u/DebatePrize636

Today I started my 4th batch after my first 3 batches died.

Wanted to detail what I did, and what I plan to do to see what ya'll think and if there is any changes I should make.

6 Black seeded simpsons, 2 lola rosa, 2 jericho, 2 red salad bowl.
1020 tray
Dome
2 Barrina T5's
1" Rockwool Cubes
Purified water at 5.6-5.8 PH

Steps I took:

1. Cleaned all equipment with Hydrogen Peroxide. I think Dampening off was a reason for most of my batches deaths, so sterilized everything.
2. Soaked 12 rockwool cubes in a 1020 tray for around 5 hours in 5.6-5.8ph water.
3. Poured water out, separated rockwool with clean scissors, and let them drain.
4. Flipped rockwool cubes upside down and made my own indent in the cube using a toothpick instead of using the hole that exists in the rockwool during manufacturing.
5. Used wet toothpick to drop each seed into the indent I made.
6. Put sanitized dome on, closed the dampers, set the tray under 2 Barrina T5 lights. Per Barrina's listing. Right now Lights are above the dome, but when the dome comes off in 3-4 days I will make the 2 lights 6" above the rockwool cubes. According to barrina this should produce enough PPFD for lettuces.
7. I do not have water in the tray right now, the cubes are saturated at the moment from the soak and I'm hoping the dome allows enough water to stay in that I won't have to touch them until Cotyledons show up. But if they start to look dry I will bottom feed with some ph adjusted water.

Any advice or tips would be much appreciated because I'm starting to get bummed after 3 dead batches haha.

Hello, I'm going to detail each batch below as cleanly as possible with as much information as
possible. Each batch I did something different as I continued to learn. For those of you who don't care to read previous attempts and just want to hear what I'm going to do for the new batch, I'll put my plants for new batch here:

* Trays scrubbed and cleaned with Hydrogen Peroxide
* 1" Rockwool soak in 5.6 PH water
* Not using the rockwool holes at all and using a toothpick to make a tiny little bed for a single seed to sit on(Not deep by any means, just a shallow little dip big enough for the seed)
* Dome until germination
* No heat pad
* 1 T5 Barrina light during germination, upon sprouting will double up to 2 T5's and keep 6" away
* Little clip fan turned on low pointed at cubes
* Feed once every other day with PH adjusted water.

All batches were lettuce + 2 green onions.

Batch 1: 4/27 (Longest lasting batch)
Put seeds deep in rockwool
Heat pad with dome, no light
Germinated 4/30 ~ Took dome off, T5 barrina light 6" away
Today I broke them open after their growth seemed to slow, stems got white, and they were failing to support themselves. Upon ripping open the rockwool I found very little root growth with no root systems.

Batch 2: 5/2
Put seeds deep in rockwool
No Heat pad, dome on, with towel covering dome, no light
Germinated 5/5 ~ took dome off. T5 barrina light 6" away
This batch seemed to be doing really well until the power went off one day while I was work. I didn't have timers set up at that time though, so nothing turned back on when the power came back on. So no lights, no air movement for 5-6 hours. By the time I got back home the room smelled like body odor. So I pitched them.

Batch 3: 5/9 (The most disappointing one because I feel like I made a lot of positive changes for this batch and tracked better)
No heat pad, dome on, light 16hrs/day, rockwool wash 1 hour 5.8 ph.
Seed sowing method: Wet tooth pick placing seeds inside of the rockwool hole but towards the top, rockwool size 1"
Germinated 5/12 ~ Took dome off, 2 T5 barrina lights 6" away.
This batch is a goner as of today. They sprouted strong but the stems are white, they're thin up until the top of the rockwool and then they get thick, they're already on their way to start limping.

Hello, I've been using claude to learn Fusion as I try to design something and I'm hitting a wall. Starting to realize Claude is kinda dumb for this, especially since it's unable to fetch the fusion 360 documentation.

So I'm trying to make my own hydroponic tower and this is as far as I've gotten. And yesterday was my first time opening Fusion 360, so please be nice to me haha.

https://preview.redd.it/t51861e4wczg1.png?width=1508&format=png&auto=webp&s=1327c107753413328c00daa1e1094e21f0cf6d89

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Idk if I'm explaining what I need poorly or if I'm not understanding what Claude wants me to do but I need a way for each of these planting modules to fit ontop of eachother and then also lock into place. The only thing I can come up with is a Bayonet Lock. Which is why I have that bottom collar indented so I can put a L shape rectangle and extrude it out so tabs can slide into it. I'll put a reference below (The orange images are the reference model)

I need to be able to draw a sketch onto the cylinder collar on the bottom, but claude wants me to draw on a plane. Drawing on the plan doesn't work because the sketch is just dead center at origin and when I extrude the sketch it doesn't follow the curvature of the cylinder.
I'm assuming I'm missing a way to create my own plane or something in reference to the cylinder.

Any advice or maybe even another way to do a twist and lock mechanism would be awesome. Thank you!

https://preview.redd.it/a7uwaszrvczg1.png?width=611&format=png&auto=webp&s=04572f12dba78198ec8d282ec10b5754047b54dd

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Background information:

• 3d printed tower with 27 planting spots
• 2" Netpots
• 1020 trays with dome and lights
• 2" Rockwool
• Strawberry Crown
• Spinach, Lettuce varieties

Starting Seeds:

I started 6 bibb lettuce, 3 romaine, 3 spinach, 2 green onions. I started them in 1020 trays with a heat pad on. Once I had germination I took off the dome I had on the trays and turned on the lights. I ended up losing 1 bibb and all 3 spinach. I'm on day 7 now I think waiting for roots to come.

1. I'm not questioning the 1 out of 6 bibb's not germinating, but I am questioning all 3 spinaches not germinating. I put in 2 seeds per rockwool. This time around I'm going to soak the seeds for 4 hours prior to putting in rockwool and only put in 1 seed per rockwool. Does this sound good?

Hydroponic Tower

There's these arms that people designed to fit my tower to hold LED lights. I'm currently printing these but they're 10" long. So they might only stick out 7"-8" from the top of the netpots. I have T5 Barrina LED lights.

Strawberry crowns:

I bought like 40 crowns expecting to use them for my tower. I decided not to use them right now and just focus on lettuces until I get used to this.

1. I'm not questioning the 1 out of 6 bibb's not germinating, but I am questioning all 3 spinaches not germinating. I put in 2 seeds per rockwool. This time around I'm going to soak the seeds for 4 hours prior to putting in rockwool and only put in 1 seed per rockwool. Does this sound good?

2. Is 7"-8" acceptable for a distance? From what I'm reading you want 10-12" for lettuces. But people have pritned them and use them, so they must be okay, right?

3. Am I able to wrap the crowns in a wet paper towel and keep them in the fridge for a month or two until I'm ready to use them?

4. Is running mixed lettuce and strawberries in the same tower with maxigro only an acceptable way to grow both together?

Thank you for any answers I get!

Grow up. Seriously.

GROW UP AND PUT IN SOME WORK.

Sierra is so worth it on so many levels. Maybe not everyone will benefit from learning Sierra. But if you're a heavy orderflow trader, Sierra WILL be your best friend if you just grew a pair, put in longer than 30 minutes of effort, and learned it.

Something something ted talk.