Uppotting Autos Jon Style
A Pictorial Step by Step
One More Time for the Uninitiated to Uppotting
Uppotting autos is the same exact thing for me as uppotting photos. The only difference is that with photos I would tend to wait a bit longer and let the roots develop on the wrap around the root ball a little more. I just uppotted the Northern Lights Auto, from a 1 gallon starter pot to a 10 gallon cloth pot. Here it is step by step.
1. Prepped pot, extra medium for topping off, PB week 2 feed, which is the week she’s on.
2. Place plant in center of pot and pile up prepped medium around pot. In the second picture you can see how far above the main pot I place the starter pot.
3. Backfill.
4. Water down the edge of the starter pot so that the hole stays together properly when the starter pot is removed. Tamp down lightly around pot edge.
5. Remove pot, revealing your perfectly sized and ready hole, and sprinkle Great White (or Dynomoco, or whatever myco you choose, and you can also coat the root ball itself when removed from the starter pot and before dropping in hole). This will help your roots take off.
6. Remove plant from starter pot slowly and carefully. Here’s what it looked like when removed. Note that the wrapped around roots are minimal, although these are pretty damn sweet I must say. I could have done this three or four days ago.
7. Drop into hole and finish top/backfill.
8. Water generously but not to runoff right at the seam where the starter pot medium meets the new medium, all around the whole pot.
9. Place in tent! It’s about 6 am here now. I’ll post this plant this afternoon and she will be praying and humming as if it never happened.
I turned off the reds/flower booster on the G8 C3. Full spectrum for veg, no extra reds. The Cherry Pie has had plenty of reds, she can finish out at full spectrum.
I am a big proponent of uppotting autos. It’s just 100x easier to begin them in a small pot, especially in soil, but in coco too. That way you can easily control watering and ensure you don’t over or underwater. Sure, you can start in the final if you like, I’ve done it. But you then have to water much more carefully and accurately for a while and it takes weeks before you can douse the pot. Not so if you uppot. if you uppot, you are effectively giving the plant a real nice boost into the final medium/pot. The rate of growth overall, imho, is better this way than starting in the final container. The chances of gaining a day or three of veg time dramatically improves.
That’s my two cents for what it’s worth. Hope there’s some inexperienced uppotters out there to see this and perhaps gain a little different perspective. Some folks feel serious trepidation about uppotting in general and especially with autos. It’s not necessary. Try it if you haven’t before!
. That double grape double grape is making it obvious that the double part is twice the trichs that the rest of us in the real world (the world not in Jon's tent) get on our weed. 
