Bodhi Strawberry Mama / Super Silver Strawberry / Romulan IX2 + autoflower + landrace medical & recreational cannabis home grow

[Bandit420]

Patioponics is up and running!!!!






Africans rising on the window sill will go into the outdoor flood and drain then later upcanned into pots and Earth




This has been sitting in the idea and collecting parts for it phase for a very long time but the whole patio remodel and repair job also included redoing my coco and soil mixing station and water tank and getting it under a canopy tent.
I finally got the new canopy for the old market frame and now the next part is to outfit it with gutters and a downspout to collect rain and add it to my collection barrel

 

[Stoneyluv]

Fucking AI man!!!!
No way that bullshit temu inflatable could hold up to any of that stuff man. The final clip shot is funny because it looks like it cut the guy in half to make him fit
Those things barely last a day in a swimming pool. On a lake, not a chance it lives past the first use. I had a few of those things for the gulf and they'd be done after the first afternoon the plastic is so thin. Even when not using they leak air and deflate in a matter of hours lol.


Finally got an email from ecowitt about these things shipping out this week!!!

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I wasn't expecting them until next month and figured I'd get to use them for the next grow but now I get an early jump on them.
Cant wait to see the differences between rez and medium ppm and how that moves on the ecowitt dashboard graphs.

Another thing about those graphs..I think I can use it to track growth efficiency.
Since plants cool air as they grow, this garden is cooling the air inside the room. It even dips and then spikes before lights go off.

I believe the dip is relative to optimal performance during the day and the spike is when the daily growth is done and the lights can be turned off.
Along with the other adjustments, I've gained about an hour of efficient growth per day, around 9.5 hours of the lights on time is used to actually grow.

Any time left on beyond that is just waste so I'm connecting dots between lights on time, growth efficiency during that time, and how it relates to temps.
Basically, the hotter it is the less the lights need to be on. Growth efficiency is greatly hindered by heat so the window of good growth rates is narrowed by heat.
When temps are optimal, more hours of light can be used.
These are the factors at play when deciding reduced hours of on time and why 12/12 is just suggestion IMO. I seriously doubt even with the most efficient grow space, the entirety of that 12 hours is being used. It's more like around 9-10, even on it's best day. Those extra 2 hours wasted is simply burning money and wearing out equipment.


Kinda feel like I'm creating a monster with this group, finding my happy place and dialing in. I see trellis trouble on the horizon and big, tall plants with smallish root balls can lead to a top heavy disaster later so I better get to work on preventing any of that

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I finally settled on my official America's 250th b-day commemorative tshirt so I can remember this Summer forever but it sold out.
To me, it screams patriotism and unity and really captures the vibe of 250 so I really hope I can find something similar

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so that one i knew was fake... but still funny!! it reminds me an old mark martin inflatable chair i have. dark blue valvoline.. i'll have to get that thing out one day!!! not even sure if it still holds air..

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i can't stop thinking about your comments on the cooling and the time of day when they're done and show it. i think i experience this same theory but in a different way. because of the way my top off is set up it uses a small usb pump to add solution to keep my water level at the optimum level. well every time my plants sip a little the pump makes a noise. i can hear t go off every few minutes and when they were at their peak i would hear that pump go off every few seconds. then an hour or so before lights out i would hear it slow up again to every few minutes. i think this is giving me the same signal but in a different way. i've only noticed it the couple weeks since i've been spending more time down there with harvest and scrog stuff. i knew what i was hearing but didn't really know what it meant.. maybe this has something to do with what you are talking about?

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can't wait to see how you like those new sensors!!!!

 

[Bandit420]

so that one i knew was fake... but still funny!! it reminds me an old mark martin inflatable chair i have. dark blue valvoline.. i'll have to get that thing out one day!!! not even sure if it still holds air..

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i can't stop thinking about your comments on the cooling and the time of day when they're done and show it. i think i experience this same theory but in a different way. because of the way my top off is set up it uses a small usb pump to add solution to keep my water level at the optimum level. well every time my plants sip a little the pump makes a noise. i can hear t go off every few minutes and when they were at their peak i would hear that pump go off every few seconds. then an hour or so before lights out i would hear it slow up again to every few minutes. i think this is giving me the same signal but in a different way. i've only noticed it the couple weeks since i've been spending more time down there with harvest and scrog stuff. i knew what i was hearing but didn't really know what it meant.. maybe this has something to do with what you are talking about?

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can't wait to see how you like those new sensors!!!!

You just sent me down a rabbit hole on ebay looking at inflatable nascar stuff
I saw that chair!!! There's a few others too and they're all cool!!!
I have a giant inflatable doobie with the Raw logo on it I've always wanted to fill with helium.

I'm printing out a remix Benchy, one of those little 3d printed tug boats, so it holds one of those ecowit blades thru the hull and floats on the surface of my rez, transmitting constant EC and showing what happens before and after floods.
Another probe will be in a plant so I can watch that.
I won't use that to change anything but just monitor it thru the stages of life.

Couple weeks ago I decided to let it run the rez like a gas tank and run it close to dry then refill it with new solution. Takes about 4-5 days then I refill it and I'm curious what the ppm does thru everything.
Kinda wish they'd come out with something for pH but at week 5, I no longer need to add or check that since it's all good at those high nute ranges but early on it would be cool to have pH on the ecowit dash.

I'm still working on the new graph with new data but here's the old which I've marked up on paint



My lights represent a 10 degree rise at lights on. Temp climbs rapidly after they turn on.
Shortly after that rapid rise, temps plummet.

Plants exchange hot co2 laden air for cool clean oxygen and if you have enough of them in a space, they can be an air conditioner in many ways but with humidity.
After lights turn on, photosynthesis begins and we see on the chart where temp drops after lights on. They slowly climb thru the day until an hour before lights off then the graph almost goes vertical again then plummets with the lights turning off.
That spike before lights off is the plants turning off. They stopped photosynthesis for the day and are shutting down until the lights come on the next day.

Where I've adjusted and am watching the new graphs is that slow climb to the spike is much more level and longer, some days by an hour and half.
And the temp differences really don't seem like much but the difference in growth efficiency between 88 and 92 degree is huge


Watching this race tonight and....