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Yeah I'm really hoping for explosive growth! Everything is in place for it. I have 6 Golden Tiger fem freebies and I'm ordering another pack of them to run next. I'll probably order a few others from their catalog at the same time.
I have noticed the co2 level raise when I have been in the room.Transplanted the girls into the mini dwc last night. All of them made it except one. I knocked over the net pots and lost one. I'm so pissed at myself. :(
Anyway I have about 4 or 5 more seeds germinating to make sure I have 9 strong seedlings to run. They are under the humidity dome and hopefully won't be too far behind the others.
The room is at 78 degrees ambient. Humidity is between 60% and 80%. I only have one fogger hooked up and it's not enough to get the room to 70% steady so I'll have to get the other one running today. I checked the surface temp with the laser thermometer and the seedlings are at 74 degrees. Once the humidity is fixed I'll bump the temperature up to about 80 degrees.
I only have a few lights on and the PPFD at the canopy is 325 μmoles. I plan on bumping the light up by Sunday to around 500 μmoles. The dwc has Veg & Bloom nutes added at 1/4 the recommendation. TDS is at 200 PPM which is slightly higher than expected. I was targeting 150.
The CO2 reading is at 2000 PPM which is very weird. It jumped when I turned on the big lights, but it always seemed to go up and down as moved in and out of the room before. I thought that with all 4 fans on it would drop, but it hasn't yet. I guess I'll check the connections for leaks.
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Hey ken! Here's the model I have. Their bigger one puts out about twice as much. I never thought I'd need more!What fogger are you using?... Sorry if I missed it.
I might have to upgrade my fogger as well, as 1 Ultra-Mist doesn't get it high enough all the time.
Thanks again Don. I appreciate your words of caution. I'm going to continue to alternate high light levels with lower levels to foster an adaption to high light levels without stressing them. I looked very closely at the seedlings this morning and I believe what you are seeing as tip burn is actually pieces of the seed that stayed stuck to the seedling. Here's better picture to see if you guys can confirm what I just said. In any case you make a good point regarding prevention. I'm insanely paranoid now that plants are going, but I feel compelled to push things to the limit. I need to keep that shit in check and not kill these girls!Too small to tell at this point. Maybe a too much of both? Hard to say. I believe in treating the babies with a softer hand until they get acclimated. I have an even stronger belief that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. So with an untested system while keeping in mind the obvious financial investment so far, I think that breaking it in at a gradual increase so that you can document the progress in greater detail to have a system performance baseline would be worth more than you can realize. With that data, were any problems to arise in your grow, you would be able to backtrack, analyze, diagnose, and repair just about anything. Look at how many people with sick or dying crops that log in to ask for help? Not that I am knocking them because I always can respect someone that can put their ego aside and admit they need help. But because I would bet that most do not have that data on hand. Not a fault, just an observation. I like your method of alternating light intensity. Very smart thinking.