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Process planning and organization have dominated the work this week. I have all necessary production materials and equipment as far as I can tell. This is my first indoor grow so I am certain there will be something that goes wrong or that I have missed. I have designed a floor layout in a standard grid using conventional labels, Letters Identify Rows and numbers the position of the pots. for example I have 6 plants in process, each pot is assigned a floor position,
Example:
___A___|__1__|__2__|__3__|
The positions become buckets you can use to log key data points you need or can think of. As I am somewhat obsessive I have spun up a DB , added Batch numbers and ID for the individual, allowing analysis to pretty fine detail. Currently I record, environment data, soil data. Little help, am I missing any key pieces to watch? In your experience what are the best indicators to collect?
What are the most important Data points to collect on an indoor grow to monitor quality?
Can anyone guide me as to how to set up an amateur cannabis testing lab?
@PaxIlluminare keep records of daily temps and rh both during lights on and off
par readings for the lighting used
ph measurements
EC measurements
C02 meter if you use C02
after a few grows you can go back to your collected data and correlate what worked best etc
Watered with feed about 1 gal per pot, Temps and humidity are remaining stable, PH is dead on 7 researching weather to bring it down a few points. Growth is proceeding rapidly stalks seem strong though I have two leaners, Leaves are green and showing no signs of deficiency. Thanks to all who took the time to guide me concerning PH and it's importance. Being a new grower any and all experience shared is a gift, I really appreciate it.
You don't need to PH balance soil, it does it all on its own as its a living medium. You can PH the water if it makes you feel better going in, or maybe required for the fertilizer options you use. Just don't worry about trying to lower the soild PH via your feeding solution. That is not done via the water its done with the amendments put into the soil. Lime for upping PH and sulphur to lower it, when the microorganisms break these items down they influence the PH of soil.
Given you're in containers Don't got below 6.4 when watering and try and keep it under 7.5 as well in the solution your feeding them. Some soils can take a stronger dose of PH down as they have more clay and minerals in it. Keep an eye on the plants and if your noticing PH issues back of the PH down.
Plants should do just fine if you keep at it like this.
Best Of luck!
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My lighting timer went on the fritz and the plants got 24 hours of light before I found the issue. regardless the girls are growing up fast and strong. Nearly 6 inches of growth this week. I am very happy with the progress. Considering when to apply LST this week.
Trouble rears its ugly head, Nutrient def appeared, Stunted leaves with yellow streaks on new growth and older growth tips are yellowing. added Sugar Daddy to feed this week in hopes of correction. Otherwise plants are stretching out, and a the pleasant perfume cannabis has arrived.
Major Thanks and shout out to Growing Grannie https://growdiaries.com/grower/GrowingGrannie for helping me navigate my ignorance and saving my grow. The Auto's are flowering so I switched to 12/12 so the widows will follow. otherwise all is well save some damage to foliage from over feeding. I have discovered my tap water is garbage, the pH from the tap is over 9 and the chlorine is overwhelming. Looking at an RO system to compensate. Also I stumbled upon a rabbit hole that has me wondering how many use music in there grow. I found multiple studies showing benefit from playing music for your plants. The studies I have seen claim classical to show the best results so I have started my Girls on Mozart.
Do you use music in your grow? What styles? have you seen benefit?
I have found multiple studies claiming plants react positively to music. The studies show classical is best so I have started my girls on Mozart.
https://scholar.cu.edu.eg/sites/default/files/redagreen/files/adv
Ahahaha @exbeginner you can't hear megahertz. IT'S HERTZ.
Not MHz.
Have people pushing audio through that band and see ofcomm flying at your door for radio spectrum pollution/ piracy
"One study, conducted in 1962, found that the growth rate of plants can be accelerated when plants are exposed to music. This study found that different types of music, including classical music and raga music, all had an impact on a plant’s growth rate. This particular study found that violin sounds had a stronger effect on plant growth than other types of musical sounds. "
Never take grow advice from stoners.
PaxIlluminare
