First Grow Ever: Erika I + II

Day 2, 11.04.24 0615 - Checked for roots - the root tips of both flowers are visible. I am out of time this morning, but I am going to place the plugs into soil this evening. - Increased lighting intensity to 40%, lowered Distance to ~20cm above tray because I am afraid of etiolation 2100 - Put the Soil Plugs to pots (4L) Made of fabric containing BioBizz Light Mix (moistened) - Put a humidity dome made from PET bottles above the plants - Added yellow cards to counter unwanted insects - adjusted Light to 30cm @ 60% I plan to let the plants recover from the potting stress in the next days without much interactions. Day 3, 12.04.2024 1800 - Removed PET Domes - Activated Fan to mimic wind - Activated Venting (5min on, 25min off) to keep Temperature at 25 - 25,5 °C and humidity between 68% and 75% during the 18 "light hours" of the day - No Venting during the night yet Day 4, 13.04.2024 1300 - Tested around with Venting during non-light times because humidity went up to 72% while having only 21,5°C (VPD approaching 0,4) - Set Venting during non-light times to 30mins vent / 30mins vent off per hour 2000 - Added bowl of water for increased humidity Day 5, 14.04.2024 2100 - after a quite dry night (50% humidity) I decided: I need to do Something about the humidity - especially during propagation and early grow Phase. Just scheduling the vent to 5 / 25 does not work at all. - will work on some kind of "poor man's VPD controller" made of arduino and DHC22 Sensor as well as a Relais. Stay tuned! - Gave both ladies some drops of water - waiting for some Hardware to arrive Day 6, 15.04.2024 2000 - installed my Poor Man's VPD Controller - more on that in the next days :) - Added 20ml of water to each of the Ladies - adjusted height to ~25cm above canope - increased light to 80% Day 7, 16.04.2024 No action at all today. Tomorrow I will initiate my first "real" watering in the morning with about 10% of the pot volume.