Dude water then every hour, for some reason you've built a self watering system for four plants that are one inch tall. I've been hand watering quarter pound plants for a year and I have about seventy on average. I don't do hydro but make a good organic amended Coco and compost and pumice and water them a little under a gallon a day. Ten or eleven hps 1000 watt lights with fans and throw some bat shit on top every couple of weeks with some kmag and voila. The more you get them to drink and eat the bigger and better your buds will be. The amount of light you are using indoors determines how much bud you'll get. That being said, get way more light and more plants unless you are trying to spend lots on electric bill to warm your tent. Those pants were dark. You should need sunglasses in thereLoving the feedback so far.
The issue being is where i live, nothing is available, these grow lights and nute mixes and all, i have to order and send them by courier, the plan was to get a 1200W LED to cover the whole tent, but that would have cost me a minimum of $1200 for that light, so that was scratched off. Just the 450W cost me 600$. This is why i had to resort to this hanging light CFL to Augment the LED lighting until i manage to have a better budget to get another LED. The biggest problem with CFL is the heat, even though its minimal. The room temp during the day can get to 36 degrees easy, so the AC has to be on 24/7 at 23 Degrees, and even that Keeps the tent temperature at 29 Degrees, which is more then what i would like.
I adjusted some of the lights and added bulbs, i took some close ups of the irrigation system and of the babies.
Scientific, when i measure the water out of the bottle directly, it gives me a TDS of 110-120, after letting it open in a bucket for 24 hours, it goes down to 85/90. Maybe its the chlorine, maybe its black magic, but even this 30 decrease in TDS gives me more comfort when making my "tea"
Here are some close up of the plants, and the lighting system after adjustments.
Even the irrigation system pumps i had to order online to arrive by courier, the extraction system is working, just waiting for the other pump to finish the irrigation part then i will add pics of it in action.
Pineapple Chunk:-
Viva Sativa:-
Its growing very short and bushy, i wonder if this is the strain or its a dwarf, need to wait and watch
Candy Kush AF:
Candy Kush AF 2:-
Close up of the pipings in the extraction tray
Lights:-
As you can see, i have added more lights, adjusted the heights. The problem is after this the temperature exploded from 26 tp 31 degrees.
If you see in the bottom left corner, the 6" inflow fan has now become operational, and i switched on the extraction fan as well, all this to increase the ventilation to decrease the temperature.
My biggest issue with temperature is that the pots dry quicker and i need to water them more often.
Led light can be more intense than cfl, I would keep those lights at least 8 or 12 inches from your seedlings. With a cfl and a fan you can get the light a few inches from the seedling.You seem very informative I was wondering what you think of my steps in getting this plant off the ground.does this cfl seem to far from the plant right now I'm sitting around 75 for average temp I don't want them to stretch as I have limited room in my tentwould you recommend that I put the y splitter in and add a second bulb these are 100 w equivalent with 1500 lumensthis is what she looks like now btw. This is skunk diesel btw if anyone is wondering I would say this is probably about 5 day of sprouting
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A $20 lux meter from amazon.com will answer all of your light intensity questions for whitish light (not for blurple LED lights though, unfortunately).
Shoot for at least 50,000 to as high as 90,000 lux to get good yields. (1000 lux is 1000 lumens spread over one meter, just for reference.) Light intensity is directly related to yield and potency. There is a huge gap between a plant that is merely growing and one that is cranking at maximum lux levels.
I'm surprised at how many people will happily blow $40 on a bottle of magic fertilizer but wont spend the money to buy a lux meter. As a PhD engineer boss of mine used to say, "Looks like we're going to have to take some measurements!"
Your plants look good. They'll need to be repotted in a matter of days because chances are the tap root is already hitting the bottom of that cup. You can get those light bulbs really close to the plant--within a few inches--as long as it doesn't feel to warm at the plant itself. (A fan can help there too.)
My .02.
Hi,
So i finally got my pump today and switched it on and oh the water works. I underestimated the water pump power, and i had water pipes pulling out, it was quiet a scene. Anyway after some tweaks and fiddling, i got the thing to work
Here are a few pictures.
This is the tea mixture.
The bucket connected to the valve connecting it to the plug
A few of the watering in action
This is the waste bucket at the start
This is it after 3 minutes.
Something happened though during this whole operation, my Pineapple chunk, 2 weeks old
When i tried initially the water pressure was so high it knocked it hard.
The junction next to the soil bent and now the plant doesnt stand upright. Currently i propped it up, and its pointing up, there is no break in the stem, just a bend, Will it survive?
Hi,
Currently i propped it up, and its pointing up, there is no break in the stem, just a bend, Will it survive?
