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I'm just stumbling along like everyone else!Thank you! I really appreciate all of your info/advice and guidance on everything. I’d have been lost without it! You definitely know your stuff.

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I'm just stumbling along like everyone else!Thank you! I really appreciate all of your info/advice and guidance on everything. I’d have been lost without it! You definitely know your stuff.
Hahaha I hear ya!I'm just stumbling along like everyone else!![]()
Update: watered yesterday and it seems to have taken it well! However, my temps aren’t stabilizing at 78 and rh at 80%. I have my space heater continuously running at low and oscillating and it’s only holding temps around 72-74. When I put it on medium, immediate temps are getting above 90.. I got an aci cloud ray 6” auto oscillating fan as well and added that in with the other little fan I have and just installed the aci this morning to see if it would help even out the temp distribution. It hasn’t so far. Maybe I need a bigger tent? I’m kind of lost at this point :/I'm just stumbling along like everyone else!![]()
Update: watered yesterday and it seems to have taken it well! However, my temps aren’t stabilizing at 78 and rh at 80%. I have my space heater continuously running at low and oscillating and it’s only holding temps around 72-74. When I put it on medium, immediate temps are getting above 90.. I got an aci cloud ray 6” auto oscillating fan as well and added that in with the other little fan I have and just installed the aci this morning to see if it would help even out the temp distribution. It hasn’t so far. Maybe I need a bigger tent? I’m kind of lost at this point :/
Thank you!! I’ll definitely mess with the timer and see what happens! I’ll keep you posted. With lights off today my avg temp has been steadily at 68.4 and rh has been steadily at 67-68. Not quite 70 but pretty close. Do you think a bigger tent would help stabilize things better?Try this. If you have a digital timer you can program the heater to go on and off at a chosen interval. Set your heater to medium and time how long, with lights on, it takes to get to 85* and how long it takes, once you shut off the heater, to cool back down to 72*. Program your timer with these times as a starting point and adjust accordingly until you're able to stabilise temp in the room to fall within the range you want it to.
With the digital timers that I use you can program different time interval groups so if you can get it to work with lights on you can also set up a program for temp to stay in range with lights off. Once you have it dialed in your room should never waver too far out of range throughout the plants day and night. You'll have a much more consistent environment for them which should promote accelerated growth.
You're probably fine. Runoff is fine. Overwatering is keeping the soil consistently wet day after day. You can water until a gallon of runoff comes out of the bottom and you won't overwater your plant as long as you let it dry back. This is why it's not advisable to water every day as this will keep the soil oversaturated and the roots will drown and die.
The picture I posted of the 3 plants in my 5 x 5 is where they are right now. They are currently drinking around a gallon to a gallon and a half of water every 2 days with about 15% runoff. Normally this would be overwatering but they're drinking it so fast that my soil is bone dry down to the second knuckle on day 2. I was removing the runoff at first but one time I got distracted and forgot to remove the runoff. I remembered about an hour later and opened up the tent to remove the runoff from the tubs. The plant had sucked up all the runoff!!!! Now I water the same but just don't remove the runoff as the plants are using it too!!!
Thank you!! I’ll definitely mess with the timer and see what happens! I’ll keep you posted. With lights off today my avg temp has been steadily at 68.4 and rh has been steadily at 67-68. Not quite 70 but pretty close. Do you think a bigger tent would help stabilize things better?