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Cold country, small balcony, grow accordingly 2020

Hello and a warning: this is going to be boring and small grow located in finland, mainly for keeping record.
 
This is my 4th or 5th season and 2nd in the same appartment. I have a small windowed balcony facing so, that in the summer sun hits it from ~12 to late evening between 18-22 if I remember correctly.
 
Last summer I had 2x aji fantasy, 2x harold st bart as main plants, then amashito wild and moruglah in a more shady spot. Results were nice for aji fantasies, got around 2kg overall from them and maybe 500+g from harolds. This year I'm not going to waste space with  chinenses, the conditions just aren't there.
 
This years grow will be:
2x Challuaruro
2x Jalapeno orange spice
1x aji fantasy x harold st bart (if seeds viable, own cross)
1x spanish giant.
 
I have a tent for germinating and getting to summer, 120x60x180 sized, so 2'x4'x6'. Seeds will hit the rockwool next week, will put out pics then. My growlight is solux twin 2x55 tubes, 6400k and around 10 000 lumens.
Basicly plan is, rockwool -> coco coir with maybe perlite/vermiculite, final pots will be pots with water reservoir below, acts kinda like passive hydro with coco. 
 
 
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That is my now 3yo starfish.
 
edit what is the best way to up pics? can I upload them to place X and embed link here?
 
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The plants look really good, and im looking forward to seeing that giant tent filled with grown up plants! 
Looking forward to see how the orange spice will be doing as none of my indoor jalapeños have been successful. 
 
They all seem to start to put out flowers, way too early. Could it be because of cold? From +30c to +20c?
Edit: or the increase of light, in The sense that less plants in tent
 
Inoks said:
They all seem to start to put out flowers, way too early. Could it be because of cold? From +30c to +20c?
Edit: or the increase of light, in The sense that less plants in tent
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Plants are genetically programmed to start flowering
at the stalk crown when they fork. If conditions aren’t
great for pod setting, the flowers will just drop until
conditions are conducive. 
 
If you want to control the flowering, you can pick the
flowers on the stalk crown and the first node after the
fork, and then every odd numbered node after that.
I did that with my Trippaul Threat F7 grow and had
good success with pod setting on the grow table in
the garage. At some point the flower pinching becomes
too time-consuming if there are more than a few plants.
It was bad enough with only a small table full.
 
Yeah, I let them do their things, still atleast 3 months Till summertime.

This is the boring part, plants hang in the tent and grow slow and steady. A bit slower than usual, garage is only 16-20celsius. Have to raise it if things get too slow.

Did plant some broccoli cause daughter asked for it.
 
Inoks said:
Thinking about buying Arduino+moisture sensors+pump etc. Friends know the coding part and I happen to be electrician.
Making things automated perhaps
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A YouTuber named chilichump are doing videos just on how to do that, using those items. He have 2 channels with one being focusing on automatics. You properly already know how to do the electronic side of things, but he also teach simple coding in Arduino :)
 
Mildfruit said:
A YouTuber named chilichump are doing videos just on how to do that, using those items. He have 2 channels with one being focusing on automatics. You properly already know how to do the electronic side of things, but he also teach simple coding in Arduino :)
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Thanks, Im already following that brilliant man!
Actually I went with elecrow/crowtail Arduino shield kit. https://www.elecrow.com/arduino-automatic-smart-plant-watering-kit.html

Will extend watering to 8 plants, but just put sensor to 4, that should be enough, as they are in same place, same pots and same size
 
Nice little tent jungle, Risto, all of
the plants look really good.
 
Keep it up, friend!
 
Have fun getting that kit set up and dialed in, Risto!
 
This sounds like the perfect way to water them. My setup is time based an requires some trial and error knowing how much each plant drink. 
I'll be looking forward to see how this works for you, and if it works out great I might try a similar setup in grodan blocks instead of soil :) 
 
Mildfruit said:
This sounds like the perfect way to water them. My setup is time based an requires some trial and error knowing how much each plant drink. 
I'll be looking forward to see how this works for you, and if it works out great I might try a similar setup in grodan blocks instead of soil :) 
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I'll keep you up to date. You could add time rules and literally anything if you know how to program Arduino. I might do some tweaking or ask a friend.
Theres also values to what is "dry" and what is "moist". By defaul 30% and 50%.
Probably will drop dry to 20%

https://www.elecrow.com/arduino-automatic-smart-plant-watering-kit.html
There are links to manual and sample code
 
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