AutoPots are not going to give you the best results possible.. Remo doesn't mention that you have to establish the plants fully & perfectly prior to the system even working. The pots require constant cleaning depending on nutrient solution, enzymes, additives and such.. You're going to end up just spending more money and time in the end from my experience. I would just get bigger pots or use a more water retentive medium if your concerned about having to frequently fertigate/irrigate.
The plants are always going to drink water differently, that is why you will always have to tinker with these things to make sure they are actually working, some plants might barely cycle with these type of systems. For example I had a Gelato that barely drinks at all and this system wouldn't even properly reset for it to thrive like top feeding straight from a 5 gal bucket..
If it sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. Also remember, Remo is a salesman, salesman aren't to be trusted.
The only thing you need to do in the beginning is top feed if your plant is too small to have roots that reach the more moist parts closer to bottom of the pot. You dont need to do this many times, because young plants dont drink too much. So hand water for few times before turning the system on. Its not that hard or complicated thing to do imho.
If you first use rock wool cubes and clones, im pretty sure you could get away with one hand watering before roots are big enough to drink from autopots.
No they dont require constant cleaning. Same as with any pots, clean after use. Or buy new pots if you are too lazy to clean the old ones, they dont cost much more than regular pots(you dont need to buy the whole system). and according to what everyone has told, its ok to clean the pipes after each grow, like with any hydro system. Much less work in my opinion than with most other hydro systems.
You dont need to use enzymes any more than with other hydro systems, actually im pretty sure than enzymes are more important in some other hydro systems than with autopots. Especially considering that you can make a living soil in autopot and build a whole beneficial bacterial life thing in there, which make enzymes on their own and break up dead organic matter. You could even go as far as doing whole living soil in autopot and only need to feed water and then there would definitely be no need for enzymes or any additives or adding anything but water for plants.
It doesent matter how much plant drinks, it gets the amount of water it needs. If it drinks less, then its given water less frequently. These autopots work by opening a valve when the water level drops under certain point. It will keep the soil as wet all the time, because if it tries to dry, more water is given. It doesent matter how often it is filled, it is filled when it is needed to fill. It wont dry up any more or less if a plant drinks more or less.
Remo is a very well respected old timer in the field of cannabis nutes and really knows his thing. If you look at nutrient lines, you wont find many that are at the level of Remo. He posts his own grows to youtube to show how it works(he has chosen to use autopots, even tho he could do what ever he wants, he gave them a go and like them) and if you google what growers thik of his nutes, i doubt you will find much bad things about them.
Yea yea you can grow with some simple cheap nutes or you can make your own and get cheaper, but thats not the point.
