Indoor kfigerm tries his best

[kfigerm]

Hello guys,
today i was busy - postman brought some stuff to integrate.
As told above, the three automated pumps arrived.
The water in and outlets look very delicate and may be very soon clogged. I will have to watch that. Everything else looks OK, no metal, solid devices and a lot of parts to adjust waterflow.
Chinese quality, but what do we expect. We all rant about chinese stuff, but no one here builds locally what we need.
So here is what it looks like now

ant the res container now has the pumps attached

each one marked to identify them for manual handling.
Now i have to narrow the best schedule and feed times/cycles once they are working automated. The pumps are said to pump 30l/h, so to deliver 1l it should be around 2 mins - for starters i set it to 2:30min...but that's just an initial setting and will be adjusted to reality.
You see water on the floor, but that's just because all fell over while installing. everything is sealed and OK.
The right button on each device is for manual on/off switching, all the other stuff is done via app.
The setup was easy, but the automation is not too intuitive. I have an interval on a group schedule, but no starting time. But setting up the single devices , you can set proper times. But thats just software.
The devices itself look OK, except the very narrow water in- and outlets. I guess I have to watch out for some pipe cleaning amendments to my res..what do you recommend guys?

Once all runs and i trust that stuff, i will move over for a bigger reservoir container and will head to even more days off.
In May i will visit London for a couple of days, that will be the first live test.

Cheers! and still happy 420!

 

[kfigerm]

Hi all,
a very wet and cold week has passed here and the first days of the networked-waterpunps is OK.
The programming is a little couriuos - if you schedule a group, the group data stay empty/zero, you have to check each device for next run, and such stuff, but it works.
And soldering around and programming an arduino is for others, not for me. So do these things work and are worth the money? Too early to say, but it looks promising.
If anyone has a a better DIY to sell - go market it, I'll buy! But this was the only thing i found that fited to usb/12v charging and network cvontrolled stuff. But I guess it relies to much of the cloud and one day will stop working, when the cloud has a problem.

The ladies themselves develop very differently. While the runts is leading, the scc is smallest - had that vice versa before, but i don't care.
The more of light they get due to reusing the last run's lighting schedule for late flower from start gives me some calmag splotches and some stressed plants. They will work that out.
They now sip on 7-6-0-4 of my adapted nute mix - EC 1300, PH swings 5.8-6.0

I guess I have not more than 3 weeks to put the two in the front outside in the garden, before it will be too crowded in there. So lets hope for warmer weather here. The smalles one has grown massive roots in the pyramid - it may well/still be some day she catches up.

Next week will be topping time.
Cheers!

 

[kfigerm]

another week has passed and there was a holiday yesterday here. The weather gets better and warmer now at last.
The girls in the box do their thing. This time they grow very different.
I was trying to save some nutes, but quickly recognised that too little is not good - combined with forgetting to put the mg mix in, things went wrong really fast on the fast growing runtz.

you see the big lower fans very fast dried out and have these splotches now - missing mg and too much light/growth combined.
This is the runts that outgrows the others this time and took off great. The last runts weren't that fast at this stage.
Having/keeping these big lower fans saved my arse another time.
As always I will keep them as long as possible to show me the direction and they do their duty as reservoirs and "ass-savers" well.

After seeing that mess on saturday morning i really acted fast and the other girls were not harmed - they are much slower growin also.
You'll also notice that the runts' growth above is not affected - all fine there.

°the "regular" planned-to-stay-in-tent girls are in the back. in the front right the dos si dos catched up, but the little one in the front left will be no more than a dwarf.
The dwarf and the dos si dos go outside as soon as the waether stabilizes above 20°C.
I don't know how to keep an even canopy yet.The growth is so different this time it will be hard.
Also the automated feeding is still a hard task, because they drink so differently. The smallers are fed 2 times a day 3.5 minutes with these pumps, the runts needs two times 6 min to have runoff. I have to find a way (syphon pums) to feed them with more runoff with recirculation soon, i guess.
The nute mix is still the same, but EC 1300 again and that's fine for all now.
Cheers!

 

[kfigerm]

Hi guys and gals,

today is day 29 and some development is going on.
The runts took the light schedule very well and is the tallest girl now at 62. the mxo and the scc are about 30 cm and they reacted to the light stress as intended - they grow smaller.
The two late babies do well also - the dos si dos surprises with overtaking the scc and mxo - shes at 45 cm.
The little dwarf still is there and goes slowly at 20cm now

and the 3 showed sex at last yesterday

so i decided to switch nute mix to NPK 8-6-12 (4-5-5-4 of mix ratio) for the next weeks.
Late, but the ladies took their time to show sex this time - perhaps also a result of the light schedule.

Due to the size of the runtz i have to decide other than before what plant goes into the garden - the runtz and the dwarf...the other three do better for an even canopy.
But the weather is still not good enough so it'll be crowded in there for a while.
Except that all goes as intended and the watering also goes smooth with those new pumps. The runts drinks like hell and gets fed two times a day 9 minutes, the others twice 7 minutes. The dwarf and the dsd are hand watered.

So we are near half and the most boring part is over, now we head into the stretch and with all the tech I'll try to keep it boring.

Cheers my mates of the house of have-a-puff (just watched harry potter and my stoner brain made this up an i laughed my ass off, but no one else )!

 

[kfigerm]

Cheerio all fathers and will be fathers
and a hello to all other lovely people here on afn.
A little update for today. The weather seems getting better now and i put the two girls out - the runtz and the little unnamed dwarf.
The tent got a good cleanup and the remaining girls were heavily shaved. Only the topmost and the lowest fans on the main stem were kept on purpose.

That's whats going on there now - the dos si dos in the front, in the back the mimosa x orange punch and the strawberry cheese cake

that's it for the day.
Don't consume too much of whatever and have a great day!

Cheers!

 

[kfigerm]

Hi,

all the girls do well. The little dwarf anf the tall runtz outside react nicely to the sun. I' will have to fix the runts to the container soon, so she doesn't fly away with wind like the ultimate did 2 years ago. The little dwarf is higher than 2 of the girls in the tent now - so keeping it was the right decision. The stem is thicker in the middle than in the lower, but i guess it'll work out.

cable for automated watering is there also. Have to prepare it this week.

The girls in the tent put on leaves again. Still not the stretch, but i expect them to take off soon....I bet it starts when I am not here to adjust the nutes.

Nute mix atm is NPK 8-6-12 for all. Flowering starts slowly, will switch to NPK 8-11-16 this friday.

have a nice day!
Cheers!

 

[kfigerm]

Hi all,

no pics for the upcoming week. I take a break and got on a trip.
Got some imps, that take care of all if i needed. But all is arranged and all should go well.
My mind is so much easier now it's legal here
The reservoir is prepared with NPK 8-11-16 for the time. I raised EC to 2, so there should not be a lack of N in the stretch/transition phase. The pyramids should take care of excess nutes.
The watering schedule stays as it is, twice a day, so they perhaps become a little less than they may need, but they wont fall dry.
The ladies from the garden took a ride to a friend, who will take care of them in his box.

So here are the pics - nearly the same angle, but different lighting/colour.
I rearranged them also, the dos si dos is in the back now, mimosa x orange punch (right) and the strawberry cheesecake are in the (left) front row.

stay safe and Cheers!