[Failed/Harvest] Spacemaster Cucumber (Oct 26, 2020)

they don't stay under the lights once it begins t vine, and then heads for a wall or the nearest thing to grab onto. Sometimes it will start with grabbing the AG light pole, but then it wanders.Also you may want to  keep your eye on those roots in that small reservoir.

[ERR0R1755]

Added 8ml of nutes. Here is what the roots look like at the moment:

[Shawn]

Nice and healthy looking

[ERR0R1755]

I removed the larger leaf on the left since it started to die off, but I'm not very impressed with this so far. I can see some early signs of flowers under the leaves, however, so I will hold out.

[fldave]

Based on the measurements that I take with my cheap TDS meter, my Diva is really sucking down the nutrients even though it is not consuming a lot of water.  I recommend feeding based on TDS measurements rather than AG’s standard nutrient dosage schedule.  The recommended TDS range for cucumbers is 1190 to 1750 ppm for a mature plant.  I have been keeping mine at around half that for it’s first month and it seems to like it so far. 

[ERR0R1755]

Dec 6, 2020 20:20:13 GMT -5 fldave said:

Based on the measurements that I take with my cheap TDS meter, my Diva is really sucking down the nutrients even though it is not consuming a lot of water.  I recommend feeding based on TDS measurements rather than AG’s standard nutrient dosage schedule.  The recommended TDS range for cucumbers is 1190 to 1750 ppm for a mature plant.  I have been keeping mine at around half that for it’s first month and it seems to like it so far. 

I try to keep up with my TDS meter, but it got down to 290 PPM when I checked tonight. I added another 7ml of nutes.

[ERR0R1755]

Ending this today. It is starting to put out sad, twisted flowers and the leaves look horrible. I don't have high hopes for this plant. I think if I try cucumbers again, I'll use a lot of nutes right from the start, since that worked well for my DWC attempt.