RDWC Autoflowers

1/24/24 - Dropped seeds into rapid rooters in a seedling tray with a heat mat. Sprayed humidity dome with water to keep humidity up. Now I wait 3 days for the magic to happen. 1/25/24 - Tweaked settings on my Controller 69 Pro to make sure that I could maintain a good environment for the seedlings. Currently holding at 72° with RH of 70%. Turned down the seedling heat mat because the temp got up to 89° 1/26/24 - RH in the seedling tray got up to 92%, so I dried out the dome a little to get it back in the 80s. Temp is right around 80° 1/27/24 - The babies have arrived! 2/2 on Fast Buds seeds! 1/28/24 - Seedlings stretched on me overnight, so I increased the PPFD to closer to 200. Moving them to the system today. Babies have been moved to the system! Light is 24" above plants and the PPFD is ~200 1/29/24 - the humidifier in the tent ran out of water at about 5am, so the humidity dropped down to 34%. Will set a reminder to fill humidifier(s) before going to bed. Seedlings seem to be fine. Misted the domes. 1/30/24 - The cool weather is making it a real struggle in the tent. Re-misted the humidity domes. Temp and RH are fluctuating like crazy in the tent, but I'm maintaining the VPD between 0.8-1.0 kpa 1/31/24 - Continuing to top feed until roots hit the water. Maintaining optimum environment in tent. Seedlings growing nicely. 2/1/24 - Double checked the PPFD at the plants and I'm sitting at around 240. Tent environment is within parameters. Top fed the plants and removed the humidity domes. Plants developing nicely. Will start checking for roots in the water in a couple days. 2/2/24 - Had some issues yesterday with the AC Infinity outlet that is controlling the space heater in the tent. Even though I had set it as 'Heater' with a target temp of 71°, it kept defaulting to 'Outlet' which doesn't allow target temp, just high & low temp. This was causing the space heater to run constantly. Thankfully it was only an hour and I was able to catch it. I am now using an automation in the Controller 69 Pro to force that port to trigger on temp. We'll see if it will stick. Overall, I think the plants did ok with the fluctuation, but I'm a little concerned with the curling leaf on Crystal. I will closely monitor this situation over the next 24 hours. Top fed again today and will check for roots in the water starting tomorrow. 2/3/24 - checked for roots and still no roots in the water. I will extend the germination week until roots in water is eminent. Top fed both plants. Crystal still has a curled leaf, but other than that she looks good. Adjusted the PPFD up slightly to 275. Added a camera to the tent and will be shooting a time lapse video for the rest of this grow. Fingers crossed. 2/4/24 - I have a root that is just about in the water, so I will switch to Week 1 Veg in 2 days. Top fed both plants again and things are going very nicely. 2/5/24 - Confirmed root touching water. Tomorrow will flush and fill the system and begin Veg Week 1. Top fed again today and the plants are showing great progress.