It's getting cold outside,
as the grow box stands in the cellar, I am unfortunately closer to the outside temperatures than I would like. I once read somewhere that a temperature between 20°C and 30°C is recommended for Tangie, but I can't find it again. Perhaps someone here can comment on this.
But so far the plant is growing excellently and I think she looks very healthy. I haven't fertilized her yet and am taking a different approach than before. With my previous plants, I always fertilized with the Hesi set and would have given the root complex by now. This time I'm listening to a lot of the forums and only fertilizing after about 6 weeks, as the soil supposedly already contains a lot of nutrients.
As you can see, I started very early with the LST. I had planted the seed slightly outside the center of the pot in order to guide the plant as flat as possible towards the center. Once in the middle, she is then allowed to grow upwards, where the topping is waiting for her. Let's see how she handles it.
I also added a PWM module to the ESP32, which has a output level of 0/10V. Now I can vary the duty cycle very flexibly and thus dim my LED panel gradually. The only thing missing is the connection to Home Assistant, but more on that later.
Greetings
I like your scientific approach. Please explain your HomeAssistant set-up further. Is there a good source, where I can see a typical setup, what is required and how to get it operational?
Hi @Sejanus21,
thank you for your interest.
I have HomeAssistant running on my NAS. This is a TrueNAS instance that I have running on a standard PC. I know many people who run HA on a RaspberryPi (it should be at least version 4) and are very happy with it.
https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/raspberrypi/
... should be a good starting point for setting up HA. And this is a project by someone who approached it in a similar way (need to be translated from german):
https://forum.cannabisanbauen.net/t/smart-ueberwachung-automatisierung-home-assistant-raspberry-pi-4/47820
Since I'm not done optimizing the setup yet (and probably never will be ;-)) I'll always write a bit about the technical aspects and where I see room for improvement. I hope that we can also discuss controversial topics here.
have a nice weekend
TimothyGrow