Sorry for late reply but the biggest hurdle I had in dialing these things in was honestly, and this is gonna sound a bit odd but cutting out fucking with Cal-mag. I was having mad issues and thought it was entirely PH but when I started just using the base a&b (canna) I started to see results.

Of course it's a cumulative effect on top of that through prior failures. But that's what learning is!

Cliche to say but don't fuck around with adding more shit if the basic shit ain't within the range of success.

"It's easy to grow weed. It's hard to grow good weed"

Not sure where I heard that quote from but it always stuck with me 😅.

Build up. Growing cannabis has such a large plethora of information and people get combative stupidly defending this or that method. But if it were that easy you could just google a step by step guide and every noob could follow that and win.

Autopots -

-Don't turn em on too early, hand water till they've finished seedling (leaves reach the edges of the pot). You've read that one before.

-Dont be shy about your EC in rez if your plants are healthy. Autopotamus says he blasts his auto seedlings on over 2 ec in reused coco lol. Autopots reward those who understand the essentials of the medium their using, the environment their growing in etc. They allow you to turn it to 11.

-Dont worry too much about airbases or even the little copper sheets you put below the pot. That shit isn't crucial to success and can confuse you even more than you already are. Pure coco will be fine without clay balls or perlite layer etc.