Grow Room Micro Auto Adventures with Mr. Sparkle

[Mr.Sparkle]

Really novel and interesting growing technique.
Subbed up for more. All though I have to say I do think you might get more end product (although it's clear you're not growing for mass) growing something like Dutch Passions StarRyder in there.
Would be short but hench and wide I imagine.Anyway I'm subbed up

Thanks DarkGreen, yeah i'm not growing for yield, even though it a good metric to also judge plants by, i grow specifically for personal supply, and being that i consume maybe 2-3 times a week and am a light consumer, i have more than i'll ever need.

Not sure if your aware but theres also the different low ryders which normaly stay smaller so easir to manage but yeh im subbed very intresting

thanks zeman, yea im aware in the sense i know different genetics can offer smaller plants just like photoperiods, but i haven't looked to much into the older lowryder based strains, i'll start doing some reading, thanks for the suggestion and stopping by i appreciate it.

Very nice work I'll be tagging along since I recently got the micro bug too. Have 10 damsels in 250 ml cups.... aye, a quarter of a Litre, 5 weeks old. I don't wanna hijack your thread, but I can post a few pics if you're interested. Keep it coming View attachment 629429

For sure Corgy post those pics up, intrested to see what you have, im growing currently in 400ml worth of mix for all the seed runs ive been trying to burn through at the moment.

so dang awesome, hey man i was wondering if you have done or would be willing to do a post about your arduino and I don't know if your using one of these too but like a rasp pi or rasp pi mini? for like controlling the box over the internet.
Cheers
Psilmex

You're correct i am using an arduino to control things i'll give some info on it and can dive into more details if desired.

I use an arduino for pretty base level things like lighting schedules, watering valve control, soils moisture sensors, fan speeds, and temperature and humidity readings for just observation purposes.

Arudions can be controlled or updated over the internet with add ons if so desired, i just update things by a usb cable, but say cool features like webcams and or on the fly control, with data tracking and variable lighting such as dimmable lights and changing color spectrum mixes, and or having automatic reservoir nutrient monitoring and mixing isn't something i've dived into, as to be honest those are definitely not needed for anything smaller than a really well done room which is trying to achieve very high Grams/KWH,

Raspberry pi's can do all the same things as an arduino but there just better suited for those "neat" features that need some computing to do, If wanting a comparison.

 

[ZeGermans]

I once grew auto whiteberry which is a lowryder , white widow x blueberry Very fragrant

 

[Mr.Sparkle]

Sunday update:

Here's are some pics and info about my two boxes

Bogan, my black case is my typical veg case "18/6" where i store mother plants or start seedlings in for 2-3weeks before they go to the other box, it is also where i've been trying out the autoflowers.
Currently it's set up quite well, it had some issues caused problems with my last auto flowers, but has since been tweaked.

Right now i have two photoperiod mothers on the left hand side, a C99 and a Lemon Kush, beside them are two autos, a think different and a auto chemdog, that both suffered early on when i went away and they dried out due to some issues i recently fixed.

Beside them is one Auto Mazar on the back wall, with two Photoperiod C99 Seedlings below it, and just a couple days ago i put in four Photoperiod Blueberry seedlings beside them, with 3 Auto Dark Devils on the far right, which will stay in this box and i'll be reversing one of them to make seeds.

This is my other white case Ashla "12/12" its my flower box for the photoperiods.

Right now she is nothing much to look at as i just chopped 6 plants out of her in the last week, and the flowering plants on the left hand side will all produce small yields because they stretched badly early on when i was away for over a week, which i had to chop them back harshly in order to get them under control.

Currently i've just been burning through all the seeds i have looking for some good genetics, so i can refine down what i have and then make some new crosses.

Right now i have some BubblegumXL, Orange bud, one critical that will probably get axed, a c99, and a revegged cherrybomb i'm running through a second time, it will fill out once the c99 and blueberry seedlings get moved over.

I still have the odd tweak i need to do in regards to a tray support to prevent a drooping tray which causes uneven watering, but ill deal with that shortly.

 

[Mr.Sparkle]

Sunday update: (mainly a cut and paste from another forum im on but just doing that for simplicity today)

Bogan is moving along, the think different has maybe a week or two more, the stunted auto mazar is bulking out wouldn't even know the troubles it had with germ, overall the box is running good.

Might start some more auto seeds today or cut some clones, or something to fill the current empty space.

Ashla (12/12 box) is doing alright, still need to make the tray support, also tweaked the programming to make them run a bit wetter, also will be upping the nitrogen ratio as i think they will all benefit. Other than that the plants on the left will be done in the next 1.5-3 weeks, small yields but that was expected with the issues i ran into early on with my absence, and i threw some C99 seedlings over into it to flower out.

Also i'm thinking i might run this box for a bit longer then possibly retire it for awhile as one i'm in a state of oversupply, two the autos are quite promising in comparison and if i start playing more with them even just using the other box i'll still be producing way more than i need, and when this box is out of production i'll upgrade it to a 4 COB led pattern and run a cooler spectrum as the combo of flowering nutes and warmer spectrum i've noticed make the plants stretch at tad more than i like, and it will allow me to get a wider light dispersion in there instead of having hot spots and dark corners.

Harvest, the Auto Chemdog is finished so she got chopped this morning and is hanging for her drying time till she hits the jars. Turned out quite well even with all the early issues.

As for the previous Dark Devil, she curing nicely, got a bit over 9 grams off her which is good considering 400ml of mix, and running up to another 13 plants at the same time, i don't expect to get the same yields if i had a bunch packed in there but still if i could get say 65% of it, will be looking at a good 80+ grams a run, but that's just numbers, anyways i'll be dabbling in some shortly.

Have a good sunday everyone.

Auto Seeds - Auto Chem Dog

 

[Mr.Sparkle]

Sunday Update:
Bogan is going good, had a hiccup due to some older mix reading low and the box being calibrated to it, so it dumped water a little too much twice but i was there to correct it, but due to the newest mix possibly having more perlite, that has skewed the sensor reading so i had to recalibrate the midpoint for the new soilless mix. That was easy enough, but i didn't even think about the mixes giving that much difference between batches, kinda a slap to the forehead with it being obvious once i knew, but live and learn.

The far right plant "Dark Devil [HASHTAG]#3[/HASHTAG]" got her first spray of Colloidal Silver today, she soon to be he hopefully, had a couple pistils showing, and she was big enough to start. I'll be spraying her every two to three days till i start seeing pollen sacs which which should be two to three weeks. That plant was picked as she was the biggest and had the most vigorius growth, plus she has the underlying purple characteristics similar to the first plant i grew, and you can already tell that she/he will be purple later on.

I'll be using her/him to self pollinate if possible but really to pollinate the lower parts of the other two Dark Devils.

Ashla: Moved the Blueberry seedlings over, and the crushing the stems on the c99 has really slowed the vertical stretch which is good, i expected to have more room in this box, but the bubblegums arent done quite yet, should be this week though by the looks of it, and the one C99 Clone should be near the end of the week.

Harvest:

Chopped 4 plants today aswell, first is the struggling think different it actually did quite well in the end, but we will see with the smoke.

The Second pic is two orange bud clones and a Critical in the center, no high yields due to those issue i ran into early, plus the orange bud doesn't produce that much, but it will be smoke or edibles nonetheless.

 

[Mr.Sparkle]

Weekly Update: Took pics yesterday but didn't get around to posting them.

Bogan "Black 18/6 PC Case" is full, took some attempted clones of the C99 (Photoperiod) and Lemon Kush (Photoperiod), also started some more seeds, two Think Different's, a Critical Jack (Photoperiod) freebie, and a Auto Gigabud freebie that i don't expect to make it as it was a crappy seed. The autos are coming along nicely the Auto Mazar is branching out and putting on buds, i plucked a couple fan leaves just for space limitations. The two untouched Auto Darkdevil's are starting their stretch and are starting to put out flowers, the one DarkDevil I've been spraying with CS is in the bottom right still isn't showing ball formation yet, so i made a fresh batch of CS this weekend just in case the older stuff wasn't working but i plucked that plant of its bigger fan leaves to make it easier to deal with and spray, hopefully she will produce pollen, saying that i have only done it once before on a bunch of clones, so no idea if it will work this time, so we will see and i also threw a C99 clone back from my other box in to this box to re-veg.

Ashla "White 12/12 PC Case" is flowering out decently the current ones that are shining are the one re-vegged Cherry Bomb, and a Jack Herrer, the BlueBerrys are starting their stretch, and are looking good, the C99 seedling were stretching too much so i had to due some pruning and such and they are looking kinda barren, but we will see how they turn out.

Also Harvested a bunch of plants, one C99 Clone and some mediocre Bubblegum XL which could of been left another week but it was time to make some room for the new seedlings in Ashla, also they were plants i wasn't planning on keeping, so they got the chop.

C99 clone just shy of 8 weeks

Top shot of three Bubblegum XL's

 

[Mr.Sparkle]

Weekly Update, bit late but was away over the weekend and couldn't get around to things till today:

Bogan:

Running along quite well, i think the far right needs a tad more watering but that's just fine tuning, the clones of the lemon kush didn't take but all the C99 ones did so there are now 4 of them in their own pots, i might be jumping the gun with them but i can always chop them back if they grow to much before i can throw them in the other box.

The Auto Dark Devil i was spraying with CS is throwing out some pollen sacks now so thumbs up on that, it also grew into the one light over the weekend, so i had to chop off the burnt top. Would be nice to have some mature pollen now but its probably gonna be another 2 weeks plus till we have some which isn't ideal as the other Dark Devils are starting to bud out, but we will make due, my current plan is to hit only the bottom of the one better Dark Devil at the moment, but i might also possibly let the sprayed one self pollinate as well, but we will see.

The two think different seedling are just starting on their first set of true leaves, so we will be watching them shortly.

Also the auto mazar is still going decently, not a fan of the growth structure and its still throwing out roots galore which i trimmed back a bit just cause they were trying to take over other pots.

But here's some pics

The Roots of the Auto Mazar, and two Mother plants trying to take over, just after i separated them from the pots in front of them.

A close up shot of the hopefully soon to be ripe pollen sacs, had issues with them ripening the last time i made some with Colloidal Silver, still worked but not how i would of liked.

Ashla: My 12/12 Photo period Case

It's going well, should make it run a bit wetter, but will adjust it in time, the blueberry's stretched too much for my liking's so they all got the "Z" treatment if you notice the elastic bands near the base, and all the other plants are starting to fill out.

Have a couple fixes i need to make to this box, which ill try and get around to them this week, but i have to half dismantle it to do so, which ive been neglecting to do so because of that.

 

[Mr.Sparkle]

Weekly Update:

Bogan moving along fine, The one dark devil had its first ripe pollen sac, i plucked it and put it to good use, still think were gonna be waiting a good week for more pollen.
Also booted the Critical Kush and Purple Kush over to Ashla today, and brought back the Auto Mazar i moved over for a couple days as things were getting crowded.

On to Ashla, i might do the mods to it shortly, as the reservoir is almost empty which makes things easier to work with. Trimmed up the plants a little bit and that's about it for that box, we should have a couple plants finished in the next week to two as some are looking close to the end, haven't scoped them yet but they look it.

 

[Mr.Sparkle]

Weekly update:

Bogan is doing nicely, plants should have a bit more nitrogen but ill fix that, the two fem Devils seem to be starting some seeds from the pollen i hit them with mid week, the other darkdevil i reversed i chopped of the top of and have it sitting in a glass of water letting it slowly ripen some more pollen sacs, i should've left it in the case as it would ripen way faster but didn't because we would of had a lot of stray pollen flying around if we didn't to to the opening pollen sacs in time, the bottom half is still throwing out pollen sacs as well so i might just pluck the whole plant, even is i was gonna keep it for in to produce some selfed seeds as well.

What else took more clones, and the current c99 clones should be ready to move over in a week, the auto mazar is still loping along, i'm done with them, bad buy im my opinion, but whatever, also the two think differents are coming along, plus i brought back the cherry bomb to reveg.

Ashla, now finally has a tilted tray, also fixed another issue with it and have changed the nutrients that are supplied just to try something out, the new stuff has more nitrogen but we will see how it turns out, will also be running them in higher concentration, even though my tds meter gives off a lower reading, has to do with actual dissolved solids vs the electrical conductivity of those materials and how my meter reads them. So i've been doing some material list calculations mixed with grams per liter tests to see where i should be starting mix wise with what my meter say vs what the the actual nutrient concentration is. Really just figuring out a starting point. Aka See deficiencies increase feed rate, see burn lower feed rate.

Also moved over a Critical Jack Over to start flower.

And i harvested three plants, three more should be done this week.

But we have the following

A Re-vegged Cherry Bomb which I'll try re-vegging again

A Re-vegged Orange Bud mother which is now gone.

And a Jack Herrer

 

[Mr.Sparkle]

A mid week closeup of the top of the one Darkdevil

You can see the odd seed up top, the lowers are packed which is awesome as that was where i pollinated but the top has a few aswell just cause i never isolated the upper half, looking good, the other plant is the same and the lowers of the C99 over in my photoperiod case is the same.