it’s really just the Ph not holding. it’s a mystery to me why everyone can set it and forget it and i can’t. i have to move this thing in the next week (really didn’t give any thought to how much it was going to be cemented into place once full) and will refil it with tap water instead of filtered and see if that helps. i’ll also never know if i dragged some sort of fungus in with the soil, which isn’t the Octopot’s fault.
the self watering are very intriguing but i need to save that for the future when i’m not on the second floor of my house where a leak would be devastating.
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Glue Gelato Auto: Start of Week 7 Update
Glue Gelato Auto
Coast of Maine with 40% perlite
Temps 70’s , humidity 50-60%
slow slow but the new growth is looking better. she’s had two rounds of copper and hydrogen peroxide treatments and i’ll probably keep up the H2O2 every few days from here on out. only other thing i’m doing is ph’ing the reservoir back down to 6.5 every day, which is easy enough. temps have been upper 70s suddenly that the weather is stupid warm outside, so i’m seeing heat make a difference and i need to figure out how to get temps up quicker in the tents in the winter.
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I know it can be a pain but being that this is an auto you could run during the night and off during hottest part of day. You prob are already doing it, just throwing out suggestions. I have a small electric coil heater in the “lung room” to keep my temps up for a bit as I run lights off from 10am-4pm. Its helped maintain at 70-72
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it’s weird, i don’t actually see a huge temp difference between day and night. it’s always 69-72. i think my hvac system is consistent in it’s imbalance. but… i hadn’t actually thought of that. i’ll keep a closer eye once winter returns in a few days. once i can get the lights up the temp will be perfect but i def think seedling growth was slow. bad for an auto.
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oh… also bad. and i forgot about this. i have to disconnect the humidity timer when i go to bed at night because the clicking keeps me up. the humidity really drives the temps down. not sure i want to run the lights at night without humidity. but it is a really good thought.
Yeah for sure I’m only running it for the seedling autos I have going at the moment then I can let the house do the work. If I had another heat mat I would have just placed them under the pots but this will work for now.
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so that was another question i had, because i have mats under the babies so the roots are toasty, but the leaves may be chilly. how the heck does that all factor in when you’re looking at VPD? it’s just the leaves that count, right? cuz we’re talking about respiration.
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Yeah it’s just going to be your surface temps of leaves usually the top canopy. Most people will use a IR temp gun that you can get at home depot or lowes for around 20 dollars. I kinda follow the principle of vpd, however I dont really try to go by those charts to a certain number to me it’s unrealistic where I live etc. I mainly try to shoot for 65 to 70 percent thru seedling into first weeks of veg then I will drop to 60-65 thru mid to late veg then 50 and below through flower. again this is just my method so far…
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I run humidifier constantly as well as exhaust and just keep my bottom vents open with an oscillating fan running usually medium to low speed. Only down fall is you have to turn down when lights go out and fill it up more frequently.
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i have to turn all the fans off to get it above 30% right now. i haven’t figured out how to balance everything out yet to find a sweet spot. best i can do right now is manually run the exhaust fan when i think of it. i should hook it up to a timer. just makes me mad that the AC infinity doesn’t have that option. so there’s another weak spot with my grow so far, minimal airflow.
i guess with my auto being a little larger i can drop the humidity, start running a fan and just keep the babies domed… oh but then my temp comes down. lol. vicious circle.
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Stupid question but does your fan have a speed controller hooked up to it? Definitely dome the babies then if it’s getting that low. Only other thing I would know to do would maybe try running a bigger humidifier in the room the tents in like around 50%rh idk if it would be worth the price of a larger unit.
the ac infinity has a controller that can be triggered by temp or heat. it has a timer but it’s the dumbest timer… it’s a countdown instead of an interval, so it just shuts off when the timer hits 0. i was allowing the humidity to trigger the fan previously in the fall and it was working perfectly, but winter changed that. even then, temps aren’t terrible. just not where i want em.
each tent has it’s own humidifier. humidifying the room didn’t seem to do poop for me. even IN the tents it only works when the fans are off. so idk either. i’ll keep playing with it. or just do my best til i can crank the lights up and generate more heat. slow growth will be my punishment.
what i need to do is get the temp up in my room, it’s just not easy. AC, no problem, but space heaters are scary and i have no floor space left. i’m going to get all the babies in the same tent. there will be three heat mats, that should help with the temp. get the auto back in it’s 2x2. i’m just lazy and i gotta drain the reservoir.
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giant heat mats… that may be a safe method of heating. heating pads? great. now my next house is also gonna have to have heated floors in addition to individually climate controlled rooms and 12 foot ceilings with tables. with floor drains. and plumbing.
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Sounds like you have a solid plan of action set in place. I hear you on the grow room idea I wish I had land I would just do a nice greenhouse with light dep. and supplemental lighting and let mother nature help me a brother out lol
I was just thinking about this the other day. This may sound nuts, but it would be interesting to engineer a home oriented towards growing.
It probably wouldn’t have much different resale value, unless a fellow grower caught onto how the home was set up. @Agrestic
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not nuts at all. i dream about this stuff. renovation and design is my thing. i don’t know about resale value but i will say that apartment buildings here have started incorporating grow rooms (more like 2x2 closets). there have also been some little old ladies on my street who want help setting up a grow space which totally floored me. selling here is illegal but they said they wanted the extra cash lololol. i about died. so… there’s some demand for it, just don’t know how much. i was also thinking about it and wondering what other purpose such a room could serve if the person moving into the house wasn’t a grower.
also just the sheer mess of it. i have to go outside to do most of my potting up, i don’t have an unfinished space for it. going outside her is miserable 75% of the year. would love a space to do that inside as well.
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probably past time to start LST. these pots are so tall, i’m a little worried about this going back into the shorter 2x2. tips on training when not topping? all this is gonna do is make it grow sideways off the pot… do i start turning the main stem in a circle? this just seems weird.
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Should start to look like half a menorah. Or an exhaust manifold, if you will.
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the voices in my head are displeased
You can either let it grow straight up, or once the new shoots come out, you could tie those off, perpendicular to what’s tied down now.
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