Small Tent, Big Dreams

xTaps The Caramel Automatic did not germinate. 02.08, installed the DIY Drip Irrigation System. Getting watered 3 times per day, 5L water from the Spider Farmer Dehumidifier with Advanced Nutrients pH Perfect Micro, Grow and Bloom. Also some T.A Calmag. 05.08 Day 12, Topped the Do-Si-Dos and the White Widow. 06.08 Day 13, New Nutrient Solution, topped all Easy Buds and the Wedding Cake. This week, I gave only 1.8ml for the 5l, will see what happens if I lower the calmag a bit. Watering times set to 15 minutes for 2 times per week.

xTaps 07.08 Day 14, Topped both Green Gelatos.

xTaps 09.08 Day 16 They liked the topping.

xTaps 10.08 New Week, new nutrients. Adjusted the water level to 8L.

xTaps 15.08 Day 22 Stretch is coming. 17.08 Mixed a new nutrient solution, optimized for flowering. Unfortunately, my tent got a bit flooded last Wednesday (13/08), so I’m still trying to find a better solution for handling the drain in such a small space. I even considered putting her into the big tent for now, just to be on the safe side.

xTaps 23.08 The Drainmaster moved into the tent to control the drain. Defoliated and lollipopped them. 25.08 First run with the drain system. Nutrient Solution (Tank): Volume: 8.5 L EC: 3.05 pH: 5.5 Nutrients: Advanced Nutrients Micro/Grow/Bloom + CalMag Irrigation Run: Pump time: 30 minutes Total Drain: 5.0 L (≈ 60%) Drain EC: 2.6 Drain pH: 6.0 🔎 Observations Drain volume was far too high (target is ~20%). Drain EC lower than input EC → medium was relatively “empty”, plants absorbed nutrients quickly. pH drift from 5.5 → 6.0 shows some buffering effect left in the reused substrate, but limited. Substrate behaves more like coco than soil now (low buffer, fast response). 💡 Insight / Lesson Learned 30 minutes pump time is way too long → resulted in 60% runoff instead of 20%. For 8 × 1 L pots, a single irrigation event should be ~1.0–1.2 L total, with ~200–250 ml runoff. Solution: shorten pump time to ~5 minutes and re-test runoff. Better approach: run shorter, more frequent irrigations (daily) with a lower EC (2.0–2.2), instead of heavy feedings (EC 3.0) only 3× per week. This will keep EC more stable in the root zone and prevent salt buildup in the tiny 1 L pots. 27.08 Adjusted the pump timer to 5 minutes, gave the first dose of PK13/14.

xTaps 01.09. New Week, new nutrient solution. 02.09 Unfortunately, the White Widow and Do-Si-Dos had to be moved out of the tent. Both have reached the lamps, meaning they are already at least 110 cm tall. But now they have enough space in the 70x70 and are enjoying the 150W. 03.09 They pray for light.

xTaps 05.09. Dimmed one light to the half, they begin to smell lightly. 10.09. Moved the Spiderfarmer Dehumidifer into the room, lowering the humidity from 80% down to 52%.

xTaps 13.09 The trichome-forest is coming. 14.09 Added trichome pictures. Not sure if she's milky enough for me to harvest them. 17.09. Easy Bud #1 and Easy Bud #3 will be harvested on the coming weekend. Started to flush them on monday. Wedding Cake will be harvested in about 7 days, start with the flush on 17th.

xTaps 21.09 3 Harvested, 5 to go.

xTaps I decided to harvest them. Flushed them down to an EC of ~0.6. Trichomes all cloudy, almost brown.

xTaps Had to cut the mainbud due to burnings from cuddling with the lamp. Checked the trichomes, almost too cloudy, so I decided to flush her down to an EC of 0.6ish and harvest her.

xTaps Checked the trichomes, all cloudy/milky, ready to harvest for me.