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MidnightSun72

MidnightSun72

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Like I need more grow toys. Lol....
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some auto seedlings to move out to the veg room when I start flowering. Just for a bit of fun and to have something stinky in the veg room.
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pineapple chunk recovering Ok. Lol
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MidnightSun72

MidnightSun72

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Right now this is the irrigation schedule I am following. Reading up on crop
Steering and how much dry back between feedings etc. Always happy to hear any thoughts or experiences with this.

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plants are in 1.5gallon pots. Actual media volume is 1 gallon. There are 3 stakes per plant resulting in a drip of 3/4gph per pot.
So on an irrigation time of 3 minutes that should be

3/4gph X 3.78l/gal / 60 min/h X 3min irrigation = ~140ml per 3 minute feed.

so as it is they get fed at

5:00pm Lights OFF 2H before lightsON
7:00pm Lights ON
9:00pm
11:00pm
1:00am
3:00am
5:00am
7:00am Lights OFF right at lights off.
9:00 am Lights OFF just to cut the amount of time the medium is drying since it seems to get pretty dry on the thirstier girls.

I wanna follow this thing. But I don't fully understand it. Looks like they feed every hour which I was doing but switched it to be very two hours to see how they did on that period. I am not sure the advantages of hourly? Is it necessary? How do I determine the best off period?
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MidnightSun72

MidnightSun72

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The auto in the veg tent just started showing pistils. It's only 8" tall. Lol.6D018C72-AEE0-481F-98CB-E3712FCFEABC.jpeg2B72AFF6-D6D3-4D40-B1F5-262B26224ADF.jpeg

LA Kush Cake and Thug Pug Ghost breathe clones. LA Kushcakes shooting the roots. They are a couple days older. Cut on Nov 2
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MidnightSun72

MidnightSun72

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Day 3 Flower. Increasing light intensity 3% per day until I hit 100%. We are at 63% right now. I am feeding 2.1 EC of Jacks with Epsom salt right now. Every 10% more light I add I will add 0.2 EC or 10% more nutes. Before I switched to 12/12 I are sitting was left at 44% so I bumped it up to 55% then a day later 60% to compensate for the DLI of losing 8h from 20/4.
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2com

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MidnightSun72 said:
Right now this is the irrigation schedule I am following. Reading up on crop
Steering and how much dry back between feedings etc. Always happy to hear any thoughts or experiences with this.

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plants are in 1.5gallon pots. Actual media volume is 1 gallon. There are 3 stakes per plant resulting in a drip of 3/4gph per pot.
So on an irrigation time of 3 minutes that should be

3/4gph X 3.78l/gal / 60 min/h X 3min irrigation = ~140ml per 3 minute feed.

so as it is they get fed at

5:00pm Lights OFF 2H before lightsON
7:00pm Lights ON
9:00pm
11:00pm
1:00am
3:00am
5:00am
7:00am Lights OFF right at lights off.
9:00 am Lights OFF just to cut the amount of time the medium is drying since it seems to get pretty dry on the thirstier girls.

I wanna follow this thing. But I don't fully understand it. Looks like they feed every hour which I was doing but switched it to be very two hours to see how they did on that period. I am not sure the advantages of hourly? Is it necessary? How do I determine the best off period?
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I remember "complaining" about this to you before, so it might be repetative and not helpful, but I went out and got some digital timers that have support intervals down to the second (eg: 13 seconds on, or 1min 7 seconds on), and also independant timings for the irrigation events/intervals (eg: 13 seconds on and 3hours off, but next time it can be 43 seconds on and, 2hours 50 minutes on).

The the trolmaster timings options are real limiting for irrigation.

Outlet Timer, NEARPOW Dual Digital Light Timer with 2 Independently-controlled Outlets, 18 ON/OFF Programs, 24-Hour and 7-Day Programmable,Indoor Heavy Duty Electrical Timer Switch, 3 Prong, 15A/1800W, Lighting Accessories - Amazon Canada

Outlet Timer, NEARPOW Dual Digital Light Timer with 2 Independently-controlled Outlets, 18 ON/OFF Programs, 24-Hour and 7-Day Programmable,Indoor Heavy Duty Electrical Timer Switch, 3 Prong, 15A/1800W in Lighting Accessories.
www.amazon.ca
Each outlet on this timer are completely independant (so it like having two seperate timers). Amazon.com has some stock, a two pack.

My thinking is, in ordre to use the same duration and timing for everywatering, you'd have to "figure out" (guess, mixed with monitoring) to try and pick the right irrigatoin duration and time between till the next one, and it has to repeat. It would also have to end at an appropriate time before lights out, and start at an appropriate time after lights on. Difficult to do with the limited "style" of timings on the hydro-x.

Edit: Things looking good, dude.
 
MidnightSun72

MidnightSun72

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2com said:
I remember "complaining" about this to you before, so it might be repetative and not helpful, but I went out and got some digital timers that have support intervals down to the second (eg: 13 seconds on, or 1min 7 seconds on), and also independant timings for the irrigation events/intervals (eg: 13 seconds on and 3hours off, but next time it can be 43 seconds on and, 2hours 50 minutes on).

The the trolmaster timings options are real limiting for irrigation.

Outlet Timer, NEARPOW Dual Digital Light Timer with 2 Independently-controlled Outlets, 18 ON/OFF Programs, 24-Hour and 7-Day Programmable,Indoor Heavy Duty Electrical Timer Switch, 3 Prong, 15A/1800W, Lighting Accessories - Amazon Canada

Outlet Timer, NEARPOW Dual Digital Light Timer with 2 Independently-controlled Outlets, 18 ON/OFF Programs, 24-Hour and 7-Day Programmable,Indoor Heavy Duty Electrical Timer Switch, 3 Prong, 15A/1800W in Lighting Accessories.
www.amazon.ca
Each outlet on this timer are completely independant (so it like having two seperate timers). Amazon.com has some stock, a two pack.

My thinking is, in ordre to use the same duration and timing for everywatering, you'd have to "figure out" (guess, mixed with monitoring) to try and pick the right irrigatoin duration and time between till the next one, and it has to repeat. It would also have to end at an appropriate time before lights out, and start at an appropriate time after lights on. Difficult to do with the limited "style" of timings on the hydro-x.

Edit: Things looking good, dude.
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Thanks my guy.
I know what you mean about the timer thing. As it is right now things seem to be working OK. Although I feel like I gotta do something and do drip clean or something I have hard water now I get paranoid about drippers clogging.
 
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