Hah yeah, I still want to grow some leafy greens, fruits and veggies for sure.
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So just a lil update… went a third of the day today with the humidifiers unintentionally off (which had the humidity at 60%) not too bad, but also the pots were getting pretty dry… so I fixed the humidifiers, gave some light watering on the top, and then filled the tiny saucers to give some bottom watering (I’m guessing those are not even 5%?)…
Anyway, not 100% sure about my watering, I think these girls could prob look better, as they have some droop and I see the tiniest brown on a tip of new growth (ss2) I think:
I’m guessing the possible under watering and maybe giving them some lil amounts of nutrients too early may have caused that tiny tip burn (well I’m guessing it is) so just gonna water a lil bit for the next couple waterings
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I use one of these for my hose outside it claims to filter chloramine I actually paid to have a water test done to see how well it worked it took some stuff out but not a whole lot think it was meant more for chlorine removal
Lets see it 
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That’s a lot of different hash
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excellent! mr burns voice
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The different micron sized bubble bags give different qualities, also depending on how much you rerun it I guess amongst other things as well
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Mr hash man himself… I went to a knf class and it included a bubble hash class as well, so I’ll report back to you on your thread if I learn anything new
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Putting some mulch on those containers will help keep your soil moist. Keeping a consistently moist soil is paramount in living organics.
I use rice hulls as a mulch on my indoor plants as it is easy to work with and keeps the fungus gnats out.
Here is a shot of what the rice hulls look like.
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I was wondering whether or not I should be doing that for the lil 3” pots or not and just wait til the up pot…
When/if you transplant (I imagine you flip the pot like most to get the soil out), how do you deal with, or not, the rice hulls spilling everyone?
I like to watch organic soil grows. Everyone does it differently.
Your thread is off to an interesting start-
Good luck…
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Thanks, will be trying to give it mostly my best shot(s) 
Here’s a couple pics/examples of the vents and circulation fans… was thinking about ducting into one possibly with another fan to potentially bring in fresh air but not exactly sure about this in many respects…
This vent is maybe 10-15ft away from the box…
I feel like there is not that much air exchange between inside and outside looking at the humidity levels in that basement for some time now but I could be wrong.
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When ready to transplant, or inspect root mass or whatever, just get an empty 5 gal bucket, turn the container and dump the hulls in the bucket. It is them super quick and easy to dump them right back on when you are ready.
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Thanks, I don’t have rice hules but I have some inoculated straw I’ll try to break up into tiny pieces
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Here ya go, they look like they are doing better since the light watering earlier in the day and the soil was starting to get dry again tonight, so gave them all about >5% (container size) water with some OHN and then put some chopped up barley straw on them:
The ss2 is still a lil bit unhappy, but gonna LITFA for the most part.
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Looking good. With plants that size in that size container, you should not need to water very often yet.
I am wondering if that vermiculite deal could be the cause of this? It seems to me that the vermiculite could be wicking all the moisture from your containers and evaporating off.
Just a thought.
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Look forward to the thread bro! I was thinking it would be compost/ EWC that would help with the city water issues of chloramine/ chlorine I believe it to be the fulvic and or humic acid that aides in this issue .
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Could be… it may have also been that I just hadn’t been watering enough and maybe was thrown off from the tray flood I had…
I was kind of hoping the vermiculite would help in wicking up bottom watering and simultaneously give some aeration in that pocket to help against an anaerobic situation happening, def an experiment there, could have gone without it. The vermiculite definitely takes water up from the saucer, but yeah don’t know how much it further wicks up to the soil and maybe like you said it could be robbing water from the soil if it wasn’t saturated enough?
You are right actually, I also heard the Humic helps with that!
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