Week 5 has begun and there really isn't much to say other than plant grows nicely and loves the blueberry mix and I removed a few leaves to let the nodes get more light that otherwise were getting obscured.
This week I also finished the door of the grow box, no more 4 screws in the corners but a latching mechanism and highes even hahaha. I still haven't lightproofed the air intake part but that pretty much will be last thing to do. Air filtering is working too and it seems I won't need to actually give the lights their own separate exhaust since temps stay normal after I moved the box into its final location. Roughly +26...27 during lights on and closer to 22 when they are off. Smell of the plant is getting significant despite no flowers yet, every time I open the door I am greeted with a fairly strong green smell. I do wonder what it will be like when flowering is happening...
I currently have 7 or 9 potential flower sites and more are coming, I'm not actually sure I'll switch to flowering by end of this week as I originally planned, we'll see how the plant has grown by the end of it. I still have plenty of horizontal space left.
On day 4 I removed a few leaves that were hiding some growths, I hope they'll start growing better now. I'm also thinking of manifolding the center growth, it sort of grows slowly though it is full of branching points...
Day 5, the plant didn't mind the removal of some of the leaves at all. I removed a few more soon since I've sculpted the plant into a low and sort of dense bush where there's a bit of a light issue on stuff that gets buried. Next time I'll begin supplements earlier and LST later, it should help with the denseness.
Day 6 is a quiet one, I only watered the plant and that's about it.
Day 7 I removed the bamboo stick based LST supports since there was some mold on them at the part where they went inside the soil. The few hours the plant was without supports it got several cm higher lol. I now have the LST wires tied to the pot itself and I should have done it that way from start. There's over 10 possible bud sites now and in a few days I'll remove some leaves to get more light for some of the hidden ones. I'm still unsure if I should switch to 12/12 this week or not...
Next week updates will come in some days so that there's more to see lol
@BagseedBurglar, I got the sensor from a friend of mine, no cost is best cost haha. It certainly is unreliable, I can see some exposed silicon in there and that explains the light sensitivity I observe.
I'll keep the BME280 in mind, it certainly looks much more nicer I'll appreciate the SPI over the weird one wire thing of DHT11.
@MindMeower, I see. DHT sensors are a little bit unreliable IMO. You shouldn't have to place the sensor in a weird spot to get accurate readings! The sensor should ideally be placed flush with the canopy or a couple of inches higher, and be exposed to the ambient air (and not to the microclimate between the soil and the leaves)... I would recommend a BHE280, it is vastly superior to DHT11/22. Cheers and have fun!
@BagseedBurglar, The sensor gives false readings when it is put in the light (temperature goes waaay off and with it the RH reading also). Under a leaf seems to work fine, temperature is ok and RH is not significantly different from elsewhere (if light is blocked) except when I just watered the plant. The sensor hooks up to my server (via LPT port) which controls light cycle and other aspects. I could have used something like an Arduino but the server is 24/7 on anyway and one extra task for it is no problem plus I can do easy logging and if I really wanted, remote access too.
Lady looking great. Happy and healthy for sure. Great work. Keep doing what you've been doing and may the ganja garden gods bless you along the rest if your journey growmie.
Hey, you had a look at my Killer Kush grow diary and I came to have a look at how you were doing, seems like your doing great. If I have one tip for you it would be to check your soil's pH, that being said the nutrients you've added seemed to have helped. All in all you're doing great you'll see this baby really kick off just about now 😉👊 Good luck buddy.
@GrowSweetWeed, ohey ! Things are going pretty good indeed, plant grows along and so far there are no problems, that blueberry mix has done wonders and the plant is really liking it ~ I do plan to get one of the pH meters, if anything to see if things haven't got too acidic since that mix does lower pH. I will do week 5 in couple days, more tho show than if I start a week right away since edits don't actually create any notification etc.
Good luck with your new grows ~