Been a while since Iāve updated but there really hasnāt been much to talk about.
On Nov 25th I got the sex tests back from Farmer Freeman, only a few short days after they were submitted.
Turned out we had a great ratio of M to F. The boys were culled and fed to the chickens, along with one of the girls that was mutated and not looking great.
The 3 empty buckets were now replaced with female Clown Slippers from Subcool. Theyāll be behind the others, but thatās ok.
The pH has been rather stable and I havenāt changed the res since it was filled on Nov 1st. Iāve added fresh RO weekly to top off the reservoir, and twice now Iāve mixed up concentrated batches of nutrients to add in. Not a single drop of pH up or down has been used to this point and the res is still crystal clear.
The pH drifts up and down between 5.8 and 6.2, I donāt think Iāve seen it out of range since adding the Torus Hydro unit.
(Excuse the dropouts on the graphs, Bluelab Connect units really suck.)
Iāve been topping and training and overall just playing with the plants up to this point.
The system as a whole is working well so far. I had some algae growing on the hydroton before the plants were big enough to shade it out, but it has never caused issues in the past so I didnāt worry too much about it. I do need to figure out a new system for starting seeds before exposing them to the big system. The seedlings just cannot handle the mist from the sprayers so Iāve been using plastic cups to keep them protected until they are big enough.
Iāve also started live streaming from the garden 24/7 over on Twitch.
I have some overlays Iām working on that pulls live data from the SensorPush and BlueLab Connect units for display in the stream. I just have to finish porting the VPD code from @Northern_Loki later tonight.