Club 315w lec

Well a 3x3 probably would work better with the lec but i am sure you can grow some dank stuff with your 2x4

Growdict said:

Well a 3x3 probably would work better with the lec but i am sure you can grow some dank stuff with your 2x4

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I agree with the 3x3 but I'm tight on room. The shed is 8x8 and I planned it as a 6x6 so I'd have room to move. I built platforms 15" off the floor for the tents and With the ceiling height and slant to the roof, I cut myself a little short on work area.

I can always change tent sizes use the veg for flower but I'm not sure a 4x2 would be good for vegging 3 plants in 15g smarts. I'm always open to ideas to improve on my plan. Nothing is carved in stone other than the lights and equipment. I've redone my plans a few times.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I don't need a tent for the moms. They can be in the open room. I'll just have to figure out my maintenance times a set the timers accordingly. That opens a lot of other options on flower tent size. The tents are from my local center and they'd have no prob switching them out. Just having one tent in there would give me a lot more room. I need easy lol. Broke my back and my rods don't like when I do a lot of bending

i built a 4' round turntable in my tent, with that and a stool you are good to go.

home depot sells a 6" round steel mount with ball bearing for like 8 dollars, screw it to some wood and cut a round out of thick plywood.

Growdict said:

home depot sells a 6" round steel mount with ball bearing for like 8 dollars, screw it to some wood and cut a round out of thick plywood.

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I'll check that out. I think that would really benefit. Thanks!

KushyMcKush said:

I would be very happy with anything close to 12oz. I seriously doubt I will come close to this, being my first grow, but I would be happy with 6-8oz. Im more concerned wth quality than quantity, and from all my research before purchasing my light, these lec's are killing it in both quality and yield which had me sold. Plus, you can't beat that spectrum! The closer to natural sunlight the better.
I am trying to keep my plants as tightly together as possible to keep it at a 3x3. Right now they are taking up the entire 3.5' width and 3' length of the room. I suspect they will fill out the entire 3.5x4.5 space by the end of it though.
How tall are you letting your plants get before flowering? Im starting to think I may be rushing into the flowering. They are all between 15"-18" tall at the moment. Most on the 18" side measured from the top of the soil. In the room Im using I can let them go to a maximum of 36"-40" which would leave me 18-20" of distance from the light which is where Ive been keeping it and it seems to be doing well at this distance. The information on mycurrent strains Im running says the White Cookies are expected to stretch 3x the height. The White Widow expected to double, and the Purple Kush can double as well. Im doing what I can to keep the cookies shorter and bushier, but if I were to start flowering now, at their current height, they would just be within my maximum height if they were to stretch 2.5x their current height.

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I have 4 plants in flower under 1 lec i am running perpetually. i have them spaced out by about 2 and a half weeks. As soon as one plant comes out of the flower room i move one in from the veg room. When the plants get moved into flower they are between 18in and 2 feet. I have about 6 different mothers i use. they end up finishing up between 3.5 and 4.5 feet. each plant is between 2.5oz and 4oz when finished. average is 12oz for every complete cycle of 4 plants. i do think i could pull slightly more if i did it all at one shot instead of perpetual. i think i could prabably push it to 13.5 to 14 oz if all plants were in the same stage of growth. (More even canopy would help)

Kushy one thing that may help you hit a good yield on your first run would be genetics. If you are in an area where you have easy access to great genetics. All of my plants are from seed from various sources. I have some really great strains but they are quality and not quantity. If you were in Colorado, California, or Washington you could probably get something that would be a heavy yeilder with good quality.

I think if you can get good genetics, control p.h. of water and nutes, Get on a feeding schedule and stick with it, Control temps and have proper air flow, use at least 5 gal pots and don't over crowd your light. you will hit 10 to 12 oz per light with the 315 lec. Good luck and keep us updated!

Growdict said:

Well a 3x3 probably would work better with the lec but i am sure you can grow some dank stuff with your 2x4

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i believe that the 3x3 would be best for the standard sun system 315 lec. I'm pretty sure the sun system commercial lec set up throws a 2x4 foot print.

bob223 said:

I have 4 plants in flower under 1 lec i am running perpetually. i have them spaced out by about 2 and a half weeks. As soon as one plant comes out of the flower room i move one in from the veg room. When the plants get moved into flower they are between 18in and 2 feet. I have about 6 different mothers i use. they end up finishing up between 3.5 and 4.5 feet. each plant is between 2.5oz and 4oz when finished. average is 12oz for every complete cycle of 4 plants. i do think i could pull slightly more if i did it all at one shot instead of perpetual. i think i could prabably push it to 13.5 to 14 oz if all plants were in the same stage of growth. (More even canopy would help)

Kushy one thing that may help you hit a good yield on your first run would be genetics. If you are in an area where you have easy access to great genetics. All of my plants are from seed from various sources. I have some really great strains but they are quality and not quantity. If you were in Colorado, California, or Washington you could probably get something that would be a heavy yeilder with good quality.

I think if you can get good genetics, control p.h. of water and nutes, Get on a feeding schedule and stick with it, Control temps and have proper air flow, use at least 5 gal pots and don't over crowd your light. you will hit 10 to 12 oz per light with the 315 lec. Good luck and keep us updated!

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Thanks for this info! Eventually Id love to get a perpetual system in place, but for now with my space I can veg realistically veg 4-6 plants under my t5 fixture at a time and maybe fit a small cloning tray under that as well.
I think once I get everything dialed in as you said, things will start running much smoother. I had some ph and nutrient issues at the beginning which set me back a bit, but I am slowly getting it figured out. Only issue to worry about now is the heat in the upcoming weeks.
Im currently running Crop Kings genetics white Widow, White Cookies, and Purple Kush, along with 2 bagseed plants that have been doing amazingly well amd smell great... Both turned out female too.
For my next grow Ive been looking at Cali Connection's Alien OG, Larry OG, or maybe one of their Cookies strains. Ive also been looking at Rare Dankness' 501st OG, and Star Killer. Im either ordering from The Dank Team, or James Bean. Ive also been checking out Bohdi's genetics on Great Lakes Genetics. I want to order 2 strains and find a good mother or two that I like and run the same strains for a while to really get things dialed in. Maybe toss in an odd strain here and there just to play around with. Im really loving all of the Skywalker crosses, and Im a Star Wars fan... So I think it would be fun and fitting to grow these Alien/Star Wars themed strains.

Ryante55 said:

Am I the only one running the nanolux fixture? What did everyone pay for their fixtures? Nanolux was 280 without the bulb

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DesertGrow89 said:

Is the nanolux ballast low frequency square wave?

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They are high frequency. I run 3 of their 630w fixtures. Says it right on the box.

Sire Killem All said:

They are high frequency. I run 3 of their 630w fixtures. Says it right on the box.

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From what I understand the LFSW drives these bulbs harder, to their full potential.

i got the philips kit. have it in a 3x4 with just 3 plants. so far they are loving it. its the 4K

it replaced the retro white hps from philips. 400 cdm. had to run it on mag ballast

I posted this in the plant problems forum as well, but this seems like an active group so Im hoping maybe you guys can help. I came home today and my favorite purple kush baby is drooping like crazy! The thing that scared the shit out of me is that every spot where I supercropped on Tuesday was completely bent over like it had never healed. But here is a picture 2 hours after the supercropping on Tuesday:




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Today... Wtf?


Both very bottom leaves look like this:


Already gave a good watering. Everything else seems fine so i dunno, but this is one of my favorite girls!

KushyMcKush said:

I posted this in the plant problems forum as well, but this seems like an active group so Im hoping maybe you guys can help. I came home today and my favorite purple kush baby is drooping like crazy! The thing that scared the shit out of me is that every spot where I supercropped on Tuesday was completely bent over like it had never healed. But here is a picture 2 hours after the supercropping on Tuesday:
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Today... Wtf?
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Already gave a good watering. Everything else seems fine so i dunno, but this is one of my favorite girls!

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Maybe turgor isn't doing so well was it watered before you supercropped? Not much you can do except wait it out or re straighten them.

Well I just transplanted them all. Im gonna wait on this one to see what happens

KushyMcKush said:

Well I just transplanted them all. Im gonna wait on this one to see what happens

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Are those in 5gal pots? What are your temperatures?

KushyMcKush said:

Well I just transplanted them all. Im gonna wait on this one to see what happens

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To me it looks like a mix of high temps and to dry of soil.
I have a master Kush that is very very heat sensitive and acts similar to what you have go on.
in the pictures it does look like you need to water.

bob223 said:

To me it looks like a mix of high temps and to dry of soil.
I have a master Kush that is very very heat sensitive and acts similar to what you have go on.
in the pictures it does look like you need to water.

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Temps stay about 75-78 lately. Although it is going to be getting hot here in the next week or so, and we did have a heat wave a few weeks ago where the room got up to 93 for 2 days, and was between 83-85 for about a week which didnt seem to bother them a whole lot at first, bit maybe this is an after effect? At the time they were just fine, no negative effects at all. I also kept up on watering and did cut some holes in the ceiling to vent hot air out. I now need to cut a hole on the outside of the attick space so that heat doesn't come back into the room which was an issue. Im gonna do that this weekend.
Im also running Dyna-Gro Protect silica supplement which is supposed to do wonders protecting the plants against heat stress, cold, insects, all that stuff. It seems to be working.

I went through today and transplanted into their 5 gallon smart pots. The Purple Kush that I was worried about actually started to perk up about an hour after I gave her a good watering. In the end Indecided to just transplant her too, we'll see if that was a good decision, but I was already out there doing all the others so I just said fuck it. It looked like it could take it.

I did some work today like I said. Intransplanted, cut the floor tarp and made it nice and flat and sealed it all up. I organized and secured some extension cords that were in the way and a hazard. I centered the light perfectly to the grow area to get the most out of my coverage. It was off center toward the back by about 6" which is pretty significant. I also gave all the plants Mykos at the roots as I do with all transplants. And just cleaned up a bit and took some pics.