On my quick google search last night, it appears there are many custom firmwares out there available. Perhaps one of these has a more “cycle timer” like resolution for on/off.
Congrats on making regular. I appreciate your contributions to this site.
If I were doing no-till with Blumats, I would still apply teas and such watered in from the top. The blumats will shut off until they are needed again. I would have a schedule something like this:
Day 1: malted barley, fulvic, and silica
Day 2: nothing
Day 3: water (nothing with Blumats)
Day 4: nothing
Day 5: aloe, coconut, and silica tea
Day 6: nothing
Day 7: water (nothing with Blumats)
Day 8: nothing
Once a week: IPM spray
Once a month: Neem and kelp tea
see, a lot of nothing with the Blumats.
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I may not have all the answers, but my google fu is strong. I’ll help wherever I can.
I may not be the best grower, but i’m willing to learn from my Sensei here at OG and spread that knowledge.
Edit: side note: Interestingly enough I was looking for the plural form of Sensei and learned that the japanese don’t pluralize anything by adding “s” to the end of their words. So just for clarification I consider all you guys for the position lol.
I had been looking for a forum/site to call home for a long time, the community here is what is exactly what I was after. I’ve got forums for welding, metal casting, electronics, it was about time I found one for my favorite hobby lol. Great people here. If it ever becomes nationally legal, I’d love to host a get together for like a week some day. The ozarks has a lot of beautiful scenery and fishing/hunting/hiking to partake of. I’m making friends here from many walks of life and would love to share my stomping grounds.
Probably the only thing keeping me from going No-till is the time requirements. I’m often on the road for up to a week at a time and that probably isn’t going to change any time soon, coco/blumats just seemed like a viable solution to me. Wifey has a hard enough time keeping track of her own stuff, I couldn’t ask her to keep up with a demanding watering/tea schedule lol.
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I know a lot of people do coco drain to waste for those same reasons. Nothing wrong with it, I do enjoy the time with my girls. 
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Happy new year jelly I’m upping my dose but the rate I used has been working been following chaos hunters lead but I’m up to kicking things up a notch as I’m getting my tents (heat issues) figured out & programming
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Today is 21F
The plants are noticeably bulking up!!! The SSH on the right even is starting to get frosty! I’m SO EXCITED lol.
Frosty
This is “Terry” the bagseed. Producing nice looking nugs so far.
The other SSH. (Left side of cab) had a visitor. Probably going to starve to death because there aren’t any gnats to munch on.
And this is the Auto. Everything is moving along well. I can say for sure, while the “Driverless cobs” do work, they don’t have the output that the same wattage in 9w LED bulbs do.
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Bro, I’m about three hours north of the Ozarks lol
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Badass! It’s a great place lol
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Madison county is great a place
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That’s about an hour to the west of me.
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Ditto…bout the same for me.
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Haha only because the ozarks are so big
My dad grew up in and we used to visit Fetus mo, though I haven’t been there in nearly 50 years… my grandad had a farm there, actually it was probably in the family several generations before. My dad came to California during the great depression so that’s where I was born.
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Well it’s a good thing I can’t leave my plants alone lol. I checked this morning on lights on, water was fine in all three pots. I just checked and the middle pot had water up to the drip tray, so I’d say it’s wet enough. I adjusted the flow to just hold a drop now. At this point it will maintain this moisture level. I’m loving these blumats!
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23F
So everything is on track. Buds are bulking up. Lighting is running at 320w, no bleaching or burns and the tops are only 6" or so away.
Now, for something interesting.
In my last grow, with a 400w HPS I vegged a lot longer and had very rough start in flower. PH issues, Salt buildup, no runoff, etc etc.
The closest pics i have are roughly 10 days apart and I just wanna show ya’ll the difference between the two.
The 400w HPS was in day 31f versus mine today of 23F.
I know it looks like the HPS is kicking the LEDs ass, but there are a lot of factors to consider here.
With the HPS, I vegged almost 2 months, buds were forming and I had a LOT of training already done on the plant. This gave an unfair advantage to the HPS grow.
I’m using almost 100w Less light with the LEDs for comparable results.
Frost is building up faster with the LEDs based on memory.
Less heat. The HPS room always had heat issues.
(Hps)Soil Vs (Led)Coco
All in all, I like the results of the LEDs much better.
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My dad came out to cali from ok during the dust bowl
So, my 5 gallon reservoir lasts about 6-7 days!
Today I pulled the res off to see just how much was left (it was getting light) and there was only about 1/2 gallon left.
I mixed up a new batch, increased to 25g of Megacrop to 5 gallons,
This gave me a ppm of 950ish, and 1.9ish ec. Ph’d down till it was 5.8 (roughly 20ml of ph down again)
I’m loving this setup, wouldn’t change a thing except maybe having fancier plumbing. Lifting the bucket full of nutes 5 foot off the ground is kind of a pain in the ass but so Is bending over to check on plants. No regrets!
Today is day 24.5F and I’m setting a tentative deadline of 30 more days until I even think about harvesting. that will make almost 8 weeks/(56 days or so) I have a feeling the Auto will probably for sure be ready to chop by then, it’s gonna be airy bud for sure because that driverless cob sucks haha but it’ll still be smoke.
Since everyone was talking about where they grew up,
I grew up in Kansas, close to Wichita, in 1999 we moved to the ozarks and I don’t regret it one bit. I was in high school and i’ll say the culture shock of going from a big city life to rural farm life was a lot to adapt too.
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Small water pump and second bucket, or a pulley mounted to the roof if really hindered physically would make things easier.
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I’m not willing to admit just how much easier that would make things… For now I can manage, I just have a lot of crap around my “res” corner, so lifting a full bucket takes some gymnastics lol.
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