Pictures of your DIY lights - Post your pics!!!

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I run so much in that small place because thats the only spot for flowering I have and need to maximize yield.

Totally get that, same for many dutch growers. Gram per sqft (or per tent) outweighs saving energy by running low intensity. Quite a few people now switching to led not to save energy but to get more light for the same wattage. I used to grow on 3x4 and upgraded to 4x4 just to have more space to work in, not to get more yield, and although I do want to increase umols, I will still run relatively low ppfd for the space.

The name femaleseeds.nl is enough reason for me to avoid it, just like dinafem. Cheap pollen chuckers making fem seed based on the work of others. Frankly I've heard only good things about them, including their c99, and in both US and NL forums. Did you contact them?

I've never grown sannie's jack, don't see the point of that strain. Sannie grew some monster colas with it, but it's just an inbred JH. I still buy jack herer at a shop sometimes (hunters in amsterdam) because it's cheap yet solid. Not special, but beats the skunks and kushes. I literally added jack herer to the menu in a shop I worked over 2 decade ago, was the shit back then, expensive too. Now it's the cheap stuff, well, except the seeds at sensi.

 

[bassman999]

Totally get that, same for many dutch growers. Gram per sqft (or per tent) outweighs saving energy by running low intensity. Quite a few people now switching to led not to save energy but to get more light for the same wattage. I used to grow on 3x4 and upgraded to 4x4 just to have more space to work in, not to get more yield, and although I do want to increase umols, I will still run relatively low ppfd for the space.

The name femaleseeds.nl is enough reason for me to avoid it, just like dinafem. Cheap pollen chuckers making fem seed based on the work of others. Frankly I've heard only good things about them, including their c99, and in both US and NL forums. Did you contact them?

I've never grown sannie's jack, don't see the point of that strain. Sannie grew some monster colas with it, but it's just an inbred JH. I still buy jack herer at a shop sometimes (hunters in amsterdam) because it's cheap yet solid. Not special, but beats the skunks and kushes. I literally added jack herer to the menu in a shop I worked over 2 decade ago, was the shit back then, expensive too. Now it's the cheap stuff, well, except the seeds at sensi.

I am still very efficient as I run extra cobs to drive low current.
I could run 6 or 8 in there and do fine, but I want best possible spread and efficiency s heat is less (hopefully) and cobs last longer passively cooled.

I bought from them because feminized and wanted a C99.
They may or may not be good, and I think Ill never personally know.
Emailed them like 20x, and they always reply, but still no beans.
They made me pay for upgraded shipping to resend so I did and added another pack since Shipping was $16.
It went like this
I ordered C99 may while high or drunk cant remember ordering.
Early August I ordered Sexbud from them after seeing some reviews.
Looking to see where they are I logged in tot heir site and noticed 2 orders.
Emailed and said 1st never showed up, and second ordered. (wouldnt have ordered if I remembered)
So we agreed I pay (tracked) shipping and get it replaced with a now 3rd pack (RedPurps) I ordered to piggy back on shipping.
I have a tracking info on last one, been a month since shipped and still not here.
Wasted money and time....

Not making the mistake buying from these or other losers again!

Sensi Jack is good?h the last pack of Sannies Jack, Ill trade it
Not taking a chance with someone who wants it eventually or toss em.
Yielded loads of crap weed

Only haze I liked the flavor so far is SLH, I have tried and of the BB haze crosses yet though.
I think I ordered one, but I might have changed my mind reading all the choices they have.
I order a lot of stuff, and always like "oh yeah" when it arrives.

 

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Sensi Jack is good?

Jack Herer is originally from sensi, there maybe be others selling it but that's the Jack Herer. Or was... Roughly one of the three out of a pack that germinate will be great lol... (have a bad germination rate experience with sensi...) and the price is about 10 times what you paid for the femaleseeds which is double of what I'd be willing to pay. I like SLH too, although it gets boring fast, like strawberry tea or hazelnut coffee. One of the best I've grown and smoked is chocolate fondue from dna genetics.

 

[bassman999]

Jack Herer is originally from sensi, there maybe be others selling it but that's the Jack Herer. Or was... Roughly one of the three out of a pack that germinate will be great lol... (have a bad germination rate experience with sensi...) and the price is about 10 times what you paid for the femaleseeds which is double of what I'd be willing to pay. I like SLH too, although it gets boring fast, like strawberry tea or hazelnut coffee. One of the best I've grown and smoked is chocolate fondue from dna genetics.

You build up a tolerance fast to SLH or bored of effect/taste?
I just prefer it since it doesnt taste like ass

 

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Bored of the taste. Like when I drink hazelnut coffee for a week I want a pure expresso.

I just prefer it since it doesnt taste like ass

I don't like it either, the taste of ass. Will take a vagina any day of the week of though.

 

[bassman999]

Bored of the taste. Like when I drink hazelnut coffee for a week I want a pure expresso.

Gotcha, too bad you cant try this Jack, you would love SLH afterwards.

I don't like it either, the taste of ass. Will take a vagina any day of the week of though.

Right

 

[ReddEyez]

Thanks guys, that explained a few things I wondered about. Always wondered why some strains had that cat piss smell. Never ran a straight haze before. I now realize that one plant I ran that took forever to finish and smelled like cat piss was a Haze pheno. Thank ya, now i know.

 

[Kevin the Great]

4 300ma v18s on the small bars on each end and 700ma v22s along the sides on the bigger sinks.
The wiring is a mess in the pics, it was a trial run before I cleaned it all up. Less than 5% variance in light levels across the whole canopy.

 

[bassman999]

Thanks guys, that explained a few things I wondered about. Always wondered why some strains had that cat piss smell. Never ran a straight haze before. I now realize that one plant I ran that took forever to finish and smelled like cat piss was a Haze pheno. Thank ya, now i know.

Wife cam home from work yday and was bitching that the cat pissed in th house and to find it and clean it.
I said cat is outside.
Finally a few hours later her nose was by the flowering tent where SLH and Killawatt are almost 4 weeks in to flower, and said this is the smell.

She doent smoke weed and thinks they all basically smell the same.
She smells cat piss, I smell vanilla and earthy tones

 

[Airwalker16]

View attachment 3785278 View attachment 3785279 View attachment 3785280 4 300ma v18s on the small bars on each end and 700ma v22s along the sides on the bigger sinks.
The wiring is a mess in the pics, it was a trial run before I cleaned it all up. Less than 5% variance in light levels across the whole canopy.

Wow see I have been wanting to add some bars to my other edges as well. You're getting some pretty far nugs at those super low amperages

 

[Airwalker16]

View attachment 3785278 View attachment 3785279 View attachment 3785280 4 300ma v18s on the small bars on each end and 700ma v22s along the sides on the bigger sinks.
The wiring is a mess in the pics, it was a trial run before I cleaned it all up. Less than 5% variance in light levels across the whole canopy.

So you're saying your par #'s are the same nearly everywhere

 

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View attachment 3785278 View attachment 3785279 View attachment 3785280 4 300ma v18s on the small bars on each end and 700ma v22s along the sides on the bigger sinks.
The wiring is a mess in the pics, it was a trial run before I cleaned it all up. Less than 5% variance in light levels across the whole canopy.

Are you going to keep them taped to the heatsink?



I know, looks crazy lol. Wasn't sure yet if I wanted to use the holders or solder the cobs so I taped them initially for testing purposes. Worked fine, for about a week and then I noticed the tape near the les actually came loose slowly. I read a post from Supra were he said drilling and tapping shouldn't keep people from experimenting, and I agree the tape works for that, but turned out the drilling and using self-tapping screws was a piece of cake which obviously make a better permanent solution.

She smells cat piss, I smell vanilla and earthy tones

Classic. Seems people either love it or hate it. A friend who started smoking after years of kush etc, (moonshine) haze, had to go to a separate room to smoke because his wife didn't like the smell at all. She said it smelled like Pine Sol.

 

[bassman999]

Are you going to keep them taped to the heatsink?

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I know, looks crazy lol. Wasn't sure yet if I wanted to use the holders or solder the cobs so I taped them initially for testing purposes. Worked fine, for about a week and then I noticed the tape near the les actually came loose slowly. I read a post from Supra were he said drilling and tapping shouldn't keep people from experimenting, and I agree the tape works for that, but turned out the drilling and using self-tapping screws was a piece of cake which obviously make a better permanent solution.

I have self tapping screws and cant get them to tap, so I have taped as perm solution.

Classic. Seems people either love it or hate it. A friend who started smoking after years of kush etc, (moonshine) haze, had to go to a separate room to smoke because his wife didn't like the smell at all. She said it smelled like Pine Sol.

She has trouble getting high and so cant appreciate it for what it is, too bad since we dont have enough in common and this would be a big one.
On the other hand she would be smoking all the weed so either way...

 

[Airwalker16]

I have self tapping screws and cant get them to tap, so I have taped as perm solution.

She has trouble getting high and o cant appreciate it for what it is, too bad we dont have enough in common.
On the other hand she would be smoking all the wed so either way...

You gotta drill just the right sized hole for self tappers. Take a pic of them. Let me see them.

 

[bassman999]

You gotta drill just the right sized hole for self tappers. Take a pic of them. Let me see them.

You have to pre-drill for the self tappers?
See the screws or the lights?

 

[Airwalker16]

You have to pre-drill for the self tappers?
See the screws or the lights?

Yes absolutely... screws arent going to drill the hole for you man. You can't fit screws in a hole that's not there! They're self TAPPING, not self drilling.

 

[bassman999]

Yes absolutely... screws arent going to drill the hole for you man. You can't fit screws in a hole that's not there! They're self TAPPING, not self drilling.

I always used them as self drilling, but never on solid aluminum lol.

So pics of lights then?

 

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You have to pre-drill for the self tappers?

Yes. I drilled with 3 mm first, then 3.2mm and then tapped with 3.5mm screws. Like airwalker said, they are self tapping, not self drilling. Although there are self-drilling screws too I don't think that'll work well.

 

[bassman999]

Yes. I drilled with 3 mm first, then 3.2mm and then tapped with 3.5mm screws. Like airwalker said, they are self tapping, not self drilling. Although there are self-drilling screws too I don't think that'll work well.

They cut a lil ways then just spin and get hot lol.

Man I am stupid, I always thought they were supposed to drill hole and then tap.
Really only used them on car audio for grounding and siding and roofing so noting this thick.

 

[bassman999]

2 types I have
And my wake and bake joint this morning from this, Clementine and SD mixed, tasty!