Week 1
💤| 🌡️19.43°C/66.97°F 💦 62.21% 🍃 0.84kPa
💡 | 🌡️24.91°C/76.85°F 💦 43.57% 🍃 1.75kPa
Borrowed a pretty nice camera from a friend this week to take my photo game to the next level, not that I know how to properly use it yet. I had to edit the photos because they turned out a bit overexposed due to the grow light, but I did my best to make the colours as true to life as possible.
My pH and TDS meters arrived but seem faulty, guess I'll need to get better equipment. I might just see how things go for this grow before I splurge on more stuff.
Something I noticed this week was that the stems of the leaves are a bit purple. After digging around a bit, I thought it might be due to a phosphorous deficiency. But after checking out a few other Critical Orange Punch diaries here, I saw the same thing, so I'm guessing it's just genetics (Critical X (Grandaddy Purps X Orange Bud)).
Also, I forgot to measure the plants at the end of this week and the next. I'll start tracking height at the end of week 3 😅
2023-04-06 - Day 8
💤| 🌡️19.96°C/67.92°F 💦 60.20% 🍃 0.89kPa
💡 | 🌡️24.89°C/76.81°F 💦 40.90% 🍃 1.82kPa
- Removed the domes in the morning; little water droplets formed on the leaves
2023-04-07 - Day 9
💤| 🌡️18.65°C/65.57°F 💦 63.22% 🍃 0.78kPa
💡 | 🌡️24.53°C/76.16°F 💦 40.19% 🍃 1.79kPa
- Leaves have a yellow outline along the edges, possibly due to dry soil
2023-04-08 - Day 10
💤| 🌡️18.60°C/65.49°F 💦 65.06% 🍃 0.73kPa
💡 | 🌡️24.03°C/75.26°F 💦 63.82% 🍃 1.05kPa
- Gave them some water (~1L) as the soil was dry and the leaves were starting to turn yellow along the edges
2023-04-09 - Day 11
💤| 🌡️19.58°C/67.24°F 💦 66.87% 🍃 0.74kPa
💡 | 🌡️24.78°C/76.60°F 💦 44.63% 🍃 1.68kPa
- Leaves don't look to be yellow anymore, so I'm guessing it was a lack of water that was causing the discolouring
2023-04-10 - Day 12
💤| 🌡️19.73°C/67.51°F 💦 65.73% 🍃 0.76kPa
💡 | 🌡️24.79°C/76.63°F 💦 41.18% 🍃 1.80kPa
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2023-04-11 - Day 13
💤| 🌡️19.26°C/66.67°F 💦 62.84% 🍃 0.81kPa
💡 | 🌡️25.50°C/77.90°F 💦 37.19% 🍃 2.02kPa
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2023-04-12 - Day 14
💤| 🌡️20.21°C/68.37°F 💦 51.54% 🍃 1.12kPa
💡 | 🌡️25.87°C/78.56°F 💦 37.06% 🍃 2.07kPa
- First set of fan leaves are here 🤩
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💤 = Lights Off, 💡 = Lights On |🌡️= Temp, 💦 = RH, 🍃 = VPD
I highly recommend an Elitech RC-4HC if you want to start making use of the logger data. It costs about 25 USD and is well worth it.
I just upgraded to a couple of RCW-800WIFI loggers. No more manually pulling data - all cloud upload. Elitech mostly does commercial cold chain monitoring so their cloud product is actually a good buy. I paid around 22 USD to upgrade access to cloud based graphs (free CSV download without the graphs). Adding my second RCW-800WIFI cost NOTHING.
You can check Week5 of my current diary for a screenshot of the cloud platform. One thing to note is that I actually make my own graphs using google sheets since I now have custom graphs for the following: Optimal VPD, Temps, RH%, "lights off" times have been added to these graphs, and most recently I have been comparing my lung room logs, my tent logs, and imported weather temps as well. I have screenshots of the homemade graphs in Week10 of my current "Let's Do Some LST"diary.
@NegotiatedBubble, thanks so much for all the info! I'll definitely look into these loggers, not having to manually pull data would be nice lol. Eventually the plan is to build an Arduino based system that I can add and remove sensors to as I need, host all the data on my local network, and build out a simple desktop app for monitoring. That's pretty far off though, so these may be a good solution in the meantime, or at least a source of inspiration ✨