Hey Friends
Hope everything's going great with your grows. I can't complain...living the easy life sort to speak...I do go to the tent on a daily basis, but that's just to make sure everything's aok. Tomorrow I'll have to get my toolbelt from the garage and repair the ducting. It's temporarily fixed for now, but I need to move a cabinet to get decent access, so that's for tomorrow...
Inside the tent not much of the above issue was noticeable until this evening, I noticed I couldn't get the temp above 20°C / 68°F, so there was something wrong.
First I blamed the missus, thinking she left the windows open on the floor. But soon had to apologize as this was not case
Then I checked the connection between the ducting and the connection piece to the outside wall...And yup, it was hanging from the wall. Bad workmanship in my name was to blame. Got it temporary fixed with duct tape, but it needs a clamp
Anyway, If you look at the part after the second blackout (from 0:20sec) in the time lapse, you'll see the plants grow as fast as the days before and during that period the temperatures were at average 18.4°C /65°F...Duration = 51 hours, speed = 25fps. Please enjoy
Hey
@Sawney_bean,
During my stay in and around the tent I noticed there to be two distinct pheno's in the S.o.S. girls at a rate of 9 to 6.
There's a bigger, more intermodally stretched pheno. Six in all...
...and a smaller, more compact one. Which has nine followers...
The smaller ones are enjoying it a bit more then the larger ladies...to be honest.
...They are producing softer and healthier looking leaves and have a nicer color. They can take the amount of nutrients being offered really well
Although it doesn't show it on the picture there is a light discoloration on the inside of the leaves on the larger pheno. Nothing to bad, just a sign of overfeeding, I'm sure. And this was something to be expected as I added one whole BioTab into 3.5L of medium...And if that weren't enough there's also some nutrients in the bags of soil I bought, the micro nutrient mix and the Silicium Flash.
The leaves feel a bit more papery then those on the smaller pheno. A definite sign of the wrong osmotic pressure preventing the uptake of water because of the high concentration of nutrients around the roots... Because of that, I watered the ladies yesterday just after lights on (yup, I'm learning
) with 5L water (instead of the standard 3L) with 5gr Bactrex added to it. Each pot got soaked with about 300ml water and bennies. After that I turned on the heatmat underneath the tray so the roots stayed nice and warm. Put it on continuous on, instead of being switched on and off by the temperature sensor inside the tent.
My yeast bioreactor is still pumping out CO², but it's slowing down. Most likely because of the temperature drop outside since this evening, which I'm sad to say, impacts the temperature of the lungroom...The mix should be good for at least one month, but as more alcohol is getting formed, more and more yeast cells die off. The trick is to keep only those yeast cells which survive those high amounts of alochol and continue working with those. It's that or go to a brewing supply store and buy beer yeast or even better, champagne or sherry yeast.
The latter has strains that can cope with alcohol levels as high as 17%, while my bread yeast can only endure about 2-3%. There is a catch though...Price! For 1€ I have enough yeast to make 10 buckets worth, so that's nearly one year worth of CO². The champagne yeast costs 20 times that for the same amount of buckets, but the buckets last 5 times longer....
Looking at the color and smelling the mash everything is still aok with this culture. Normally I don't open the lid as it releases all that CO² and opens the inside up to infection from some bad stuff, but for the purpose of this post I made an exception.
NOTE: If you ever see black stuff on the inside appearing. Dump the contents immediately and clean out the buckets with soap and after that some H²O³ to disinfect. Because if you let it come to maturity it releases it's spores and when you breath those in, your in for a possible whole rollercoaster of health issues!!
And finally a screenshot from my Blynk app, which is giving me more and more info from the sensors...The addition of the VPD calculation has been a real eye opener for me. Keeping the VPD into the high 60's is allowing the plants to not have to expend to much energy in evaporating water and has alleviated a lot of the papery feel on the leaves from the larger pheno.
Regards,
Bob
Live and learn 
But differs in that you'll see the dark period. The white specs in those parts of the rendering have something to do with the post processing as I don't see these in the separate pictures...Trust me, it's dark 
Also the new template is a bit of getting used to. 
