Lamp distance this week is 24" to the top of germinated plants and running at 25% power. Unsure of the actual par reading, but do know that it's somewhere below 400.
Also not reading leaf surface temperature this week for VPD and strictly keeping the humidity at 80% with intermittent fresh air exchange.
The soil before planting was brought up to what I felt was roughly field capacity. And since germination I've only directly watered the cover crop, with a misting beneath the crops themselves.
Roughly over a quarter gallon a day was used to water the cover crop and alternated yucca + rootwise mycrobe complete maybe every other day.
Notes:
Week was bittersweet - during Day 6 (from planted seed) numerous fruiting bodies were noticed in the 15 gal pot of Vanilla Fizz. Very exciting, once the mushrooms caps were open they were immediately harvested and brought to neighboring pots in hopes of spreading spores.
Unfortunately during Day 6 a population of fungus gnats also seemed to be growing rapidly in the pots, particularly in the pot of Vanilla Fizz.
Even worse, the pots of Mango Sky and Cookies & Berries look to have what appears to be thrips as they and the cover crop are beginning to show damage/evidence.
The pots were stored for a month with houseplants that became infected and then treated during storage.
All four plants were covered with humidity domes while 2 ounces of Doctor Zymes was added to a quarter gallon of RO water @ 90 degrees F and sprayed onto cover crop immediately.
This was repeated daily for 4 days and thus basically replaced my sole daily watering regiment during this time, no rootwise was used.
During Day 7 & 8, a mix of 2oz neem and 2 tsp of yucca extract were added to a 1/2 gallon of RO water in a blender, then emulsified and sprayed directly onto cover crop and pots at lights-out.
The seedlings were again covered by humidity domes during spraying but received a light misting to only their soil thereafter. I don't dare soak my plants yet until sometime next week.
As time goes on Cookies and Mango are looking a little worse for wear, but the population of gnats/thrips is plummeting and disappearing - fingers crossed no bad stunting occurs from this.
vanilla fizz f2. i just harvested 2 compound v autos from night owl seeds they are a cross between, chem city blues, chemdogging and vanilla fizz f2. short, stout, miniature versions of their parents. still drying, they smell like good oid seni dipped in vanilla extract. the buzz off of a couple of small inside buds is a creeper for sure, 2 tokes followed 10 minutes later with another and off you go still getting higher 30 minutes later and from that point on it is 1 toke weed to keep the happiness going. all in all very pleased with the cultivar from night owl and will picking up some more of their beans shortly. check out that grow and let me know what you think
