I agree with the 3x3 but I'm tight on room. The shed is 8x8 and I planned it as a 6x6 so I'd have room to move. I built platforms 15" off the floor for the tents and With the ceiling height and slant to the roof, I cut myself a little short on work area.Well a 3x3 probably would work better with the lec but i am sure you can grow some dank stuff with your 2x4
I'll check that out. I think that would really benefit. Thanks!home depot sells a 6" round steel mount with ball bearing for like 8 dollars, screw it to some wood and cut a round out of thick plywood.
I would be very happy with anything close to 12oz. I seriously doubt I will come close to this, being my first grow, but I would be happy with 6-8oz. Im more concerned wth quality than quantity, and from all my research before purchasing my light, these lec's are killing it in both quality and yield which had me sold. Plus, you can't beat that spectrum! The closer to natural sunlight the better.
I am trying to keep my plants as tightly together as possible to keep it at a 3x3. Right now they are taking up the entire 3.5' width and 3' length of the room. I suspect they will fill out the entire 3.5x4.5 space by the end of it though.
How tall are you letting your plants get before flowering? Im starting to think I may be rushing into the flowering. They are all between 15"-18" tall at the moment. Most on the 18" side measured from the top of the soil. In the room Im using I can let them go to a maximum of 36"-40" which would leave me 18-20" of distance from the light which is where Ive been keeping it and it seems to be doing well at this distance. The information on mycurrent strains Im running says the White Cookies are expected to stretch 3x the height. The White Widow expected to double, and the Purple Kush can double as well. Im doing what I can to keep the cookies shorter and bushier, but if I were to start flowering now, at their current height, they would just be within my maximum height if they were to stretch 2.5x their current height.
i believe that the 3x3 would be best for the standard sun system 315 lec. I'm pretty sure the sun system commercial lec set up throws a 2x4 foot print.Well a 3x3 probably would work better with the lec but i am sure you can grow some dank stuff with your 2x4
Thanks for this info! Eventually Id love to get a perpetual system in place, but for now with my space I can veg realistically veg 4-6 plants under my t5 fixture at a time and maybe fit a small cloning tray under that as well.I have 4 plants in flower under 1 lec i am running perpetually. i have them spaced out by about 2 and a half weeks. As soon as one plant comes out of the flower room i move one in from the veg room. When the plants get moved into flower they are between 18in and 2 feet. I have about 6 different mothers i use. they end up finishing up between 3.5 and 4.5 feet. each plant is between 2.5oz and 4oz when finished. average is 12oz for every complete cycle of 4 plants. i do think i could pull slightly more if i did it all at one shot instead of perpetual. i think i could prabably push it to 13.5 to 14 oz if all plants were in the same stage of growth. (More even canopy would help)
Kushy one thing that may help you hit a good yield on your first run would be genetics. If you are in an area where you have easy access to great genetics. All of my plants are from seed from various sources. I have some really great strains but they are quality and not quantity. If you were in Colorado, California, or Washington you could probably get something that would be a heavy yeilder with good quality.
I think if you can get good genetics, control p.h. of water and nutes, Get on a feeding schedule and stick with it, Control temps and have proper air flow, use at least 5 gal pots and don't over crowd your light. you will hit 10 to 12 oz per light with the 315 lec. Good luck and keep us updated!
Am I the only one running the nanolux fixture? What did everyone pay for their fixtures? Nanolux was 280 without the bulb
They are high frequency. I run 3 of their 630w fixtures. Says it right on the box.Is the nanolux ballast low frequency square wave?
From what I understand the LFSW drives these bulbs harder, to their full potential.They are high frequency. I run 3 of their 630w fixtures. Says it right on the box.
Maybe turgor isn't doing so well was it watered before you supercropped? Not much you can do except wait it out or re straighten them.I posted this in the plant problems forum as well, but this seems like an active group so Im hoping maybe you guys can help. I came home today and my favorite purple kush baby is drooping like crazy! The thing that scared the shit out of me is that every spot where I supercropped on Tuesday was completely bent over like it had never healed. But here is a picture 2 hours after the supercropping on Tuesday:
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Today... Wtf?
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Both very bottom leaves look like this:
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Already gave a good watering. Everything else seems fine so i dunno, but this is one of my favorite girls!
Are those in 5gal pots? What are your temperatures?Well I just transplanted them all. Im gonna wait on this one to see what happens
Well I just transplanted them all. Im gonna wait on this one to see what happens
Temps stay about 75-78 lately. Although it is going to be getting hot here in the next week or so, and we did have a heat wave a few weeks ago where the room got up to 93 for 2 days, and was between 83-85 for about a week which didnt seem to bother them a whole lot at first, bit maybe this is an after effect? At the time they were just fine, no negative effects at all. I also kept up on watering and did cut some holes in the ceiling to vent hot air out. I now need to cut a hole on the outside of the attick space so that heat doesn't come back into the room which was an issue. Im gonna do that this weekend.To me it looks like a mix of high temps and to dry of soil.
I have a master Kush that is very very heat sensitive and acts similar to what you have go on.
in the pictures it does look like you need to water.