The Garden 2024-2025 Part 1

43 Total Days 4 Bloom Cycle Days Flipped to 12/12 cycle after 39 days. A few days early and I probably could have flipped even sooner and still filled the space. As is, I'll potentially have to HST some of the taller plants, but a couple smaller plants will benefit. These pics are right before an irrigation. Some plants are less perky than normal, but the bent over coals on left side are from me shaping the plant. You can also see on far right-back row I need some garden wire to spread out that plant and even it out relative to the rest of the canopy. It had a late growth spurt even before flip to flower. It was one of the smaller plants early on, but not anymore. Bti dunk is suspended at water level in a mesh bag to keep irrigation pipes and tubing clear. I'll fertigate with less dryback going forward. All the root mass promoted by a more pronounced wet-dry cycle in vegetative phase will start to pay dividends. Pictures of nute station and reservoir added. Rez is kept at mid-60F and dark at all times. Plants were looking too lush the last ~2 weeks. I've reduced the caclium nitrate component nearly 20% the last 2 irrigations and continuing to do so going forward until i see a reason to revert. May need to adjust TSP portion to mitigate loss of Ca, but we'll see how the plants react the next couple weeks before assuming anything. After a little more training on a couple plants, daily efforts will be reduced to virtually nothing but flipping a switch to water for ~3 minutes/day. About to hit my favorite 7-8 week period of the grow. -------- Side note / yield expectations I have a much more controlled canopy this cycle than recent grow cycles. This canopy is by far the best I've had in a couple years. I snapped a cola off one plant (oops), and one plant has 12 colas on accident, but will use that as a rough comparison for future adustments to canopy management / how many colas per plant etc. Only 4 days into flower phase and it's nearly filled in. Some gaps, yet, but even the smaller plant(s) should mostly fill it in. Only 1 plant is concerningly under-sized (front-far right). One of twelve isn't so bad. Haven't been this happy about a grow cycle in several years. Minimum target of 50g/sq ft and 1.5g/w will be easy as pie to hit barring catastrophe out of my control, and upper-threshold of 60g/sq ft and 1.8g/w still achievable even with 1 under-sized plant. Relative to growing from seed, these are acceptable outcomes. -------- New equipment.... Picutres show a lights off/on 24-hour cycle. The previous dehumidifier could barely keep up with a 38-39 sq ft canopy - even required stripping a few leaves (~10% defoliation, give or take) that I'd rather not strip off in the future. This dehum should be able to keep up as it can remove 140% more moisture in AHAM conditions. It's a fucking 68-lbs beast. It's hygrometer reads 10% below actual, but it's a consistent offset, so that is not a problem going forward. I'll know better in 3-4 weeks when the canopy is fully grown as far as performance compared to the previous unit. Should see some electricity savings and reduce peak temps a couple degrees F as long as it doesn't have to work as hard to accomplish its task. Plus, I can avoid removing leaves unnecesarily. Win-win-win I'm not used to seeing the RH fluctuate so much in the graphs. The previous unit barely maintained max RH, so the "valleys" were truncated. It would cycle off due to autodefrost feature and not because it reduced RH% to a particular level as the current unit is currently doing as seen in the graphs. -------- Fertilizer: Jacks 5-12-26 Calcium nitrate 15-0-0 Epsom Salt Triple Superphosphate 0-45-0 (*not 100% soluble) 1.4EC adjusted down to 1.3EC with 20% reduction to calcium nitrate, recently. --- Forgot about the cuttings. Added a picture. They are 8 days old. Vents were slowly opened further over time. Now, taking off the dome each day for an hour or two. Shouldn't be too long for roots to show. Some are already looking perkier as if they have some initial rooting but cannot be 100% certain.