OneWorldOnePlant - Mars LED FC-4800

Well, another crop is starting. Keeping it simpler this time with number of strains... only 3. Platunim Punch x Swabi Pakistani, aka Platinum Swabi Punch. A collaboration between In House Genetics and Mass Medical Strains... please, correct me if i am wrong. This is part of the #oneworldoneplanet exhibition on Instagram. Bringing attention to the importance of home grows and the future fight it has with corporatization and lobbyiest groups trying to maximize the most profits for the fewest of us. That last part i may have interjected a personal thought too, lol. So, check out the hashtag #oneworldoneplanet on IG. There are various teams across several continents contributing -- Europe, South Africa, Canada, North America. This is not a competition, although i do feel motivated to take extra care with this grow. I keep things simple and have great results. I'm sure if you look up the hashtag you can find all sorts of sophistications from a wide variety of growers, if my methods are a bit boring for you, or you prescribe more to the magical end of spectrum with organic products :P (couldn't resist) Kiddingn of course.. my greatest jealous is of ppl with a well-functioning living soil that only have to add water. That's f'n cool, but not what happens here => drain to waste and religious about maintaining a 10% runoff or more from each pot.. often more. This is obviously a boring week, and that trend will continue for another month. However, the diary must start somewhere. I'm not taking 20 pictures of a simple, tiny plant with 2 serrated leaves and a couple cotyledons, so expect more of the same while it is boring. I'll be using a fully dimmable 150w light for seedlings and early vege. Some diy lights will be used as the plants outgrow that footprint. They wil likely spend at least 5-7 days under the FC-4800 before 12/12 light schedule flip. The FC-4800 is flowering 4 plants right now and doing a wonderful job as expected. It will obviously flower these, too. A note on quality of lights -- most lights nowadays give you an excellent spectrum for growing. You can split hairs about CCT, but most of it works well. Where you get the most return on investment with a more expensive light is efficacy. You also get less heat with increased efficacy, but in some cases you may want that heat, so i leave that in a grey area. No matter what, we all save money if we spend fewer watts while producing same number of photons per second. that's what you pay for. That's how you get your money back.. slowly per month saving on utility bill, ceteris paribus.... or grow more with same electricity costs -- your choice. You also get increase longevity with higher quality lights, like the FC-4800. Those advertised 50-60k hours of use are only accurate when run at a similar watts per diode as the FC-4800. At 0.25watts/diode, you are up against diminishing returns. More diodes won't help at this point. Watts per diode values higher than this will not reach the same 50-60k hours of use before dimming to 90% of original intensity. They will not achieve the same efficacy. This is one way you can spot shady spec sheets. If yo do the math with the FC4800 and compare to Samsung's chip spectsheets etc etc.. it makes sense. When you look at cheaper lights advertising similar values, like 2.7-3.0umol/j range efficacy, you can see just how badly they are lying. If you ever see a umol/J >3 that isn't purely 6500k lm301 chips, it's a lie -- uuntil they come out with better technology than the LM301. This is also how you can see there is no difference according to samsungs own information between the H and B version of LM301. The "D" version is different. It is a lower version of the same chip... for a person (me too) who lacks the vocabulary to say it more eloquently and precisely why, that's as best i can say it. "Spec sheet don't lie!" Just like "Ball don't lie" - rasheed wallace. You can convert lum/w to umol/j. it just takes a conversion i know nothing about. Since we have a the spectrum mapped out for various sources of light involved, it is possible though. these values are equal to each other when you do the math per bin... same tables, same graphs, simple changes of metrics used due to target markets invovled with the chips. Alrighty... 1 picture.. but made up for it writing a book for the opening week. ______________________________________________________ This diary is sponsored by Mars Hydro. Check out Mars Hydro instagram and GD profiles: marshydro_aliexpress on Instagram - follow link through their GD profile as these can change due to IG rules. @marshydroled on GrowDiaries