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Have you seen a stomata? The mechanics are important here. They are like a pair of lips, that when full of moisture, open the mouth through which air and moisture travel. Low RH dries the lips faster than they can gain moisture from the plant, closing the mouth. Limiting the flow of moisture from the plant, and co2 entering.

Photosynthesis causes opening. IR as a colour has no known effect on stomata. Heat leads to drying though, as low RH does. These are just bulletin points really.

Nobody really knows what is going on. It's beyond moisture loss symptoms though. The only things I have fixed it with are RH, Less light, and the wild card in the deck, co2.

A candle gives more co2 than a personal grow can use. I'm in the bad situation of a meters grow, venting into the room the tent gets its air back from. Though the window is open and a fan assists air in and then out the open bedroom door. It's not the worst. Far from ideal though. A candle had me up from about 500 to 800 which recovered some plants I had found the wilting point for by playing with my lights. It took a few days to find the power that knocked them down in the evening, but only limp looking. Then I was back n forth lighting the candle and watching them carry on. Perhaps I was not doing the right experiment at all, and was making a greater DLI possible with the co2. Up and down went the leaves though.

This really is something we should be looking at. In order to increase lighting effectively.
If it's all about the RH, then the cutting sprays might show us this. It's perhaps agar.. we spray on cuts, so they don't need a prop. It slows moisture loss. Such a spray probably isn't good for co2 intake. So watching coated plants might separate the two notions effectively.



Cadbury's flake. The crumbliest flakiest milk chocolate in the world. When the ice-cream van comes around, the 99 is the most famous choice of all. It can only be made to order, and consists of the cone, the piped in ice-cream, and the flake shoved in it
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If you ever get a flake, open it very carefully. They shed off shards of chocolate, like a firework sheds sparks. Forget biting one. Leave it for the professionals. It's something to dissect on the table.

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PCBuds

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Sorry for rant on your thread buds

Peace :tiphat:


That's fine.
I don't mind at all.
I get to learn stuff too..

I think all my stoma are closed right up??


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I might need a bonfire in the kitchen to fix her. Lol

Actually, I do have a gas stove.

Maybe I'll cook something today.
That will bring up the RH and add some CO2...
 

PCBuds

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... The only things I have fixed it with are RH, Less light, and the wild card in the deck, co2.

So, with that in mind, and my plant falling asleep at least 1½ hours before the lights turned off today, I raised the lights a bit more, and I'm going to make a big batch of mashed potatoes today.

That has my gas stove running for an hour making heat, steam, and C02.

Speaking of Flakey,...
My plant is really flaked out this morning.
She is praying at the top though...


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PCBuds

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Not cool! Now I want icecream! :joint:

That does look good.
I've got vanilla ice cream but it just doesn't compare to the piped in stuff...
I've never had a Flakey.
Maybe I'll see if it's available here in Canada.
I've got safety glasses to wear while eating it. Lol
 

PCBuds

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The baby looks good...


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She was growing crooked at first and I realized that I didn't have my planter centered in the closet.
It was 2-3 inches closer to the door than the back wall, and that was enough to get her to grow towards the door.

I had two walls brighter with my last plant and the whole plant grew up leaning to one side.
 

PCBuds

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My agar jell mold REALLY shrunk above the water line...



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I had it in the rafters above the furnace to keep it warm, but it's really dry.

I added more water so the jell is submerged...


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My window plant...


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PCBuds

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Stupid meters...


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I know that one of them is working though...


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I did drop the misbehaving meter though.
I'm going to change the batteries and see if that helps, and smash it with my hammer if it does work. Lol
 

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I'm moving away from them meters. They are soooo cheap, but I think they are getting sloppy. The number that arrive not working is getting past 25% and the life expectancy is going downhill. I have one that works when you put a battery in, then settles on 71% in a few weeks. Battery in/out and I get another couple of weeks. I have some old ones that still work, but I'm not sure any of the last batch are still good.


I look forward to any findings after the mash is made.
 

PCBuds

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I'm moving away from them meters. They are soooo cheap, but I think they are getting sloppy. The number that arrive not working is getting past 25% and the life expectancy is going downhill. I have one that works when you put a battery in, then settles on 71% in a few weeks. Battery in/out and I get another couple of weeks. I have some old ones that still work, but I'm not sure any of the last batch are still good.


I look forward to any findings after the mash is made.


I'd like to grow without having to bother with any meters at all.

But I am glad to have a proper PH meter, and thanks to your help, a proper EC meter as well.

There's not too much that I want to bother doing regarding temperature and humidity, so I just kinda take note of those values as a bit of a reference.

The hygrometer that I had glued to the top of the closet dome fell off yesterday but luckily didn't land on my seedling.

I put a different one under the dome.
It's probably best to have it closer to the plant anyway.


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I noticed that it's kinda cold in there so I turned up the lights to help heat the closet more.
I'd like to use the LED strips to heat the closet. That means she's getting more light now, but that's how I roll anyway. lol


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I realized that I needed to close the closet door to take a proper lux reading.
This is as close to closed as I can get without stepping into the closet to check. Lol

So it's just under 13,000 lux which is reasonable.
 

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As least I can use my curing jar to test my hygrometers.
I'm pretty that I can trust that the RH is 58% with the Boveda packs in the jar.
 

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Dude you should so make some seeds. You have such an experimental attitude, you would love it. Just pop a few regs of something nice to get a male, and dust a single lower bud. You can easily get +100 seeds from one small bud. Be warned tho - its addictive! 😅 Then you can mess around with as many experimental techniques as you want without wasting any expensive genetics.


I made seeds once by accident.
I messed up my seed order and ordered White Widow Feminized seeds, instead of White Widow Autoflower Feminized, so I just grew them in my closet.

It didn't work and the plant hermed on me.
I didn't even notice until after I had everything dried trimmed and jarred.
I noticed that the RH in the jar was too high so I dumped out the buds to dry them and a few seeds fell out of the jar.
I ended up finding over 100 seeds.
They were all crap though, not just because they were herm seeds, but because they weren't ripe and I couldn't get any of them to germinate.

Then I tinkered with the idea of making my own proper feminized seeds with homemade silver solution using my silver dollar and my 12 volt power supply.


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Then I realized that I had fallen into a 🐇 hole with no exit and abandoned the whole idea. Lol
 

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I look forward to any findings after the mash is made.


I didn't get to the mashed potatoes today. The plant has woken up and the lights are on now.
I spent all day trying to figure out how to connect my new camera to my smartphone.

The camera didn't come with a memory card so I need to buy a memory card and a card reader to connect it to my phone.
And I'm not sure if my phone can connect to a card reader?

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I'm pretty sure your phone can use an external memory card, with a card to usb adapter. Older phones were slaves, and could be probed by external devices such as your PC. They couldn't be the master though, and probe another device. This started to change about 5 years ago. My samsung of that time needed a simple unlock to become a two way device. I bet yours is done. Websites list the phones that can, but I don't recall the actual term used. slave.. master..host... I just can't remember.

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That's mine. You can get them a bit flatter for wallet not key ring. Straight in the bottom of my samsung, which is a little older than yours.



Doesn't our light meter have a max record function, or is it just data hold?
 

PCBuds

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I'm pretty sure your phone can use an external memory card, with a card to usb adapter. Older phones were slaves, and could be probed by external devices such as your PC. They couldn't be the master though, and probe another device. This started to change about 5 years ago. My samsung of that time needed a simple unlock to become a two way device. I bet yours is done. Websites list the phones that can, but I don't recall the actual term used. slave.. master..host... I just can't remember.

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That's mine. You can get them a bit flatter for wallet not key ring. Straight in the bottom of my samsung, which is a little older than yours.


My phone is 2 years old but the camera I bought is from 2009 and didn't come with a memory card.

I don't have a computer so I want to plug my smartphone into my stupid camera. lol

So I bought a memory card that plugs into my phone and also fits into my camera using an adapter.

And I bought a card reader because if it works I don't have to keep opening up my smartphone to remove the memory card.

And I bought a patch cord that connects the phone and camera together directly through the USB ports.

The camera can download directly to a computer, so it should download directly to my phone.


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I bought all three because I get free shipping if I spend $35. Lol
 

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OTG (on the go) compatible phones can shuffle through external drives, which should be how the camera presents itself


Is that lead going to fit your phone? It's not usb C though perhaps you carry a C adapter in your wallet for using older chargers
 

PCBuds

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OTG (on the go) compatible phones can shuffle through external drives, which should be how the camera presents itself


Is that lead going to fit your phone? It's not usb C though perhaps you carry a C adapter in your wallet for using older chargers


Yeah, my phone has the new USB type C plug.
My camera has a USB mini plug.
This type...



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