Yep! I took a logo I use in other places and realized that it kinda mapped onto a pot leaf pretty well, so I just put the colors and went with it.
ORP and EC are the big ones, temp is the little one in the middle.
The monitor I got came with a little nubby pH sensor too, but I accidentally killed it. I bought a longer probe that connects to the same port on the monitor and I just test manually with that. I probably could have gotten another nubby one, but I figured storing it in the KCl buffer solution would keep it in calibration better.
I like that I can check the numbers from my phone, and one day when I get a home assistant instance set up, Iāll be able to pipe it to the dashboard.
If you want inspiration, check out the functional printing subreddit, thereās tons of neat ideas. I pretty much only use it to make functional things. So many brackets and holders, custom wrenches for knobs my hands hate, blade protectors, and just being able to make exactly what I need is very satisfying. Lots of stuff for the hydro setup (even beyond what Iāve posted about already, many little bits and pieces).
Depending on where you live, your local library might have one you could print on. There are some free options for modeling software. Itās amazing what you can do with just a set of calipers and some time.
water maintenance on both clones and main reservoir
brought in, cleaned, assembled shelves
redid clone setup to have the pots up on trivets (though they hadnāt broken out of the pots, I think because Iām keeping both light and nutrients at āsurvive, not thriveā levels)
moved whole clone setup to the shelves to free up my rolling cart
pulled plants out of tent to add window screen to cover the gaps around the shelves, so bits of detritus canāt easily fall where I canāt see it
trimmed off more leaves to open things up. Might gradually pull some of the others, probably will try to avoid another big all at once defoliation
did more attempted LST, will adjust further in the next couple of days
The plants look a little sad because I should have done water maintenance yesterday, but they usually bounce back pretty quickly.
Reservoir corner with new shelf/clone area
I recently tried that ābonsaiā mother plant technique (branch and root pruning). It worked very well. Plant(s) bounced back nicely. I just wanted to see how well it worked. The coco rootball was soā¦tight and compact water would pool up on the surface ( 1.5gal pot I think) and take forever to seep through. I hate when that happens. Seems to always happen to me with coco. Rootbound to the point that itās rock hard.
Edit: Didnāt realize the original bonsai mom thread was from here (itās reproduced/updated in a couple articles online too):
Yeah, so far mine have bounced back pretty well! Iām glad yours are doing well with it too. I have had the light lower since they were recovering, so not showing massive growth like they were (and roots smaller so it makes sense from that standpoint too).
Iāve been experimenting with using the light intensity to moderate the VPD in the tent. I have the humidity set to a constant goal with the exhaust fan (since lung room lower humidity than tent). I figure itās like clouds going by on an outdoor grow, so weāll see how it goes.
The dense coco rootball is interesting! I wonder what causes that and if itās common. I donāt think Iāve seen much about it, but admittedly havenāt been digging too much into coco growing, because I decided pretty early that wasnāt the route I wanted to go for substrate.
Already contacted a local person who has various types of food grade plastic drums/barrels on craigslist, so Iām going to pick one up tomorrow.
Unrelated but hereās my dog hanging out on a(n unused) bath mat in the grow room. Weāve taught him the name of several rooms, and he knows āgrow roomā. He gets very excited when I ask if he wants to go down there.
Iāve seen people report bowing of trash cans, so I was leaning away from that route, but good to know!
Iām going to hold off on giving my dogās name associated with this āunused anywhere elseā screen name, because especially if I share pics of my cat, the combo is an extremely identifiable piece of info. (also likeā¦very common security question for passwords. Not that I think youāre trying to social-engineer my password or something, just spent many years adjacent to information security so Iām weird about that stuff)
Iāll probably refer to him on here as puppy boy or some other nickname. I have people in my life who are welcome to know about this log, and I have estranged family members that search for information about me periodically who are decidedly not. I feel like others on a weed growing forum can relate to weird privacy stuff.
Got the new (to me) reservoir barrel yesterday! Some guy on local craigslist has a ton of various barrels and IBC totes and such, went and perused his stacked wall and was able to pick what I wanted. Today I got it cleaned and in place and carried the water over to it and then my body declared me finished. So by end of tomorrow Iāll get everything actually running off the new one.
Itās a 120L barrel, I have 30 gallons in it with plenty of room to spare. Also fits nicely in my little corner there, Iām really pleased with the physical dimensions of it.
Iād been trying to figure out why one of my plants looked particularly sad and the other one was moderately sad. I realized like 10 minutes ago that apparently the water lines have been turned off for a couple of days! I always make sure to turn them off when I pull the plants out just in case of a siphon effect, and whoops.
Iām going to force feed a couple rounds in quick succession and hope they can bounce back. Got too wiped out the other day and missed details when leaving the grow room.
Going to try not to beat myself up about it and just use it as motivation to stop or take a break when I hit the first stages of running out of steam or getting overheated instead of trying to push myself. Better to stop early and not miss anything.
Well, I rallied and got the new reservoir fully set up. My life was made much easier when I realized I could put one of these wire cube shelf pieces over the barrel and stick hoses through it to keep everything in place.
I used paracord and a 3d printed tensioner around the lip of the barrel, and then ran zip ties through the paracord up through the corners of the wire grid. That should give it a chance at staying stable, and I can loosen/remove the paracord when doing res changes or needing to pull out the floating sensors.
For now I just tucked my high tech multi-layered trash bag cover under the edges of the grid and that seemed to work.
Lamps are actually pretty high and intensity fairly low. They probably just still need time to recover, theyāve only had three feeds in 2 days (2 before lights out, one about an hour prior to the picture), when normally theyād have five per day.
I feel like others on a weed growing forum can relate to weird privacy stuff.
