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First day in their new home.
This is my first grow. My only "experience" is that i saw many videos on youtube and read a lot about it. I decided to get a budget equipment and try to grow myself.
- 3 plants in 18L pots.
- Tent size 60cm x 60cm x 180cm
- Temp 27 day, night 19 - 20
- 20 hours light schedule
- 450w CFL OMEGA (probably only 200w real wattage)
I removed 3rd pot because the seed died. Not sure why.
Thats the 11th day of my 2 ladies.
I pour only water, no nutrients so far. Next week i will do LST.
Leaves are very green and healhy.
I am waiting for the 250w hps lamp kit. I ordered it a few days ago.
Next week I would like to keep my ladies under hps light and after that flip to flowering
It is 3rd week of flowering. Last week I didnt manage to upload photos.
This week I started pouring canna PK13 14.
I must admit HPS 250 w does the great job :)
This week i add 1 ml canna PK13 14
My hps lamp produces too much heat and thats a problem but plans seem to not bother :)
Probably my tent 2ft x 2ft is just too small for that lamp.
Next time I will have to think about different light :/
Leaves on left plant are yellow, not sure why.
The right one looks much better and buds look bigger.
This week I will give them PK13 14 for the last time and after that I will only add Canna A+B.
Still I have problems with temperature. Sometimes it shows 30 celsius which is not good.
Next time I think I will change light maybe to MarsHydro TS1000 and will see what happens.
This week is the last week im giving PK13 14.
Rest of the weeks ill give them canna AB only.
Plants are small and I think this is caused by too high temperature (29 - 31 celsius) (84 - 87F)
:/
HPS250 is just not a good idea if its about 2ft x 2ft tent but I must admit it gives lots of light. Very good light.
As my hps250 gives too much heat in my 2ft x 2ft ten I am thinking about changing it to different one.
What do you think Mars Hydro TS1000 or ViparSpectra P1500 ?
CMH is far and away the best grow light out right now and here's why.
I like many others ran old school HID for many years and after a few years I started hearing LED this LED that, LED, LED, LED, so I finally switched and went with a 3000K Quantum Board and after testing it over several grows I hated it, my plants were never healthy, they got deficiencies all the time and even though the yield was impressive I just got tired of looking at unhealthy plants.
With CMH there is no try hard, your plants are beautiful all the time, they are healthy, vibrant because you get the true full spectrum of the sun, and deficiencies are a thing of the past because the plant metabolizes nutrients better, the only way you are going to get a deficiency is if you are just totally fucking up hard, and at that point you better start reading or get some help from an experienced grower.
CMH is as close as you can get to the full spectrum of the sun and it's natural light with the only exception being LEP which is insanely expensive with extreme energy consumption and isn't a stand alone light.
LED isn't ready, it's close but it just not ready, and until it is CMH is the best option there is.
mars are a lower efficacy, so more heat and higher electric bills relatively speaking to something with higher efficacy.. it'll be more than a few percent too..
Check out something similar to SF-1000. It uses Samsung LM301b diodes. They say 2.7efficacy, so it isn't pushing them hard. That mars likely isn't better than 2.1 at best.. Better HPS are around that range too, if not mistaken. 25% more efficient. Plus, those diodes last 60k hours before they dim to 80% intensity.
I'm not advertising for that specific light. It is merely an example with the LED diode you want, and you are good. If they mix in some rar red, that's good too -- that's why the SF one isn't a slightly higher efficacy if it were all LM301B.
Anyway, that light i have a concern about. You'd want a fan blowing across that heatsink -- the entire top + driver. I'd be worried about the heat on the unit itself, not anywhere near your plants.
A dimmer switch is great for vege... save even more money. if using from seed to harvest, get something with a dimmer too. even if only ~50% dim, that's more than enough for what you'd need to adjust.. likely half that or less depending on height and footprint you need.
I gave my ladies Canna AB for the last time, no i will be watering with pure water only.
So i reckon later next week or week after I will be harvesting.
I think the buds will not fatten any more.
csereal
