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Fevs

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Looks to be a decent investment! There is something about white light that really brings the best out of plants! I'd prefer to use led over cmh. Cmh ballasts get well hot. My 315w cmh ballasts run hotter than 400w digital hps ballast. Maybe even on a par with a 600w. I plug n extra fans to cool them outside the tent. Add that to your efficiency calculations. Yeah.. led's are even more efficient than you what you thought. I was so close to buying leds, but just didn't, even called them to order and the woman had gone home that does payments, next day I never rang back. No particular reason... I'll make the move soon enough :hump:

Cmh will still have it's place. I may run leds 24-0 and have the cmh come on in the night when my electric is 1/3 of the day price.

Led growing is a real pleasure, compared to growing under hid lamps!
 
horribleherk

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Fevs said:
Looks to be a decent investment! There is something about white light that really brings the best out of plants! I'd prefer to use led over cmh. Cmh ballasts get well hot. My 315w cmh ballasts run hotter than 400w digital hps ballast. Maybe even on a par with a 600w. I plug n extra fans to cool them outside the tent. Add that to your efficiency calculations. Yeah.. led's are even more efficient than you what you thought. I was so close to buying leds, but just didn't, even called them to order and the woman had gone home that does payments, next day I never rang back. No particular reason... I'll make the move soon enough :hump:

Cmh will still have it's place. I may run leds 24-0 and have the cmh come on in the night when my electric is 1/3 of the day price.

Led growing is a real pleasure, compared to growing under hid lamps!
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I'm just getting started but I noticed the footprint of this light (2rows of 3 cobs each) is more long than square so I'm gonna build a scrog that follows the actual footprint of the light & fill it in right now it is 29x29 I'm gonna make it 32x40 or thereabouts the 400 hps struggled with this screen winter time I heat my house with wood & utility bills are pretty low & I have the option of running the light day or night summer time running the light at night is a must our prices are based on a tier system & if you exceed your allotment the price goes up I kinda went out on a limb to make this purchase & was really worried I would regret it but long term I feel I made a good choice if my calculations are correct I could run a tent & another led of about 250 w. for about the same cost it took to run my 600w. hps with a significant increase in yield but first I've got to get this setup tuned in
 
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OK 48 hrs. under the new light & all seems quite well at this rate I should have the screen pretty much filled in about 4-5 days fed yesterday@ 900 ppm. res. this morning is 1/2 gal low ppm. before topping off is 740 so I added 1/2 gal. of water & this afternoon I'll take a more accurate reading next feeding I'll up the ppm to about 1100 clones still look good I was a little concerned about justifying buying this light but that is starting to fade as I've got progress across the board I've had 2 back-to-back grows that were way below average for me I'm hoping I'm on my way to straitening that out a picture is worth a thousand words so here is this mornings picsimage.jpegimage.jpeg image.jpegimage.jpeg
 
TheStickMan

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horribleherk said:
OK 48 hrs. under the new light & all seems quite well at this rate I should have the screen pretty much filled in about 4-5 days fed yesterday@ 900 ppm. res. this morning is 1/2 gal low ppm. before topping off is 740 so I added 1/2 gal. of water & this afternoon I'll take a more accurate reading next feeding I'll up the ppm to about 1100 clones still look good I was a little concerned about justifying buying this light but that is starting to fade as I've got progress across the board I've had 2 back-to-back grows that were way below average for me I'm hoping I'm on my way to straitening that out a picture is worth a thousand words so here is this mornings picsView attachment 3811576View attachment 3811577 View attachment 3811578View attachment 3811579
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Sh's looking mint mate!
 
Afgan King

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horribleherk said:
OK 48 hrs. under the new light & all seems quite well at this rate I should have the screen pretty much filled in about 4-5 days fed yesterday@ 900 ppm. res. this morning is 1/2 gal low ppm. before topping off is 740 so I added 1/2 gal. of water & this afternoon I'll take a more accurate reading next feeding I'll up the ppm to about 1100 clones still look good I was a little concerned about justifying buying this light but that is starting to fade as I've got progress across the board I've had 2 back-to-back grows that were way below average for me I'm hoping I'm on my way to straitening that out a picture is worth a thousand words so here is this mornings picsView attachment 3811576View attachment 3811577 View attachment 3811578View attachment 3811579
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Looks good you got a way of controlling humidity in there? 60% with low temps is a good way to get bud rot. I like to run 71° with 35% rh in flower and never an issue. She looks happy for veg tho good job
 
horribleherk

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Afgan King said:
Looks good you got a way of controlling humidity in there? 60% with low temps is a good way to get bud rot. I like to run 71° with 35% rh in flower and never an issue. She looks happy for veg tho good job
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we are coming off of 2-12 in of rain 5 days ago humidity is usually lower as I'm in the hills used to live on the edge of the sanjoaquin delta where 75% is not uncommon I grew this strain at the old location & had no problems hoping to do the same here but that being said bud rot can mean disaster tonight's reading is improved[as things are drying outATTACH=full]3811789[/ATTACH]
 

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waking up from a good Saturday night I drank cheap beer & the wife made apple pies even got new growth for an old fart like me it's about good as it gets & these cooler mornings sure make a hot cup of coffee taste good View attachment 3812234View attachment 3812235 View attachment 3812236View attachment 3812237
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Great post haha!
And god, Rolling Rock lager, I've not seen that for ages! I remember the advert for it with Bran Van 3000 tune on it, Drinkin in LA
Great tune! Enjoy your pie, makin me hungry! :razz:
 
horribleherk

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Great post haha!
And god, Rolling Rock lager, I've not seen that for ages! I remember the advert for it with Bran Van 3000 tune on it, Drinkin in LA
Great tune! Enjoy your pie, makin me hungry! :razz:
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the one guy with the shoulder length hair kinda resembles Gavin rasdale ( bush) I was listening to social distortion last night I was wrong & ball& chain being among my favs sometimes a lager or Pilsner rolls down good other times I like some of the stuff you guys have like Newcastle & I remember we got this stuff called watneys stingo I think it was it was top notch quality
 
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