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2.5 KiB
Title: Grow Log, Home: Round 3 |
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Date: 2022-07-29 |
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Category: Notes |
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Summary: Grow log for my home hydroponics setup, round 3. |
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Wide: true |
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Short: hlog3 |
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2022-04-14: Planted strawberry starters. |
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2022-04-21: Observed fresh white roots shooting out horizontally. |
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2022-04-23: Cut flower buds off BCDEF. |
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2022-04-24: Measured EC at 1.2 and pH at 6.8. Added 20 mL of pH down. |
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2022-04-25: Measured pH at 6.2. |
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2022-04-28: Cut a bud off of E. |
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2022-05-01: Cut buds off BCDF. |
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- too many buds, no longer tracking |
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2022-05-05: Noticed some young leaves are brownish. Turned grow lights down to 50%. |
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2022-05-22: Noticed sticky leaves and white flecks. There's tons of aphids. |
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2022-05-24: Sprayed all plants liberally with aphid spray and rinsed off after. |
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2022-05-27: Noticed aphids are still alive. Ordered more spray. |
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2022-06-01: Dunked plants in aphid spray, rinsed off with water. |
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2022-06-04: Dunked plants in aphid spray again, dunked in freshwater, transferred plants back. Measured pH at 4.0. Added more water to bring it up to 5.6. EC at 0.8 |
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2022-06-19: Swapped nutes for General Hydroponics. (2nd preparation below) |
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2022-06-20: Noticed some sort of powdery mildew at base of leaves on a couple plants. Rinsed all with water and removed dead leaves. |
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2022-06-??: Started hand-pollinating with a q-tip. Breaks cotton up. |
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2022-07-05: Measured pH at 4.4, EC at 2.1. Added 5 gal water to bring it up to pH 5.5, EC at 1.4. Tons of flowers, pollinated with small brush. |
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2022-07-19: Measured ph at 3.8, EC at 1.8. Added 5 gal water. Measure later. |
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2022-07-20: Ate first strawberry. It was delicious. |
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2022-07-23: Way too much mould, aphids, and dead leaves. Terminated. |
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## Preparation |
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- boiled clay balls to sterilize |
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- rinsed dirt off 6 strawberry starters |
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- three normal |
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- two pulled thick roots out and broke away rest |
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- one washed with Method hand soap |
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- 90 L-ish growth solution prepared |
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- up to bottom of net cups |
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- 100 ml plant food to 1.2 EC from 0.3 EC tap water |
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- 20 ml pH down to 6.0 pH from 6.5 pH with food |
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- holes cut in net cups, roots thread through |
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- remaining space filled with clay balls |
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- tote lid covered with aluminum foil |
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- air stone added to one side |
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- 16 hours of light |
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## 2nd Preparation |
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- drained tote with 5 gal buckets, washed out with water |
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- transferred 20 gal with 4 x 5 gal bucket trips |
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- measured plain water EC at 0.2 |
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- added 132 mL Bloom, 94 mL Micro, 94 mL Gro |
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- measured 1.7 EC, 6.5 pH |
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- difference of 1.5 EC |
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- added 15 mL pH down to 6.2 pH |
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- ** stole 5 gal for Protospace
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