Right on, that sounds like the sweet spot, 3.5-4.5' (3.5 I think I'd prefer depending on how many lights). I ran 2 Nanos at 3' and I was impressed with how far down the plant the buds still filled out. I didn't get any leaf burn at 3' but I figure the light spread isn't being fully utilized at that height
I did contact gavita support and send them details of how many lights and the size of the room I was going to use. And wow the report they sent me back was unbelievable. Going by them you must have a 10 feet high room to get the best from the lights. Going to back to my room I had to set up 2 fan controllers as I have 4 large fans if I ran 2 fans it was getting a bit warm. And if I ran 4 of them it would get way to cold. So what I did is I got 2 fans and the heater and put the on the first controller and set it 66. And then got the another controller and put the another 2 fans on it and set it 75 and its working really good
Indeed, ac is a must! Actually, like you, I shut mine off and just have 2 6" intake fans pulling outside air and 2 8" fans for expelling the air. Works like a champion in the winter! I can keep it whatever Temps I want to the degree with the controller. Dehu heats the room when needed at lights off which allows fresh air to be pulled in during lights off which is good. Also have a volcano (or something near that name) humidifier that is more like a swamp cooler. It has a fan and blows air outwards with a puddle of water in a tray that is auto refilled to the level needed with the X2 2.5 gal water jugs it holds. So I can keep my rh at 65% or whatever I want, even when it's dry af in the winter.
Right on! That's great you got the Temps dialed. Yeah, 10' ceilings would be ideal, I have my lights up as high as they can go and my cieling is 9' 5". A little short but it seems to be working well.
Thanks man, it's a blessing and a curse. I have no where to park my car now lol.
Heres how i did mine 4x6 foot print. I got 9 foot ceilings so i do what i can.
Looks great
Dude, tomato cages, genius! I fucking HATE staking plants and trellis can be a pain in the ass too, but not as bad.. I love those cages I might use the idea on a run in the future. And is that an air cooled de hood? I like the idea of that too! Plants look great as well
Lmao, you got that right my man!
No the pic is a nanolux DE. I have some air cool hoods in the room. I just wanted to see what DE tech was all about. Im completely impressed. I did through in the phillips DE bulb in the nanolux
They look like they would be about week 3 or there about
Ahh right on, I'm just using the nanolux bulbs atm but will be switching to the Phillips when I need to change the bulbs. They say the bulbs last a year but I don't buy that, I'm going to replace them in 8 months to be safe. Also, I have no idea how bright the bulbs should be, they are bright, but I have nothing to compare them too so I hope they are OK haha. I'm being a little outrageous, my foot prints are 5x6, 5x5 and 5x4.5, from left to right. The 5x4.5 is because my res is over there and if my room was a bit bigger, I might had run 5x6 all the way around except for the ends without cross lighting.. The cross lighting is supposed to be where it's at! If I don't get 2 lb a light I'll publicly shoot my left nut off. Then again, I might lose a nut because this is my first real run with the lights and I don't even know how good they are yet haha
I hope mine look like that by day 25, I'd be happy. I'm at day 16 and just starting to get flower clusters. When I was running the De lights at my other pad for a test run, my buds were that big at day 20, but this run I don't think theyll be that big. My other pad was 8' ceilings and the light was 3' above, so maybe that's why.. I never had a single problem with the bulbs 3' above the plants on the test run, so I might put my lights on Ratchet ropes so I can lower them next time instead of letting the plants grow up to the light
I got 2 pounds 113 grams on a 5 week veg on a very low yielding fire og with 6 plants in 10 gallon pots of peat moss (sunshine#4). I just harvested my second run on the nanolux DE. This time i did 15 plants in 3 gallon pots with a 3 week veg. Basically I'm still learning the lamp, trying to get closer to 2.5-3 units with a low yielding strain. I should start trimming the 2nd run any day now.
These are one week in
Beautiful room What hydro set up is that and what is the lime green stuff at the top of the pots?
Damn! I'd be so happy with 2.25 a light, actually would give myself a pat on the back and give the girlfriend a bigger allowance lmao. That's a great yield especially for low yield strains. All I grow are low yield strains as well, I have animal cookies, dosido, pre 98 Bubba and mendo Breath in flower now. The mendo is usually a good yielder for me but they filled out much different than they usually do. They usually stack nicely but this time they didn't stretch much at all and are 4.5' under the light. The rest are 3.5' under the light. I'm doing 12 plants per light in 7" pots of rockwool mini cubes