First Attempt (with 528 Hz informed water)

So I guess this will be the last week for this grow. But who knows? The Sherbets keep surprising me; I can still see fresh bud growth although I wonder where they take the necessary energy from. Today a PWM controllable fan will arrive, but not the filter that should accompany it. I won’t need it for this grow, but as you can see in the graphs current blowers cannot keep up with temperature rise caused by all lights shining (that’s why you see the steps in lighting. I start with a short morning phase of just the Sansi 40W LED, switch to the SANLights and later add the Sansi again, once for noon and a random time in the later evening.) I finally made the move to the Raspi 5 which is much more responsive and not burdened at all by its tasks. The Model 2b was very sluggish in GUI reactions and used up to 25% CPU on each graphics update. Now I am down to mostly idling with short peaks of 2–5 %. I did not activate web access yet but will be able to monitor everything from everywhere in the future. 2b will probably be used as a timed photo driver for the Infrared capable camera. It’s quite interesting to see the changes in lighting when I open the tent. Illumination drops down around 3000 lx when the door is not reflecting to the inside anymore. Sure, lux monitoring and DLI calculation are wild guesses at best. But hey, each gauge adds to science credibility! 😄 Guess I was quite right about TVOC being the terpenes. After the first Pineapple gone, I do rarely register anything anymore, and so does my nose. Meanwhile the buds in their curing glasses smell really nice. Not too strong, but definitely not that cow stable like Pineapple I recently encountered somewhere else. My ex put a happy smile on her face and confirmed: "That’s definitely cat p*ss too! As it should be!" I would not use these words. 😹 Oh, and don’t worry about 3 soil humidities. I simply pushed the now obsolete sensor into one of the Sherbet’s, but more to the edge. Day 69. Removed some more brown leaves. They say they don’t need any anymore. Although the filter has not arrived, I installed a new blower fan in the upper outlet of the tent, and it’s amazing to see its effects. A nightly ten minutes push kept temperatures and humidity down at night, and for the pure SANLight stage leaf temperature us about 4° less than before. For the first time I can see the blower really create a noticeable underpressure. As to why the light sensor registers the light that differently, I have no clue. Sorry for the long outages in the graphs. A stupid bug in my code had me restart the app for some hours with slight modifications, but without registering data too. Taller Sherbet will get some water today. Their sensors might be showing 60% still, but that’s mainly because the sensors have a looong range until registering full dryness. Day 72: Yikes! The reason I saw that little condensed water from the dehumidifier recently was its outlet was blocked, so when I touched the hose water from inside the device came running into the tent. Hope it survived – have it repositioned now and taken care the hose will not slip. The main blower filter arrived but not yet the hose. I took the opportunity to install the filter but did not connect it to the blower yet. I reduced the main blower’s intensity – sadly my attempts to control its speed failed, so I have to use its manual dimmer – because last night where outside VPD was very low each nightly attempt to push out humidity decreased the leaf temp and made humidity rise to critical levels when it was pulling full speed. There’s certainly room for improvement regarding control software intelligence … I am planning a short vacation beginning of next month so I hope they will get ready for harvest or I have to kill them slightly before best time … On day 73 since soil contact, I could see without any magnification that they matured overnight: Most trichomes looking cloudy now, and microscope revealed they are ready for harvest. So no more water for both of them, and rather low on humidity until they are dead. Which should fit nicely into my vacation plans.