Here we say “strike the iron while it is still hot”, i don’t known if it make sense in English. But thank you for your exhaustive shares while i’m still fresh in the reading of you diary. I’m very interested by your equation, it’s all-in-one to learn for me.
RH strangeness
The specific posts that were highlighting this problematic as a limiting factor for me was nov/dec 22. Just after the round with nutes/light maxed.
Nothing to have with a NYCD strain in fact, i don’t know why i’ve said that. It was the Caramel/Chemnesia/Mac round. It was like getting good horses to whip and forced to stop just before the finish line. These beasts was on the go to make a fantastic show, i can’t even imagine the feeling.
You’re often whipping yourself but what is constant on the whole diary is your reactivity.
And at first glance, my mind put in front of my face old memories from friends. They was fighting against the same battles but in full NFT or Aero with massive SOG : same EC funk (because evaporation for them), piloting “on the limit” one HPS600/sqm (heat + drastically increased transpiration of the most generous strains + walls condensation + density of plants), and the RH swing bonus. But nothing like that in your space ^^ But my friends were growing in south EU, they only saw snow in movies.
So it’s why i’m asking directly, it’s exotic for me. Considering what you’re pulling out from this space, i’m equally interested to known lol Take my comments as they are, i hope at least one will not be useless and a bit inspiring.
Airflow : In another life, i was facing a similar problematic but for seed’s production. The kind to use fully loaded females in dense setup. The flowers produce a lot of oil, it help a lot with mold but at one point you’re always wanting more until you reach the shit wall. And problems are coming ^^
I was forced to totally control the temps to be rock-stable with less than 1°c margin, that’s the deal with STS fems units to output something expensive. Or you pay the bills from your pockets ^^. But the RH was a problem because my need to push. Like i’ve saw here, i’ve put an army of industrial fans (the inox ones). And it don’t have fixed the problem, it was getting worse. All good on the probes, but insane RH inside the plants. I had just drastically increased their transpiration. Twos months wasted, lesson learnt. Some seeds was cracking directly in the flower ^^
After this pathetic failure I’ve also read everything i was able to read on thermodynamics and I’ve never regretted it. Even for a stupid single tent, today. Most of us don’t imagine the bad turbulences we are creating with negative pressure, fans and heat/rh. Like micro tropical tornado never renewed providing a lot of worries (mostly spores, but not only).
Temps : 66°F-68°F (20-21°c) was always my sweet spot for the kaya. Not only because STS habits, also for the chemotype’s expressions. And I’ve always done my best to keep it rockstable night and day, no change and no variation. Add on top of it, that I’ve a panic attack when i’m not kissing a 30%-40% swing. All these datas that are a bit exotic considering most of grow bible have a reason : i’ve kept from the STS madness the habit of using ~1Kw/sqm of neons (in open spaces). On a regular basis i make some test to stay in touch, and even with a double CMH this madness work heavenly with strains the more prone to don’t even finish in hash (majority of lines including Big Bud and Critical Mass inside, GDP is one by example). In the past i was watching my probes, now the transpiration rate of the plants is my true nightmare.
Your temps being not dramatic without active heating (for me) and if your floor is insulated, the drivers of your army of panels (lol) can be enough to maintain 12 hours a decent temp. I don’t known how to play smartly with intake/outake in your case, computed controls are not my thing also. I was just using a cheap regulator (not hashing) with black marker points of my tests.
A while ago, i was using the ballast of 600 HPS for that (passive heating) and i was already the guy wanting the max, even with ridiculous gains. So the magnetic ballast were all mounted right after the bulb to minimize distances. When the night was coming, a timer was activating a little RVK blowing warm air below. But for that, you need low RH or it’s risky business if you blow “vapor” or “active condensation”. Airsocks can help for that by the way.
Concrete floor : it have to be your very first priority imho ^^ Not only because the porosity. I’ve used with great success epoxy resin in these cases. It’s very fast, you can do it alone, it’s cheap, very effiscient to insulate and to make it hermetic. Just make twos layers of a good primer on cement, cross band. Don’t spend money on UV protection, it’s useless with all types of lamps and don’t change anything. On releases, you have less stuff in the air on 60 sqm than a single IKEA little “drawer” furniture.
Feeding : You’re just blowing my mind to make your own like that, every component. I’m at a light year from it. But hell yes, when your drain say stop and that the plants say “come on, unleash the hell”. I can understand the feeling with this density of light.
VPD : I think that you have already understood that these grids are not my cup of tea ^^ But hell yes, rock-stable conditions always pay well in return. Transpiration mentioned hehe Can’t be objective, it’s my nightmare even when everything run heavenly. I’m the frightened guy planting bamboo stick in my buds like “hellraiser movie” when i see a single microscopic drop.
Peat : You’re just an heretic. Someday you will find the light. I will prey for you.
Thanks for your time, and sorry by advance if my exchange is too off road. I’m genuinely interested to see how it can turn like you have already in mind since the begin of the diary. I read between the lines ^^
. As far as I remember he made an open pollination with them both but then later on a year or 2 later there was separate runs for the black triangle and the golden triangle. I think that’s what was given out but I could be mistaken. The things were labelled both GT and BT so I at least assumed they were that instead of being some random name of them both mixed together. I am a stoner though my memory sometimes is not the most reliable haha. May your plants have less mold than mine always do haha.
Appreciate the kind words. I can’t wait to smoke the killer grapes or even smell it around week 6 and later of flower haha
I quick dried the rest and have been smoking some for a day or 2 and it’s pretty nice so far (harvested at week 7). I’m prob gonna let them go all the way to 10 before taking them down. 2 more weeks. I’ll check the sawa again then too and take them if need be. I think the caramel candy kush (some at least) and the black triangle might both go beyond 10.
