Mau5Capades: builds & grow journal

BobCajun

BobCajun

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Queece said:
I just have a bunch of diffuse light trapped in a reflective tent, so I don't really need an optic, the photons are eventually going to collide with the leaves regardless. I like having a super even spread, like stuff that's touching the outer wall looks identical to the nugs from the epicenter. And my clients don't like it when I grow mono crops, so I'm usually running 8 different cuts, and my canopies are never trellised or anything, so I wouldn't want really stretchy plants getting closer than other stuff with weird focal points potentially singing your bits. Don't wanna be beemin out your creep dawg. If weed gets that close to a light that powerful, it kills all the demons that live in the nugs that get you high.
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That's exactly my strategy too, no reflectors or lenses, just reflective tent walls and the entire space filled with canopy from wall to wall The plants are looking way better than with the big reflector it came with (60 degree). If I put my hand in there the light is pretty even over the entire space, whereas before it was too bright in the middle and not bright enough on the sides. And now the actual LEDs are as close as the bottoms of the reflectors were before and it's perfectly cool at canopy level, 18" at this time.

BTW, I just added a 60w incandescent blacklight bulb which comes on at lights out for 7 minutes. Reason being that the output is almost entirely far red, with a tiny amount of UV-A which also won't hurt. I want to see if it helps ripening in the last two weeks without having to reduce the light cycle to 10 hours. I have a reptile CFL on each end of the top of the 1.5'x3' tent, which are on the same timer as the main lights, and the blacklight at the middle of one of the long sides, which is on a separate timer for the 7 minutes. Now I'm throwing every trick in the book at em.

I wouldn't actually recommend that anyone make and sell LED lights with UV added, because it's too dangerous for the general public. Only those who know how to take precautions should work with UV-B, though oddly enough, there are few reports of reptile owners ruining their eyes or getting skin cancer, and they have their terrariums right out in the open where the light can go anywhere. Actually I guess it wouldn't be all that dangerous unless you regularly got within about 8" of the bulb. The first 10 days of use is the "burn in period" though, in which much more UV-B is emitted. I think the big names burn in their bulbs before sale, but the cheaper ones probably don't. Just something to be cautious about.
 
BobCajun

BobCajun

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flaxseedoil1000 said:
^ you sure the blacklight has PFR?



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_light

Could be wrong but I thought blacklight was only the high end of UVA.
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That's a CFL blacklight spectrum. This page has the ones for incandescents. I'll link one of the images.



Here's an image of a Bubble Bomb bud at 8 weeks after 3 cycles with the reptile lights. They caused slight browning but it does seem more potent already. Not outrageously potent or anything at this point but it does feel more like real weed now, meaning like imports in the Colombian days.

 
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Queece

Queece

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All the resin heads instantly melt together and your weed is then varnished and cured. Just how I like it.
 
Z

zblade

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A quick question,
From what I understand CB bin would be a better choice than CD bin and there are 2 step,3 step and 5 step,what is the steps?
CB are the better choice because of smaller flux?
 
Queece

Queece

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CD bin produce the most photons. The lower the CRI, the higher the photon output because the reds are not being corrected to white. CRI is something you should pay money for if you are lighting a retail space, but plants prefer low CRI from my experiments. Go for the highest bin in the lowest CRI if you're looking for chips.
 
Queece

Queece

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In all seriousness, it doesn't matter. I use 20 CXB3070s at 1400mA in one tent, and 20 3590s at 1400mA in another tent, there's almost no difference in quality or yield. It's hard to get over a 4.0GPA. COBs are better than HID, so much so that I don't think you could even get a plant to grow better without changing the plant. It's ALL about genetics now, I spend probably $500 a month on seeds just looking for those super frosty producers.

Concern yourself primarily with the "bin" of your plants. Really do some pheno selecting, in a setup like this, it really pays off. I love it, if I order seeds from a breeder, I look at the picture on the front of the package and expect to see that exact thing but twice as frosty and double the size.

Lemon Alien Dawg and Blue Lavender x Alien Dawg V2 are my next pheno run after this Moonshine X Indiana Bubble run I have going. This site, I've found, is the best place for finding rare seed drops on the cheap.

https://www.thcfarmer.com/community/auctions/

Blue LavaDawg was an extremely limited auction release from Exotic Genetix from 2012, I somehow copped 12 beans for $70. That cross is insane. Whoever reads this first, go cop the rest of the packs they have.
 
Queece

Queece

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Just so you guys know, to stay out of the dark, there are a lot of "alien" beans going around. What you want to look for, is a parent that's either AlienDawg, Alien Tech, or Alien Tahoe. These are derived from Obsol33t's original Alien Tech which is a really, really fat classic land-race Pakistani/Afghan. Once hybridized it usually keeps it's massive colas, and takes on the frostiness of what the other parent is. There's a lot of hype, and a fake Alien parent of DNA genetics called Martian Mean Green. I really wish DNA genetics would leave the game out of shame already, what a bullshit company. That's another story. But you need to be aware of this. Martian Mean Green sucks and is just a mediocre OG basically.

Everything I've got to throw massive yields under COBs has been an alien family Afghan. The quality is incredible, the Alien Blue is a great example. I've never seen a more characteristic afghan in build. I just took an elbow to my guy, he cracked the bag, "Blueberry muffins dude". I didn't even tell fool it was blueberry. Always a good feeling.

So, if you want yields guys, I'm giving you a good direction to go in, as far as selecting your plants. Cookie strains do really really well under these setups too, make sure to keep them partially defoliated though. Alien all the way, I know it's one of those hype dragons you hear about all the time, but there's some truth in the fiction. Get the real alien though, and fuck DNA genetics. $100 10 drop vials of terps? Are you kidding me? I can buy a gallon of d-limonene for $15. Fuck those charlatans. Fuck Crockett gear, it's all shit, don't take my word for it, see what Medicropper has to say. Fuck Kosher anything, fuck the tangie (my mom bred the skunk they used, nothing personal), and fuck all these new "terp strains" that they've managed to engineer somehow in two generations. Fuck DNA and their lying, pilfering, anti-intellectual skulduggery, stop paying people to positively review your gear and step your fucking game up.
 
Queece

Queece

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If you want real, reliable advise on Cannabis, watch Hash Church, but don't pay any attention to anyone but Chimera and laugh at the asshurt. And listen to what Bret Maverick has to say, that dude is a savant or something. You think he's some BHO goon, but man, that dude is in it for good. Great source for weird arcane knowledge that you really only get from a guy that has been processing thousands of plants, some his own, for their resin content. Really funny dude too, one of the sharpest knives in the drawer.
 
Queece

Queece

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Grow like Medicropper. Use 20 COBs like he uses his Gavitas, just scale it down. I've very rarely seen nugs that look as good as Medi's, that's what got me in to led using bare chips. Cross-lighting and vapor pressure deficit are things you need to keep in mind.
 
Queece

Queece

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Not the most potent, but some of the most sedative. It feels like a yak is sitting on you, I can't really even describe it accurately. It isn't very comfortable, but most stoners smoke weed to pretend they're on heroine so a lot of people seem to like it.
 
UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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Queece said:
Grow like Medicropper. Use 20 COBs like he uses his Gavitas, just scale it down. I've very rarely seen nugs that look as good as Medi's, that's what got me in to led using bare chips. Cross-lighting and vapor pressure deficit are things you need to keep in mind.
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don't forget to trim a pound in 80 seconds by using scissors with a 30% smash factor. oh, and crit-stacking too.
 
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