Charlesquik's Growing 2017 2.0

Time for a new glog as photobucket destroyed all the pictures links.
 
I uploaded all my photos to imgur
 
Ill try my best to remake it

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I started planting when the snow was starting to melt around February 19th.
 
The main goal this year is to make the prototype of an automated greenhouse. We will then make a big greenhouse on the family woodlot that need zero human intervention. 
 
Also we are going to use automation for almost everything.
 

 
I tried to chose the right balance between super hot and mild so everyone in the family is happy
 
2 x Yellow 7 pot
2 x Farmer market jalapeno
2 x Aji cito
1 x Reaper
2 x Fresno
1 X Brain X Bhutlah (pepper north)
1 X Ghenghis (pepper north)
2 x Starfish
2 x Fatalii
1 x Trinidad perfume
1 x 7 pot chocolate gigantic SR
2 x Lìmon
1 x Trinidad moruga scorpion
1 x red scotch bonnet
2 x Aleppo (jeffcontonio)
2 x Aji jobito (jeffcontonio)
2 x Gold bhutlah ( pepper north )
2 x 7 pot Lava (pepper north)
1 x Wiri Wiri
1 x Ôt Hièm 
 
 
Red = new pepper this year
 
For a total of 31 plants
 

 
I used pro mix but it was a mistake because the soil keep to much moisture and I had fungus problem around week 4.
 

 
I planted 31 plants this year. ( 1 slot for soil moisture sensors)
 

 
With the use of  a raspberry pi we were receiving an email when we needed to water the seedlings. 
 

 
I also bought a nice Meizhi 450watt full spectrum light. It helped a lot with the slow growing I had from previous year.
 

 

 

 
March 10 update
 

 
March 12 update
 

 
 
April 1 update
 

 
 
April 6 update
 

 
 
April 19 update 
 

 
 
May  3 update
 
I already had buds so I took them one by one.
 

 
We tried to make a bigger greenhouse but we feared a neighbor complaint (We live in the city so there are strict rules) so we stayed with previous year size.
 

 
We did a rock bottom to help drainage
 
Then we used a mix of  black dirt
shrimp compost
manure
and concentrated shrimp powder 
 

 

 

 
This year I have to share my greenhouse with my step dad tomatoes so the greenhouse is jam-packed. 
 

 
 
My step dad also plant some cucumbers. 
 
 

 
 

 

[charlesquik]

Automation is the best thing so far.
 
Humidity and temperature are controlled by my own custom program with Arduino.
 
My father was in charge of electronics and I was in charge of the code.
 
 
The electronics are in the wooden box. 
 
I can control the heater and fan independently. Both humidity and temperature are controlled in real time via my program.
 
The raspberry pi is in charge to communicate to my house to the web interface where we can check the greenhouse status.
 
The arduino board is in charge to monitor inside and outside humidity and temperature and control whether the heater or fan are ON or OFF.
 
 

 
This is how the web interface look
 

 

 

 
 
 
We also added a drip irrigation system that is working 1 time for 30 minutes  each week.
 

 

 

 
 
 

 
 
 
June 20 update
 
Cucumber in mid June???!!!! This greenhouse is magic.
 

 

 
Chicken are back!
 
Unfortunately, the last year chickens died this winter of some sort of virus at the chicken coop.
 

 

 
They are often set loose on the yard and they are exploring everywhere. They are very curious little  fellas.
 

 
 
More picture to come! I have a new camera that my father gave me so the images will start to get better.

 

[moruga welder]

Looking Good !  love the chickens ,    

 

[OCD Chilehead]

Pictures look great Chuck. I like the drip irrigation. Plants look nice and healthy. Pretty chickens.

Nice work!

 

[Trident chilli]

Nice greenhouse you have both put a lot of hard work into it and will now reap the dividends... irrigation lets you relax and enjoy .... lovely chickens do you have problems with foxes


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[charlesquik]

Nice greenhouse you have both put a lot of hard work into it and will now reap the dividends... irrigation lets you relax and enjoy .... lovely chickens do you have problems with foxes


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No problem with fox because I live in city suburban. The only wild animals we get are squirrels, marmots, raccoons and skunks.

 

[charlesquik]

update!
 
My step dad got some diseases on his tomatoes plants so he had to remove them from the greenhouse. 
 
Well I won't argue I got room for my peppers now
 

 
 
I also finally received my linear actuator !
 
Windows are now automatically opening when its too hot
 

 

 

 

 

 
The installation is a little bit redneck but it work
 
 
Also plants are doing well
 

 

 

 

 

[charlesquik]

The peppers begin to ripen a little.
 
Here some gold bhutlah 
 

 

 
Lìmon 
The plant is small but is filled with pods. ( This one is outside )
 

 
 
Reaper are doing well
 

 
 
The leaves of many plants are starting to turn pale green so I will give them a nitrogen boost soon.
 

 

 

[peppamang]

Nice Charles. I like your automatic window opening. I recently built a greenhouse out of old second hand windows, might do the same thing like you did. 

 

[dragonsfire]

Nice setup, nice pics thanks

 

[PaulG]

Sorry about photo bucket's egregious behavior.  I lost almost all my
pics from 5 year's of grow logs.  Thanks to the extreme membership,
I can now just upload pix from my phone or computer right to THP.
Best few bucks I've spent.
 
Your grow is making Quebec proud, mon ami! You've developed an
awesome techie grow set-up, Charles!

 

[charlesquik]

The funny thing is we are talking about the automated greenhouse to people who are working with greenhouse or are operating greenhouse of a good size and they are like "WHATTT IS THIS REAL?? I want to buy one! The cost of commercial automation equipment for this would be 10 000$ +"
 
And yet we are doing this for like 250$.

 

[charlesquik]

Little harvest from Tuesday. 08/08/2017
 
 
3 x Golden bhutlah (seeds from peppernorth)
1 x Aji jobito ( ate it )
2 x  lìmon ( ate 1 )
 

 

[Bold Badger Sauces]

Your automation setup is amazing!

 

[Devv]

Nice going Charles!
 
The plants are producing and you have come up with a really cool greenhouse setup.
 
Being I'm a major computer geek, I would love to know what hardware (boards etc.) you're using to monitor the system you designed. I'm assuming they use a wireless link?
 
Wishing you continued success this season!

 

[charlesquik]

Nice going Charles!
 
The plants are producing and you have come up with a really cool greenhouse setup.
 
Being I'm a major computer geek, I would love to know what hardware (boards etc.) you're using to monitor the system you designed. I'm assuming they use a wireless link?
 
Wishing you continued success this season!

 
We are using a raspberry pi for the web interface
 
We are using an arduino uno with a  shield ( to use the actuator )
 
The arduino is sending via radio antenna the data to the raspberry pi so that he can show metrics on the web interface.
 
The whole setup could work without the  rasberry pi but its nice to check the greenhouse status on my phone
 

There is two dht22 temperature/humidity sensor for indoor and outdoor temp/hum 
There is two relay to control whether fan and heater are ON/OFF 

The hardest part is to write the code in C  (I think you can use python too) because the documentation isn't very good and project like us are very rare.
 
Its kind of been trial and error so far but it paid off.
 

 

[charlesquik]

Today harvest! 2017/08/12
 
1x Aji jobito
1x Aji cito
1x Lìmon
1x Yellow Fatalii
7x Triniad perfume
 
Also 7 pot lava and chocolate gigantic sr are soon ready
 

 
Also harvested some garlics, tomatoes and  a YUUUGEEEE cucumber!

My step dad is to tomatoes what I am to peppers
 

 

[Devv]

 
We are using a raspberry pi for the web interface
 
We are using an arduino uno with a  shield ( to use the actuator )
 
The arduino is sending via radio antenna the data to the raspberry pi so that he can show metrics on the web interface.
 
The whole setup could work without the  rasberry pi but its nice to check the greenhouse status on my phone
 
There is two dht22 temperature/humidity sensor for indoor and outdoor temp/hum 
There is two relay to control whether fan and heater are ON/OFF 

The hardest part is to write the code in C  (I think you can use python too) because the documentation isn't very good and project like us are very rare.
 
Its kind of been trial and error so far but it paid off.
 

 
Of course I have some reading to do
 
I love a challenge. I write some sql/php code on the Linux servers. Hopefully this is not too far off!
 
Thanks for the information!
 
And congrats of the harvest. May there be many more!
 

 

[charlesquik]

Today harvest! 2017/08/16
 
6x Lìmon
3x Fresno
2x Gold Bhutlah
2x 7 pot Lava
1x Trininad Perfume
1x Fatalii
 

 
Also a picture of a 7 pot Cholate Gigantic SR almost ripe
 

 
Another one
 

 
7 Pot lava ( Doesnt look like one )
 

 

[charlesquik]

Today harvest 2017-08-18
 
1x Fresno
1x Aleppo
2x Aji cito
1x Aji perfume
1x Farmer's market jalapeno
1x 7 pot Chocolate Gigantic SR