Here we go! Day 4. Plants are doing well enough. No big jump in growth just yet. We will get there. So daytime temp has not gone above 75 F / 23 C. Night time temperature went as low as 65 F / 18 C. The soil comes Fertilizer heavy and I mixed in neem cake so I just give plain tap water. No insect problems. I keep spraying the perlite with small sprays of Pymethrin. Not much else to report. Ask me questions if you have them. I also switched the light schedule to 20/4.
Turned up the HPS to 1000 watt setting. Night time temperatures were getting too cold. Hope the tiny seedlings can handle the extra light. I will check tomorrow and see.
Turned up the HPS to 1000 watt setting. Night time temperatures were getting too cold. Hope the tiny seedlings can handle the extra light. I will check tomorrow and see.
Slow growth continues. I ordered a 1000 watt Lumatek dual spectrum bulb. My current bulb is a ushio HPS with optimized blue. I am thinking maybe the optimized blue is not enough blue to get my plants growing. A true dual spectrum might be what I need. We will see how the growth is after I switch the bulb.
No problems with the plants other than the slow growth. Temperature is nearly perfect day and night. Only a 5 degree shift during the night. 75 F daytime and 71 at night. Can't argue with that! 600 watt setting.
I will upload a picture tomorrow but not much to see with the small plants.
Day 10. Not good. 2 of the 4 plants. The other 2 plants are even smaller. The HPS is 45 cm from the plants. Temperatures are good. Constant supply of fresh air.
I mixed the perlite into the soil. I hope it helps speed up growth.
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