Waching daily Aug 28 2018

My name is Jeb and I grew some bok choy in buckets recently.

Day 41

The buckets were too small so I

Ran into some problems

So I went out and I built some bigger buckets

Good thing I got the

New Air EC111w evaporative cooler to help me out

One of the great things is it's got a remote

And that good because I'm lazy

Plus it has a place to store the remote

Which is good because I'm forgetful

I like this spinny fan thing

It allows you to add turbulence without needing to oscillate back and forth

It's great for tight spaces

Here you can see after just a couple minutes

It's cooling down the plants and adding humidity

I'm going to show you how I built these buckets

To start out I'm going to see how much water goes in here

I just want a couple inches deep

This is the 5 gallon (19 liter) mark

Looks good to me

I'm trying to figure out where the net cup is going to dip down to

These holes are for a support rod

This is my Counter-Strike (video game) version of

Proper sanitation

Let's clean this bleach up properly

Something's missing

It's so

Shiny

Got to hold the light up somehow

Don't forget to clean up the mess

I'm going to send some plastic bits to the landfill

I'm so sorry

Footage from winter garden

I haven't been mixing my dry ingredients into the water very thoroughly

This time I'm going to dump it right under the plant

It's probably a bad idea

Oops!

I'm using the same lights as I did in the last grow

I'll put a link to that video in the description too

Day 4

The seeds are up already

And the plants are looking great

Day 7

The glare off this (aluminum) foil is

Really uncomfortable

I can't decide which one these to pull out yet

Day 15 - It looks like my shenanigans with dumping fertilizer right under the plants

Has angered nature

I'm going to try just reaching in and swooshing the water around

See if that helps

I'm going to raise the lights a little too

It should help reduce transpiration and

Give these plants some relief from the fertilizer burn

Day 21

The damaged leaves will never recover but

The new growth looks better

Kinda

This evaporative cooler is working great though

Check out the description for details on it

Day 29

I'd really like to see these plants recover now but

Day 36

They've had a hard start

Might have to let them go

Leave me a comment about what you would do

Would you try to let them grow or

Start over from scratch?

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