Overdue combo #hydrotower and #weedlings update (no pics don't worrry totally #sfw not even bad language except "weed") Peppers are next.

The #weedlings are no more. I've put off writing but.. they graduated to weed! 😹 They got some last minute training last week, and soon they go to flower. Nothing much to say, pics later, etc. I need a better dehumidifier but as long as the heat holds, the exhaust fan + house AC keeps up.

The #cucumber is growing tons of female flowers! 5 or 6 popped up literally as I was making a Hard Choice about a rebuild. Unfortunately, zero males survive. I think I got a couple pollinated but it is just comical at this point.
Not comical is the #basil which gets more vigorous every time I harvest. (Every few days I have to cut the stem back because it is leaning on the LED again and turning yellow.) It is just HAPPY. Cut down all the front-facing leaves? Enough for homemade XL margarita pizza today and tomorrow there is enough new growth for a nice sauce.
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#Weedlings got topped yesterday and seem very happy about it. (I also moved the light up a bit. It will only get dimmer as they get bigger anyway.)

More of my dashboard than usual here. It still needs work but I use it. (Those thresholds on the plant card are questionable at best, but that is OK because so are the sensors..)

On the #hydrotower front, we ate the fancy half-cucumber. It was fucking delicious, but only enough to garnish 2 side salads. Coincidentally, a second fem flower has started swelling up. My cucumber machine is .. slow, but steady. Slow.

Tower is a hard lesson in several aspects of #3dprinting. It is super hard to waterPROOF something, esp without post-processing. And I'm getting fatigue-related sagging that is gonna be a Big Problem eventually. Plus water just doing water things in a naive design (cutouts cause it to 'flip' forward, stuff like that..)

#growyourownmedicine #cannabis #homegrow #weed

Today's #weedling and #hydrotower combo update:

The tower is waiting for Cal-Mag because @WordenPond is brilliant. (It also explains what keeps happening to our squashes in the yard.) Other than the deficiency, it is doing OK and the one cucumber continues to grow in it's odd gherkin-water-balloon way. Lots of male flowers but only a few fem still. 🤞

The weedlings are happy, and I finally found the spare #switchbot switch to replace the #securifi peanut on their grow light. That should make it MUCH more reliable.

The securifi plugs do have some serious bugs, but once set up they were generally reliable for years. Recently they have been suffering the increasing instability in the #homeassistant #zigbee2mqtt stack, exacerbated with HA's visceral hatred of "retry that obviously failed command". I'll likely reuse them in places where on/off is less critical, or as always-on power sensors.

#GrowYourOwn #GrowYourOwnMedicine #cannabis #hydroponics #snarkhome #gardening

The #hydrotower #cucumber is getting spots and some crispy edges here and there, so of course I ran to the internet in a panic. Some random article that looked human-written suggested too much water, so I turned the water schedule from 15m every 30m down to 25 every 60.

Within 2 hours the cucumber got irritable and started to wilt. So here I am back on the internet in a panic. (Not really, the cucumber isn't likely to up and die or anything.)

Any #hydroponics peeps out there with advice? Is my schedule too low? I kinda settled in there by accident when stuff stopped dying.

It is just a hollow tower and a bucket of GenHydro 'bloom' mix with some extra green bottle. The fluid is almost a week old but I'm hoping to go closer to 2 weeks per change. Not sure what else might impact it. pH is "set" at (poorly-calibrated) 5.7ish and slowly climbs to 5.95 before I push it down with pH minus or (as needed) more fluid.

#hydroponics #GrowYourOwn #gardening

#weedlings moved to bigger accomodations. Been warm in there today but not enough to hurt them. Tons of good roots under the seedling tray.

I also moved the world's saddest tomato from the #hydrotower to soil. Hopefully it survives.

#marijuana #growyourown #growyourownmedicine #esphome #homeassistant

I was trying to figure out how to move the #hydrotower #ESPCam to see the first, largest #cucumber but it turns out it is already pointed at the 3rd. Basically dead center. (Female flowers look "just like" males except they are growing from a teeny cucumber. If pollination works, the cucumber gets huge.)

I think the #hydrotower #cucumber is unhappy with the 25-on 35-off schedule and set up it's own tap. (Peering in through my access port)

Should I water the tower either more or more often? It is on from 00 to 25 every hour and everything I've checked has decent roots from their net cups.

#hydroponics #gardening #snarkhome

@revealingtoomuch honeycomb storage wall, gridfinity, and my favorite is the #hydrotower (upgraded modular hydroponics tower)
Also 2 million printer upgrades and color accents

My newest #3dprinting design is #LED grow light holders for my #hydroponics tower. If you have "jester cap" clip lights and your plants are all leggy and sad, I've got good news!

https://www.printables.com/model/507111-led-plant-light-holders
(Don't judge my wire routing. It slopes the right direction for now, and I'll print some clips tomorrow and fix it up.)

#hydrotower #snarkhome #smarthome #esp32 #homeassistant #esphome #3dprinter #3dprinting @3dprinting #plants

The #Snarkhome can now peer deeply into the #Hydrotower! (Bonus: #localtuya just fixed the edit-device #bug, which makes integrating these a LOT easier.)

#tuya #homeassistant #hydroponics #smarthome

I just hit the cursed connector jackpot.
This is absolutely real. #Alibaba strikes again. Power supply for a #Tuya water monitor.

#cursed #cursedconnectors #CursedConnector #hydroponics #hydrotower

Clean and shiny!

With gentle heating, and less gentle heating, and very ungentle cursing, I was able to reuse the heater and thermistor. (Hat tip to @OttersDangerDen for pointing out that heat softens thermoplastic.) Saved me having to redo that stupid wiring harness. (The burns on my hand are actually unrelated to that project 😹)

The "test" print is a new fill tube for the #hydroponics tower. I have faint hopes that it will clear the shelf better, or at least push the problem around back far enough that I don't care.

#3dprinter #prusa #octopi #octoprint #hydrotower