Balanced LA โ€” Cecilia โ€” 2-Week Cultivation Audit

Window 2026-07-01 โ†’ 2026-07-15 ยท 7 active flower rooms ยท substrate + climate from AROYA public API (stitched hourly, full-span) ยท generated 2026-07-15 19:29 UTC

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Rooms audited
7
Facility mean dryback
27.5 pp
Facility mean VPD
1.20 kPa
Rooms w/ wide EC spread
6

Dryback is reported in absolute percentage points (daily VWC peak โˆ’ trough), the primary crop-steering lever. Substrate (pore) EC is the steering output โ€” its trajectory (stack early-flower โ†’ pull back in bulking โ†’ restack in ripening) matters more than any single value. Steering intent below is inferred from the data; the grower's configured targets could not be read this run (AROYA SPA session offline โ€” see Data Quality).

Uneven zone EC flagged: CU1, CU2, CU3, CU4, CU5, CU6 show โ‰ฅ2 mS/cm spread between substrate zones over the window โ€” check for channeling, dripper uniformity, or mixed-cultivar zone loading. This is the strongest drip-and-drain talking point in the data.

Per-room deep dive

Each room: substrate VWC (dryback shape), pore-EC by zone (steering output + zone uniformity), VPD, and air temperature โ€” hourly over the full 14 days.

CU1 #13608

VWC mean
50.9%
min 35.8 ยท max 68.4
Daily dryback
29.1 pp
peak-day 31.1 pp (absolute)
Shots / day
2.8
โ‰ฅ2pp VWC step-ups
Substrate EC
11.9
traj 10.1โ†’13.9 (+3.8) โš ๏ธ wide zone spread
VPD mean
1.43
kPa
Air / Soil ยฐF
75.4
soil 74.0 ยท RH 52.5% ยท COโ‚‚ 1367

CU2 #13609

VWC mean
50.2%
min 33.8 ยท max 73.2
Daily dryback
27.1 pp
peak-day 31.5 pp (absolute)
Shots / day
2.6
โ‰ฅ2pp VWC step-ups
Substrate EC
9.5
traj 6.7โ†’11.4 (+4.7) โš ๏ธ wide zone spread
VPD mean
1.10
kPa
Air / Soil ยฐF
74.7
soil 76.1 ยท RH 62.8% ยท COโ‚‚ 1301

CU3 #13610

VWC mean
41.0%
min 1.9 ยท max 72.0
Daily dryback
33.0 pp
peak-day 66.2 pp (absolute)
Shots / day
2.6
โ‰ฅ2pp VWC step-ups
Substrate EC
8.9
traj 12.6โ†’1.2 (-11.5) โš ๏ธ wide zone spread
VPD mean
1.09
kPa
Air / Soil ยฐF
68.4
soil 68.7 ยท RH 54.1% ยท COโ‚‚ 1118

CU4 #13611

VWC mean
42.9%
min 26.3 ยท max 61.9
Daily dryback
26.9 pp
peak-day 35.6 pp (absolute)
Shots / day
2.7
โ‰ฅ2pp VWC step-ups
Substrate EC
12.0
traj 11.7โ†’9.8 (-1.9) โš ๏ธ wide zone spread
VPD mean
1.14
kPa
Air / Soil ยฐF
70.9
soil 70.9 ยท RH 55.6% ยท COโ‚‚ 1148

CU5 #13612

VWC mean
39.4%
min 26.0 ยท max 58.1
Daily dryback
24.5 pp
peak-day 31.0 pp (absolute)
Shots / day
2.5
โ‰ฅ2pp VWC step-ups
Substrate EC
13.5
traj 12.4โ†’13.6 (+1.2) โš ๏ธ wide zone spread
VPD mean
1.53
kPa
Air / Soil ยฐF
75.2
soil 73.7 ยท RH 48.6% ยท COโ‚‚ 1276

CU6 #13614

VWC mean
33.8%
min 17.3 ยท max 63.4
Daily dryback
38.3 pp
peak-day 43.6 pp (absolute)
Shots / day
2.9
โ‰ฅ2pp VWC step-ups
Substrate EC
8.2
traj 11.3โ†’4.5 (-6.8) โš ๏ธ wide zone spread
VPD mean
1.24
kPa
Air / Soil ยฐF
71.3
soil 72.5 ยท RH 53.0% ยท COโ‚‚ 1012

VEG #13615

VWC mean
41.8%
min 12.6 ยท max 61.7
Daily dryback
13.3 pp
peak-day 38.2 pp (absolute)
Shots / day
2.2
โ‰ฅ2pp VWC step-ups
Substrate EC
3.4
traj 1.9โ†’1.2 (-0.7)
VPD mean
0.85
kPa
Air / Soil ยฐF
79.3
soil 78.6 ยท RH 75.0% ยท COโ‚‚ 1755

Irrigation framing reference (P0โ€“P3 day model)

P0 โ€” Activation (lights-on โ†’ first shot; wait for transpiration to start). P1 โ€” Ramp-up (small shots back to field capacity + first runoff). P2 โ€” Maintenance (pulses holding VWC at FC, managing substrate EC via runoff). P3 โ€” Dry-down (last shot โ†’ next morning; the primary steering lever, read as overnight dryback in absolute pp). Dryback benchmarks (absolute pp): veg 5โ€“15 ยท early-flower/stretch 20โ€“30 ยท bulking 12โ€“18 ยท ripening 25โ€“35. VPD (kPa): veg 0.8โ€“1.1 ยท flower 1.0โ€“1.4. Substrate EC (mS/cm): stacks into early flower, pulled back in bulking, restacked in ripening.

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