OK, Pretty much done,
I have almost doubled my space, cut the noise in half, (to about the sound of a fridge) eliminated hydroton and Rockwool.
With the window box my neighbor only sees the blinds. I have a fresh supply of air from under the house where I dont think those spider mites would be and an 80 CFM exhaust directly above supplying the underside of the leaf with fresh air, 110 CFM Duct fan for the light. I have CO2 supplement I will run Once they hit the screen. A new Ceramic Metal Halide 400w light and new Hydrofarm Ballast. Four CFL's and the Custom Aerotub Hydroponic system.
Oh, and everything is grounded this time.
Yahoo!
Lets Grow!
Couple days ago I checked out those Widow buds from the last grow, found the one that had a few seeds.
I had five that looked good but I soaked them all overnight. next day tapped them and six sank.
I put them all in a paper towel kept them warm and in two days pop! We got five.
I split the rooter cube and put them in with the root tip pointing down.
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In one empty cube I placed the temp probe. that registers the out temp on the thermometer
Got out the seedling heat map and plugged it into the second daytime timer I have the CFL's and res circulating pump on.
I actually run that at night to keep them warm.
I want the root zone between 80 and 84° and upper temp about 75°
I don't have a thermostat for the heat map, too cheap I guess. I use sticks under the pan to raise it
Im going to hand water them while they are young.
By putting them in the tray I can control moisture better.
These are the seeds that didn'tt pop right away.
I put water on them and will give them a couple more days.
But if they dont pop I have backup.
I Have these feminized Train wreck from my last order.
I also have five Mazar seeds that would need to be sexed.
So either way this first crop will have females and flower out. Then I will plug in there clones for a second round.
Once I get the hang of this system, I will get some awesome genetics and grow a mother or two.
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