Minty Grow Diary - GR420 LED Grow Off

[Minty]

Couple more videos I found while looking thru my phone.

Designated GRoom area (where the central heating was removed):-

The following shows how I had to cut the tent to fit in between the joists:-

Last one shows the tent patched up and in position. Didn't turn out that bad I think.

Excuse the mess. it's a work in progress ;o)

[Minty]

Another old video showing my very early attempts at linking up Arduino hardware with a web front end.

Great Success

[seymore_budz]

Hey Minty,

Sorry I haven't been keeping up with ya grow Minty. You hand watering them? What you feeding them? Apologies if you've already said, I did skim back but couldn't see anything.

[Minty]

Hey Minty,

Sorry I haven't been keeping up with ya grow Minty. You hand watering them? What you feeding them? Apologies if you've already said, I did skim back but couldn't see anything.

Hey Grumpy,

Yea, for now I am still watering them by hand in the airing cupboard although the Easy bud now has the root showing out the bottom so plan on moving them into the tent Friday as have the day booked off to finish the pipework, sort out the leak and fit in Air intake fan and to finally move the HydroBox into location so I can start recording temps etc.

I have been feeding them from the following schedule:-





I think the problem may be down to me re-using the same run-off water and running it back through the medium rather than feeding them with fresh. I will stop doing that...

[seymore_budz]

Hey Minty,

Sorry I haven't been keeping up with ya grow Minty. You hand watering them? What you feeding them? Apologies if you've already said, I did skim back but couldn't see anything.

Hey Grumpy,

Yea, for now I am still watering them by hand in the airing cupboard although the Easy bud now has the root showing out the bottom so plan on moving them into the tent Friday as have the day booked off to finish the pipework, sort out the leak and fit in Air intake fan and to finally move the HydroBox into location so I can start recording temps etc.

I have been feeding them from the following schedule:-





I think the problem may be down to me re-using the same run-off water and running it back through the medium rather than feeding them with fresh. I will stop doing that...

It sounds like you're OK on the feed front. How often are you watering?

[Minty]

It sounds like you're OK on the feed front. How often are you watering?

Depends, I kinda do it every couple of hours and mostly make sure they are not sitting in water but will occasionally leave them with water around the bottom. Basically just watching the leaves and adjusting on fly while I have them so easily accessible.

Thought it might be the LED so got a different one which is burple and I fecking hate it but they only have to last a couple more days before going into the tent so will live with it but it makes taking pictures real shitty:-



To be fair they both seemed to have picked up a bit and are looking alive enough for me so until they go under the Invisible Sun in the tent I will just try and keep my eye on them (under that horrible light - I have no idea how people grow under that shit - you just can't see anything)

[Minty]

I took them out the cupboard to get a pic

Easy Bud



Royal Dwarf



I think they are looking ok now

[seymore_budz]

I took them out the cupboard to get a pic

Easy Bud



Royal Dwarf



I think they are looking ok now

Ahh yea they are looking loads better now. Maybe they wasn't getting enough water? Those hydrorocks don't hold a lot. Looks like you're in top of it now though. Good work dude!

[Minty]

Ahh yea they are looking loads better now. Maybe they wasn't getting enough water? Those hydrorocks don't hold a lot. Looks like you're in top of it now though. Good work dude!

Thanks Grumpy, appreciate the check up mate.

[Minty]

Fixed the previous 'leaking drainage' (and cleaned up the pipe's). Fully tested and is now sorted.




Started fixing the HydroBox to the Res lid (in terms of probes and peri pumps):-



Babies are looking OK (once I take them outta that fecking horrible Burlple light shite).

I was gonna pull the trigger on a some of the new Blue LED based lights from Invisible Sun but after tonight's GR420 video I think I am going to wait for a bit...

Anyway, update on the babies at day 22 (hopefully at least the Easy Bud will be moving homes either tomorrow or Sunday)







It still seems mad to me that these are the final pots the plants will be in while doing Hydroponics but hey, you live and learn...