Re: Aberration Goes ker Bloom! - 2009
If I had an infestation and order some online, by the time they arrive my grow could be decimated, so I think it's a good investment to have some effective products on hand.
Very smart.
Great journal! I appreciate your inclusion of mixtures and formulas.
While I will admit that there does seem to be some art in growing pot, it appears that a good bit of the puzzle of growing can be overcome with accuracy, consistency, and attention to detail. I'm already recording this stuff. I just copy most of the details like that verbatim from my off-line grow log. I hope it helps someone else get a feel for daily procedure or something.
It's still evolving, actually. Here is this evening's report:
Code:
--> (A) MTO2, KK1, MTO3
--> (B) OC6, OC7, MTN3
1. Fed: 1 gal
Per gal:
1 T Liquid bone meal
1 oz. yucca
Set A: Brought up with liquid lime to pH 6.30 @ 20.9 C
Set B: Brought up with liquid lime to pH 6.27 @ 20.0 C
I have some other 'syntactical' changes to the standard method I use to record what I do, but I'm still thinking over the details of that. If anyone has suggestions, let me know. I intend to formalize it to a human-readable text-based format for a data file.
When other people get high they watch TV. When I get stoned, I think about garbage like that. Sometimes I implement it. This time it's all coalescing nicely into a computer-based grow control system.
Thanks for dropping in with that Soniq420! That was exactly what I could not do. All I did was ramble. I appreciate it.
HEY ABB your grow look great hope i do that good anyways I have figured out how to take pics with our shitty olimpdix cameras when you want to take a pics ...
Thanks - I'll try that with my Olympus next time I'm forced to use it. Actually, if I have my way, I'll be getting a Nikon D90 body to go with a good lens I already have, and the Samsung will become the backup. The poor Oly is almost dead these days anyway.
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Wow, what a busy evening. I've been "putting out fires".
I noticed water coming down the wall from the dehumidifier (on an overhead shelf). Cripes! I think I know what is wrong though. A relative that knows his business recently gave me a tip: put a few drops of bleach down each drain tube coming from dehumidifiers and AC units or they will clog with living goo.
It turns out the tubes from mine were not flowing well causing a backup and pan overflow. The AC was getting close to the same. Timely advice, that was. For now I blew them out, but I need to start with the bleach. That small amount will not matter in the runoff since I should only need it once every 4 weeks and it gets greatly diluted. It all goes on the lawn. I've done far worse to the grass and it loves everything I pump out there.
Second, I noticed that MTO2 still looks droopy, as do pretty much all the rest. It could be shock from the lights, but I would expect MTO2 to have adjusted by now. It could be a lockout, so I took soil samples for pH testing. They will be dry enough to properly test tomorrow night.
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In the meantime, I noticed that despite feedings 2 days in a row, the soil was fairly dry, even 3-4 inches down. So I hit them with bone meal water, as stated above. They don't look under-fed, just under-watered.
So they will get a daily feed from now on. They are stepping on up to the plate I think.
All except KK1, which may come back to the veg room. First, I want to top her a bit, and it will take her longer to recover than the others will from the cloning they are going to get. Second, everyone had a little puddle of water in their saucer except MTO2 and KK1. MTO2 barely peed at all, and KK1 would have overflowed her saucer (16", 2" deep) twice if I hadn't been there with the shop vac.
So KK1 will get a reduced volume daily, and MTO2 will have hers boosted a bit. I'm going to have to feel them all out and see where they pee.
Should I just mix up larger batches and feed everyone just until they pee?
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The new layout seems to work really well. I feel I have much better access. I don't feel quite as cramped for space in there.
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Today I actually fidgeted with some of those USB devices I was talking about. I set up a relay that toggled two test lights on every click of the spacebar on my netbook. I need to get fired up about coding again.
The code I have has become over-complex and doesn't give me an elegant way to create a second event queue. I'll strip off a bunch of the extra garbage and pare the timer system back down. Then I should be able to build it properly. I need to have the timer queue feed a second, rules-based queue that can apply logic to events as they occur and do the stuff that happens every cycle, like record keeping.
Without that, it becomes difficult to do things like assert an adjustable length re-start delay on relays controlling HID lights for instance.
I'm pretty amateur in that I really have a tendency to architect on the fly, which is pretty poor form and leads to a lot of wasted effort. But since I'm doing it myself, I'll just expect to do some backtracking and get on with it. It's not that big a project actually. I just needs the effort.
Which brings me full circle to the need to get excited about it again. I always have to work myself up to a re-write like this.
DD i see you grow also active cacti if i'm write!!?