Morning tokers and growers, hope your all bathed in sunshine like we are, forecast is a sunny weekend, not warm enough for a barby, but nice enough to be out in it with out wearing a freezer suit.
Plants are looking well, nice colour and good vigorous growth. Topped the three remaining plants, and compost binned the struggling Critical Kush, which is a shame, as Barney's stuff is normally bullet proof, this wouldn't put me off buying more of Barney's range, but I would avoid the Critical Kush.
The other three remaining plants have had no problems at all, they're reaching for the sun. Found some time to top all three plants, the Amnesia Lemon is going for it, and is currently the biggest plant of the three, which is strange, as the Franco's Lemon Cheese grew into the hood last time I ran it under HID, but I'm sure it will catch up later, not that it matters, as height is not the issue this run, as all three plants will be sharing a scrog, so nothing should grow into the shade this time, but as you know, every now and then you come across a rogue that upsets your perfect plan. If all goes to plan this week, and we have a growth spurt, then the next update should see us with the scrog net on in next weeks update.
Anyway, lets look at some pics.
Critical Kush.
Chocolate Skunk. Topped, and loving life, if you can track some of these seeds down, get some, nice fruity, earthy toke, and smells divine in a grinder.
Amnesia Lemon. Very lemony toke.
Franco's Lemon Cheese.
Other things, like the cheap PH and PPM meters, simple to build, cheap, made to dip in an inch of water, so why have I got a bag full of meters that broke down? It rained quite a bit last week, so this forced me into the workshop to get some things fixed, that I'd hidden out of the way of her indoors.
While having a small toke, I pulled out a plastic bag, full of PH and PPM meters, started fiddling with one. Anyway, out came the craft knife, then the pliers, then the choppers/nibblers, and I took one apart, goes with out saying that in my current state, it won't be going back together.
After another small pipe, I had one of the cheapy yellow PH meters in bits. What I found is, the probes are siliconed in where the probes meet the solution your dipping into, well I don't know if the salts from the nuits causes the solution to creep past the silicon into the meters inner workings, on all the meters I took apart, all suffered the same water encroachment. So it seems you can't leave your meters in fluids, or lay them down after you've used them. I now have an old cup, and my cheap meters will be housed in this cup, up-right to stop the ingression of fluids. The other thing I found was that the pickup probes were a little gummed up, so a mild clean up with a bit of soapy water and fine paint brush soon had that sorted. Hopefully this will save me a few bucks to put into my utility bills, and save you a bit of cash.
Taking a look inside.
If you look on the black splodge on the cardboard, you can see water droplets, this came out an old meter, so must have come from inside the meter when I opened it.
So there you go. Leave your meters upright to stop moisture getting inside, and every now and then, give the probes a gentle clean with a soft toothbrush and mild soapy water, change the batteries every year, and your meter should serve you well, and save you some money buying new ones.
And that's it for this week, all is updated, hope you save some money in the future on meters, I will.
Until next week, just keep tokin folks.