Starting week 2.
Reduced the light now to 20 hours for the early seedling stages.
She still gets only water.
Growing slowly... added shot 3 for this week
I am growing a bit impatient... Grow fast... How are you going to become a big girl?
I decided to add some more light to my box. My 12V Power supply is currently running only the fan. It is rated at 20 W, so i decided to add some side LEDs on top. The Fan is drawing about 2 W so i have 18 W left over. With 15W/M my LED strips allow me to add 4" or 1,2 M of them. They are warm white 5050 LED with around 2700K or so.
Ok, Snack time... I started to give them some nutes... Lets see if it makes a difference :)
The only issue is that i wanted to run my fan non stop and my light on a timer... I might have to finally build my arduino contraption into the box ;) - BUT There is a stupid loose connection somewhere on the board and it messes with my display. Annoying :(
Should i add some nutrients slowly? - Answer was yes the Master ;) - so added some
Upgraded my Mars with a more silent fan since i still had one around. Only drawback... Changed the airflow from push to pull... Monitoring if that impacts anything.
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5 0408 added side lightning (~18 W worth of LED Strips), Daily plant shot added..., started to add nutients
6 0409 Swapped the fan for the Mars for a more silent arctic cooling one. I think the color looks better
7 0410 last shot for this week added...
Its a mars-Hydro-300 and its about 40 cm away
This is one of their older lights (~130 true W) with 60 X 5 W LED...
and I have a few W side lightning (~25 total)
I upgraded my bucket with a 14W LED beamer I found in the basement ;)Its perfect for Veg since it has a 6500K and when checked with my Power meter it actually consumed 14 W of light. So now my seedling(s) (I am a bad dad... I only grant the healthy girl direct access to the light... Lets see if she can take it or if I have to move her away a bit...) get an extra dose of light from the side in order to better Veg.
I love it how you just jumped in there and kept going. Small typo: In week 8 you have written the length in inches instead of cm, or your plant shrunk 20 cm's :D.
not enough oxygen in the water and water temp is probably too high you need calmag to also bring ph down 5.8 i like a little drift so i start res at 5.6 and let it go 6.0 the knock it back to 5.8
@thrashordie, the small harvest applied to the 3 popcorn buds only...
But the total harvest could have been a bit bigger, since I could have waited a week...(which I could not due travel). She had some nice roots going in the end ;)
Looks like it turned out pretty great 😀. Patience is always tough but I guess that's part of the learning process. Good luck on your next grow! I just started my second quick one as well.
Hello my old friend!
I have only one note to you.
After the second week of vegetation,
Hydro-Grow should be used. ?
Please do not be angry.
It must be a technical error.
Be alive and healthy!