LEAF - GovernMint Oasis

6/13/23 - Day 1 - I was starting with a seed, but its taking too long to germinate. I went down to my local show and picked up a clone. I'm excited to use this new Leaf growing box. I have done some successful growth in the past. This will be me revisiting what I learned on my first few grows and working with the Leaf device to hopefully have an easy way of growing my own buds in the future. I will keep her in Germination until the roots start to find the water. 6/15/23 - Day 3 - After having some issues with PH. For the nute bottle that is used on the installation I did not follow the guide, and there was a sticker I was supposed to remove. So it created some issues with suction. Got that resolved quickly. Did a water change. I'm using tap water for now ( I know I know this keeps me up at night ) it's only temporary until I get my RO water setup again. I need to buy some parts (to the membrane) and to be honest this box set me back enough $ cheese. I'm trying to get a harvest or two in before I spend any more money on it. I did find out that my tap water is EXTREMELY clean. testing at only 30PPM. I live right next to a water treatment facility so that could have something to do with it. Now there is copper and zinc and other things they add to the water. But let's see how this goes. One other thing I'm worried about is the heat. Where I live, it gets to be 114 sometimes. This LEAF unit is meant for up to 87 deg and this is in my garage. Its a finished garage but there is no AC. I am working on some modifications so I can vent the air. I've done this before, and it can be managed. So, I will be watching that as I go along. Germination Growing Conditions (Targets) Light Schedule: 18Hrs On / 6Hrs Off Air Temp: 79deg Humidity: 60% Water Temp: 65deg Light Intensity: 35% Desired Ph: 6.0 6/17/2023 - Day 5 - She is still looking sad. I have not moved her to check and see if the roots are growing through to the water yet. I will check today when the lights are on. I think shes not getting enough water yet because her roots have not grown enough yet. Waiting for her to take off! UPDATE: 6/17/2023 - Saw the first roots shoot out. There is an issue with my PH doser. The software seems to be dosing too much. DId a water change to bring the PH back into line. PH is sitting at 7. I want it to be at 6. So ill test the doser again to see if there is an issue with it. 6/20/2023 - Day 8 - Over the last couple of days a few things have been problematic, but fixed for the moment. The PH doser is having some issues. I was able to stop the PH doser for the time being and manually adjust the PH to 6.0 - 6.5. Some fixes on the software that manages the doser are in route. I have lots of Roots touching the water now. She does not look happy at the moment. (Still droopy, but that should start to change as her roots are starting to grow into the water. I'm thinking her drooping leaves might have been due to no roots being able to get water, and the water it could get to was out of PH. So just enough nutes were getting through to grow. She is on a Night cycle now, ill check her in the day and see if she's doing any better. It might take a couple of days. 6/21/2023 - Day 9 - The leaves are starting to uncurl; I think the leaves that were made while the PH was adjusting all over are just stunted for sure. The new leaves on top are growing faster, as are the roots. The roots are shooting out from all over and are finally touching the water with more than just one root. Im looking forward to the next couple days. She at the right height to be topped but I don't want to stunt her again so soon. Ill try and hold out as long as I can. 6/22/2023 - Day 10 - The new leaves coming out are looking good. I think she's on the way back from recovery. The roots are looking so good now. I'm struggling with topping right now. When to top? I would have already topped but the plant has not had a moment to recover. Im going to wait as long as I can to top. Hopefully I can hold out for a week or so. If you are looking for this experience, check out https://www.getleaf.co/