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Very light top-dressing, watered in with a 1/2 cup of watered down aerated light fertilizer tea (using same nutes).
0.03125 gal = 1/2 cup
She's coming along. The weak tea maybe could have been even weaker 😕, but I they'll get over it. They were all due for a drink so they got a decent flush to help wash out whatever I did.
with el-cheapo pH/EC/PPM meter in hand, our steadfast hero prepares to enter the dragon's den to save the fair maiden...
Lighting=20 on 4 off, blue veg lights on
1Tbsp Dr. Earth 4-6-3 top-dressed, massaged in, and watered down with 1 quart of pH 5.8 de-chlorinated, carbon filtered water.
I added a cheap Vick's warm air humidifier in front of my oscillating fan, halfway through the week. Temp/RH much better now... not perfect but as winter approaches, the basement temperature will drop by about 10 degrees (typically) which should improve the VPD in the Basement Grow Zone (BGZ). I've brought BGZ VPD down from 1.7-ish to 1.1 or so.
The four sensors are:
1: BGZ @ eye level
2: BGZ @ canopy
3: BGZ @ knee level
IN: Main Floor Living Space @ waist level
VPD Calculator and Reference:
https://www.omnicalculator.com/biology/vapor-pressure-deficit
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Week 5. Vegetation
4 months ago
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18.42 cm
24 hrs
18 °C
6.5
No Smell
65 %
18 °C
18 °C
18 °C
11 L
50.8 cm
Nutrients 1
Home Grown Tomato, Vegetable & Herb Fertilizer 4-6-3 1.3 mll
Coming along nicely. A bit of a slow start due to my own newb-liness.
My overall plan this grow cycle is to let grow naturally with limited manhandling, so I can get a decent baseline which can inform my future grows for this cultivar. There is no point in mucking about with unknowns until you know em, ya know?!
With the new humidifier comes better data collection!
Created a pivot table in my Google spreadsheet to better organize and present the data I'm collecting.
Santa bringing new humidifier and lights before Thanksgiving.
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Week 6. Flowering
4 months ago
18.42 cm
20 hrs
17 °C
6.5
No Smell
40 %
18 °C
18 °C
17 °C
11 L
50.8 cm
Nutrients 1
Home Grown Tomato, Vegetable & Herb Fertilizer 4-6-3 1.3 mll
The new grow lights won't arrive in time to do this lady much good. It will be interesting to compare under-powered vs properly lit grows.
Update: New lights are here!! 4ea SZHLUX PT-1800 online, and I've got 4 more waiting for another circuit to be run. The older weaker lights will be used for cloning and seedlings around the grow space.
After playing with the new lights, I've set them to 14" above the canopy which provides:
PPFD: 700-ish
Lighting: 20/4
DLI: 40 or so... maybe a bit over.
Maybe time for some light defoliation and even lighter LST on the outer branches.
Updated data pic with latest dashboard layout. It's not perfect, but I think it is better.
No real growth over the past week, buds are thickening and ripening. High likelihood of harvest near end of week 10 or early week 11.
re-learning how to take pix with the old camera.
this PR is coming along well enough. Ranked in a top-5 list of my current autos, I'd probably put in 4th or 5th along with the Karen. Tops would be the Green Crack and Wurlz!
Please remember that the early girlz (PRa, KKa, and Wurlz) had a rougher start than the later ones (GCa, and CCa)