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GroErr

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Thanks,

I was curious if those panels you have were premade or you rigged em up. What I had in mind figures out to about your recommended watts/sf (15sf/20w-1.33w/sf). I was thinking one 10w fixture of each 660 and 730 on opposing ends of the box. When I found 10w chips on Amazon, below it showed customers usually purchase "this" with this item. It was just a cheap 10w plug n play cool white COB I'm assuming people retrofit. I may give that a shot if there's no easier option.

730 Chip: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00ORQJGNU/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?smid=ATIK003I1430U&psc=1

660 Chip:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01DBZK3E8/ref=ox_sc_act_image_3?smid=A14FP9XIRL6C1F&psc=1

Housing:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00ODUC9BG/ref=ox_sc_act_image_2?smid=A3KBAI82H8OWZL&psc=1
I did a combo with mine. Grabbed a BML pre-made bar for the 730's. The 660's I grabbed LED tubes from Ali and made a board to mount/wire them. DIY is much cheaper for sure, not a lot of components with such low wattage. Those beads should be fine, haven't tried any but not a very high investment to try them.
 

GroErr

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Last 2 males in that hunt for a male pheno in my Blue Ripper F2's. Got 5x males to choose from, these are very similar, the one on the right I think is the overall winner in smell, structure, colour, and vigour. Have 2 of the 3 females left, very similar structure and vigour, will flower those out in a couple of weeks.

Cloned and flipped these last night, will let them show me their goods and cull down to the keeper.

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Cheers :bigjoint:
 

Evil-Mobo

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Nice on the males G, from the pics one would think they're clones of the same plant, so would be hard to decide not being there in person.

Hope all is well the one BH I got that popped is looking good hope it's a girl :hump:

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GroErr

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Nice on the males G, from the pics one would think they're clones of the same plant, so would be hard to decide not being there in person.

Hope all is well the one BH I got that popped is looking good hope it's a girl :hump:

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Cheers Evil, the one on the right smells a little stronger and I like the leaf structure a little better but tough call. Weird that I got those 2 + 2 females that looked very similar, being F2's I expected a lot more variation.

Let's hope that BH is a girl, looking good either way though :)
 

Evil-Mobo

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Cheers Evil, the one on the right smells a little stronger and I like the leaf structure a little better but tough call. Weird that I got those 2 + 2 females that looked very similar, being F2's I expected a lot more variation.

Let's hope that BH is a girl, looking good either way though :)
If it's a male it might her interesting around here lol ...

So I'm sure you answered this 100 times but the blue Harley is? BD x Harlequin?
 

GroErr

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If it's a male it might her interesting around here lol ...

So I'm sure you answered this 100 times but the blue Harley is? BD x Harlequin?
Male would not be the end of the world, maybe inject some CBD into your crosses.

The cross is Blue Ripper (Blueberry x JTR) x Harlequin and those were a 2nd batch of F1's.
 

GroErr

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Do you have any grape or berry flavoured cultivar seeds?
I love fruity weed almost as much as chocolatey ones.
Hey ANC, both the Blue Ripper and Blue Harley have fruity phenos. The Blue Ripper has some phenos that lean more towards the Blueberry side, I have a back cross to an F2 that smells like Blueberry candy. The Blue Harley pheno I have running is a mix of tropical fruits from the Harlequin mother, and sweet/hash smell from the Blue Ripper side. Both very tasty :)
 

Evil-Mobo

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Male would not be the end of the world, maybe inject some CBD into your crosses.

The cross is Blue Ripper (Blueberry x JTR) x Harlequin and those were a 2nd batch of F1's.
Awesome thanks for the info. I got to try some flower from a fem Satori and wowsa :)

Really hoping for a girl on one of my doggie dreams cannot imagine the stone from that lol
 

ANC

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Yummy. My outdoor plants this year are all Swazi. I am going to have to pop some more beans as all my plants are fucking female. I know, 1st world problem.
I have a good eye for female seed. The have a big dimple where they attached to the flower.Luckily I already have a clone going of the momma, so it is not so time critical.
I am trying to lock in the old school flavours of weed from when I was young. So it is quite a bit of trail and error.

A proper breeder would grow a bunch of weed, then have them all tested for cannabinoids and terpenes 1st.
I think many good strains go missing as they may not have the visual appeal of shittier exemplars.
 

ilovetoskiatalta

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So the blurple panel in my main 2x4x5' veg tent lost a whole section (4+ years old running 18/6 or 20/4, not bad). Rather than leave it like that until my replacements arrived, I threw one of my 315w Sun Systems in there with the 4200k bulb, added an intake booster fan. Temps were a little high at first but managed to get them down to ~82F average. Still too warm but better than letting them stall. Well wholly crap, that light in that space looks like one of those scenes from an Alien movie, when you open the flaps it lights up the whole basement. I wish I could run it there permanently but I'd need a bigger expiration fan with too much noise. it should be replaced this weekend shipment arrived for the veg LED's last night. Check out thew growth in 4 days under the LEC, Sunday was Day 0/1, 1/2 were up-potted Saturday/1/2 on Sunday. Second pic is just after they were up-potted from party cups into the 1gal pots. Threw all of them in there for a few days since the coverage was great.

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Cheers :bigjoint:
@GroErr what is that camera set up?
 

Gquebed

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Hey thanks, yes the blurple in the veg cabinet where I bring up seeds went and I threw in some 4000k COBs in there temporarily. Will end up putting 2x 70w 6000k Chinese COBs in there, grabbed another 200w of Citi 1212's for the 2x4x5' tent where I veg them. I have different levels in the cabinet with some diy stands I made, usually start them on the floor until they pop through, bring them up on the first platform which sits ~30", then bring them up to the next level which is ~20" above them. A bit more work but it keeps them from stretching too much or getting fried.
Thanks for the tips☺
 

GroErr

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@GroErr what is that camera set up?
Hey, the first one is a tilt/pan/zoom camera I have setup in 3 rooms/tents. They can take still shots like the one I posted, even video. Saves me from going in/out of the rooms to just check on them and handy for some quick updates if I can't get the time for pics with my DSLR camera.

Here's a link, all of mine are PTZ cameras, different models over time but they pan, tilt, zoom remotely through a browser or app. I don't expose them to the internet for security but they have that option.
https://www.foscammall.com/ip-camera/ptz-camera/foscam-fi9826p-v2-black.html
 

GroErr

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Yummy. My outdoor plants this year are all Swazi. I am going to have to pop some more beans as all my plants are fucking female. I know, 1st world problem.
I have a good eye for female seed. The have a big dimple where they attached to the flower.Luckily I already have a clone going of the momma, so it is not so time critical.
I am trying to lock in the old school flavours of weed from when I was young. So it is quite a bit of trail and error.

A proper breeder would grow a bunch of weed, then have them all tested for cannabinoids and terpenes 1st.
I think many good strains go missing as they may not have the visual appeal of shittier exemplars.
Lol, don't hear many complaining about getting too many females ;) I've had a recent run on males but what I'm doing mainly is selecting the best phenos, female or male, which I'll use later for breeding. I'm just looking for the best overall plant in smell, colour, leaf expressions, structure etc. If that happens to be a male then it will be the pollen donor :)
 

ANC

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Sorry mate, I'll post up after harvest. They are only about 3' high now.
Swaziland is an old homeland inside South Africa that got independence some years ago, so it is kinda local.
I would say the majority of our weed comes from that region. If you watch the video, you will see how unprotected these are grown, this allows only the strongest plants with the most resistance to disease to thrive.
 
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