Spring 2021

6/20 Moved the CDB to the smaller tent with 12/12 light schedule, she has good tops and is in week 8+ going to get her into flowering Still keeping an eye on NL as I am seeing progression with banana growth. Will chop when 100% sure. Making good progress with sensor development. I have a rpi3 running Nerves that is able to communicate with the sensor and get co2_ppm, temp_c and rh readings, I need to get it to lo these and possible pulish them on telemetry or pubsub. Also need to calculate VPD. 6/24 Deep Water / Nutes (week 6) on GSC and Zkittles, (week 4) on CBD and White Widow Did 1/2 lt each till got a little runoff from bottom of fabric pots, may have been underwatering them. Flowering girls are looking good. White widow is looking good as well 6/25 Deep Water / Nutes did wonders. I am learning as I work through this grow and I think I have been underwatering them in fear of overwatering. They each received 1/2 liter until they dripped out the bottom just slightly. Today they look so much better, like they should look. I need to get better at reading the signs and watering more as they grow. I am also still in work on the Nerves sensor setup, got the c02, temp, humidity, altitude, barometric pressure sensors reporting data, I need to get the lux sensor programmed in and then get it reporting to a FluxDB instance for long term storage. I also need to get the interface to be a bit better and have input for the leaf temperature offset. No sex on the CBD yet, I am hoping girl but after the NL popped bananas and I see how the cbd is looking similar in growth and leaves. I hope to sex her soon, if male then I can shut that whole tent down and start with something else. I am researching more organic methods of growing, I am realizing the not all the FF stuff is organic, I thought it was but there are some of them that do not seem much different from general hydro's stuff, grow big and big bloom especially. I would like to replace them with dry amendments to the soil that would be easier and more organic. Also learned about Saponin which gives the water a little bit of a soapy foam and it will make the peat (OF) less hydrophobic and ensure no dry pockets when watering. I will be getting some of this and using it every watering. The new fem photo Aurora Indica popped up this a.m. she is a sed form 2019 that I feel like I need to use before my stock gets old. I have gotten excited about the new stuff coming in but need to grow through the old stuff first. I hope she grows good. I did a 50/50 OF/HP from fox farms. I dug out a little seedling container worth and put organic seed starter that uses coco coir in the center were I germed the seed. I am hopping that may help with the issue I saw last time with the 2 seedlings I lost. Although I am not sure what that issue was exactly. I had a big fungus gnat problem and I did not have proper domes so it may be that instead of soil hottness. 🤷 I got a 3x4 tent in the other day with a sf1000 light and a 6in 200cfm fan. I am not sure which tent I will be using for what this season but eventually that should be the clone / mother tent I think. I need to dry in one of the tents as well, not sure if the 2X4 of the 3X3 section of the 3X4 would be better. For the autos they are pretty short so most likely the 2X4 which is shorter would be fine.