Toasty 🔥 Hot
Placed fresh fluorescent bulb in the Solacure, UV levels will need to be monitored closely from here on in, the fresh bulb is really strong, can feel the tingles real fast.
Switched to 16/8,
UVA left on for the full duration of daylight hours,
UVB Peak is now set to 8 hours in the middle of the day with 4 hours of zero UVB on both sides.
3 days after I switched the 280nm bulb, (this quadrupled the output). Nearly every seed that remained ungerminated, popped making it a much greener pot in 3 days, most seeds sat for 5 weeks in conditions not that great for germination, with only a few popping over that time it's a hard environment to germinate when ambient temps reaching 95F daily, very dry. I have not added any cooling as of yet to the tent. Interesting.
Surprised by how well she is handling the temperatures.
Direct sunlight in the heat of midday, which can reach UVB levels of 350 to 450 μW/cm2 in tropical settings. However, even the shady have reflected UVB that can reach 30 to 50 μW/cm2.25
I shall try to keep the UV exposure somewhere in between.
The topping turned out nice, more of an FIM across the Crown, this time I hit the sweet spot, on one I managed to cut 4 layers of leaves deep into the mandelbrot crown, once it grows a few days after the cut you really get to see what was actually cut as it takes time to grow out from its miniature form, this is first-time I've seen so many serrated leaves with only 1 cut, very dense with 5-6 internodes all stuffed into the space of an inch, by time vertical growth comes back to normal there will be lots of main cola all roughly same height, a good base to start with the trellis. It's going to be dense. Looking forward to seeing her grow.