Club 600

[DST]

The poor wee guy is going to be like a ghost when he's older, wifes uses factor 50. I was growing up in Brunei at his age, we had no factor sunblock then.....in fact my Mum used Carrot oil to get that nice oragne glow, lmfao, christ only knows how she isn't one big cancerous blob...good genetics I guess

 

[Mohican]

Here it was baby oil with iodine for that nice red color!

 

[Dezracer]

Here's my babies under one of the LED lights. I moved the one over and hung a second one so they're end to end now and covering the 2x4 very well.

 

[Dezracer]

Here's a phone pic showing the lights. Both are on for the pic but I'm really only running the one on the left right now.

 

[grievous bodily harm]

are they the lights jigfresh used last year? looks very similar, like a spaceship in there dez

 

[jigfresh]

Good eye. You should have been a detective.

 

[grievous bodily harm]

so what was the deal, they give you the lights for free and you do a journal, then they are yours to do what you like with?!

not a bad deal if so
i never caught the end of that grow but i hope all turned out well ( i'm sure it did seeing as you were back in hydro ) post a pic plz

 

[jigfresh]

I'll dig one up when I'm on the PC. And yeah that was pretty much the deal. If I did one journal I get the lights. They said if I did another journal they would buy me grow gear. However they disappeared and I stopped growing. So I guess it all worked out. The buds where the best I ever grew as for taste smell and effect. Not big or beautiful. Gpw was right on par with the big hids I used. Electricity was near nothing as I didn't have to cool things so much. I don't think id ever use hid again in a personal grow.

 

[SomeGuy]

I thought your led bud was good man! Just not as dense or as big but more of the smaller to med nuts. I'm guessing some of those panels w some white cobs would give great results. . I have ideas for a vertical cob tube.... Hint hint. Lol!

 

[Dezracer]

I was already figuring out how to make one like yours for a vertical room. I am just waiting to see how well you do with yours. That and I need some money to buy the parts, lol

 

[grievous bodily harm]

i'm thinking of giving the led's a try, seen enough guinea pigs having success lol

 

[Dezracer]

I'll tell you that the seedlings I have going are loving this LED light. They are blowing up for how young they are.

EDIT: And the welding glasses I bought for working around the LED lights work great for around the 1K HPS too. Takes the harshness of the light out and I don't even have to squint if I'm wearing them.

 

[SomeGuy]

I was already figuring out how to make one like yours for a vertical room. I am just waiting to see how well you do with yours. That and I need some money to buy the parts, lol

I have some ideas on how to do it. I am thinking something that is basically a cool tube replacement. so the current cooling fan cools the cob heatsinks inside the tube. Its all about cob placement and build specs.


Those leds veg crazy. Narrow spectrum led have been proven in that regard. I have seen so many good white cob grows on here that I think maybe there is something to flowering with a white full(er) spectrum source. hps is only 25% efficient or so... Yet still grows great buds... something in the white I think.



FYI! I backed the bars off to 17" and growth has picked up. I may have to watch the distance for light bleaching more than heat. I think in flower I could be about 10" away safely.

 

[oldman60]

There's one 7-minutes away from our house, and we are on the south edge of suburbia where it transitions to farms & vineyards & orchards.
Once I'm out of the driveway, I only need to make three turns, one left, one right, and a last one to the right and into the parking lot of the local DQ.

Damn I wish there double likes on this site!

 

[Dezracer]

That was my thought too, SG. I was even thinking it could be made of either 6" PVC pipe or those 5" fence posts Like you have now but yours looked like the 4" ones to me.

 

[SomeGuy]

That was my thought too, SG. I was even thinking it could be made of either 6" PVC pipe or those 5" fence posts Like you have now but yours looked like the 4" ones to me.

I think it is a 4" post... pretty sure. may have typoed somewhere. I was thinking 6" pvc would work good. maybe even 8". need room inside for heatsinks and drivers. Still.... vertical was a way to deal with a omni-directional light source more efficiently. Here we have led which is a directional source.... It may be more efficient to grow flat scrogs with LED.

 

[oldman60]

Could you mount led's into an octagonal mount and grow vert.?

 

[SomeGuy]

Could you mount led's into an octagonal mount and grow vert.?

Im sure you could do a vert setup with LED. JIg did it with the 151 panels. My observation is that it may take more effort and materials to make it happen vertically and not be as efficient. Omni-directional light sources lend themselves to the vertical style of growing by nature. The directional nature of LEDS makes it more of a challenge to duplicate the omni-directional light desired in vertical.

What this means is that it may end up being more GPW flat than vertical in an LED situation.

I am BIG on vert with HID.... But I went flat with my led tent for the reasons above. Next week my third LED bar should be done and I can flower the tent and we will see.

 

[SomeGuy]

**reposted from my journal just for you guys**

so... Thought you guys might get a kick outta my outdoor..
very back is engineers dream and its tall. next is dog that is tall and lanky like an og. closest is the deep psychosis bush. Those three are about 3weeks in flower. The other little two up front are extra ak47 clones I threw out there this weekend.

I like my ghetto greenhouse. Keeps things a little private there on the side of the house.

 

[Dezracer]

That makes a lot of sense, SG. I like the vertical scrog deal because it's easier for me to manage the plants than with a horizontal screen. It's hard for me to reach on much more than a 3x3 screen. When the same screen is on the wall, it's no problem. So, I may still be interested in doing a vertical scrog with LED lights. Maybe not an octagon, but still have the lights hung vertically.