That's good kids for sure, Keith. And I'll bet they like cookies too!Glad to hear you have a nice day on track. I will be working in the veggy garden today, the weeds come up so fast it impossible to keep up on them. I can hear all the kids out playing in their yards. I have great kids around me. My wife was working in the yard the other day and the little kids came over and asked if she needed help, that's good kids.
I calibrated my Photone app to the light itself. I can't remember how tf I did that but I followed instructions that I read on the app. Please, given that you grow with Vipar Spectra XS 1500 Pros, and that you will be comparing the Photone to a brand spanking new gadget, will you remember to report back on how accurate the Photone is by comparison?
Otter, same story. Please tell us how it goes. I have tremendous faith in the Photone app and I use it as my only yardstick.
I'm with Shed, greasy!
)She saved me the trouble, Shed!
I reported my scientific findings above Carmen. I tried to write it up in layperson's language!
Thanks for that Ms. Ray. I manage because I pretty much don't have much else to do and I keep good notes! And let's be honest, these plants don't require a hell of a lot of attention. What they mostly require is for the grower not to fuck up and to mostly stay out of the way. That's where my notes really help!
Thanks Stinker. A little dab'll do ya'.I'm with Shed, greasy!
They're close enough to each other.
When I move my lux meter around on a flat surface it changes a lot just from position relative to the light.
No, I did not, GW.I'm with you on the meters.
Did you reverse their positions exactly and compare.
She may not be growing anywhere else, but at least she's growing on you....I've never had a photoperiod that stretched so little and, oddly, I'm starting to be amused by it!
(I kid, of course! She hasn't budged.)
who's packing the most frost?
Does look like that GV!Well I don't know what your smoking over there brother but that looks like you've plugged in a old TV areal not a controller
Quick Google search blue Cindy strain then photos and looks like fox tailing is a genetic trait. And she blasting through that calcium!
Ps. Them buds looking mighty juicy
I am of the opinion that children should be talked with, not to.
I got the same meter and calibrated my Photone app to it. It had quite a lot of offness! Like the 1000 difference of 8000. I have a glass screensaver that covers the camera lens. Photone says that can mess things up. I can trust my Photone app now and use the new rather inexpensive unit as well! Much better feeling about this now!Hello all.
The new light meter arrived yesterday. So in my highly controlled scientific experiment, I put my current meter and the new one flat on the floor of my 2x2 tent, 'neath my @ViparSpectra XS1500 Pro, running at 50 percent. The meters were positioned exactly 2 feet under the light. The red meter is the new one:
And...I don't know what to think!
The readings are not that far apart, but...
On a whim, I took some isopropyl alcohol and, using a cotton ball, cleaned off the diffuser of the current meter. It's been in a somewhat smoky environment and might be a little dirty. But that didn't change the results.
My first thought was that I could probably place several more meters from different manufacturers in play and get slightly different results from each of them.
My second thought was that a difference of only 81 points between the current and new meters likely means that I was wrong about my current meter and that it is "sufficiently" accurate.
I'll go with my second thought. (That way I get to keep and use both meters!
I'm going to keep using both meters, one upstairs and one in the basement. However, I'll calibrate my Photone app to the new meter.
Any opinions are certainly welcome!
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She saved me the trouble, Shed!
While she hasn't grow vertically, she has grown on me! I've never had a photoperiod that stretched so little and, oddly, I'm starting to be amused by it!
I reported my scientific findings above Carmen. I tried to write it up in layperson's language!
Thanks for that Ms. Ray. I manage because I pretty much don't have much else to do and I keep good notes! And let's be honest, these plants don't require a hell of a lot of attention. What they mostly require is for the grower not to fuck up and to mostly stay out of the way. That's where my notes really help!
Thanks Stinker. A little dab'll do ya'.
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Thanks for peeking.
PEACE
Check out buying male and female cord caps on the Zon or Lowes. Put new connectors on there please. That's a bit of a hot spot for negative things to happen! Do it today if you can. It'll have you cutting back the insulation on the wires, stripping more insulation on the individual conductors, slipping them into the plugs and tightening them with a screwdriver and re-plugging them. I'm not comfortable with this!Good day all and Happy Sunday.
It's Flip 9 for the Phase II girls and the pom poms are coming out! Go team Go!
Not much change in height lately. The FKCs are right at 18 inches. And in one of the strangest things I've ever witnessed, the Godberry has gone from 8 inches down to 3.
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SKIRTING TROUBLE IN THE BASEMENT
The New Trick girls in the basement tent are on their Flip 63.
Over the past few days in a row (not yesterday, but on Thursday & Friday) I've been sitting in my man cave chilling when a glance at my monitoring device showed a huge heat spike happening in the 5x5 tent. The temp display says 93F.
I hurried downstairs and indeed, upon opening the tent, I get blasted with the hot air that's inside. It didn't take long to figure out why: my exhaust fan had stopped. The power cord from the fan connects to a second cord that has the speed controller in between the fan and the electrical plug. I touched that connector and the fan came back on! So then I try to tighten it. It's really not loose at all but it does allow for a tiny turn toward tightening it. I leave the tent open and return back upstairs. The temp drops fairly quickly back to around 81F.
Next day, the same thing happened again. Again I jiggle the connector and again the fan comes back on. At this point I'm thinking I'm gonna' need to get a new inline fan because this situation in untenable. However, this time after I got the fan going again I sat there and watched and waited. After about, maybe 10 minutes, that fan shuts off again.
Whoa. Is there a ghost in the machine?
Nah. It turns out that the culprit (of course) was the connector. For some reason it's gotten finicky about hanging straight down from the fan and then into the connection to the other wire. I've had the fan running now, uninterrupted for the past 48 + hours after I repositioned the connection point from being vertical to more horizontal.
The connector is faulty but removing the stress of it hanging straight down seems to have done the trick (for now).
Thing is, I just don't stare at my monitoring device when I'm in the man cave. I just glance at it periodically and not really all that often. So I don't know for sure how long these heat spikes were in play before I noticed them. Could have been minutes or hours. Sheesh!
The Blue Cindy in the rear is foxtailing like crazy now and I'm blaming it in part on the heat. Hopefully they will come through it okay. Only about 6 more days left before I take down the Lemon Bubble (front left)!
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That's all for this day, and I think that's quite enough!
Thanks for looking in and have yourselves a peaceful, joyful Sunday!
PEACE
Unless it's a fancy multi conductor circuit. How many conductors? 2 plus a ground hopefully?
Ha! I got what I asked for!
That's good news. I haven't calibrated the app yet. I'll get to it soon though.
Sorry Stone, you lost me after "Check out buying..."Check out buying male and female cord caps on the Zon or Lowes. Put new connectors on there please. That's a bit of a hot spot for negative things to happen! Do it today if you can. It'll have you cutting back the insulation on the wires, stripping more insulation on the individual conductors, slipping them into the plugs and tightening them with a screwdriver and re-plugging them. I'm not comfortable with this!
Ok, feel the area and make sure it's not hot please. Also make sure the area where the connection is, there's no combustable stuff. Motors are a considerable draw. Not as much as lights thankfully. You have a poor connection. Heat lives in poor connections. We don't want a fire to happen when it can be helped! Don't make me get Bill!
Maybe tape it up?
