Totally revamped my cabinet so I'm running a single plant to see how she runs. Today marks day three after the first set of three fingered leaves fully emerged. The setup: Gutted 4'H x 2'W x 1.5'D dresser w/mylar door, mylar covering side walls and ceiling back wall white. Ventilation: Dual 7" window fan mounted low for intake. Passive exhaust in the ceiling. 4" fan for circulation. Lighting: 2x 15w cool white CFLs as side lights 2x 42w daylight CFLs on homemade panel 2x 68w bright white CFLs (also on the homemade panel. Container/medium: 14gal Rubbermaid tub full of backyard compost mixed with rabbit poo, bloodmeal, bonemeal, alfalfa meal, kelp meal and bat guano watered with bushdoctor microbe brew and molasses then mixed again and rested for about two months. The plant: unknown bagseed
The seed sprouted in three days, but immediately began showing deformities, by one week after sprouting the first three finger leaves showed. So far keeping temps down has been my biggest issue with summer coming and no a/c so she's on an 18/6 schedule with as much of the day cycle as possible at night. Lights on temps are 75-79 but lights out temps rise to 80+. Lights come back on in 30mins and I'll have the specific kelvin values for the lights. Also, I discovered these little guys and thought at first they were baby earthworms, but I'm beginning to think they may actually be something else.
I was totally mistaken on my bulbs, they are all 2700k. Looks like I need to pay more attention when I grab bulbs lol I wanted some 3500k and 5000k in there too......oops lol
Added a 7" fan to the exhaust and replaced the 15w 2700Ks with 23w 6500Ks. Gonna look into picking up a water cooler at a yard sale to tear apart and turn into an a/c unit just to be safe.
Amended the top four inches of soil with sunshine mix 4 and re-planted my plant into that. Unfortunately I lost my thermometer in the process...😕 I wasn't able to get the water cooler either
Some update pics, got my hands on a thermometer/hygrometer so now I can keep better track of my climate. Intake air is right around 60F right now and this is how things are looking.
Wait temp rises when lights go off.. iam up high in tent two 1200 leds even one on. No Fans closed up i. Get 73 77 window closed ac off. .. maybe you flipped it.. ehh fukcancer we winning everyday we awake #teaamfukcancer #teamsarcoma. ..
I run my lights from 6pm to noon, so night for the cab is during the hottest part of the day, hence why temps go up with lights off rather than down. Got the ducting for my house's a/c fixed so my room gets air now, window will be closed keeping the hot air out once more. I've been throwing everyone for a loop telling them my nighttime temps were higher than my daytime lol also its heading into summer and outdoor temps are well above 80F
Got a cooling system set up and running, freezing water bottles as we speak to bring water temps down even more.
Got the cooling system running fairly well.....then my early birthday present came today! It's a Mars LED 100*3!!
Currently have the light 13" above the plant, humidity is much more manageable and the new growth from where I fimmed is pretty tightly clustered. I mixed about four quarts of perlite into the bottom soil (tedious process with a growing plant) the soil feels nice and spongy now.
Cooling system died today, or maybe yesterday. The old fountain pump gave out. But the good news is the plant seems to be beginning to perk up a bit more now that I added more perlite (gotta work on my soil mix for next run).
Bottom two leaves are looking like a K or Zn def.....but just those two. Should I be worrying and trying to correct something? Or just wait it out? Pics in a sec...
Otay, so I'm fairly certain I will be needing to totally re-mix my soil and add a couple of things like coarse sand, rock dust, lime, and Epsom. When I do that I plan on doing three layers, top layer fairly inert, middle layer medium, bottom layer hot. Also did another modification to my intake, I ported the room a/c vent directly to my intake with a filter in the mix and my highs have come down from 81-84 to 77 last I checked. Lights on 24/0 for now till I get my timer re-set.
Switched over to 12/12 to get this one out of the way, with my seed stock I'll be able to get a few more started easily.
Made a big change on everything. Sprouted six seeds with 100% success and moved them in under the led, transplanted the midget into a peat pot with inert soil and watered it with bushdoctor microbe brew. Light is back to 24/0. 5/6 of the seedlings look happy, one is being a bit sluggish.