Think you might do better on eBay, but it's been a while since I've looked. Either way, it's tough to beat the $20 analog timer.
So that cake was flipped on November 10 and I *think* it should be ready mid-late January.
Was thinking some more about under performing plants and I really feel like it's connected to either the reverse osmosis water, or lack of flushing, or both. Flush is easy enough, just mix up 1ml/g from each part and feed maybe 4x the normal amount, or whatever gets you some good runoff. Do that every fourth feed or so.
Our well water is under 40ppm and I've had a few issues that I didn't understand in the beginning, but came to believe it was mineral deficiencies that lead to nutrient lockout. Twice now I've been able to overcome it by putting in stupid amounts of nutrients, like 2-3x whatever the highest feed recommendation is on the bottle, every day(outside in the hot months, so drying out wasn't a problem). Both times it took a couple weeks with no apparent change and then boom, right back to normal over a few days.
My guess as to why it worked is, since the plant was locked out, it's not actually being harmed by the gross overdose of nitrogen, but the small amount of minerals build up and at some point the plant starts taking it. Both times there was so much food that had built up in the soil that I didn't need to feed for a couple weeks afterwards and they stayed dark green. Now if I knew what minerals that were in the feed that the plant needed, I'd have just given those, but I'm no good at diagnosing specific mineral deficiencies.
Definitely would not recommend you try such a thing, unless you're curious and as a last resort, which is where I was at. Mineral deficiencies suck because nothing changes fast. With over/under water/feed you usually know if you're going the right direction in a couple days, but not so much with mineral problems. By the time you see them, there's already been an issue for weeks and it takes that same amount of time to fix.
