It's Saturday night! Hope you are partying and having fun!
Meanwhile, for when you sober up, here's a
HYENA'S GROW HOUSE UPDATE!
Things are going! It's been quite a week so here's the details...
The seeds were busy sprouting so I went up to the grow house Wednesday to do more work. It's Spring so it's a great time to be a lawn and the grow house lawn (and the yard in general) needed serious work. I wasn't expecting to spend almost the entire half day I had on yard work but it turned out to be even more than that. The place had serious weed beds and the lawn was a dandelion farm. All the properties around me are very well kept and I can't afford to be that crappy yard guy so I went to work. I mowed, trimmed, edged, weed whacked, ground cleared, and laid 17 bags of mulch. When I crawled into bed the place looked fabulous. I was dead.
The next morning I sprayed the lawn and finished the details. Place looks awesome. Everybody around here has a dog so multiple neighbors happened by and everybody complimented the look. Yes. Now I'm that nice man who bought Edna's place. Hide in plain sight.
So I had a little time left to work on the power which is my next step. The Titan control box I got needs a plug I can't find so I left the job at that point and came home. I'll get an electrician where I live to put the correct plug on and then run conduit next trip up. Power supply is a lot more challenging when you use 240 volts...you could get killed or burn down your house, among other things. The efficiency will be worth taking my time. Plus I have probably three more weeks before I have to transplant the girls.
Speaking of the girls, let's meet them!
13 out of 15 seeds sprouted normally...two did weird things and ended up being unviable. I need 12 so we're still good, not by much but good. I was going to use 1-gallon milk containers and stuff but after constructing a complicated prototype...it suddenly occurred to me to keep this simple and repeatable.
I turned to standard 1-gallon containers and 1-gallon paint strainers which fit simply and snugly.
Fill with Perlite and we are ready to go. I hastily recut some hose segments and got the supply lines to the right lengths. Perfect!
The nifty adjustable valves allow me to equalize all the water flow rates. I set the electronic timer to water twice a day for five minutes each time, which should deliver plenty of water for these little girls. Then it was time to transplant them. They looked pretty healthy even though they're a bit slender compared to my usual efforts, though that will change very soon...
Into each pot and everything adjusted...
Then the new nursery lab setup is complete! We are off to the races baby! I added one more Mars 300 for a total of four, which should be enough for this first month. Here's how it all looks...
All finished so I can turn to construction in the grow house once more. I will probably go up Wednesday again. Sooooo much to do! God what a project. But fun!
That's the update. My emotions are very hard to control even at this early stage, I'm so excited and also so challenged, so I turn to my only true friend...
Smoking a fatty of Blue Hyena, dreaming of the ultimate grow room tantalizingly within reach...it will look like this so soon!
But first, so much more to do. Have a great next few days!
Peace, Hyena
