Mars Hydro FC E6500 and Useful Seeds

Good morning rui.

Patiently waiting for everyone to get good branches.

Trimmed a bit more than I should have and it slowed growth.

Started to raise my ec (.92 atm) trying to find a balance point before flower.

Good day Everyone.

I hope everyone is enjoying there grows as much as I do mine.

There is definitely a learning curve to these Mars lights.

Plants do grow quickly once everything is being met.

I started running the light at 50 about 24 inches above canopy , Photone app was reading low 400 ppfd.

But the growth rate was slow in comparison to the es300’s I was hanging .
So I turned it down to just over 40 and things seemed better.

Few days of this and growth was increasing but still not like before .

So last light I thought wtf back to 50 and raised light 4-5 inches and now finally a holy chit did they change .

So here they are , enjoying the fce6500 .

Ec .96 ph 6 then falling to 5.3 . Have been balancing back with ph up , but have just decided to use silic instead , about 1ml .

Enjoy .

Pimped out the fixture too.

FR - chocolate cover strawberries 16 mainline
FL - the top from the right , would like to top but still unsure.
RR - chocolate diesel 8 mainline
LT - chocolate diesel 16 mainline

Topped , fimmed , parted and pinched at a nails minimum yesterday.

Will wait for a couple days for her branch and then let’s party .

Just a day or two .

Hopefully I can keep this lady tamed.

Photos tucked in for the night , then first thing

Lights up about 75, heading to 100.

Good morning Everyone.

Thank you for stopping in.

I have set the lighting to 12/12 last eve.

The plants have been growing some quicker than others.

Over the past few weeks I have had a ph dropping issue were I could loose .5 to 1 ph in a matter of hours.

I have been adding hydroguard and orca but it wasn’t until 5 days ago that it had stopped, after a pot inoculation.

So now with a solid ph that rises slowly as the ppm goes down it’s time to flower.

Ec is 1 (500ppm) with a 10-20 ppm drop per day .
I will be raising this 50 at a time until I find it stable like the ph .

So at this time 5.9 ph that goes to 6 as they eat.

The fce6500 runs at 75 at about 30 inches away but If I push harder there not in love.

Will see how the stretch goes I maybe I could use the intensity to slow them up.

Here are a few pics of the last vegged day for the girls.

Couple of fresh shots , only two days but it’s growing .

Stable ph then the slightest rise as the nutes slightly change .99 ec .

light is low 80’s without distress yet 32 inches away.

Sold on the waterfalls only.

While utilizing my drain pump with the added falls I felt the undercurrent was slowed.
So I doubled my pump size and flow and mixing rate is much better.

Enjoy

Another toy to aid in the start up process.

The start of day 6 flower.

I turned the light down a smiggjn, just over 75.

I still think a proper meter would be a nice addition, I have one in mind.

Stable ph that rises .1-.15 as the nutes go down from 1ec .

Offsetting the reduction with a dose twice in the past 6 days has worked till today , were 5 gallons was needed .

Topped up and juiced up to 1.07ec (535ppm)

Ph to 6
Botanicare kind and calmag
Orca mycorrhizae
Water temp 21.5

Thank you for having a look.

8 days completed .

I see some signs of stress again. Just on the strawberry diesel.

I have raised light again just a bit , maybe I should have left intensity as was 80, but I did reduce to 75.

The chocolate diesel is showing signs of a bulb

Nutes down 5 gallons.
Stable ph 6, ec down .02 ec (10 ppm)

Light stress , the bigger leaves seem to take it better.

Great structure being built 10 days along.
Even the wee one is getting her bush on.

Chugging along playing with the power level.

A bit of stress in the leaf noticed from an increase yesterday so back to 6-700 ppfd.

Chocolate covered strawberries is a bit more developed than Chocolate diesel at 15 days from turn .

Had a spoton delivery. Back to turning it up.

550 around the edges and 650 about canopy level in the middle.

Dli was only 16.5 yesterday after increasing, so a bit more and another 24hr test.

Running maybe 85%

Majority of canopy is 26 inches away with the rest popping higher here and there.

Dli reading was 28.1 .

Stable 1.07 ec, ph 6 , level falling .

Just the very tips of leaf with teeny bit of yellow.

And to think I defoliated .

lights running full..

Ec 1.14 falls with the nutrient level by .05ec with 5 gallons every 3 days .

550 ppfd and up to 750 ish .

Leaves don’t look stressed, but the inner works is a bit bright coloured .

Enjoy the weekend

Super cropping the canopy level.

Looks real good,a question.How many watts is she? Says 650 but I read somewhere 730 US watts.Not sure wtf that means isnt a watt a watt,lol.

Also can you disconnect a couple lights without issues?

myke said:

Looks real good,a question.How many watts is she? Says 650 but I read somewhere 730 US watts.Not sure wtf that means isnt a watt a watt,lol.

Also can you disconnect a couple lights without issues?

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I would think the same and to be honest , I thought 650 also , but looking at the driver I would now say 600 watts .

I do not have a kilowatt meter , just a ppfd to keep me in check.

Personally have just ran with them all on and just dimmed to an acceptable level .