I'm pretty sure I know why I had issues tho. My other seeds I germinated the same way in moist paper towels in ziploc bags on top of my fridge tucked to the back where its dark under the cabinet. In thenspring and summer when I started my other seeds it was nice and warm up there, I put a thermometer up there on thursday evening and it was only 20°c up there. I pulled the baggie down from there put it in a small box and poped it into my tent on top of my light. By friday night the shell had split. There was just the tip of the tap root showing. I placed it in the seedling bag in my DBHBB kit soil on Saturday morning and put it in my tent under a humidity dome. She was just starting to break the surface last night. She's standing up nice and tall now so I took off the dome and have it under the gentle breeze of my air intake