Week 1 - Day 1
20L Super Air Pots with a bottom layer of clay pebbles, (an inch deep at the centre point) and topped off with Growdog’s 70/30 coco perlite mix.
The tops of the pots are covered by green plastic water distributers to evenly spread the water from the 12” watering rings.
2 lights; each 300W actual draw, currently inside the tent. 2 more coming next week to make a total of 4, across the 6 plants achieving a true watt draw of 1200W.
Aiming for 1g/watt
Germinated seeds from FAST BUDS, were planted and hand watered using tap water pH’d to high 5.8 to low 5.9 with H&G Roots Excl. giving a nice PPM of 362 to start.
The BudBox tent is a 2x2x2m, using a Medusa Boosted XL run off trays to a waste brain were the run off can be tested. This will then be recirculated into the feeding tank again. The feed tank will a standard 100L water butt, retro fitting pumps inside for Feeding and Pump to waste - for cleaning the tank out each week. Another 100L water butt will contain a store of filtered RO water which will fill the feeding tank.
A 10L PureMate humidifier is set at 65%, along with 2x RAM 16” oscillating wall fans which are mounted to the top of the tent for maximum coverage - set to lvl1 on swing giving the 25°C. No extraction yet. This is ready and waiting. 8” HyperFresh fan with a RHINO 8”x600 pro filter. We are using 8” acoustic ducting.✌️🏻
Week 1 - Day 2
No change. Keeping the new environment stable is difficult. The humidifier is not large enough for the space.
Week 1 - Day 3
Fed PH RO water this morning. Trying to keep the humidity up inside the tent.
They have popped up! It begins :D
Did a feed of 5.8PH RO with CocaA&B 0.4ml/l, Roots excl 0.3ml/l, Calmag 0.2ml/l for a 150PPM. 300ml was used to moisten the coco per pot.
Extraction fully connected. Environment stable at 23-24°C, trying to stay at 23.3°C. Humidity fluctuating 47-60%, humidifier struggling, but hopefully be okay.
Week 1 - Day 4
All 6 are up and reaching. Husks hopefully will pop off soon. Will be doing another small feed this evening to keep the coco moist.
Little leaves have appeared!! Fed another 300ml, 5.8PH @ 151PPM/ plant.
Week 1 - Day 5
All shooting up now, tallest at 5cm down to 3.5cm 🌱
I gently helped the last 2 husks off the smallest ones to hopefully even them up. Gave the coco 1L of RO water around the edges.
Week 1 - Day 6
Nothing to report this morning. Another PPM feed to be done shortly.
Soaked the coco until run off with around 3-4L per pot using 5.8PH nuit water; 0.4 Canna A&B, 0.2 Calmag, 0.3 Roots Excl. 152PPM.
First time we tested the Medusa brain - works well and pumps away to the feed tank, need to change one of the low trays to be a boosted tray for better drainage. Giving 5 boosted trays and one normal. Hand feeding up until this point, but will connect up the automation in the next week.
Week 1 - Day 7
Strongest are growing around 1cm a day now. Tallest 6cm, smallest at 4cm. Looking forward to next weeks progress :)
Bought a wet&dry vac - best thing ever!! Haha. Cleans everything in sight plus all the water from the dirty run off.
Lifted all the pots, still a good weight to them so no feed or RO water today I think. Bring on week 2! 💪🏻