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TheWeedMan TheWeedMan
6 years ago
Tutorial: Build & Assembly LED COB light See below commentary. Colas, colas and more colas...these ladies are putting in some damn fine work! 👌🏻 I know I’ve said this a fair amount during this grow but I am really impressed with the growth this week .. yet again these ladies have yet to let me down. It’s been an amazing journey with these two plants , the whole series so far has gone off without a hitch. I’ve really learned a lot from the community here at GD and put in a ridiculous amount of hours of my own research time plus a few grows under my belt and it’s really starting to show everything I’ve learned.. The smell of the garden is ripening and by that I mean it’s getting dank! I’m glad I got a 6” by 20” carbon filter to suck up all this smell and vent it directly outside. You can’t even tell I have 5 flowering plants in my basement.. until I open the tent at least haha. It’s really starting to smell lovely in my grow tent and this is what I look forward too each and every grow .. these final few weeks are the most interesting and rewarding! Did I mention flowering cannabis is my favourite smell!? These ladies are packing on the flowers and they’re swelling up day by day now. I continued to defoliate the bottom 1/3 of the plant to increase airflow around the buds and decrease any chance of humidity problems with how packed the garden is right now. I’m really impressed with the LiquidKoolBloom by GHE , I’ve found it does stack up weight pretty quick .. it’s a great bloom booster that’s pretty cheap too. As you can see in the photos and videos the plants are forming up that sea of cannabis and it’s starting to show what we might be able to expect from them come harvest time in a few weeks. The sight of all the colas everywhere formed across an even canopy looks pretty dope!! It will be even more exciting as this progresses further into flower ...! Constructing the ULTIMATE Light! Required Items: * 10 CXB3590 3500K * 10 Ideal Solderless Holder * 10 lenses or reflectors * 10 thermal pads or thermal paste * 10 heatsinks 120mm * 2 Meanwell driver HLG-240H-C1400B * 2 10K potentiometer  * 2 electrical connecters * 2 electrical grounded plugs * 16 gauge(1/16”) angled aluminum * 18 gauge solid core wire 30’ * Power drill * Drill bits - various * Chop saw or hack saw * Wrench / Ratchet * Measuring tape * Marker * Rope ratchet hangers * Wire nuts * Zip ties * Bolts * Nuts * Washers * Money, lots. *Note - All the electrical parts can be sourced from alibaba.com for a decent price or you can alternatively find pre-made DIY kits on EBay with a markup. I recommend sourcing the remaining items from a hardware store like Lowe’s or HomeDepot. You can also buy a prefabricated light like this from timbergrowlights.com but you will pay double to triple the price.* I highly recommend watching videos on YouTube by “LEDGardener” or “GrowMau5”. Their videos helped immensely with the project and if they somehow see this - I owe you guys one! Both of them have great instructional videos on the DIY process and core required knowledge. So last week we built the frame and this week we are going to complete phase two! Phase Two - The Electrical work 1. Place your COBs into the solderless holders , make sure the + and - line up properly. 2. Place thermal pads/paste on back of COBs. 3. Screw on the solderless holders to the Heatsink. 4. Measure the length between each COB on your frame and cut lengths of wire plus a few extra inches to give some slack. 5. Make a long Positive(+) lead from the first COB so you have something to attach to the driver later to power everything. 6. Connect the COBs together in a series power circuit. Which is essentially just one long wire with the connecting positive to negative alternating between COBs as you go down the line. 7. Wire 5 COBs together in a series and leave a long Negative(-) lead from the last COB to hook up to power later. 8. Repeat step 4/5/6 for the remaining 5 COBs. 9. Connect the Grounded Plugs to the input of the Meanwell drivers. Make sure it’s wired correctly. 10. Take your potentiometer and attach it to the Dim+ and Dim- leads. You want the adjustment knob to be facing you. Connect the positive wire to the middle lead , the negative wire to the left lead and the right lead you want left empty on the potentiometer. 11. Now that you have the drivers assembled and your COBs rough wired it’s time to put on the reflectors or Lenses. Screw these in place to enhance the light penetration and concentration. 12. Attach the fully assembled COBs to the frame. Try to get the 4 long Leads(2+ and 2-) heading in the same direction. 13. Take the the positive and negative lead from the first set of 5 COBs and attach to the Output wires from the driver. Make sure to attach positive to positive and negative to negative. 14. Repeat step 13 for the other 5 COBs. 15. Test it out ! Plug the first driver in to power and hopefully you followed these steps .. it should provide a intense blast of light! Repeat for the second driver. 16. Now you can zip tie down the wires securely to your frame so nothing comes loose by accident. 17. I bought heavy duty zip ties and attached 4 of them, one to each corner. 18. Attach the rope ratchet hangers to each corner zip tie and hang in desired area! 19. You now have the ultimate light for a 4x4 tent ! This is just as powerful as 1000w HPS at half the power while providing a Full spectrum to the plant. Next week I will go over the specifications and nerdy data points about cobs and the light we built. Wow! So now you should have a working light fixture and hopefully some great looking plants too. If you’ve followed along with this series at all .. we have covered a lot of subjects. We covered how to make the perfect Coco, plant training, building a water table, building an auto watering system , building an LED light frame plus how to wire/assemble an LED COB light! That’s over 7 tutorials I’ve packed into this grow so far.. we have a few weeks left .. what else can I come up with? Thanks for following along everybody and as always Happy Growing! -TheWeedMan
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Grow Questions
TheWeedMan
TheWeedManstarted grow question 6 years ago
As a first time coco coir grower what are some things to look out for or make sure to do? This is my 3rd growing experience, my previous two grows were done in soil. So I’m not a complete noob. Please provide a good break down on the coco coir growing experience for me.
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TheBudWhisperer
TheBudWhispereranswered grow question 6 years ago
Dude - no reach out on this? I found it on a browse and I’ve been thinking on a Pure GSC strain for a while now! Both ironic and Sweet! Will follow. Now with respect to coco - IMO it’s not much different from soil but I trust you’ve already seen that it’s got much better drainage properties. The key difference is it’s nutrient holding power in relation to soil as well as appropriate supplementation of the nutrients that soil has, that coco lacks (ie. calmag). As long as you supplement for the first month or so with calmag and keep a close eye out for nutrient burn (go easy/not full strength with nutrient formula for first run) it should be very similar to a soil grow. That’s the best I got for ya. Made the switch to coco myself because I like hand watering but would prefer a slightly faster growth rate. Cheers broski and looking forward to this one growing out!!!👊👍
TheWeedMan
TheWeedManstarted grow question 6 years ago
Any comments, feedback or critiques are welcome. Please feel free to let me know how you think this Grow & Journal is going. Let me know if there is anything I can be doing better , thank you!
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Athos
Athosanswered grow question 6 years ago
Your plants look great. The only thing I believe you should improve is training: a more agressive use of LST and super cropping to keep the plant squat. Good luck mate.
TheWeedMan
TheWeedManstarted grow question 6 years ago
What are your thoughts on these plants ? Do you have experience putting the plants in a prolonged dark period for 24-72 hours before harvest? If so, what happened? Does this method improve the quality of the final product ?
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CRiSPrGrow
CRiSPrGrowanswered grow question 6 years ago
hey man, there's a lot of FUD about the dark period, basically the main idea is that there's little you can do in the last 48 hours of a 3 month grow that will do something significant on the grow overall. but the dark period for sure has some benefits, for example a dark period before the chop means less photosynthesis chemicals present for the dry + cure. Second the dark period will boost the creation of terpenes. some say it's good for thc, but trychomes take 2 weeks or more to really make THC, so that"s FUD. second thing is that on planet earth it's almost never dark for two days straight, anything really more than 24H and for sure 48H will start messing with the trychomes and they could oxidise which is bad because you loose that much in potency. Hope this clears this up a bit, good luck ! 🚀
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TheWeedMan
TheWeedManweek 2
October 17th, 2018. Today is the day Prohibition on Cannabis has ended in Canada. As a Canadian citizen, I can purchase cannabis from the store and legally grow plants in my residence for personal consumption. This is a great day for Canadians and the world ..! I hope the other major countries follow our lead in next few years! 😎
Mrs_Larimar
Mrs_Larimar
@@TheWeedMan,hahahaha....that would be nice. all germans high like ace
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@Mrs_Larimar, yeah I knew Canada supply your medical cannabis in Germany. In news paper here they make it sound like everybody in Germany gettin free insurance weed with Aurora cannabis lol.
Mrs_Larimar
Mrs_Larimar
@@@@TheWeedMan, just on the papers in reality its hard to get a description .. or find a doctor that describes... or beeing allowed to grow your own medical.... i dont know any... person who gets medical weed personlly only hearing of them its ha rd and long process for the persons who medically need it the weed is coming from canada, because german medical growers dont exist because of the law. you have to show 2 years of expereience in industrial growing before getting a license for industrial growing.. and so on
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CRiSPrGrow
CRiSPrGrowweek 10
hey man, there's a lot of FUD about the dark period, basically the main idea is that there's little you can do in the last 48 hours of a 3 month grow that will do something significant on the grow overall. but the dark period for sure has some benefits, for example a dark period before the chop means less photosynthesis chemicals present for the dry + cure. Second the dark period will boost the creation of terpenes. some say it's good for thc, but trychomes take 2 weeks or more to really make THC, so that"s FUD. second thing is that on planet earth it's almost never dark for two days straight, anything really more than 24H and for sure 48H will start messing with the trychomes and they could oxidise which is bad because you loose that much in potency. Hope this clears this up a bit, good luck ! 🚀
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@CRiSPrGrow, thNks for the info bro! 👍🏻
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
I still got quite the haul off one plant.. too tired to keep going... lol. 1 down.. 4 to go lol.
TheBudWhisperer
TheBudWhisperer
@@TheWeedMan, yeah dude for sure. It’s a tough thing to gauge however cause every strain will be a little different. Some require nothing and others need to be pillaged every other day! Lol
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Kushlove420
Kushlove420week 10
Congratulations on the great harvest
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@Kushlove420, thank you! 🙏🏻
Mrs_Larimar
Mrs_Larimarweek 10
Congratulations!!! ive seen you on Place one, because of the tutorials and your nce lots of pictures. It was a big project that helped us a lot Thank you
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@Mrs_Larimar, thanks!!! I didn’t see all these ! Whoops!
Mrs_Larimar
Mrs_Larimarweek 8
Great to see That your insane Lights work as promised/ imagined
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@Mrs_Larimar, oh yeah! It’s great when things work out as planned! This light works great so far ! It should last like 10+ years too based on what I’ve read before the COBs need replacing 👍🏻👍🏻
TheBudWhisperer
TheBudWhispererweek 8
Sick grow, quality, fat, nugs and only 3 weeks into flower! he desciption on the light and explanation is excellent dude👍. I learned something there for sure when you start comparing to the sun - that's really cool!😎 well done dude.
TheBudWhisperer
TheBudWhisperer
@@TheWeedMan, Cool dude! I’ll reach out as soon as my order arrives and see if we can’t make deal!😎🤝
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@TheBudWhisperer, I’m down bro. I got like 50 seeds right now.. Probs 8-10 auto flower strains and 3-4 photoperiods 👍🏻 So we can do that for sure
TheBudWhisperer
TheBudWhisperer
@@TheWeedMan, should chat on that and seed share👍 Got a new order in with seedsman😉
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TheBudWhisperer
TheBudWhispererweek 7
Yep - they’re stack on the bulk now. Looks like a couple winners dude👍👌😎
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@TheBudWhisperer, I hope we are both right then! My last gsc run in soil got me 5oz of good weed and those plants were much smaller with defeciencies, soil PH problem.. this time there hasn’t been any issues at all so it should be some fire chronic 🔥 I hope!
TheBudWhisperer
TheBudWhisperer
@@TheWeedMan, yep - that was my guess too👍 Some good smoke on the way🤞
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@TheBudWhisperer, nothin left to do now but add water and wait! This is when the magic happens. I bet these two plants get me close to 6oz dried or more ..!
The_Lone_Wolf
The_Lone_Wolfweek 10
Congrats...from Mushroommeister...I changed my profile name...figured this one was better since I got my fastbuds beans from Reno...where I used to live a couple different times...and its the home of the Wolf Pack...I told you it was one of the best diaries I had been able to find...and not just for fast bubs either...lucked out too...it was the 10th anniversary 5+5 free deal..so I got 10 each of GSC, Zkettlez, Fastberry & Tangie Matic….not a bad deal at all for $200....If you want the site I can give you the URL...5 days for delivery....but the sale is over now as of 4-1...
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@The_Lone_Wolf, glad you’re a big fan of my work here bro! No worries on the links to buy seeds. I’m good to go! 👌🏻
Gr33nFi3ld
Gr33nFi3ldweek 10
Really good diary man! Love the tutorials and the additional info. Congrats on the well deserved win!
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@Gr33nFi3ld, thank you 🙏🏻
Stick
Stickweek 10
Congrats for the award 🥈
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@Stick, thanks bro! Just seeing this now !
Mrs_Larimar
Mrs_Larimarweek 10
Its an Outstanding Diary. For me the best i have been reading ever. Iam sure its a WinnerDiary
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@Mrs_Larimar, wow thank you! I sure hope you’re right! I’d love to win a new iPhone XS Max!
Bones
Bonesweek 9
Fat colas and still a week or two out looks great bro!
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@Bones, thanks bro! These ladies do smell and look great! I’m Super excited to get them harvested soon !! 🌲🔥
GreasyLuigi
GreasyLuigiweek 7
Excellent!
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@GreasyLuigi, thanks bro! I appreciate the support :) hope you found my journal useful homie 👍🏻👊🏻
OutForReal
OutForRealweek 7
Boom : explosive flowering here ! Nice update like always and flowering cannabis is my favorite smell too 😁🙌
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@OutForReal, isn’t it the best smell? Nothin better than the smell of fresh dank! She’s packed with flowers in the last week and still has another like 3 left .. its gonna be a lot of weed lol. 👊🏻🔥
Momgrowsthechronic
Momgrowsthechronicweek 10
Beautiful grow and well done with the diary! I will consider trying this strain after checking out ur grow. All the best growing forward and Canada is the best! 🇨🇦😍🇨🇦
OutForReal
OutForRealweek 7
Boom : explosive flowering here ! Nice update like always and flowering cannabis is my favorite smell too 😁🙌
BeefWellingtons
BeefWellingtonsweek 6
Do you prefer the cob over hps? I've seen some awesome yields from growers using cob lighting.
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@BeefWellingtons, thanks bro! Even 1 or 2 plants it’s still good.. it’s all about growing your own! Yeah I pretty much got a maxed out 4x4x7 tent. The only other thing I could add would be like CO2 but I don’t think I’m gonna do that. Seems like too much work for a hobby grower.. goodluckin getting the bigger grow area man! 😎👊🏻
BeefWellingtons
BeefWellingtons
@@TheWeedMan, ships, that is an impressive setup you have. I like the veg lights in middle and flower on the sides! My space to grow is part of a small closet, so I'm stuck with my 1 or 2 plant grow for now. Someday I might have space and money to build like that though. Very informative diary you got bud!
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@BeefWellingtons, I put my build info up you wanna take a look Man! 😎🇨🇦
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BeefWellingtons
BeefWellingtonsweek 10
Really nice yield and beautiful buds!! As for the bubble hash, if you don't have the washing machine, I'm telling you its grueling work. I only have 1 gallon bags, but even with 5gallon, its gonna suck. Might I suggest you research the dry ice method? It looks like it pulls a lot more out than the bubble hash with ice water. Also, you can use same bags for it. Less work, higher return. Good luck, awesome grow!!
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@BeefWellingtons, he recently got the license. So it’s not at full capacity yet. He is Pheno hunting for some fire genetics right now. All photoperiods , currently he has them indoor DWC setup under LEDs.
BeefWellingtons
BeefWellingtons
@@@TheWeedMan, that sounds like a full time job growing ganja. How awesome! Is he growing in soil, soiless, or hydro? I'm guessing indoor? Does he grow photos or auto? I would love to see the setup of a grow like that.
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@BeefWellingtons, he is a good guy to know.. plus he has a 100 plant grow op license in Canada lol.
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Garedicus
Garedicusweek 1
Looks like a good start, man - like @TheBudWhisperer said, watch for nute burn, especially early in the grow, and good luck with your first coco grow. I'll be looking forward to those GG plants when you get them running.
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@TheBudWhisperer, should be an interesting experiment! The new COB led lights should also prove interesting ... not many examples out there but from what I’ve read/seen the results have been spectacular ! It’s gonna be 10 Cree CXB3590 COBs (Best COB LEDs) @3500K run at 50w each. Should provide over 1200 PPFD in flowering .. I believe cannabis maxes out at around 1000 PPFD so I could even add on CO2 down the road ..!
TheBudWhisperer
TheBudWhisperer
@@TheWeedMan,np homie - it’s what this site is for. The comparative of yields and grow time for each medium will be interesting for sure.
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@TheBudWhisperer, you’ve really been super helpful bro. I was really impressed with the last run of C.C. and GSC in soil that I just had to try another run in Coco .. of course the GG is a welcome addition to the garden! 👊🏻
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TheBudWhisperer
TheBudWhispererweek 5
Lookn good through transition dude!👍 the drip systems cool!👌
TheBudWhisperer
TheBudWhisperer
@@TheWeedMan, check ur pm homie! 👊😉
TheWeedMan
TheWeedMan
@TheBudWhisperer, nice I’m a little north of Uxbridge lol. Sounds like a budswap might be in the making soon 👊🏻👍🏻
TheBudWhisperer
TheBudWhisperer
@@TheWeedMan, lol yes indeed dude. North Durham so right across the way.👍.
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