Hello guys! this is such a useful forum, I have already read the FAQ thread (up to question 15).
Pics are below, uploaded to imageshack because forum downgrades pictures, and you couldnt see anything to help me then
PS: The white thing int he middle is temperature sensor.
The third one in the pic (which is not open yet) has been this way for about a week! I am not sure what to make of it? its not dying, but not growing either. It had a minor crisis - I saw its main stem getting thinner, so performed an emergency operation on it, and put it a bit deeper into the rock wool, and closed the hole so no light hits the roots (did the same for the other 2 which still looked ok at the time).
Yesterday, one of the plants was already leaning at less tahn 45 degrees, which started to worry me somewhat.
Today, I moved the large Rockwools into the big pot in the pictures, lowered the lamp by about half (before the picture, was twice higher for the lamp).
And I have several questions now:
1. As you can see in the pictures, during moving the Rockwools into the pot, the stems have 'fallen' and now the plans are laying! this is worrying me very much... I was told wait, give it time until tomorrow morning (I am turning off the light as soon as I finish typing and going to sleep ).
I read on the FAQ, it is advised to use a cotton buds, or something like that to help stabilize it?
2. Do you suggest I engage the Fan? I have bought a fan especially to create a little wind to a) help stabilize roots when they lean somewhere, and b) make them stronger like in a real wind. The fan is positioned 1.5 meters from the plans, and when activated, it creates wind like you get going 10 km/hr in a bike, I would guess I think - is that too strong? too wear? I could engage higher level of fan rotation.
3. I have a huge problem with the PH!! I cant isolated it - even on a dry run, the PH keeps rising, I balance it to 5.5 or so, and by next day its 6.5 or 7+ if unlucky.
Even just putting balanced water in a clean container with nothing else, has PH rising, albeit slower - and I tested it in antoher house too, to eliminate environmental causes (yay for the Scientific method! ).
For example, 7 hours ago I balanced to perfect 5.8, and now water is already at 6.2 with EC holding steady 1.9 (I have expensive meter here, with glass sensors with special liquids..). Should I simply give up on solving the problem, and just keep balancing out the water? if so how long to wait? try to balance it before the actual watering time?
4. Watering - as you can see in the picture, the water timer is set to 4 times a day, for 15 minutes (pic a bit outdated, its set to 1 notch now). Should I keep it at that? or maybe make it less? I am thinking, perhaps best to balance it so it re-waters around the time the Rockwool lost half its weight in soaked water?
5. Humidity - I saw entirely no reference to humidity in the FAQ threads - what is optimal? currently at the room it is 39%.
6. Air circulation - As you can see in the pics, I have air filtering system in place, capable of pumping over 400 cubic meters per hour, to clean the air, and draw fresh air into the room (the room is at -1 level, so fresh air doesnt get in here easily) - how important is it to provide the plant with fresh air? if its not, I'd rather put the thing on a timer to save on electricity, to something like 1 hour on, 1 hour off? any suggestions?
7. Temperature - From what I understand, recommended is 24, and not to cross the 26 degrees celsius? When I turn on the Fan, temp drops to 21 degrees (I was told not to allow below 20 degrees - true?) and without fan, it is at 23.4 right now (night time..). Suggestions please?
Your patience helping out a new a little too impatient grower is highly appreciated!!
Pics are below, uploaded to imageshack because forum downgrades pictures, and you couldnt see anything to help me then
PS: The white thing int he middle is temperature sensor.
The third one in the pic (which is not open yet) has been this way for about a week! I am not sure what to make of it? its not dying, but not growing either. It had a minor crisis - I saw its main stem getting thinner, so performed an emergency operation on it, and put it a bit deeper into the rock wool, and closed the hole so no light hits the roots (did the same for the other 2 which still looked ok at the time).
Yesterday, one of the plants was already leaning at less tahn 45 degrees, which started to worry me somewhat.
Today, I moved the large Rockwools into the big pot in the pictures, lowered the lamp by about half (before the picture, was twice higher for the lamp).
And I have several questions now:
1. As you can see in the pictures, during moving the Rockwools into the pot, the stems have 'fallen' and now the plans are laying! this is worrying me very much... I was told wait, give it time until tomorrow morning (I am turning off the light as soon as I finish typing and going to sleep
).I read on the FAQ, it is advised to use a cotton buds, or something like that to help stabilize it?
2. Do you suggest I engage the Fan? I have bought a fan especially to create a little wind to a) help stabilize roots when they lean somewhere, and b) make them stronger like in a real wind. The fan is positioned 1.5 meters from the plans, and when activated, it creates wind like you get going 10 km/hr in a bike, I would guess I think - is that too strong? too wear? I could engage higher level of fan rotation.
3. I have a huge problem with the PH!! I cant isolated it - even on a dry run, the PH keeps rising, I balance it to 5.5 or so, and by next day its 6.5 or 7+ if unlucky.
Even just putting balanced water in a clean container with nothing else, has PH rising, albeit slower - and I tested it in antoher house too, to eliminate environmental causes (yay for the Scientific method! ).
For example, 7 hours ago I balanced to perfect 5.8, and now water is already at 6.2 with EC holding steady 1.9 (I have expensive meter here, with glass sensors with special liquids..). Should I simply give up on solving the problem, and just keep balancing out the water? if so how long to wait? try to balance it before the actual watering time?
4. Watering - as you can see in the picture, the water timer is set to 4 times a day, for 15 minutes (pic a bit outdated, its set to 1 notch now). Should I keep it at that? or maybe make it less? I am thinking, perhaps best to balance it so it re-waters around the time the Rockwool lost half its weight in soaked water?
5. Humidity - I saw entirely no reference to humidity in the FAQ threads - what is optimal? currently at the room it is 39%.
6. Air circulation - As you can see in the pics, I have air filtering system in place, capable of pumping over 400 cubic meters per hour, to clean the air, and draw fresh air into the room (the room is at -1 level, so fresh air doesnt get in here easily) - how important is it to provide the plant with fresh air? if its not, I'd rather put the thing on a timer to save on electricity, to something like 1 hour on, 1 hour off? any suggestions?
7. Temperature - From what I understand, recommended is 24, and not to cross the 26 degrees celsius? When I turn on the Fan, temp drops to 21 degrees (I was told not to allow below 20 degrees - true?) and without fan, it is at 23.4 right now (night time..). Suggestions please?
Your patience helping out a new a little too impatient grower is highly appreciated!!
You're going to wanna get your humidity levels up to over 50% at least I'd say. Higher humidity during Veg and lower humidity levels during flowering. What kind of lights are you using and what light cycle are you currently running? Granted seedlings dont need ALOT of light, but the amount of light they receive also depends on the type of light your operating as well. More info you can give us means more help you'll be able to receive
