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Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Cleanliness and Attention to detail:

Cleanliness is next to godliness. Understand that you are producing a product that you and your friends are to consume. Dust, dirt, mold, hair, pet dander, are all possible contaminants that can fall onto and ruin your sticky flowers and leaves. You should make sure to keep a “clean room” as your grow space. Do not let pets, into the space as they can track in mold spores hair and dander that will get placed deep into your flowers. Hair (when burned) is toxic, as is mold. For food crops this is also extremely important as you do not want salmonella or e coli on your greens! Make sure to clean all walls with a hydrogen peroxide solution or bleach solution before and between grows to start with a clean slate. The humidity and temperatures that fruits and flowers thrive in also can create the perfect environment for different types of mold and fungi. These issues can be thwarted by a variety of techniques employed by a clean grow space design with plenty of airflow, and attention to the details of the environment.

 Attention to detail is absolutely needed. In the past you needed to have the attention span to make sure that all of your power connections are tight, timers set properly (Don’t forget daylights savings time!), water levels are proper, air  humidity and temperatures are proper, Hydro water pumps are proper, PH set, Nutrient levels set, ventilation for the lung room working. Now you can have the My Smart Grow System monitor most of these for you, giving you more time to grow! 

Energy:

Growing takes more than your own mental and physical energy, it also relies on the energy from your home when grown indoors. Being smart with your energy and time will save your mental and physical anguish down the line.  The My Smart Grow System was designed to keep energy waste at the minimum, as well as allow for easy future expansion once your process is in place. 

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Importance of temperature on plant growth

Temperature 68°f – 85°f

Needed Equipment to Monitor: (analog) Thermometer or (digital sensors w/ logging): My Smart Grow Multi-sensor

Needed Equipment to control: Air conditioner, and or Heater, Tent with inline Fan, combined with the My Smart Grow system

As general rules say, keep the grow environment at a 10 degree variable range.  Allowing night temperatures no lower than 68°f , (the plant will stop or slow overall growth tremendously at low temperatures). At the same time, do not allow the daytime temperature get any higher than 85°f, (or you will “heat stress” the plant which will stop growth without additional Co2 supplementation and possibly damage plant cells irreversibly).

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Time to focus on HUMIDITY!

Humidity

Needed Monitors:

(Good) Hygrometer

(Better) Monitor with switched fan Controller

(Best) Dehumidifier/Humidifier and a My Smart Grow system

(Free) Web tool: http://www.dpcalc.org/

The Humidity of the environment is represented by Relative Humidity %.  A higher percentage means that the air-water mixture is more humid. This is variable by different temperatures and pressure of the air. It requires less water vapour to attain high relative humidity at low temperatures and more water vapour is required to attain high relative humidity in warm or hot air and. 

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