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Autopot have a very specific methodology when it comes to organics within their system. Previously with the old aquavalve it was highly discouraged to use organics but with the new aquavalve5 they developed specifically for organic nutrients. In my opinion I would not use organics with autopots only because I feel like the recommended methodology is quite cumbersome and I got into autopots so I could do less work and not more, but to each their own and if you want to try it out then go for it. Here is the link for the autopot methodology: AutoPot_Growers_Guides_Nutrient_Information.pdf

Ok scratch that, I'm going to leave the organic thing until grow season for my outdoor and greenhouse plants. I decided to go with two 4Pot 25L XL autopot systems and synthetic nutrients, this after getting amazing help and information from a gentleman at Green Thumb Hydroponics, who put up with me and my questions for 3 hours and was so helpful it was ridiculous. Synthetic nutrients is a new field of growing for me, should be interesting.

Great job ^^ I just try to get a picture... 15th Feb you got the clones from @ORGANinc. so the plant is in week 22 Day 5 (your possession, would be curious how long OrganInc it took to get the clone to the point you got it)... I agree that you get a nice harvest from one plant, but 23/24 weeks to finish a grow.. you have 2 harvests a year not including the time to do the clone and grow to the size you got it.

Thanks for the informative replies. Up until now I been using fabric pots, I've considered trying the plastic airpots just for a change, but in both cases I hate dealing with the run off. My idea behind the autopot system (and I havent bought it yet, so still deciding) - was to let the system do water only and any nutrients or compost teas, etc I would hand feed from the top. Looking at the orgasoilux feeding schedule, the nutrients & teas are only given once a week, so I would probably close the valves on the autopots 2 days prior to hand feeding them. Whatever run off there is will go into the tray and the roots should just absorb them up again. I would obviously need to be careful not to overfill it. On the other hand, I can save the R6500 I would pay for the autopot system and just try out these 25L airpots.... choices choices... On the Orgasoilux note, there is something in their nutrient schedule which I am uncertain about. It states: " Fill your watering can with water first before adding and mixing the nutrients (Apply approx. 1L of mixed liquid feed per 20-25L container)" So normally if I was mixing up 20L of nutrients, I would take the per liter value (eg: 2ml/1L) and multiple it by the number of litres in mixing into. So 2ml x 20L = 40ml of solution to be added to the water. From here I would give say 2L of water to each plant. But from reading the above, am I right in understanding that they saying I shouldn't be doing this and I should _only_ be giving each plant in a 25L container only 1L of mixed nutrients at time. This seems like an extremely light nutrient schedule if that's the case, I mean bio bizz is like every single water? Organic Liquid Feeding Program.pdf

I'm currently doing autopots with freedom farm classic and TA pro organic nutrients which is meant to be a organic nutrient for drip systems. I have 15l pots and top fed with plain water for the first 2 weeks until the roots reached the bottom. When I activated the autopots the first res was filled with water only and the plants did not like that at all. I then started feeding with nutrients and it has been going better but the grow took a knock from that first res with just plain water. I will try it again on the next run and do nutrients in the res as soon as I start using the autopots Salts with autopots is definitely easier but I will only make up my mind after the next run

Hey bud, material pots with hand watering for indoor home growers are the way to go. autopots are like niche things. it's something different, it's something new with a group of ride-or-die followers, but nothing will ever beat the old school normal pot with hand water method. you'll be doing autopots for a while and soon find yourself running back to the grow shop for material pots to minimize the headaches. I've seen all kinds of questions surrounding autopots that make me ask, "but why?" so many componenets you never really know where the problem lies. the new aquavalves for organic feeding is nice, but I don't think organic nutrients itself should be mixed and left for more than 24hrs, otherwise you risk cultivating pathogens and unwanted bacteria. also organic nutrients interact with eachother and if left for too long and conditions allow it, you'll be brewing up some unwanted organic chemical reactions aswell causing PH/PPM swings just like with synthetics, since you got a reservoir feeding the autopots, the nutes go into water and not directly into the soil where it would have been buffered down to the right PH, what you got now is a organic situation that you have to measure ph and ppm with, so it's a cool concept, just not practical especially if you going after it to make less work for yourself. instead you'll be making more work for yourself. autopots work best with synthetic nutrients and even then you get build up. I ran synthetics through a big irrigation system. and I mean big.... 9 hectares of irrigation... after a year you cut open pipes and find salt build up. I don't even wana know what the pipes would have looked like if we ran organics. remember there's gona be times where the liquid inside the pipes aren't there, and that doesn't leave you with clean pipes, the residuals stay behind and dries up. this is where build up happens. with all irrigation systems. it's just much worse with organics than with synthetics.