In preparation for Week 1, we spent some time during germination to clean the grow tent and equipment.
We wiped down the fans, lights and inside of the tent with a mild disinfectant.
We test ran all the equipment, set timers and schedules and just generally ensured that everything was in good working order.
Day 1:
- Both seeds have officially burst forth into the light!
- Light intensity is at approximately 5,000 LUX inside the humidity domes.
Day 2:
- RH: 74%
- Temp: 78F
Day 3:
- RH: 73%
- Temp: 79F
- Turned on 6" oscillating fan at top of tent
- Exhaust fan set to run at minimum speed when temperature reaches 80F or relative humidity reaches 75%
Day 4:
- RH: 68%
- Temp: 76F
- Turned on 6" fan at bottom of tent for approximately 8hrs. We'll slowly be introducing this fan to the seedlings to help promote strong stems, running it for 8hrs per day for the next week or so before leaving it on full-time during "lights-on".
- Turned on humidifier, on low setting
- Lowered Sunblaster LED strips to approximately 24" above seedlings, providing around 9,800 LUX. We'll keep a close eye on the seedlings and will back off the lights if there are signs of stress.
Day 5:
- RH: 74%
- Temp: 79F
- lowered the intensity of the humidifier, to try and stay under 75% RH.
Day 6:
- we decided to adjust our light schedule. We're sticking with 18/6 but we previously had our lights-off scheduled for 6am-12pm. We've changed that to lights-off being between 12pm-6am. To do this, we let the two Sunblaster LED's turn off 6am (for the last time) but kept the Elite 360 fixture on. So these girls ended up getting a bit of a break at their usual time, but ultimately ended up getting 32hrs of light. We hope this won't cause too much stress but the timeframes work much better for us now.
Day 7:
- RH: 73%
- Temp: 78F
- watered Plant #1 with very small amount of water, approximately 50ml
@timbarin, so far we've only used it the one day, for about 2-3hrs during the warmest part of the afternoon. When the outside temps are above 10C, and with our light at 90% intensity, the tent would reach 84F, instead of the 78F that we're aiming for.
@MrHightimes, Ya, it's kind of weird because for the first few months that we had that pH meter, it needed calibration almost every week! We never knew if we could trust it... but since then, it seems to have stabilized and we haven't had to calibrate it for months. We check it with pH reference solution every few weeks and it's been spot on. We'd love to upgrade to the Blue Labs meter but it isn't necessary quite yet. The only complaint that we might have is that it takes a couple of minutes to get a true reading, whereas the TDS meter we have gives you accurate readings in just seconds.
nice grows! can you tell me how satisfied you are with the AC INFINITI T6? have you used other brands and how dos it compare? I am eyeing one now for the controls set up features, does it clear humidity? heat? and how quiet is it?
thank you for your feedback!
@Stonyways, Hi, we've been really happy with the Cloudline T6 fan. It works very well and has programmable settings. We currently have it set to turn on any time the temperature reaches 81F or any time the humidity exceeds 61%. We're glad we got the 6" version instead of the 4" version, since we can run the fan at lower speeds, which means it's very quiet. It's actually much quieter than our little oscillating fan! It's quite powerful and has no problem managing heat and humidity in our little tent. I think you could easily put this in a 4x4 or 6x6 tent and it would work just as well.
As the female half of "VanCplGrows", i don't have a lot of experience with other fans so i can't really compare it to anything but it does everything that we want and it does it well!
@timbarin, Thanks brother! We're a bit slow with our replies this week but we are happy to be back and happy to have ya following along on our latest grow. Cheers!
@Beachbudz, Absolutely! They may not be the biggest plants for 14 weeks but it's been a great learning process and we sort of prefer the leisurely schedule compared to the autoflowers we were growing before... which always seemed like a race against time, especially if you run into any problems like deficiencies or other. This has been a very comfortable grow for us. ๐