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Chevy's blumatized organic soil LED mini grow

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Good luck with your new run!

Very interesting your test of the AC Infinite gear 👍🏼
Will be following along to see how it goes. 🍿


I'm also have two new seeds sprouting now. Hoping that will work at these temps 😬🥶
I've put the 11 l fabric pots on the radiator.
 

Chevy cHaze

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I've used heater cables before, they're quite good. Waterproof too, so you can drape them around pots or put on the floor and put pots on top. They get warm, not hot and only draw a couple watts.

As I needed to travel today to visit family, I have put the plugs with the (un)sprouted seeds in 1L pots of light mix and blumatised them as i could not wait longer for the seeds to sprout. The Aladdin's Skunk has also germinated but the two Afghan Lemon are still underground. A bit stupid and obviously lack of proper planning on my side but I also set the blumats and left without waiting for a dry/wet cycle first.
Not the first time i had to do this and if there's no other way and I have to do it I put only as much water into the reservoir as the catch tray at the bottom of the tent can hold so even if everything goes wrong no water will be leaking anywhere.

Made some rosing from the California Indica... 6g of weed in a 3 ton press (definitely didn't max out the press!) at 80C and a 72micron bag gave me a nice 1g chunk of rosin.
Happy holidays all and I hope you're smoking good!!

Fingers crossed ;)
 

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Some pics from when I had to leave
As I said some seeds had sprouted, others were still closed at this point
I use Great White to inoculate with mycorrhizae already as seedlings and these are the small pots the
plugs went into
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Some "parked" Blumats
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Zivilpolizist

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Hey Chevy!

Congrats to the 5 plants out of 4 seeds 😅

Really diggin what you are doing.
Regarding grow style we really could be twins 😁✌️

What I said earlier about the three markings, in satured soil close a further three markings from last drop clinging is a very good estimate for the right amount of humidity in your soil, so it will work no doubt, but some plants are different and like it more wet/dry, you can easily adjust the blumats for that.
Btw you already adjusted the way you set up your blumats:

You are told to close them only two markings.

But I also close them three markings.
You need that to compensate using small pots, since the dripping hose has to be shorter - which brings the sensor "carrot" closer to the dripping water 😉
 

Chevy cHaze

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Hey Zivi!
You're right, I could have sworn three markings was the official figure but probably just bad memory replaced with what works best from experience hahaha.
In the meantime I have installed the humidifier and the hose but still wrestling with the programming of the controller. I can already say it's a bit lame that you can't seem to really automate VPD but merely set trigger values that can give you the desired VPD.
But still figuring that out I could be wrong,..
 

Zivilpolizist

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I'm sorry I can't really help you out since my T4 is running in Auto Mode and the only other thing connected to my 69pro controller is the cloudray fan, which has not been in use yet.
 

Chevy cHaze

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I think auto mode is what you need to be in for the controller to do its work.
I've by now figured out most of the modes and how to set values and I have to say the controller holds them nicely.
I had to separate how things run out a bit, so the fan only takes care of too high temperatures and the humidifier only deals with humidity although running any of the two will also affect the other parameters (humidifier/ temperature and fan/ humidity).
Since you can only set trigger values I've only set the ones needed in my environment.
It's warm and dry (it's my apartment after all) so I don't have to deal with too high humidity or too low temps and therefore only use one trigger value per device. The humidifier kicks on when rh dips below 60% and the fan only increases rpm from constant base rpm when the temps rise above 28C.
 
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