And YEAH, lets continue down this, glorious path of evergreen growth, my friends
And ALL'YA'ALL lurkers out there, with the green about 2 pop out ya thumb , come on in and say hello, dont hold back, let it grow, let it show!
Nuthin much too report, girls are tuggin in, gettin established in the table and pebbles. Vertical growth is starting too show now, its on, they dig the table
Temps are slowly climbing outside, spring is coming. Last grow it where average minus 10 degrees Celsius outside, making it an easy task to cool down the grow room, and keep temps steady, inside the limits.
My main problem is water temps in res, with no action taken, it just settles at the "growroom" temperature which is at 26 degrees Celsius.
A little too warm, making it possible for bacteria and fungus to thrive, and causing less dissolved oxygen in the water, not good!!
And I dont want that, so I did what I could too chill the res, without a waterchiller.
I moved my fresh air intake down below the table. It where passive before, letting the main extractor fan do all the pulling of fresh air inn, while extracting, basic and simple.
But now, Ive mounted an inline axial fan too pull in the fresh air through the intake, blowing 10 degrees Celius, cold air directly on, and around the reservoir, beneath the table. It works, for now!
But come summer, we B phucked without the chiller.
Or else I'll just have too slack on stealth, and keep the res outside the room.
We'll see, worst case scenario allways on mind! I got some cooltubes too if everything else fails too keep temps at preference!
Besides that my main concern has been toward the watering cycle. Last batch where all rooted out in small rockwoolcubes 1 inch, and then transplanted too a bigger 4 inch cube, before transplanted too the table.
This time around, they are all rooted out directly into pebbles, and then transplanted in the table a little sooner. But the only medium in the table is therefor only pebbles. Not retaining moisture and water at same levels. This will be the main thing there is different from last grow. And in praxis, it means a little less work, one less transplant, but "requires" an aero propagator. Allthough I am sure it could be done without, if One really wanted too! And One could also, just transplant the 1 inch cube directly in the table instead of transplanting into a 4 inch cube first. This is really just too get the different experiences. As I write this I actually lean toward taking the cuttings, and just root them out in 1 inch RW cubes, and then into the table of pebbles.
Feeding\watering cycle in straight pebbles:
ON 09.00 OFF 09.04
ON 15.00 OFF 15.04
ON 21.00 OFF 21.04
ON 03.00 0FF 03.04
Which comes down to: Pumps on 4 minutes every 6. hour. 4 minutes is exactly the time it takes the pump to deliver enough water, so that the water level reaches the overflow fitting and floods the entire rootzone.
-Last batch the pump where on 5 min, but only 3 times a day.
Nutrient Soup:
PPM 900 PH 5,8
(EC\TDS-meter = 0,5 conversion\confusion)
Tap water hard. (280ppm 7,4ph)
Leftovers, veg. 2part
Superthive
Enzymes
Rootbooster.
Silica.
ph down.