Welcome to the Vivosun Bud Factory, a Vivosun 5x5 (60x60x80) advanced grey tent equipped with a custom Vivosun Smart Grow System (SGS) with a Vivosun VSF6450 and a 45g 4-site RDWC system.
Vivosun Smart Grow System settings: ** Vegetative Mode **
- Light - Vivosun VSF6450
- 22:00-04:00 OFF
- 04:00-22:00 Spectrum:Vegetative, Intensity:60%, Simulate Sunrise/Sunset (24 DLI)
- Circulation - Vivosun AeroWave E6
- 00:00-04:00 Speed 1 (10%) Oscillating
- 00:04-22:00 Natural breeze Oscillating
- 22:00-24:00 Speed 2 (20%) Oscillating
- Exhaust - Vivosun 6" AeroZesh
- 22:00-04:00 64% RH, Speed 4, Default off
- 04:00-22:00 High 82F / 70% RH, Speed 6, Default off
Other Equipment:
- Vivosun 13" Air Circulator oscillating horizontally on speed# 1
- Vivosun AeroWave A6 on low oscillating
Date: 5/9/23 Day# 20
Strains: Banana Pudding (BP), Mango Mousse (MM), Apply Betty (AB), Forbidden Fruit (FF)
Nutrients: Stout MSA, Megacrop, Voodoo Juice, Pirhana, Hydroguard, z7
Medium: 8" Netpots with clay balls in RDWC system (5x13g buckets)
With the
@VIVOSUN VSF6450 at 60% there is plenty of heat in the tent. Combined with the humidifier on warm mist it feels tropical when you open the tent. The problem with the humidifier, though, is that it keeps me from being able to lower the RH enough at night to keep the VPD at 1.0-1.1. Looking at the humidity over the past couple of days, though, it looks like I can probably remove the humidifier now.
These girls now have enough roots to start drinking from the res. The res has only lost 1 gallon so far but that will start picking up soon. As they drink more from the res, they respire more and raise the humidity in the tent. They should be drinking enough now so that they don't need a humidifier. I'll turn the humidifier off today and, if the humidity stays up, I'll remove it.
Last night all of the plants got topped above the fourth node. They were different sizes so some of the tops were bigger than others. BP had the smallest top, with only one little node taken off. AB was the largest with almost 4 nodes removed. Since they went into the system at different times, I'm hoping topping them at the same time will help even them up a little.
The growth rate in DWC still amazes me. Here's a time-lapse video for the last week, and it gets even quicker as they get more roots and leaves.
Two things to note about that video:
1. You can see at night! For all except the last night I had the 'night mode' turned on for this camera, which uses IR light to be able to see at night. I turned it off last night and for the remainder of the grow so it doesn't mess with the photoperiods. You'll notice it was pitch black the last night, just like I like it
2. When I put the seedlings into the RDWC I try to orient them diagonally to give them more room to grow. Look at the Mango Mouse (back-left), though. I swear she's spinning around in the netpot clockwise! Until the roots get down to the water, there's nothing to keep her from doing that, but I've never seen it before.
The Vivosun SGS is scheduled to move to the final stage of veg tomorrow, the start of week# 4 of veg. It will increase the light to 80% (around 40DLI). The RH will go to 68% day / 60% night to try to stay at 1.2 VPD.
The scrog net will be going in today, about 8" above the buckets. As the lower nodes continue growing I'll keep spreading them to the outside of the net. If I can do it without breaking any of these huge empty stems I'll be very happy, but I have my grafting tape ready just in case.
#VIVOSUN #LoveWhatYouGrow
