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Athoscommentedweek 35 years ago

No such thing as premium accounts. Lights that advertise things like 1.000 watts (only pulls 140 watts) go instantly into crap category for me. A watt is a watt, check stuff like Lumen per watts, umol per watts, etc. Serious grow light manufacterers will advertise that kind of info.

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Philindicuscommented5 years ago

@indacouch, Lights can be very confusing. Lux and lumens are for visible light to humans. With Led lights if their good lights they will list PPF/PAR amounts in umoles. PPF/PAR is the amount of light in the proper color spectrum that can actually be used by the plant.They will list how many PPF the lights put out at a certain distance. Directly under the center of the light is the most intense and as you move to the outer edges it gets lower. Usually they will show a square meter grid listing how many umoles are in each location at different heights. Seedlings usually need about 150-200 umoles. Early veg 250-350 umoles. Late veg early bloom 400-500 umoles mid/late bloom 700-750 umoles. I wouldnt go any higher unless your using over 1000ppm of co2. Every strain may be able to handle more or less light you have to go by how they are growing not enough they will stretch too much you will stunt them. Also the amount of umoles in relation to how many hours you are running your lights matters. DLI (Daily light integral) it's the total amount of light your plants receive shown in moles 20 -40 moles a day of light are good for most grows if using co2 it can go even higher. Check out my current diary I listed a few web pages that may point you in the right direction. Just keep in mind what works for one person may not work for another. Everyones set ups are different.

indacouchcommented5 years ago

@@Athos, Hey there! i will put the full specifications of the light later. it has all that information. but just real quick i think for the other light its 58-60 lumens per watt. it said luminous efficiency lol

Stickcommentedweek 35 years ago

Hi @indacouch! A lamp pulling 615 watts from the wall is a 615 watts lamp, no "equivalent" or "efficiency" here, only raw wattage matters, everything else is a lie. You should look for "QuantumBoards", these panels rely on Samsung mid power LED (lm561c or even better lm301b) which are the new big thing in the growing industry. These are probably the most effective grow lights onto the market nowadays. Growers with good coverage usually get more than 1g/w. The drivers are dimmable, so you can control your light power (and your electricity bill). They're usually dimmed at 25-50% during veg stage and 75-100% during flowering stage, depending on the driver's power capacity and the size of the board(s). If you cannot afford the official QuantumBoard from HLG, you can try to go DIY, many companies are selling the same boards they use at HLG. I got my boards from "InvisibleSunLed". Hope this will help, keep us up-to-date and happy growing 👊

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Stickcommented5 years ago

@indacouch, Happy to help! 👋

indacouchcommented5 years ago

@Stick, that was some useful information! read it a while back but forgot to reply! seriously dude you have helped me as a grower and im sure whoever is reading this probably learned something too. thanks for watching my journey !!!!!

Philindicuscommentedweek 85 years ago

What kind of nutes are you feeding? They look like they could use more potassium to help bulk up those buds over the next few weeks.

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indacouchcommented5 years ago

@Philindicus, Hey! I am using a combination of nutrients from general organics, Fox Farm trio, some of the newer Fox Farm stuff, and organic nutrients i put together. I will try and update the nutrient feeding side of this journal.

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Philindicuscommentedweek 55 years ago

1900 ppm for an auto flower is pretty high. Are you in europe ? What scale does your tds/ec meter use? I would also check the ppm of the runnoff whats coming out of the pot it will give you a ballpark idea if they are using most of what your putting into them.

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indacouchcommented5 years ago

@Philindicus, it is pretty high but this is my first autoflower? they handled it pretty well the first time. I thought i was going to burn them forsure. it barely did. i wish i took a picture but one set of leaves on each plant had one slightly burnt tip. you have to look really close. no I am not in europe. I am using an oakton testr low tds. it reads up to.. 3000 ppm? I will check the runoff when i get the chance! did not think of that! you're a big help throughout this grow!!!

Philindicuscommentedweek 45 years ago

Nice they should start flowering soon

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indacouchcommented5 years ago

@Philindicus, they did!!!

Philindicuscommentedweek 25 years ago

They look great. Very nice strain to grow you won't be disappointed. Be careful with lowering your light they are still young and can burn easily. Their root system is very small at 2 weeks. If the light is too strong/intense it can also stunt them. Since they are not stretching for more light you were already fine where you were. Wouldn't drop the lights more than a couple of inches a week without using a PAR meter to measure the intensity of the light fixture. If your getting serious about growing it's worth the investment to buy one so your not guessing. Also go easy on the water. It's very common to over water when they are young. The goal is to start a wet /dry cycle to force the roots to grow and seek out more water deeper in the pot. When they have too much water the roots get lazy and get starved for oxygen and nutrients.

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indacouchcommented5 years ago

@Philindicus, Hey! thanks for taking the time to check my grow out and I am grateful for the feedback! I am trying to figure out these smart pots. the fabric dries the soil out a little quicker? still testing things out. this will be my first auto and smart pot lol. I totally agree with you about watering less or not too often. I will look into investing in more equipment because I am serious about this and I would like to know forsure instead of guessing. so, next would probably be more meters especially for co2. 😄

Philindicuscommentedweek 125 years ago

Your going to have some nice smoke off of her. Still have some AKR from my first grow from almost a year ago. It's very smooth to smoke and works out well as a late night smoke.

First Afghan Kush Ryder :)