Divine Seeds Contest: Auto Opium (and probably my last grow)

A new week, not much new to report. Some bottom leaves are leaving, which is quite expectable. The rest of the water in the tank began to smell rather unpleasantly, so I removed it, cleaned the tank and filled it with about 9 litres after manually feeding the some fresh water. I guess about it’s about two weeks until harvest. Day 67: I finally found time to fix the BoxControl Soft/Hardware, and found that I had nothing to fix … Everything stared to work again once I reinstalled the Arduino software, although that one started to work by itself when connected to my MacBook. There are some changes, as the main blower is constantly blowing (rather gently) and so only Humidifier and the additional blowers are run by the Raspi. Anyway, more reliable temperature and humidity values. Leaf Temperature is from a sensor on the top of one cola, humidity and air temperature are taken at slightly lower cola height. Light is measured near one tent wall, and in no means a real measurement that would tell a comparable DLI. Some sensors corroded a bit when falling to the ground and the holey pots couldn’t hold their water, but all are working. Soil humidity #1 and #2 are from lady #1 but at different positions, #3 is from lady #2. Guess I should buy a few additional outlets for the watering system as it is only wetting about 1/4 of the pot’s surface. During day 68, watering system failed and the plants were running slightly dry. I compensated this with some manual watering but … why? I did not change anything. Lady #1’s foxtailing increased, although I finally managed to hang her lights a few cm higher. I’m looking forward to getting two very different qualities from one strain. Lady #2 still looks perfect. Day 69 – or is that 70? I have the feeling just numbering days isn’t the most reliable scheme – weather is rainy for two days now, driving the air humidity up especially during their nights. It must be noted that the inside temp/hum sensor is on leaf roof level. 30 cm upwards humidity can be about 15–20% less … But anyway, sensor is sometimes reporting 80% which is a bit troubling. Dehumidifier tries its best, but there are limits to negative humidity change when surrounding air is quite moist. The CO2 sensor does not seem to report reliable values. After start, it usually reports 400 ppm which is the minimum, after some hours jumping to about 660 ppm often followed by one or two more steps until it shoots off the range. That’s when I reset the Arduino. Anyway, currently the readings can be ignored. Need to check if there is another sensor mode. Ignorance is a valid approach for the frequent leaf temperature drops. Think I should add plausibility checks and ignore such sudden downward peaks. Finally the orange soil humidity sensor crawling weirdly up from 0 is an overshooting behaviour of the soil humidity sensors in general: If really wet, their readings can shoot through the top and appear at the bottom again … Some more yellow leaves to remove on day 70, and while lady #1 might be fox tailing, she is growing some very dense trichome population now too. A microscopic examination of Lady #2’s buds said there is still quite some time. Trichomes mostly cloudy now, and amber only present in the pistils that turned orange-brown. So lightly fertilised water in their tank for a last time. Which now extends into 5 drop gauges in each pot, making it possible to keep the whole pot slightly moist, not only one spot of it. Amazing IMHO is that the bud looks like covered in glibber. It’s one big surface of trichomes with a melted undergrowth and dense forests standing out of it. Wow. Ok, I could harvest for maximum potency now, and while I doubt that my meagre 100 W will have brought them to maximum potential, I think it still will be enormous for my taste. So 10 to 14 days, more amber and a bit more relaxation influence, please. :D The buds are still producing fresh green and pistils, as you can see in the timelapse roof view image. So maybe even some more days … Day 71, concluding this week and giving proof my enumeration scheme was 1 day off this week – but I don’t want to change everything just for the sake of correctness no-one will really care about. I think. It was also a bad day for the center bud of lady #1. As I wrote last week was extremely rainy, and with outside humidities of 75% I was not able to hold the tent humidity in a safe range all the time. And I obviously should buy an oscillating fan, because right in the center there was little air movement, and so I lost about 5 g of really nice looking and very sticky harvest. Light a candle for my bud, please.