Yup, day 38 of flower. About a month to go and that will get me done before the thrips get froggy.
Big water yesterday at 1.4 gallons, down to 0.5 overnight. I could see a difference in the thickness of the buds yesterday. The everything is filling out. The leaves are getting sticky and the sent is sweet and maybe citrusy.
The doser is earning its keep. Ah, I'll just copy paste…
The runtime for the doser was overnight, a total of 13 hours and it did 2 bursts of 3 seconds for a total of about 1.2ML. And over the course of today, it ran one does or about ½ ML of Down. Good stuff, eh?
5859 = 5.8 on the doser and 5.9 on the monitor (I bought the monitor in 2017, the doser in 2023). They're both caliibrated 4 and 7 and, just like the docs say, are accurate to 0.05 units. When the monitor (the trailing two digits) goes up, I know that pH is moving slightly and the doser will jump to 5.9 in a little while and then plop plop fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is, for all you old goats out there who watched TV in the 70's.
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Water, pH, lights!
One cola was at 1120-something. Oops. Added a ¼ ounce weight and got it down to 960. One fox tail is enough.
After three years, the tent weather is steady and, dare I say it, perfect. The weather outside has been mild (50-67) but that's well buffered by the garage (20 x 20). A big Walker dehu keeps RH in the 40's + add heat, as does the water chiller. That gives me 82° and 50% on the outside of the tent.
The inside of the tent is AC Infinity country. Three cheers for them (except those lights!) — the C69 + humidifier + their heater give me VPD of 1.3 almost 24/7. Temps - 80-84 in the day and the heater keeps it at 76 at night. I'm really pleased to see how well things have worked out, especially with the addition of the heater. That's the cat's meow.
And I just did a wag and I'm thinking that between the Walker, the chiller, the lights, and the AC Infinity gear, that's about $200 of electricity (I'm now using 50¢/KwH). This won't be a huge yield but, I gotta say, it's
huge relief after losing two grows last year.
Oh, I put Thing 1 and Thing 2 in the canopy about 30 minutes ago. It's cool and moist in there - who knew? Both Gove's are reading 78° and RH is 64 and 67 while the RH at the sensor is ranging from 54.7 to 57. VPD is ranging from 1.2 to 1.32.
Oh, yeh, I've got two oscillating fans (ACI) running. One to move the mist from Hugh over the canopy, the other is aimed down from above the light. I decided to cross "Wind" off the chart - I bought a Uni-T anemometer and set things up so that oscillating fan is blowing at 2.6 m/s. I only found one recommended velocity for a grow room and that was 2 m/s so I'm thinking that the intermittent 2.6 + the fan aimed down from above the light should be good to get "wind" to optimal.
Just realized the above image is very short duration. This one is more informative:
VPD drops right at lights out but RH eventually drops enough to get back to 1.3±.
Looks scraggly in this view. :-(
Toward the back right. Filled in a tremendous amount, Colas are starting to stack.
I call this "Portrait of a Temperature and RH Sensor". Signed prints are available.
Yeh, rushed the shot and didn't look at what was actually in the photo. The left side is where Hugh's hose was aiming my…"growth inhibitor spray". Huge difference in the amount and structure of the foliage.
Portrait of an invader with its grappling hook deployed, though some people refer to it as a "Plant yoyo".
Thing 2 is located just right of center mass and it's now reading 67%. More air, drill sergeant, more air!
Thing 2 - below the canopy and very close to the res. Air temp is 78, same as Thing 1 which is in the canopy, but 3% drier.
That's all for now. I'll be moving the Things to different spots in the canopy and will also do some defol (the crowd gasps!) to see what's needed to get <60% in the canopy and around the buds.
The dehu has the garage at 35%± and it's not going be able to get it any lower. That 35% gets up to 45% in the rest of the garage and then another 10%± to hit VPD of 1.3 in the tent. That means that I'm about +10% in the canopy and that's an issue because I can't get the garage any drier.
Going to have to move more air and/or go to 1.4 VPD, perhaps.
Thoughts, comments, and cuss words welcomed.