New light test and first grow

chazbolin

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After that haircut it's good to see the comeback. :hump:

If plasma has the full spectrum of light, why would you need HPS for red?
Plasma is a good looking light with a high CRI but at 60 lumens per watt it is not an energy efficient light by any means. All you have to do is check out the Photopic Lumen values on page 6 of the technical comparisons and you'll see that this is a lamp designed with 73% of it's energy being emitted in the visual regions. If you plan on flowering with a plasma you have to add a R-FR source which is what Gavita recommends with their dual end 1000 watt HPS lamps to run in concert with the plasma. http://www.inda-gro.com/pdf/MeasuringPlantLight.pdf

When considering the price of a plasma setup, I don't know how plasma is in business for any application, much less gardening, when there are more efficient/affordable technologies, require less moving parts and deliver plant spectrum's evenly across the canopy that one could choose from. Just my .02 centavos
 

Mechmike

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Oh yeah! It's pretty hard to give them too much light in flower. Only good can come of this! Your canopy looks super nice. I think its a nice result of the real stripping you gave them early on.
 
Day one of flowering. Switched to bloom fertilizer and gave the ladies a good watering. 65-78 days till harvest which brings us to the first two weeks of January for harvest and 2-3 weeks for curing it will be Feb before I can smoke it. Darn, wish I grew autos and was not so crazy for pruning.
 

ButchyBoy

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Just think... They could have been stacking em up right now! Live and learn.... They are looking great!

I like to destroy one clone per grow in the name of seeing what works or not. It's really not any more work and it shows me what really happens when you butcher or bend or train or snip or.....................

I can't wait to see stars on your girls!! :bigjoint:
 
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