...All Things Vero...

More Vero powered bud porn after 57 days of 12/12.

Truepower OG #4



Starkiller #3



OX F2 #1



OX F2 #2

JimmyIndica said:

I am impressed with the design after seein your video! covers on the fans? Are ya gonna offer just bare chassis?

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I've decided to replace 12V power supplies with 5V for the fans, in order to reduce potential bodily discomfort and decrease power consumption. If the fan power supply design reverts back to 12V, there will definitely be some sort of protective cover system implemented.

PurpleBuz said:

shiny chrome fan guards are pretty cheap, tho I guess not as cheap as band aids for stumpy

nice setup!

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They can be found for cheap but wouldn't be necessary with fans running at 5V. If it were a box design, I'd most likely utilize the fan covers like the many other LED lighting fixtures.

Humanrob said:

Since you haven't found a dimming solution yet, how about some sort of small toggle switch, one per light, and one master for the unit? Just a thought.

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That could be done!

@Bueno Time

Those plants look beautiful! What are your plans for the next grow, in respect to choosing color coordinate temperatures? You mentioned using 4000K, with a few mono reds; is there any chance that you'll be using 3500K or 3000K within the next operation?

AquariusPanta said:

@Bueno Time

Those plants look beautiful! What are your plans for the next grow, in respect to choosing color coordinate temperatures? You mentioned using 4000K, with a few mono reds; is there any chance that you'll be using 3500K or 3000K within the next operation?

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Thanks AP, no Im just sticking with the 4000K for now switching out 35 Vero 10s would be a little pricey, not super costly but costly enough and too much work to unscrew and unsolder them all and redo haha maybe someday but not in the very near future I dont think. I would like to try Vero 3000 or 3500 in a way though at some point possibly, I started with CXA3070s 3000K (which did well other than for light spread issues and a bit extreme on the stretching aspect from my experiences) and then switched to the Vero 4000K on this build since I usually veg for a couple weeks in the final pot size in the flower tent before flipping to flower due to tiny veg space that doesnt allow ample veg size or use of final containers because the footprint is too small for larger containers. The 4000K helps with reducing stretching a little bit (vs Cree 3000K) in veg and stretch phase of flower then I kick the reds on post stretch until finish. If I didnt veg at all with the light I would probably have chose 3500K or maybe 3000K, it was hard to chose I went back and forth several times before commiting to the 4000K.

Looks tasty BT! What do you think of the terpenes on the TPOGs and Starkillers? Finally got around to running some Starkillers I have 5 females vegging up.

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SupraSPL said:

Looks tasty BT! What do you think of the terpenes on the TPOGs and Starkillers? Finally got around to running some Starkillers I have 5 females vegging up.

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Ive smoked real True OG from Elemental dispensary a few times when I was visiting a buddy somewhat near that area, so Im assuming anything other than what I experienced from that is from the Blue Power side of the cross, FWIW. I grew 4 Truepower OG females last run and they all had either more OGish smell with a hint of sweetness from the Blue Power male or more sweet almost berry hint with some OG to it. All had a mix of the two smells more or less varying between the amounts of OG and Blue Power in the different phenos. Two were frostier and danker than the others which I kept and ran again the #2 and #4, #4 having some of a slight berry type smell with a dank OGish background about a 50/50 mix of the two scents and the #2 having a danker smell and flavor with almost none of the Blue Power smells/flavors, it reminded me a little bit of The White clone I ran twice a few years ago in the bud look, frostyness, and flavor. I dig em, I didnt get to make any F2s yet that I wanted to since I tried to germ 6 of the 11 seeds I had and one didnt germ and one was a runt that died off on its own when I tried to flower her and the other 4 were females, Ive got 5 seeds left now of the TPOG. I was keeping the #2 and #4 to hit with a nice male if I got one from the rest of the seeds but Im going to have to leave halfway across the country for a few weeks with no one to water/care for them to visit my grandma who has cancer, so I had to kill all my mothers off sadly but oh well, plenty more gear to go through here. Hoping to get some nice females and males from the last 5 seeds when I get back to it, ideally even finding a better female for some F2s than from the first batch I popped would be great.

I got one female and three males from the 4 Starkiller seeds I had and the lady first run was in organic soil water only and she smelled like a candy lemony OG and this run I used coco and synthetics she smells more lemony with not a ton of OG smell now after 8 weeks, started out smelling pretty similar to the first run and changed a little during the last couple weeks. I did a trich rub on her a few days ago and it smelled exactly like a moist towelette with the real light/mild lemon scent and a little OG in the background. Going to have to wait until I harvest them to see how the smells and flavors end up once dried and curing. I kept all 3 males to collect pollen, one grew identical in structure to the female being a tall stalk with 4 lower branches that stretched up to near the top and the rest of the buds at the nodes staying tight to the main stalk and two were bean pole phenos with no side branching, one of the two straight stalk males had the best lemony smell on the stem rub of the 3 but I used them all for F2s to keep the genetic diversity a little more open for selection in the F2s.

They are both good strains IMO, I will grow some SK F2s and TPOGs in the future at some point for sure. I hit the TPOGs with Starkiller pollen too for the hell of it, one bud on each lady. I think you will like the Starkillers.

AquariusPanta said:

I've decided to replace 12V power supplies with 5V for the fans, in order to reduce potential bodily discomfort and decrease power consumption. If the fan power supply design reverts back to 12V, there will definitely be some sort of protective cover system implemented.

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Good call I think, increases the system efficiency overall. Also the A11s aren't grill-friendly anyway.

Awesome info thanks @Bueno Time !

AquariusPanta said:

I've decided to replace 12V power supplies with 5V for the fans, in order to reduce potential bodily discomfort and decrease power consumption. If the fan power supply design reverts back to 12V, there will definitely be some sort of protective cover system implemented.



They can be found for cheap but wouldn't be necessary with fans running at 5V. If it were a box design, I'd most likely utilize the fan covers like the many other LED lighting fixtures.



That could be done!

@Bueno Time

Those plants look beautiful! What are your plans for the next grow, in respect to choosing color coordinate temperatures? You mentioned using 4000K, with a few mono reds; is there any chance that you'll be using 3500K or 3000K within the next operation?

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when those model 6s gonna be for sale? I need to pick me up 1

Nice going Bueno~ I also think the 5v fans are a good idea. I've two fans at 12v and they are fairly noisy.

My 90 CRI v18s have finally been put to work and before I use them for what I really intend to, I decided to flower a few plants out under 'em.

Maybe I'll start a thread "SHOW OFF YOUR CRI!! Because it really matters"~

I have also been meaning to ask, does anyone have a spd graph for 90 CRI 4000k/3000k v2 Vero18s? I've failed at finding those. Perhaps I should e-mail B-lux?

JimmyIndica said:

when those model 6s gonna be for sale? I need to pick me up 1

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We LIVE!

Must be exciting... Good luck ap..

@AquariusPanta just orded my first Vero's today the 29's v2 4000k gonna give it a go now kingbrite will have them in a few days.

Solid dry nug from optic vero.

Buds that are currently hanging are surely the largest and densest ive grown. Pics coming.

testiclees said:

Solid dry nug from optic vero.

Buds that are currently hanging are surely the largest and densest ive grown. Pics coming.View attachment 3441777

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First time growing with Bridgelux Veros?

That bud looks legit!

AquariusPanta said:

First time growing with Bridgelux Veros?

That bud looks legit!

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Ya, just finished first flowering session under v29s. That bud was from the smallest plant. The best plant was a big wild lady, untrained @700g trimmed wet weight. Ill post a pic when properly dry.

for next run im testing out the top-at-2nd-node technique that i read about here on riu. Im gonna run 3 well trained sativa doms under 4-3590's and 4-29's using 15 gal fabrics, high brix style media.

AquariusPanta said:

First time growing with Bridgelux Veros?

That bud looks legit!

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Checked your company's video, Damn your a young CEO!.............I think your simple rail system is genius.

would like to see some very short reflectors implemented in the future to "catch & bounce" the wasted side lighting IMO.

good luck on your venture AP

Damn You Have A Perty Mouth

Here are the popcorn buds from the larger plant along with my instrumentation.

Noob here. What should I expect with flowering two plants under two Vero 18 4000K at 1400mA? Need supplemental lighting?

grapefruitmarmalade said:

Noob here. What should I expect with flowering two plants under two Vero 18 4000K at 1400mA? Need supplemental lighting?

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Care to share any more information about your operation?