Seedsman Zkittlez Auto first RDWC grow

Wow, I’ve been really lax this time around with updating my diary on a daily basis. I’ll fix that in the next week. Big news this week was that I changed out all the water in my containers as I found a lot of sediment in the bottom of my reservoir. I know where it came from - hydroton. Even though I had rinsed this off - apparently I didn’t do it well enough. I took this opportunity to install my new Bluelab pH controller. This thing works really well so far. During the first week I haven’t seen the pH drift at all. Now it was tricky figuring out the on-time and off-time, but once that’s sorted it’s set and forget. Great device so far. I switched my nutes to the “mild vegetation formula”. I also found this week that one of my 2 lights was not plugged into my timer. This was simply due to me putting it in the grow box too quickly and not double checking I had everything set. So my plants got 24 hours light for a few days. I’ve fixed this now and I don’t think this is an issue, especially with these being autos. Water temp is higher than optimal. It sits at 72 during most of the day and gets to 73 the last couple hours of lights on. I’m running Hydroguard so I don’t think it will be a problem but it is something to keep my eye on. It took me a couple days to get my humidity set right but that seems to be working great now in this new setup. One important thing I want to mention - my PPM result is from the PPM 500 scale. I know people get confused by this reading because of the 2 different scales (500 vs. 700). On the 700 scale my PPM would be 900, and using EC it would be 1.3 EC.