With single plant to grow, the effort needed to cultivate was reduced greatly and allow me to focus on the devices for the next few months.
Pretty much the most interaction I needed with the plant for the next two months besides pruning.
The closet o’ nutrients.
I feel in love with compost tea and have been using it a lot this grow.
Officially started my 7th grow. I gave away the rest of the plants to a craft cultivator and started focusing on just a single plant to reduce the work load.
The lone runt that was left over. I named Tyrion.
After LST’in it to open it up.
I started working on an upgrade camera lens for the robotic arm and also the regular security cameras. These lens are very cheap and easy to buy online. They also give you 3 separate sizes for different options.
Measuring the new lens.
I got a varaity of colors.
Checking the UV coating.
The first mount ended up being for the 3D printer which broke constantly.
This was the first version mounted for the robotic arm. It slipped a bit and a custom mount was later built.
I was vegging out some Amnesia Haze seed and clones for testing purposes. They grew amazingly fast in the tent and I ended up giving them away to a lucky grower.
Vegging out the trees.
In the process of opening up the last plant I split it down the middle. I decided to use cloth string to tie a splint to bring it together.
The split tree.
Splinted Together
Splinted Together
Discovered I had a green caterpillars going on in the grow that got out of hand fast. They guys eat and grow faster then any other critter I’ve delt with thus far.
This spray took care of them in no time flat.
Hungry bastards
Due to space issues and just wanting the beast out of the living area, I broke down the mixer and rebuilt it as a maker bench a few weeks later.
It was time to tear it down. It went quickly and into easy to manage pieces.
Broken casters were a bad design flaw. I needed to use larger ones with more weight load.
I started some clones early October and noticed an issue that seems to occur. If I mix nutrients by hand without gloves then touch a cube mold grows. It seems to happen every time I make this mistake and a reminder to always wear and change gloves when handling the clones.
A mold patch in the perfect fingerprint shape.
Ramping down growing cannabis for a while do to it’s time constraint and need to cycle through many early stage veg. Decided to prep the seeds I have for long term storage. Put them in the fridge for 48 hours to start in the back and then in a container in the freezer. They should last up to 6 years that way and it’s important to keep them in the back to prevent the temperature changing as much as possible.
Prepping for long term storage. In reality these canisters will also be wrapped inside a tupperware container.
Around early fall the cool air makes it possible to grow upstairs again without running a full AC. In retrospect if you’re growing craft style I recommend not having the tent in the open living space. It’s a distraction and makes for bad company.
Time to move the tent upstairs.
4 very nice Amnesia Haze. I’ve been told they are super strong by the people that ended up taking them off my hands.
Sorting through the upstairs room.
Putting things into organized piles is key.
The upstairs did make a good spot for my summer clone space.
Organizing all the T5’s I started out with.
Getting the tent setup.
Did a flush of the plants a week later.
The downstairs restored to full health.
Time to break down the mixing machine for now.
