Day 21
2022-11-13
Well, live and learn. The cool thing about growing is that you are constantly learning. The bad thing about growing is that the reason you are constantly learning is because you are constantly making mistakes.
Without going into a bunch of details, here is what I have done since last update.
PH'd water to 5.9 and fed. Tested runoff and it was 6.4. Not good so I continued to fed and test runoff until I got the runoff to 6.1. I fed to waste, not recirculation. I will continue to feed to waste with little runoff for now.
I decided that my tent temps were too low. The heater in the house hasn't been working great and the temps in the tent with lights on was right at 70f. I turned on a little 300w heater that I have in the tent and set the climate control thing to 78f.
Speaking of temps, I also added a fish tank heater to the res. The water temp was around 63f due to the house heater not working. I did not realize how important water temp was, apparently the ideal water/root zone temp is 68-72. Anything much outside of that range and it can cause all sorts of issues with the root system.
The combination of feeding until runoff was 6.1 and raising the temp in the tent seems to have done the trick and they are growing again (they hadn't grown much if any in 4 days). The girls have been through a lot these past 4 days. I don't think they will survive any more stress so I have to watching all conditions very closely to keep their environment as stable and ideal as possible.
Oh and I have no idea why I can't get the ph perfect stuff to work. I mixed a fresh res today and the resulting ph was 6.4. What? AN brags about how it will normally land right around 5.8 pretty much no mater what the starting ph is. Speechless.
Well, live and learn. The cool thing about growing is that you are constantly learning. The bad thing about growing is that the reason you are constantly learning is because you are constantly making mistakes.
Without going into a bunch of details, here is what I have done since last update.
PH'd water to 5.9 and fed. Tested runoff and it was 6.4. Not good so I continued to fed and test runoff until I got the runoff to 6.1. I fed to waste, not recirculation. I will continue to feed to waste with little runoff for now.
I decided that my tent temps were too low. The heater in the house hasn't been working great and the temps in the tent with lights on was right at 70f. I turned on a little 300w heater that I have in the tent and set the climate control thing to 78f.
Speaking of temps, I also added a fish tank heater to the res. The water temp was around 63f due to the house heater not working. I did not realize how important water temp was, apparently the ideal water/root zone temp is 68-72. Anything much outside of that range and it can cause all sorts of issues with the root system.
The combination of feeding until runoff was 6.1 and raising the temp in the tent seems to have done the trick and they are growing again (they hadn't grown much if any in 4 days). The girls have been through a lot these past 4 days. I don't think they will survive any more stress so I have to watching all conditions very closely to keep their environment as stable and ideal as possible.
Oh and I have no idea why I can't get the ph perfect stuff to work. I mixed a fresh res today and the resulting ph was 6.4. What? AN brags about how it will normally land right around 5.8 pretty much no mater what the starting ph is. Speechless.
