Gavita 750 de vs Led.. Do I even grow bro?

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farmingfisherman said:
Gonna follow along. Gets me excited to get something set back up for this fall/winter.. Good luck!
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That's it, the weather is just cooling down. I don't use heaters though. I have dark periods at different times.

Got the 2 bud box tents set up today. Also have the filters now, so will set it all up over the next few days. My living room looks so much smaller with three 1.2m x1.2m tents in. It's going to be a blast! I am excited. I've been growing single plants in 3ft x 3ft tents for years. Chucked them all away and starting fresh with 4 new tents. Getting dark room curtains tmrw I hope.

The next led tent will be set up asap
 
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Apalchen said:
Since your growing both ways I'd get rid of the led grown and keep the HPS. It seems that LED grown weed causes uncontrollable anger towards strangers on the interernet and obsessions with numbers and light charts and such.
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I would miss growing under led. I couldn't have 750de lamps in all 4 tents as the ambient temps in my flat would be too high to grow. 400w of led in one tent, 480w in another. Two 4ft x 4ft led tents, I will do well with that area for the electric used. For the outlay I'm going to get a lot of bud back. Growing under hps is new to me. Only used 400w lamps before. The 750w lamps are in different rooms at the opposite end of the property. Keeps the heat nicely spread around.

I ain't bothered how much electric I use anymore. I went led for that. Now I just don't give a crap. I'm £800 in credit with electric already, so I'm not holding back this grow.

Also if any more light needs adding to a tent I have five 100w led bars that I can add. Got them boxed up to use in the summer instead of a 750w.
 
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Fevs. said:
I would miss growing under led. I couldn't have 750de lamps in all 4 tents as the ambient temps in my flat would be too high to grow. 400w of led in one tent, 480w in another. Two 4ft x 4ft led tents, I will do well with that area for the electric used. For the outlay I'm going to get a lot of bud back. Growing under hps is new to me. Only used 400w lamps before. The 750w lamps are in different rooms at the opposite end of the property. Keeps the heat nicely spread around.

I ain't bothered how much electric I use anymore. I went led for that. Now I just don't give a crap. I'm £800 in credit with electric already, so I'm not holding back this grow.

Also if any more light needs adding to a tent I have five 100w led bars that I can add. Got them boxed up to use in the summer instead of a 750w.
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I was just being funny about the led bud making people angry because of your last thread
 
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Day 5 from seed for the auto's. I lost an afghan kush ryder, so stole one from my little tent and transplanted it to the 12 litre hempy that the dead one was in.

Now in my little veg tent I have 2 fast bud#2, so it's going to be very easy to look after them.

I set up one of my new bud box white tents. It just didn't seem right trying to cover it with the 4 sanlight panels, so came up with an idea. I moved the top bar from my other new tent so I could put the sanlights in a ring around the edges. I moved two 100w 2700k cobs to the middle. Looks pretty good. Not got the cobs on currently, so just running at 480w. Lights are staying right at the top, hopefully fo rthe whole grow. They are 5ft away, so plenty of room for the plants to grow in to.

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Sweet seeds Cream Mandarin auto's on day 5. They may grow quite big, so giving them the led tent as they can grow closer to the light.

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The replacement afghan kush. This is on day 4, but just call it day 5 like the rest. Beauty in'she! :lol:

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I had to transplant her as her tap root needs to find the bottom of the hempy bucket asap.
 
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Got the other 12 autos that are now under two 100w 3500k cobs, in a 4x4 tent. This will change real soon! bongsmilie

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Drobe afghan kush ryder day 5 under one 100w 3500k cob

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Little old veg tent. Two fast bud#2. I'm glad I have 2 in here. This will be so easy to grow these in here. Less space to root, so I want to know if they finish earlier than the hempy bucket auto's.

GN Telos 6. The 54w 3500k cob is off for now

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I have ordered a 3rd gavita 6/750de. Spur of the moment decision after stealing the top bar from my new tent for the led tent. I will have three 4x4 tents with 750w gavitas in. I'm thinking of moving the little 54w 3500k cob from the veg tent, plus using the other 2 3500k 100w dimmable cobs as work lights in the gavita tents. So when I water my plants and can just switch on the cob, then switch off the hps for a while. Plus at least the photo's would be good that way and I could see my plants properly. I just worry that they are so bright that if I water my plants at night my flat will light up hps colour. Bought proper dark room curtains today too. Picking them up tmrw morning. Got to get them in before I set up the tents that are going in front of them.

I'm pretty certain that i'm going to pull cool air from outside straight into the tents too, so will be leaving a gap all the way around the back of the tents to run ducting from next to the windows. Growing in coco, so not worried about bugs and stuff.

It's all coming together people :cool:
 
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Fevs. said:
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Got the other 12 autos that are now under two 100w 3500k cobs, in a 4x4 tent. This will change real soon! bongsmilie

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Drobe afghan kush ryder day 5 under one 100w 3500k cob

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Little old veg tent. Two fast bud#2. I'm glad I have 2 in here. This will be so easy to grow these in here. Less space to root, so I want to know if they finish earlier than the hempy bucket auto's.

GN Telos 6. The 54w 3500k cob is off for now

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I have ordered a 3rd gavita 6/750de. Spur of the moment decision after stealing the top bar from my new tent for the led tent. I will have three 4x4 tents with 750w gavitas in. I'm thinking of moving the little 54w 3500k cob from the veg tent, plus using the other 2 3500k 100w dimmable cobs as work lights in the gavita tents. So when I water my plants and can just switch on the cob, then switch off the hps for a while. Plus at least the photo's would be good that way and I could see my plants properly. I just worry that they are so bright that if I water my plants at night my flat will light up hps colour. Bought proper dark room curtains today too. Picking them up tmrw morning. Got to get them in before I set up the tents that are going in front of them.

I'm pretty certain that i'm going to pull cool air from outside straight into the tents too, so will be leaving a gap all the way around the back of the tents to run ducting from next to the windows. Growing in coco, so not worried about bugs and stuff.

It's all coming together people :cool:
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Super excited to watch this unfold, love the variety of lighting assortments.

I would consider getting some Method Seven grow room glasses and camera lenses instead of turning off the Gavitas during watering/photos. They work great and then you don’t have to worry about stressing the plants.
 
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NukaKola said:
Super excited to watch this unfold, love the variety of lighting assortments.

I would consider getting some Method Seven grow room glasses and camera lenses instead of turning off the Gavitas during watering/photos. They work great and then you don’t have to worry about stressing the plants.
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It's more so the neighbours can't see the lights. I've got a pair of mars hydro led glasses somewhere. Haven't tried them yet though. I'm a squinter!

My plants get it rough! They will get stressed at times. Turning off the hps lights won't really bother them much. They've got worse problems than that coming :lol: I feed them cold chlorinated tap water. I don't monitor rh or temps. No heaters in dark periods either. They still do ok. I want to have lights to work under. Not keen on the glow of an hps light next to my face. I have a water hoover, so get 10% run off, then hoover it out their trays. Do a big circle of the flat, then go back for anymore drips. I look at it like it goes cloudy for half an hour.

I have one large catering pot which is about 18 litres when full. Each 4 plants in each tent will use the that. So have to make 4 nutes mixes up each day. Really though once it's all set up and plugged in, it's all downhill from there anyway.
 
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horribleherk said:
That is a clean looking arrangement of lights you've been busy
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Will check your journal out.

Have been busy, this led tent looks really good. Cream Mandarin is just such a nice strain to grow. Expecting these to take 2 weeks longer than all the other strains.

Can't wait until it's all set up. Can barely step anywhere without standing on things.
 
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Feeding the seedlings today. 400ppm of cx regen-a-root and some canna coco a and b at ph 5.8. My tap water is around ph9. Nutes knock it down to 6.7-7, so only need to add a bit of ph down.

Dark room curtains up, so remaining tents should be up and running next 24 hours.
 
horribleherk

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Fevs. said:
Will check your journal out.

Have been busy, this led tent looks really good. Cream Mandarin is just such a nice strain to grow. Expecting these to take 2 weeks longer than all the other strains.

Can't wait until it's all set up. Can barely step anywhere without standing on things.
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I bet having all that grow stuff is like Christmas
 
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You do have an exhaust for the DE right? I read you're not going to monitor temps/humidity, but you are going to control them I hope. It seems like a DE would cook a tent.
 
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