Hey there, OG!
Another week on the record books, and I’m feelin’ pretty good about it. The garden is just starting to take off, so come on out of that heat-wave, and enjoy some decarbed tea, set a while and stick around. These girls are ready to GO.
As mentioned in the sneak-peak earlier this week, we caught some new gear, with second generation AC Infinity replacements for two S6 Circulation fans and a T3 Humidifier. We are running the new huey based on an individual external probe, rather than having a whole separate Controller 69 for it alone. The Second Generation features on-board VPD based automation, which is a huge improvement to the first gen already- that feature was only accessible before when paired with a controller, and that pairing was evidently problem-ridden to begin with. The new T3 is running beautifully, especially for being a bit of a surprise. Unlike our first return/replacement with ACI, they didn’t ask for the old one back, either.
This puts us dangerously close to eventually expanding and really only needing a tent and light to do so. Dangerously close. Hahaha
Friday morning we tested the waters of using the extra time during the light-cycle after I get home to see if I’ve still got enough in me after a work-night to get some real work done. The transplants into the new Current Culture net pots was super easy, given the shape- they have a bit of a platform scooped up into the bottom, giving great stability to the cubes as we filled in the hydroton.
We allowed the girls to take their time with getting their feet wet, and gave them 24 hours in our hard tap water from there. The two seedlings that closed their cotyledons were spared from execution, to see how they progressed. After a day and a half or two, they had opened back up, but were still struggling to push their first true leaves, now cramped and shriveled themselves. They were ceremoniously dissected and destroyed. While root growth had continued, the reaction probably would have been fatal, even if we had somewhere for them to go. The one that never broke soil, on the other hand, seemed strong, but just couldn’t shake the plug and shell, and had grown spiraled around itself.
Our four final girls took well to the drastic shift in their environment, and we went ahead and fed them 24 hours later, giving the Medium GH Trio schedule, plus ArmorSi and Hydroguard. This went smoothly, and over the next couple of days, we have begun to see them respond with nearly no issues. All four are now pushing second true leaves, with multi-blades. The girl in plant site #3 gave us some slight concern at first, but as she progresses, we believe she is simply showing a different pheno expression than the others, which are all much more uniform when compared.
We have seen a little sign of slight tip-burn, but that seems to be correcting itself on the new growth.
Other than that, they’re seedlings, doing seedling sh!t with their seedling friends. One downside so far to the new lids has presented: it’s going to be harder to get our root-porn shots when those masses start to bulk up. 
BAREBONES STATS
14 Days from Seed 5 Days in RDWC plant-sites.
4 out of 6 sprouted seedlings were transplanted to their final plant-sites on 2/23/24, at 8 days from seed.
HLG 600R-Spec is 56" above plant-sites, set to 20% output, delivering a DLI of ~11.5-12. This will be increased to 15-16 DLI today, likely by lowering the fixture, rather than increasing output.
The plants were allowed to acclimate to the plant-sites and tap water for 24 hours before feeding GH Trio (Base only), ArmorSi, and Hydroguard. We have held the pH at 5.8, with temps ranging from 67-70 * F, and a ~<500 PPM or <1 EC
Average 74 * F, 53.9% RH, and 1.06 kPa VPD
In other news, I finally got around to finishing my cleaned-up avatar. Relearning a new graphic editor is fun. Sometimes. Hahaha Lacking a scanner, my hand-drawn letters had to go through a lot of clean-up, but I’m pretty stoked on it. Here it is all blown up:
Also, for any NERDS that check in here, go on and stop by the thread we started in the Lounge earlier: Dungeons and Dab-rigs: Table Top RPG, Board Games, and more
Dropping this update early, as I’ve got the first proper health check up I’ll have gone to in more than half a decade, so fingers crossed on that front that nothing is falling apart just yet. Whatever you’re facing today, I hope you grab hold of it and shake it down like it owes you money. Thanks as always for dropping in and checking up, and for any encouragement, comments, constructive feedback, or just saying hi! We’ll catch you next week, same Bat-thread, same Bat-time.
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