KGB’s EarthBox Grow

[KGB]

Woke up and immediately went down to check my plants and….i freaked out as the light was on. I pulled up my tablet and checked the programming BUT the light was on. I checked everything….fubar

Then I realized it’s supposed to be on and shuts off at 10am

Went upstairs, made coffee and sat down

 

[MariJan]

Woke up and immediately went down to check my plants and….i freaked out as the light was on. I pulled up my tablet and checked the programming BUT the light was on. I checked everything….fubar

Then I realized it’s supposed to be on and shuts off at 10am

Went upstairs, made coffee and sat down

Stoner moment ?

 

[KGB]

Stoner moment ?

I find, as I get older, that when I first wake up things aren’t as clear and sorted as they were when I was younger.

I may be the first human to realize this. I must document….oh wait….lost my train of thought

Coffee

 

[KGB]

So did the plant respond to the extra hour of light?

Sure did. I collect my week of time lapse every Monday after the lights go out which allows me to see a 5 minute time lapse of the dark period following the 13 hours of light. Just like when under light the plants also follow an exact timed routine in the dark in my grows. In the 11 hours of darkness the pattern changed as if the plant was thinking about the hour. When last nights light started it was off then bam right into the light pattern.

The pattern I referred to would be larger fan leaves and how and when they raise and fall.

I love this time lapse as it lets me see just how healthy my plants are by the way they act both in the light and the dark.

 

[T_Dub]

I can relate….I monitor my LED and verify that it is turned off in the AC Infinity Controller app 3-4 times per night. Makes me feel paranoid. I just don’t trust the Controllers (or my programming skills) as much as I trust the old mechanical timers we used before this tech came out.

 

[KGB]

I can relate….I monitor my LED and verify that it is turned off in the AC Infinity Controller app 3-4 times per night. Makes me feel paranoid. I just don’t trust the Controllers (or my programming skills) as much as I trust the old mechanical timers we used before this tech came out.

I check my time lapse mostly. The AC Infinity has never failed me. Make sure to run all your electricity on a high end large surge suppressor. I plug all my stuff into a large APC surge suppressor. If you don’t you risk random issues that can’t be nailed down

 

[KGB]

This is the suppressor I use and I have no unused slots. And I thought it was APC but that one is at my entertainment center. The one in the tent is this one I have it wire tied to a bar well off the floor which is a Tripp Lite which has extremely tight suppression times.

Large surge suppressor

 

[Hippie420]

Stoner moment ?

Brain fart. I have them often.

 

[KGB]

Brain fart. I have them often.

Not me. I started getting them after my stroke. I just realize what’s going on and compensate for it.

The cool thing is if I had dementia I couldn’t do that

 

[Thomas81]

Woke up and immediately went down to check my plants and….i freaked out as the light was on. I pulled up my tablet and checked the programming BUT the light was on. I checked everything….fubar

Then I realized it’s supposed to be on and shuts off at 10am

Went upstairs, made coffee and sat down

Stoner

 

[KGB]

Stoner

Well sure but I been a stoner a long time. This is something different

 

[Thomas81]

Well sure but I been a stoner a long time. This is something different

Pmsl

 

[KGB]

I really have not been looking at my growing data. Kinda forgot about it being there. It’s an average from Nov 7th to Nov 27th and you can see the daily spikes are uniform except for one day I had the tent open defoliating.

 

[KGB]

Day 75

we went to Mexico for 3 days so I marked up the max amount of water I can squeeze in the box and calculated that my light at 80% would give exactly 3 days. When I got in I opened and looked and it had drops of water left but never ran out. As far as I am concerned the grow is going strong. The second pic is with the light off so you can see the density of the canopy better.

 

[T_Dub]

Day 75

we went to Mexico for 3 days so I marked up the max amount of water I can squeeze in the box and calculated that my light at 80% would give exactly 3 days. When I got in I opened and looked and it had drops of water left but never ran out. As far as I am concerned the grow is going strong. The second pic is with the light off so you can see the density of the canopy better.

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Muy Bueno!! Welcome back!! They look great!

 

[KGB]

Muy Bueno!! Welcome back!! They look great!

LOL my wife speaks Spanish me I barely speak English although it’s my only language!

We had a great time and as an added bonus I was able to look at the grow long distance to monitor progress and put my mind at ease. I will say the buds are starting to fatten up. The Skunk#1 is getting red hairs now. It’s definitely going to mature first.

 

[KGB]

Here is the other side I rarely show. You can’t see much of the C99xPurple Urkle from the sides. It was shorter and was also topped so you can clearly see the two main colas. The two tall ones that are to the right are Ice Princess.

Apologize this is cut out of low rez video

 

[KGB]

Being a senior citizen starting my lights at 10pm to 10am was great during the summer but I find in the winter…not so much. I don’t like having to stay up until 10pm when it gets dark at 5pm. So I killed my light through last nights light cycle until tonight at 9pm so it will now be 9pm to 9am.

Interesting that on the normal light/dark cycle the leaves rise and fall in both light and dark. But when it hit the extended dark it just kinda froze like it’s thinking. When the light comes back on at 9pm I feel sure the cycle will continue as it was before. It’s just interesting that it froze like that.

 

[Hippie420]

I let consumer's power tell me when to turn the lights on and off. I'm cheap. I burn 'em during the off peak hours.

 

[KGB]

I let consumer's power tell me when to turn the lights on and off. I'm cheap. I burn 'em during the off peak hours.

Same here for the most part. 9pm to 9am the majority of it is off peak