Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Written by Fern on April 14, 2018. Posted in Blog.

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!

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Fern

Since 6th grade outdoor school in the Pacific NW, Fern has loved nature. The only problem in the NW is that it rains 3/4 of the year which is not the best growing condition for most plants. Lighting is a specialty of Fern. With an ear to the ground with any new technology in the growing indoor market, Fern understands the science behind different types of lighting and the pro's and con's of each. In the past 5 years, Fern has laser focused efforts on optimizing indoor growing environments to figure out how to provide the most fruitful bounty while grown indoors, all-throughout the year, while being as efficient as possible in every aspect. Fern started indoor growing with the KISS method. Simply soil, locally produced nutrients and manual waterings. Only to better the system every grow after standardising optimum conditions. Slowly adding a timed drip feeding system, only to realize that this was the basics of hydroponics, with a different (cleaner) medium. So onto drip fed rock wool it was! But was too soggy for the NW so onto Hydroton, and a timed flood and drain table came online. With the want to having a larger reservoir then the Undercurrent Bucket system came to use. (While this system was leak prone it would give you a 5 gallon bucket of solid root balls). Currently Fern likes to grow in a modified NFT recirculating hydroponic system using hydroton with the best success and low use of nutrients. Fern has a personal focus on environmentally friendly Dutch inspired, "zero runoff hydroponics", and is soon to start investigating a fish derived aquaponics/nft system.