Hello and welcome to week 3 of this Diary ππΌ,
Last week I had a little mess while transplanting but the girls seem to be thriving. Itβs day 12 since they came out and iβm impressed how they are growing already with low humidity and a DLI of around 25 so i think theyβve arrived at the Vegetationsphase. I would love to push them harder but I donβt have a real CO2 system in place. You see, my lamp gets really hot at 100% and Plants have something called βphotorespirationβ when the leaves get too hot. They confuse CO2 with oxigen and use up energy whith the wrong βgasβ. So the optimal temperature shifts when C02 ist added. Not to mention you get up to 30% more yield. I already got some things from amazon delivered to me next week so if you want to follow along you can see me attempt to put it in place and hopefully make it work. Iβm planing to make the whole growspace airtight (but still excesseble) and build my own coolingsystem and dehydration system WIHTHOUT getting new air in to prevent the CO2 from comming out. I think I will finish it by friday and post an update.
I will keep it short this time and hope you have a great day, growmies ππ»
Update: the Co2 system is in place and it seems that just by making the space Air tight, the CO2 bag in it is enough to highten the CO2 in the tent to 1130! And itβs still going up. Itβs now actually pretty hard to get it out π I have to rethink the temperature settings because now they can take it. I read that they can take up too 3000 ppm Co2 but weβll see. My lights arenβt that strong and imm not getting a new one.
Very important to keep the tent cool and dehydrated tho without etting rid of the CO2 so I bought 6 packeges of dehydrating subrtate in bags and a cooling system wich dehydrates too obviously. I also bought a CO2 reactor, wich can be refilled. Itβs a reaction based off of 700 grams of bakingsoda and 700 grams of Citric acid (itβs ment for aquariums but who cares). The CO2 device sets a target and shuts on and off when itβs off by 1/2 of the Zone I chose. It detects when the light turn off and shuts down too. Rn itβs not even turning on because of the CO2 bag. So if you have one of those, can make your tent Air toght and you can build yourself a cooling sytem you could have a high Co2 tent with less than 100β¬$. But since one Exhale bag is pretty expensive I figgured investing in a reactor such as this is much cheaper in the long run. The CO2 controller was epensive tho.
Tomorrow iβm feeding the plants again 1100 EC this time (itβs been 2 days) and iβm going to keep posting updates. C ya soon ππ»
Update: since day 15 i have the tent in 800 ppm CO2, 30Β°C, β50% humidity, 25.000 Lux (β600ppfd).
@DickJones, yeah i saw a long boring Video about it and thought i might try :D iβll use the forth to wash the roots and figure out if it helps or not. Next week i think
This time will be the one! πͺ Kannabia's team wishes you the best for your Purple Kush π. Enjoy the adventure to the fullest, and we're sending you the best green vibes π
Looking great ! Hope she fills out well , looks like she's gonna be a dense Ole gal..
Best of luck thru Flower , gonna follow to see how she finishes up for you!!