2020-01-08, Day 5 since breaking the surface: After finding my plants pretty much dried out, and one root baking in the (artificial) sun, i decided that moving them to the buckets will probably keep them much better hydrated than me checking too little / too often and generally doing it wrong.
2020-01-09, Day 6: The system has been pretty stable, but the water temperature has risen to ~24°C, so i added a DIY chiller made from Peltier elements and CPU coolers. The temperature is now dropping at ~1°C per hour, set to be kept at or below 20°C.
2020-01-10, Day 7: It looks they have fully recovered from the transplanting. If you look closely, you can see the first fan leaves starting to emerge.
2020-01-11, Day 8: The roots have popped through the Hydroton and are now touching the nutrient solution. There hasn't been much progress up top, but i'm expecting this to change from now on.
2020-01-12, Day 9: The roots are now deeply immersed in the nutrient solution, and the first pair of leaves is growing noticeably.
2020-01-13, Day 10: The first pair(s) of leaves is growing nicely. It's gonna be 3 fingers each, as it seems. The DIY Peltier Chiller was replaced by a Hailea Ultra Titan 150 (HC130), which drops the reservoir temperature by 1°C in ~15 minutes.
2020-01-14, Day 11: The right plant is developing its roots and leaves quite a bit more vigorous, i'm hoping that the left plant keeps up. CalMag has been added to get to 1.5ml/l.
Nice set-up and hope it goes well on this one mate. I also tend to kick-off at EC 0.9 in terms of feed strength - I think it's a good level to start from in a grow. 👌