Diary PCBuds mini-grow

[PCBuds]

Ladybugs eat aphids - as well as spider mites and thrips - but I dont think they hunt adult flying gnats (or burrow in the soil for their larvae)

The soil mites burrow up from the soil to eat the babies and the parents just die of old age.

The lady bugs protect the space above the soil, and the soil mites protect the space below the soil.

Soil mites eat nematodes too.
Mmmm...

One treatment of soil mites inoculates the soil for as long as you keep the soil.

It's kinda like sour dough. Lol

 

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She gets up early..

 

[PCBuds]

She's already up.
I may as well give her some light..

 

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[f-e]

I have seen my plants sleep many times. Not once have they looked like that though. The untrained eye wouldn't even know mine looked any different.
Perhaps look at some time lapse video's to get an idea what sleeping looks like.

Plants drink half as much with the lights out. Maybe 30% if there is a big environmental change. Perhaps water a bit, an hour before this sleep state sets in, and see if it is delayed.

 

[PCBuds]

I have seen my plants sleep many times. Not once have they looked like that though. The untrained eye wouldn't even know mine looked any different.
Perhaps look at some time lapse video's to get an idea what sleeping looks like.

Plants drink half as much with the lights out. Maybe 30% if there is a big environmental change. Perhaps water a bit, an hour before this sleep state sets in, and see if it is delayed.

She's just a deep sleeper.
I don't think that there is anything wrong with her.
She's just weird.

I add water whenever the bobber is low. No special timing. I just don't let her run dry.

Maybe ReikoX sent me narcoleptic seeds. Lol

 

[Panconqueso]

Looking good! congratulations

 

[PCBuds]

Looking good! congratulations

Thanks.
She's really growing now.
It's almost time to switch to bloom nutes.

 

[ReikoX]

Getting about time, would like to see more buds first. Still looks to be in a vegetative state. How much further can she grow up?

 

[PCBuds]

Getting about time, would like to see more buds first. Still looks to be in a vegetative state. How much further can she grow up?

OK, I'll wait until the buds are bigger.

She's got about 16" until she hits the ceiling.

 

[ReikoX]

I zoomed in, she's probably about ready.

 

[PCBuds]

I turned up the lights a little bit and removed two fan leaves.

 

[PCBuds]

I zoomed in, she's probably about ready.

OK. I'll do half and half nutes next watering.

I also added 1/8th tsp of KoolBloom last watering.

 

[PCBuds]

1.5 hours before lights on...

 

[PCBuds]

I took some pictures as the lights came on.
I found a dime.

I removed two more sets of fan leaves.

 

[exploziv]

Looking great! Hopefully the stretch ends before it overgrows your space!

 

[PCBuds]

It must be the cold in this case. Have you observed if it's always that cold when she is droopy? I mean cold in the rootzone, maybe even colder than the thermometer you have there half way up the plant..
Your rh meter could also be a bit off (or even more than a bit..) and showing 60 RH when in reality there's more. I would expect saturated air if my grow ever got to that temp. What your meter is showing looks to be in the green on the vpd scale. I doubt the accuracy of that meter a bit now.

The temperature drops to around 17°C at night in the closet. I'll try to take some readings around the closet at night.

All the numbers are all over the place and none of my hygrometers agree with each other.
I've got 6 of them and they're all giving different readings.
I just use them as a rough reference.

I had stopped using them along with my PH and PPM meters, because the readings are almost useless.


I've been removing fan leaves. I figure she doesn't need them and now she doesn't have to waste her energy raising and lowering them every day.

If the RH is higher than my meters are reading, then I figure she might do better without the big fan leaves with all that transpiration.

These are the readings in the closet right now.

This is the hygrometer in the kitchen right now.
I'll set it on the table in the closet.

 

[exploziv]

What I meant by that was if your temps are that low and your rh meters unreliable, maybe they are in a situation where too low vpd stops them from transpiring. Saturated air won't take more humidity from the leaves. So their cooling and gasseous exchanges are almost stopped in that case. No tranpiration also would mean no nutrient solution taken from soil so it may explain the droopiness.
One thing is for sure, with temps that low, humidity should get higher than what you meter is saying. But those are crappy instruments, se we may never know for sure.