Total Noob using teas and I am a believer

Mad Hamish said:
I retires my light rails completely. I was not all that convinced in the end. I feel bud mass suffered while overall yield was the same, buds lower down were a bit bigger but tops were smaller. Then I got another ballast and that improved matters a lot. But I have the luxury of enough room to work with plants rotating them myself so I guess rails were redundant in my scenario. I just told Gandalf, my one DB has an undertone of vomit to the smell. Not so sure I like it. Angel Vomit. Weeeeird LOL
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I find that I can keep my lights a little closer to the canopy because of the constant movement .... no worries about hot-spots burning leaves. I really like using them.
 
Nope. I need to start. I top and bend here and there but it's the one thing I really need to start doing. Now that I have a few real keepers I will settle down and start playing and learning the training game.
 
I don't like light movers. Smaller buds. Smaller yield. If you use them. Move no more than 6-8 inches in each direction. Still keep direct light on each plant .

back to F1 now.
 
I'm working toward my new room being small LED panels placed right where I need them. Allows me to grow vertically. Some shining down on the plants, some aimed sideways on lower bud.
 
I was trying to cover too much area with 600's at the time. Yield dropped. Stopped using the mover and yield and bud size went up. That was back in my hydro days. Nothing else changed then...
 
I wouldn't go back, personally. The HPS and HID in general use huge energy not to create light, but heat. Huge waste. LED uses most of the energy as light, with much less heat. So the cooling needs of the room are dropped, energy is saved big-time.

The light output can now fry a plant. No worries about LED not puttin' out the power. And they last for decades.

So what remains is the spectrum. That was always the weak point. Now we have all-white LEDs, even available as "light bulbs" at Home Depot. These all-white LED's are the future. They keep expanding the spectrum. Really something.

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Good example of the LED learning curve. This is my buddy's second grow (ROLS, of course). I built the LED panel he uses. 2 weeks ago I persuaded him to raise the lights and add a 30W halogen (for red). The LED was just too strong and they grew as incredibly dense cubes. Raised the lights to now 16" above the canopy, added some red (like HPS is full of) and now they grow 3/4" a day. The point is LED is right at the front edge of our growing experience and we're still tweaking it. But clearly this is a fantastic alternative.
 
I'll be starting a journal in a couple weeks with my LEDs, 860w vertical CMH, loco coco, and Delicious Ceeds. It'll be interesting. Little nervous to be trying 4 diff things at once lol.
 
I still love my big hoods and hps, I would love to try these cmh so those will be my next purchase.

Recarpet matches, my coco plant was at 6.0 on ph, its stupid healthy and it's straight coco, then top dressed with worm castings and quano. I plan to take pics soon, I had to take the day off, was smoking the fuck out of some carmelo, your going to love delicious seeds bro, I want some of your clones lol ill trade ya ;).also if your interested in main lining then id hit up mycomaster, he has alot of knowledge, I main lined a few plants and you can slow their growth a ton and really tell them where to grow, they are very strong when mainlined and very pretty bushes.

I have been crazy busy with work and with my messy grow room. Think im going to take a week off and get organized and give them a week of good loving, my gf needs it too lol have a good day everyone. Lets see some damn pictures!
 
May11th said:
I still love my big hoods and hps, I would love to try these cmh so those will be my next purchase.

Recarpet matches, my coco plant was at 6.0 on ph, its stupid healthy and it's straight coco, then top dressed with worm castings and quano. I plan to take pics soon, I had to take the day off, was smoking the fuck out of some carmelo, your going to love delicious seeds bro, I want some of your clones lol ill trade ya ;).also if your interested in main lining then id hit up mycomaster, he has alot of knowledge, I main lined a few plants and you can slow their growth a ton and really tell them where to grow, they are very strong when mainlined and very pretty bushes.

I have been crazy busy with work and with my messy grow room. Think im going to take a week off and get organized and give them a week of good loving, my gf needs it too lol have a good day everyone. Lets see some damn pictures!
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Clones...trading?!?! Why I have no idea what you mean.

I want to know how you're feeding you're coco. I also go straight coco! You better of got a damn PH pen or I'm not talking coco with you anymore lol. I think dolomite lime is key with coco. It will keep eveything stable. I also go by the "half weight" of the pot when watering. I know Earth Juice works amazing with coco and it's organic. I'm interested to see how teas will compare.

Im going to flower these babies early...3-4 weeks. Just found out the Northern Light Blue has DJ Shorts Blueberry in it!!! Nice hearing from ya stranger. Now go give your woman some anal ;)

Anyone else have an opinion on mainlining?!
 
Eeew anal. Lol I dont have a ph pen yet but that lil gh test kit. I think youll be surprised how easy coco is. I been running it for close to 8 months. Look up canna coco , they helped me out alot even though I dont run their stuff. I just now started to amend my straight coco so cant wait to see how that works, what do you have planed for your coco grow? If you fork out the extra money id suggest smart pots for coco, I dont dilute my coco w perlite so the smart pots and coco go hand and hand, you could feed them every day that way and see huge growth spurts. I usually use 10 pots of bigger to keep them moist.Not using any smart pots at the moment though but will deff throw them in soon.
 
May11th said:
Eeew anal. Lol I dont have a ph pen yet but that lil gh test kit. I think youll be surprised how easy coco is. I been running it for close to 8 months. Look up canna coco , they helped me out alot even though I dont run their stuff. I just now started to amend my straight coco so cant wait to see how that works, what do you have planed for your coco grow? If you fork out the extra money id suggest smart pots for coco, I dont dilute my coco w perlite so the smart pots and coco go hand and hand, you could feed them every day that way and see huge growth spurts. I usually use 10 pots of bigger to keep them moist.Not using any smart pots at the moment though but will deff throw them in soon.
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I ran coco twice with no probs cuz I have a whats it called....oh yea PH pen :P I absolutely hate watering all the time so I don't want extra air. That's the beauty of coco...the water retention and aeration! I'll just use 3 gallon cheapos. I'm still amazed how you grew in the stuff without checking PH....hmmmm you might of stumbled on to something. I'll let you do the experimenting lol.
 
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