Citizen grow

thetr33man · Mar 17, 2017

One thing is you are keeping your room too cold, you should be at least 80f days and no lower than 70f nights if possible. Im not sure about the pic above, could be some sort of tox? If you have a smartphone get a free lux meter app and see what lux you are measuring at the top of the plants. Also curious what you paid for the drivers/cobs. you said you got a deal?

abaloneandbuds · Mar 18, 2017

thetr33man said:
One thing is you are keeping your room too cold, you should be at least 80f days and no lower than 70f nights if possible. Im not sure about the pic above, could be some sort of tox? If you have a smartphone get a free lux meter app and see what lux you are measuring at the top of the plants. Also curious what you paid for the drivers/cobs. you said you got a deal?

I had some heat stress when I was running up to 80f. I bumped night Temps to 65f. I'll look into the apps for intensity measurements.

70 cobs, 23 drivers, 70 pads, holders and reflectors for $2050.

abaloneandbuds · Mar 18, 2017

Lux meter ranged from 25000 on the edges to 38000 in the center. One plant with the issues is on the edge, the other in the center.

thetr33man · Mar 18, 2017

I think u might have something else going on. If your meter is accurate, 38000 lux isnt too much by a long shot. I measured my peppers Ive got going and they are doing fine getting 50000 lux at the tops and Ive heard of people using over 100k lux on pot.

abaloneandbuds · Mar 18, 2017

It's important to remember that lumens (and therefore lux) are heavily weighted to the green portion of the light spectrum, because that's what human eyes respond best to- but leaves do a pretty good job reflecting green.

Hence the saying, lumens are for humans.

These Led's spectrum is pretty weak in the green range intentionally.

thetr33man · Mar 18, 2017

This is true, but Im using 3000k 90 cri citizen cobs so while not great for measuring overall effectiveness, it should work for comparing our light intensity at the plant level, at least in a relatively crude way.

abaloneandbuds · Mar 18, 2017

Yes, that it would do relatively well.

visajoe1 · Mar 18, 2017

nice grow @abaloneandbuds. how close are you hanging your lights to canopy?

abaloneandbuds · Mar 18, 2017

visajoe1 said:
nice grow @abaloneandbuds. how close are you hanging your lights to canopy?

Thanks.
Because I seemed to be getting bleaching, I moved them to be about 4ft above the canopy.

Next run, I'll be spreading them out about 50% and moving them closer in hopes of improving yeild per watt.

visajoe1 · Mar 19, 2017

abaloneandbuds said:
Thanks.
Because I seemed to be getting bleaching, I moved them to be about 4ft above the canopy.

Next run, I'll be spreading them out about 50% and moving them closer in hopes of improving yeild per watt.

how close were they when they bleached? you're running at 1400mah max, right?

abaloneandbuds · Apr 3, 2017

visajoe1 said:
how close were they when they bleached? you're running at 1400mah max, right?

I'm closer to 1250ma. They were at 24 inches. I'm going to basically double my area for the next run and turn them back up to 1400ma.

Of course, right now the lights aren't on...

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