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Thanks, yeah the tomato cages are stuck down about 10" below the surface. They offer vinyl coated ones but these are what we happened to have out back but now that you mention it, it never occurred to me that the plants might not like making contact with the bare metal. Maybe once they are fully...

Plants seem to be doing well after their second topping. Almost all of the resulting 8 colas on each plant are close to (if not already tucking under) the first ring in the cut-in-half tomato cages. Watering with the 5G pots is about once a week and I'm contemplating on throwing in one or two of...

They are doing great, all of them have had their second topping and all but one of them is finally at a point where the resulting 8 colas have reached (and are tucked under) the first ring in their tomato cages. Lights are off right now but I'll be sure to post up some pics either this evening...

Nice man, I'm anxious to hear how the high is!

I found the same when I started and realized the plants didn't really have any motivation to grow taller since they were getting beyond plenty of light. I had my lights 10" away. When I moved the lights to 18" to 24" they shot up. Mid-way through my first grow I realized that vipar actually...

I'll check them out for sure, I'm currently working on a mainline attempt with some exotic genetix citrus berry, going pretty good so far.

Nice nice, yeah that first pic looked super yellow. Good shit man.

Hey man, typically they aren't that yellow, looks like it might be overwatered. Is that whole pot wet?

Anyone know if ledil (or anyone) offer a metal reflector that is compatible with the ideal COB holders? I'm looking for something that doesn't allow light to pass through it. I've got the 90° angelinas that came with my kit but as you can see from this photo, light is indeed passing through them...

Just a quick follow-up, I'm onto my second grow (mainline exotic genetics citrus berry) with my kit and it has performed flawlessly.

Nice bro, ended up getting my framing materials at lowes. Not sure if it will help but here is a writeup I did on it. Mocking up the entire frame using tape on my kitchen floor helped a ton. Here is my review: https://www.rollitup.org/t/newbie-experience-with-timber-grow-lights-diy.918881/

Hey gents just a quick follow-up on this. The plants are rocking along and took very well to their mainline. I have yet to apply a single nute, everything seems very stable. They are nearly ready for their second topping at only 3.5 weeks old and were transplanted into their 5G pots just after...

Plants seem to be doing great, this is my first mainline attempt and it's neat to see how these plants react to the topping(s). It's like they spend about 24-48 hours regrouping and thinking about things and then boom, explosive growth resumes with their newly formed game plan strengthening...

Nah, not big yet but beast for sure on sheer accelerated growth powers hah

hell yeah man!

Sweet man, I really liked my vipars while I had them and you've been given some great advice. What works for you is the most important thing as mentioned earlier. Glad so many folks chimed in.

The ability to re-configure the layout is priceless. I had originally planned on going with a SCROG so I layed mine out in an equal grid ensuring even canopy coverage across my entire tent. Now I'm trying mainlining and if I like it, I'll simply tighten up their spacing to support a single row...

Digging that wiring technique man, good stuff.

I actually resented the LED section a bit. It's so bloated with misinformation that leaves a newbie like me feeling like I need to be a rocket scientist to be able to use the most efficient lighting. That wasn't the case at all, all I needed to do was swallow my pride and spend 10% more to get a...

Just to clarify, nobody said anything about soldering and/or being good with electronics. The COB kits now are pre-wired, soldered, etc. You just mount and plug them in. I think there is certainly a place for panels, I started with dual 300W vipars, then dual 450W vipars, and now a 300W COB cree...