Journal #2 - High Brix Kit - Silver Surfer Haze Clone - LED - MH - HPS

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Food for thought - it's not a bad idea to have an HID or other lighting in your back pocket. Unlike LED, you can just replace the bulb on an HID when a bulb(s) goes bad.
 
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The morning inspection only identified a couple aphid stragglers - not sure if they were dead or alive (not moving at all) but cleared away. I think that paint brush trick after the DE was just what the dr. ordered.
 
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Found a few more aphids and eradicated them - will continue to monitor but so far so good. She doesn't seem too stressed from all the brushing and poking :)
 
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The remaining parts for the light rail should be here by the end of the week so hopefully we'll have a complete setup by Sat.
 
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Experiment time. I wanted to see the difference between leaf temps when light is moving vs. when standing still. Yesterday I stopped the light just above the SSH and took several readings from the leaves with a laser thermometer and determined that with an ambient temp of 81 the leaves registered at 76-79 range throughout the day. Today I turned mover back on and with ambient temp of 81 the leaves register at 69-71 so far. I'm bumping up the temp to 88 to see how the leaves register at higher ambient temps with the mover. I will update with leaf temp ranges after I've gathered several more samplings.
 
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At an ambient temp of 88 and RH of 50 the top leaves under the mover are registering at 76-78 degrees and soil temp is registering at 75-76 degrees. Conclusion: Without the mover there is a differential of between 2 to 5 degrees between plant and ambient temp but with the mover there is a differential of 10 to 12 degrees meaning I can have much more light with much less stress to the ladies and a spike in ambient temps isn't as much of a concern.
 
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Off to make some fabric pots now: anyone care to calculate what size pot a 24" base by 16" height fabric pot is?
 
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New pot made, leaf temps checked some more and they stayed consistently within the ranges I posted earlier. Parts arrived and 2nd light was added to light mover, pics later. Also, did something I would never normally do - I transplanted the SSH into the 30gallon fabric pot going into week 5 of flower. She was root bound in her stupid plastic pot and I just have to see her in a proper environment now that she has a new room and all :)
 
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Week 5:

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The fabric pot is exactly 31.31844 gallons.
budnoob2 said:
New pot made, leaf temps checked some more and they stayed consistently within the ranges I posted earlier. Parts arrived and 2nd light was added to light mover, pics later. Also, did something I would never normally do - I transplanted the SSH into the 30gallon fabric pot going into week 5 of flower. She was root bound in her stupid plastic pot and I just have to see her in a proper environment now that she has a new room and all :)
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Other rail is hung, another light on the way, and ready for more fun to begin. Off to make a couple more fabric pots. :peace:
 
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What is your material for the pots? I'm so ready for this grow.:Namaste:
 
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I just grabbed some thick black fabric from Wally World, but I'd rather go to a craft store and find a better quality next time. This stuff works OK but it's stretchy and harder to work with than say a Smart Pot that was purchased.
 
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