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Hey now, so I am super excited to test this new light out, the Spectrum X tunable 880 Watt light from Medic Grow with supplemental UV/IR lighting. I hung the light myself in around 20 minutes, and it comes with the option to use a blue spectrum for Veg (V1) as well as a flower spectrum which is much higher in deep red lighting (F1). There is also the option to integrate the UV/IR spectrum into your light cycle however you want via the timer on the control panel. I have heard great things about the increased production of THC when integrating UV/IR into your grow room, so i am super excited to test this fixture.
Seed germination: My process is to gently scuff my seeds in 320 grit sandpaper that is rolled up like a dollar bill, I shake them inside maybe 8 to10 times max. I then I soak them for 2 hours or so until they sink in a glass of water, then 24-36 hours in a moist paper towel transferred to a ziploc bag full of air and then placed on a heat mat while covered in a dark colored towel to block out light. I then place her tail down into a tiny hole in the moist pro mix seedling starter mix which is in a 16 ounce solo cup with plently of holes in the cup for drainage. I then cover the top of the seedling sprout with DRY pro mix, and the reason is I have found the sprout emerges several hours faster without the added water weight to push through and waste energy making its initial push through wet/heavy soil, main thing is to keep the radicle in the dark. Many growers say that planting an auto flower in the final container is ideal because it reduces transplant shock, however I disagree. I believe it is much more beneficial to allow the root system to develop a ball of mass in a small container such as a solo cup, before transplanting to the final container. If a tiny seedling is planted in a large container prior to developing root mass, it has a tendency to grow directly to the bottom of the container and colonize at the bottom rather than the root system colonizing the entire container.
My plan is to keep one of the two seedlings and give the other to a friend. While in the solo cups with pro mix seedling starter, I will water the seedlings just plain water through an oral syringe just watering around the edge of the solo cup slowly to encourage the roots to seek out the water and expand to fill the container. I have learned the hard way not to overwater seedlings and to pay attention the weight of the solo cup rather than what the soil looks like.
Around day 21 and a few days prior to topping, I will transplant her to her final home which will be a 5.4 Gallon Air-pot and immediately begin to apply high frequency fertigation via a reservoir hooked up to a digital timer with an irrigation line running to a fertigation halo. I will also build a gravity fed automatic runoff removal system which will consist of a couple drain pans with a drain line running to a five-gallon bucket in the tent, which will have a submersible pump that will move the runoff outside the tent into another reservoir. This setup may sound difficult, but it can be easily constructed in an afternoon, and it will make your entire grow easy and efficient.
I go out of town for 3-day weekends frequently during grows and have no issues. if anyone wants more information or plans to set one up PM me.
Once in her final container and during Veg, she will receive Silica, Cal Mag, and Maxi Grow by General Hydroponics. Silica and Cal Mag will be used the entire grow, however while integrating into flower she will be transitioned from Maxi Grow to Maxi Bloom and Kool Bloom which is a 0-10-10 bloom booster will be added during flower and then transitioned to Dry Bloom in the last two weeks followed by up to a week of flush prior to harvest.
As I only have a total of 40" of usable vertical space from the top of my grow containers to 12" below my Medic Grow Spectrum X lights, I plan to use a combination of Topping (Most likely around the 6th node) as well as Low Stress Training to manage plant height as I will attempt to grow more of a bush than a tree. I am super excited to see what this monster light can do and am also interested to see what effect the UV/IR supplemental lighting will have on final THC content. Thanks for stopping by, safe safe and Blaze On! 💪
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Hey now, hope everyone is doing well, I had one out of two Fastbuds Strawberry Bananas pop and she is currently in Pro-Mix seedling starter/perlite but will be transferred to Coco Coir/Perlite as soon as her roots fill up the solo cup. I will transplant her probably in a week or so, she seems to be starting slow even though she's in a perfect environment. I have seen this before, and some of the ladies I was ready to give up on became massive producers, so I'll see what happens with this one. I have gotten some great yields and flower quality from Fastbuds strains, but I have not had the greatest germination success rate compared to other breeders.
I started prepping some coco for this grow by flushing it down to .4 EC and I currently have it soaking in buckets of water with an EC of 2.0 from Cal Mag. This will help prevent cal mag deficiencies in the plants. I will transplant her to her final home in a week or so which will be a 5.4 Gallon Airpot. Once in her final home she will get fed 4x per day, and the runoff will go to my tomatoe plants outside which will also be in coir.
I am very excited to crank this Medic Grow LED up and especially add that UV/IR spectrucm to the flowers and see what effect that has on the final THC and terpene production. I am currently running the Spectrum X at 30% which is about 230 watts in the F1 spectrum which is the blue/veg spectrum. I will be adding more seedlings to the tent here shortly to try and fill her up, but I started with the longest expected grow times of Glueberry OG and Strawberry Banana, and next week I will add a Gorilla Girl from Sweet Seeds and a Purple Punch from Barney's Farm with the hope that they will all be ready for harvest within a week or two of each other.
Thanks for stopping by, stay safe, and Blaze On! 💪
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Week went very well, still watering every couple of days with plain H20 in the pro mix and perlite medium in a solo cup. I will be transplanting her to a 5.4 gallon airpot here in the next few days. The Strawberry Banana is loving the environment, at around 70% RH and between 79-83 degrees Fahrenheit during the day and around 70 degrees Fahrenheit at night. I am watering every two to three days with just a light watering around the edge of the solo cup. I have coco coir soaking in cal mag solution ready to go in a few days when she is ready for transplant.
After transplant she will immediately receive high frequency fertigation every 5 hours or so from lights on and also receive supplemental UV/IR lighting from this Medic Grow Spectrum X. She is currently receiving the V1 Spectrum at 30% which is the blue/veg spectrum.
Thanks for stopping by, stay safe, and Blaze On! 💪
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Hey now, this week went very well. I transplanted her on day 16 and her leaves were praying as soon as the lights came back on. I still have the Spectrum X in V1 at 30% which is doing an excellent job of keeping her low to the ground with nice tight nodes. She is only six inches tall and pushing her 6th node on day 21. I transplanted her into a mixture of Coco Coir and Perlite and set up an auto watering system that is currently feeding her 4 times per day, Once at lights on, and then every 5 hours thereafter until the 4th feeding, then it repeats at lights on. I will top her just above the 6th node as soon as I have room between 6 and 7, which will hopefully be in the next several days. I know some people don't agree with topping autos, and I would certainly agree it's not the way to go in all setups. However, when utilizing high frequency fertigation in coco coir it is absolutely necessary. The issue is vertical growing space if you are growing indoors, as outdoors this is not an issue. I use a combination of LST, topping, mainlining, manifolding, and super cropping to try to keep my plants from growing into the lights, but it can still be tough especially when growing Sativa dominant strains. Hopefully I can top her above the 6th node but that will depend on how many nodes she pushes out before starting to flower but I think I will be fine. I will begin LST as soon as she recovers from the topping which typically takes about 24 hours. I am definitely very happy with this medic grow led so far, I have not even started the UV/IR spectrum but I will be in about 1-2 weeks as soon as these last two seedlings hit veg. I hope everyone is having a great weekend, Stay Safe and Blaze On!!! 💪💪💪
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Hey now, hope everyone is having a great weekend. It was a good week for the Strawberry Banana Auto, she was pushing her 7th node on day 26 so I gently removed the top, and I also removed the lowermost 2 nodes so I will have nodes 3, 4, 5, and 6 to work with. She got a little sad immediately after topping, but when the lights came back on after 6 hours of dark she was perked right back up and I immediately started LST to try and develop an even canopy.
She is still feeding 4 times per day on Silica, CalMag, and GH maxi gro veg nutes. This light is an absolute beast, I now have it cranked up to 50% in the V1 stage, and it continues to keep everything green and more importantly with tight internode spacing. I will continue to LST for a few more weeks and transition her to flower nutrients once her vertical grow stops on its own or if I need it to stop due to height constraints.
Thanks for stopping by, stay safe, and Blaze On! 💪
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Hey now, I hope everyone is having a great weekend. This week went pretty good for the Strawberry Banana Auto, I did go out of town for 4 days and my PH got too high in my reservoir so that set me back a couple days or so but the plants still look pretty healthy, I did notice a couple rust colored spots on the lower most leaves of this plant. She is topped and I did a light defolilation yesterday and some LST just to try and keep a level canopy. The tomatoes are looking great as well as enjoying the runoff from the cannabis, got my first flowerson them this week. In the tent I am still running the Spectrum X at 60% power in V1 mode which is the veg mode and it is keeping the plants very green, bushy, and with tight internodal spacing. I will continue LST and slowly make the change to flower nutes as soon as the stretch is about over. Thanks for stopping by, Stay Safe and Blaze On!!! 💪
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Hey now, I hope everyone is having a great weekend. The Strawberry Banana is doing well, I am just doing some LST every couple of days, and she is just starting to stretch. She is still feeding on silica, cal mag, and maxi grow veg nutes by GHE. She seem to be loving this Medic Grow Spectrum X, which I am now running at 70% and also running the UV/IR bars for 1 hour before lights off. I also did a light defoliation this week to allow some airflow and her to focus more energy on the upper branches.
I will continue to with LST and veg nutrients until the vertical growth stops, then I will transition her to flower nutrients, and change her lighting to the red spectrum. Not much to do this week except watch her stretch and some light LST>
Thanks for stopping by, Stay Safe and Blaze On!!! 💪
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Hey now, hope everyone is having a great weekend. The Strawberry Banana Auto is doing well, she is almost done stretching and I have almost fully transitioned her to flower nutrients. She is currently getting silica, cal mag, and 75/25 veg and flower nute mixture of GH maxigrow/maxibloom.
I did change the Medic grow spectrum to the F1 spectrum this week which is the flower spectrum. I am also running the UV/IR bar for about 75 minutes every day before lights off, and I now have the light cranked up to 100%. I will also increase the exposure to the UV/IR light as flower progresses.
As she is almost done stretching, there is not much to do this week except keep the reservoir clean, full, and in the proper PH range. If any colas get crazy higher than the others I will correct, but other than that she can do her thing from here on out.
Thanks for stopping by, Stay Safe and Blaze On!!! 💪
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Hey now, hope everyone is having a great weekend! The Strawberry Banana Auto from Fastbuds is starting to smell very good and starting to stack up nicely. She is only 26 inches tall but I feel like her colas are going to be quite thick. I did a light defoliation this morning and took off all the LST tie downs. She is looking super healthy and loving this Medic Grow Spectrum X.
I currently have the Spectrum X running at 100% power and also integrating the UV/IR bars for 75 minutes just prior to lights off. I am super happy with this light so far, she puts out impressive PAR, and runs fairly cool. The only thing I would change is to add a timer just for the UV/IR bars, and allow the main light to be run on a timer.
I will probably do one last light defoliation in the next couple of days and that will be about it other than keeping the reservoir full and in the correct PH range. The tomatoes outside are absolutely loving the runoff from these autos, as that is all they have had to drink since they were about 3 weeks old.
Thanks for stopping by, Stay Safe and Blaze On!!! 💪
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Hey now, hope everyone is having a safe weekend.
I currently have the Spectrum X running at 100% power and have upped the time on the UV/IR bars to 90 minutes just prior to lights off. I am super happy with this light so far, she puts out impressive PAR, and runs fairly cool. The only thing I would change is to have individual timers for the different spectrums. I did hear from another grower that Medic Grow does sell a controller that has this feature for $300.
Not much to do this week other than keep the reservoir full and in the correct PH range. The tomatoes outside are absolutely loving the runoff from these autos, as that is all they have had to drink since they were about 3 weeks old.
Thanks for stopping by, Stay Safe and Blaze On!!! 💪
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Hey now, I hope everyone is having a great weekend and happy father's day to all the dads. The Strawberry Banana is almost done stacking and almost heading to the ripening phase. I did raise her up on a 10 inch milk crate last week to ensure all plants have an even canopy. She is really starting to smell very strong, I definitely smell both strawberry and banana's on my fingers after working with her.
currently have the Spectrum X running at 100% power and have upped the time on the UV/IR bars to 90 minutes just prior to lights off. I am super happy with this light so far, she puts out impressive PAR, and runs fairly cool. The only thing I would change is to have individual timers for the different spectrums. I did hear they sell a timer that does this but it does cost 0.
Not much to do this week other than keep the reservoir full and in the correct PH range. The tomatoes outside are absolutely loving the runoff from these autos, as that is all they have had to drink since they were about 3 weeks old.
Thanks for stopping by, Stay Safe and Blaze On!!! 💪
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Hey now, I hope everyone is having a safe and fun weekend. Strawnana from Fastbuds is about done stacking on weight and is in the ripening phase. I did transition her to the dry Kool Bloom from GH which is 2-45-28 from the Liquid KoolBloom which is 0-10-10.
probably sometime next week I will start to flush her, as I believe she is about a week and a half or so from harvest. I am planning to harvest her around 4th of July time frame, and then I will start a few photo period mainlines for my next run. She is starting to smell extremely strong like bananas with a tiny hint of berries.
I currently have the Spectrum X cranked up to 100% power and have upped the time on the UV/IR bars to 120 minutes just prior to lights off. I am super happy with this light so far, she puts out impressive PAR, and runs fairly cool. Not much to do this week other than keep the reservoir full and in the correct PH range. The tomatoes outside are absolutely loving the runoff from these autos, as that is all they have had to drink since they were about 3 weeks old.
Thanks for stopping by, Stay Safe and Blaze On!!! 💪
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I hope everyone is having a great weekend and staying safe. So this one is going to get chopped down next Saturday as I am seeing amber trichomes on the flowers. She is not a huge autoflower, but her flowers are fairly dense and super sticky and smell very good.
I am still running the Medic Grow Spectrum X at 100% in the F1 mode and running the UV/IR bar for 120 minutes prior to lights off. So far I am super pleased with this light, for the amount of PAR she puts out, she definitely runs cool comparatively to other LED's. I did start flushing her today and she will get water only until chop day next Saturday.
Thanks for stopping by, Stay Safe and Blaze On!!! 💪
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She grew decent and is definitely covered in trichomes and smells amazing. My biggest complaint is she didnt' grow nearly as vigorously as any of the Dutch Passion Autos I've grown, and also trimming her was a bitch compared to the others as she had leaves out the azz.
I am pretty happy with this lady, her buds are nice and thick and totally covered in trichomes with a nice fruity smell. She didn't grow nearly as tall as I expected, but I did top her and she did develop fairly thick colas. My only complaint was that her bud to leaf ratio was not overly impressive, but thats fairly minor. I will have a much better update once this bitch is done curing.
Thanks for stopping by, Stay Safe and Blaze On!!! 💪
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@Canna96, This is going to be my first run with , and I've been easing up on the alloted time , I'm almost 4 weeks in and I'm around 1hr15 min on... I'm not using the IR just the UV .... IR will come later in the grow as I don't want any extra stretching 👍 So far so good , but it may take a few runs to see if ive gain any real benefits 😉 Happy Growing
@Tropicannibis_Todd, Hey brother, thats alot of Strawberry in your garden.....I see you are growing with the Mars Hydro UR45 UV/IR bar, have you completed any runs with it so far? This is my first run with supplemental UV/IR lighting and I am super excited to see the results.....How many hours are you running it per day?
Ahhhh I seen this light. It has a cool LCD display. Aswel as by itself functional IR? Medicgrow look good. Hopefully soon they'll break into the EU? @MedicGrow
@gottagrowsometime, First time ever running any of their products so I can't say much other than all the reviews I read are very good. I will have a much better update here in a couple months.....No way to run the UV/IR lights solo though if that is what you were asking....
One of my favourites from FB, Heather send me some, so ill do forest run with 9 of them.
Personally think, for me - its most tastiest strain from FB range.
I would not give it to a friend ;))))
@Canna96, it was a good yield for me also from my memory. I've got a few autos that need to be done, first I need to get a veg tent setup. I'll use that for autos and veging.
@Wyregrasser, Thanks brother, I started out with autos, then I grew a couple of photo mainlines, I have gotten decent results with both, I like building mainlines out of photos, but autos have come a long way.....
Wonderful setup and plants bro.
It was my first grow, the only one survivor in that run of 3, and she has been good and prized me of all the love I gave her and her unlucky sisters. Quite tasty indeed, produced much and good.And it hit quite nicely. Good luck on you grows mate! peace
Canna96
